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Why Campaign Finance Should Be Anonymous: If you support secret ballots, you should oppose campaign finance law.

– Walter Hudson

And, I will remind you, at a time when President Obama held the same views.  Such a demonstration of REAL Tolerance – Obama was given the time to “evolve” but the militant gay movement wanted a scalp.   These “Liberals” are certainly “liberal” in outlook; just agree with us and all is hunky-dory.  Now we have the latest edition of retribution from the “open and transparent” database of proponents of CA Proposition 8 – those that were pro-traditional marriage.  No, I no longer support just putting out this kind of information anywhere – we see the proof that the Left is all “Happy Dance” to simply pick up that data and use it as a club, up close and personal. We keep our voting secret for EXACTLY this reason – we should also hold to the same philosophy of campaign finance to keep this violent act of retribution from happening again.  For BOTH side of any argument.

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“That” being the retribution against the long time Chief Technology Officer Brendan Eich and an extremely short term stint as Chief Executive Officer of Mozilla, the open software organization that is behind the FireFox browser and Thunderbird email program (both which I have used for years, but more on that later).  As I said before, the Progressive movement is all about removing the traditional pillars of American society, aiding (or is that completing?) in Obama’s promise to “Fundamentally Transform” America.  It made me think back to what Tyler Deaton did to advance this (emphasis mine, reformatted):

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12: SANTORUM SPURS CRITICISM. The New Hampshire Republican Party’s decision to invite 2012 presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum to speak at a major upcoming event is not sitting well with a prominent GOP gay rights advocate.  The NHGOP announced Wednesday morning that Santorum will join Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Rep. Pete King, former Ambassador John Bolton and others at the March 14-15 Northeastern Republican Leadership Conference in Nashua, which is expected to attract Republicans from throughout the Northeast.  The stated goal of the conference is to discuss how to expand the base of the GOP to put it in a stronger position to succeed in the 2014 and 2016 elections. Tyler Deaton, current national committeeman for the New Hampshire Young Republicans and former executive director of the former pro-gay marriage group New Hampshire Republicans for Freedom and Equality, criticized the choice.

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As I posted here, it is clear that Scott Brown, rather than supporting more Conservative issues supported more Progressive ones:

sided with a Democratic majority on 22 percent of votes in his first year, ranking him seventh among all senators.  The next year, he voted with Democrats 46 percent of the time, trailing only Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. In 2012, he rose to the top of the list, siding with a Democratic majority close to 62 percent of the time

Which should give rise to the question: if I am voting for a Republican, am I getting a Republican?  If someone has an “R” after their name, are they a “good” Republican (which NH House Minority Gene Chandler holds to) simply because of that “R” designation? 

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We talk a lot about the growth of the state and the power it might usurp and abuse in the most extreme scenarios. Could you ever envision a time where the military or forces under control that are extra-military would ever turn its guns on U.S. citizens?

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The Daily Caller had what I consider to be a bit of a downer of a post.  You see, we at the ‘Grok don’t charge at all for the same thing – not even for travel expenses (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Breitbart News recently charged a Texas tea party group at least $7,000 to promote and cover the group’s rally, according to a tea party organizer involved in the planning.  On March 15, the group called Patriots Rally for Freedom held a rally in Martindale, Texas. In the lead-up to the event, organizers asked Breitbart News — which recently announced a “Texas bureau” — to cover the gathering.  But according to Ken Crow, the tea party activist and founder of TeaPartyCommunity.com who made the call to Breitbart, the site would only cover the event if the tea party group paid for it. Crow revealed the arrangement in an interview with ex-Breitbart News reporter Lee Stranahan, who posted the audio to Twitter Wednesday. Stranahan was recently fired by Breitbart.

“The big item that I really wanted was some promotion leading up to the event,” Crow told Stranahan this week.  Crow said that Dan Fleuette, the person he spoke with at Breitbart News, insisted that the media organization would need $11,000 to come and cover the event. In an interview with The Daily Caller’s Mirror blog Wednesday night, Crow said Fleuette eventually acquiesced to $7,000 plus travel expenses. But upon hearing the price, the women organizing the rally flipped out. “The girls are screaming, ‘WE DON’T HAVE SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS!’” Crow recalled.

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I wrote about Scott Brown’s talk at Grokster Mike’s house last Wednesday here and mentioned that there were a number of questions that were asked. Here are the first two questions.  I’ll dribble  the rest out over the next few days.

Question 1:

The ads they have thrown at you over oil and that’s the oil barrel busted in the water.  What can we do?

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Betsy’s Page is run by a charter school teacher and in the years I’ve been reading her (an “aggregator” sorta like an extended version of Instapundit, or Weekend Pundit‘s “Thoughts on a Sunday”).  Here is a part of today’s “page” that speaks to that the Freedom to Achieve also means the Responsibility to Work Harder / Longer:

A teacher at Success Academy in Harlem reports a question that tugs at the heartstrings from one of his students.

One seventh grader asked me, ‘Why are so many people mad at us if we are doing so well?’

Indeed.

These children work incredibly hard, and they’re proud of their success. No one, especially without knowledge of their situation or home life or personal effort, has the right to undermine their remarkable achievements.

There’s an excellent reason why Success Academy scholars do extraordinarily well on the state exams: We believe they can. We believe all children can succeed, no matter their socioeconomic circumstances.

Our critics do not share that belief.

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 “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

Mediaite:

[Jeffrey] Toobin responded that the court seems to be saying that “we give freedom of speech to people that engage in hateful speech, and so we have to give freedom of speech to people who want to give to political campaigns.” On the other hand, he noted, the dissenting justices basically said “that is all a bunch of nonsense” and that “speech is not money.” But they were defeated by a 5-to-4 margin.

The Bill of Rights was not a vehicle by which Government “gives” us Rights at all

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Funny, I don’t remember Scott Brown saying this at our meeting:  “I was the most bipartisan senator in the United States Senate.” (Scott Brown on Tuesday, March 18th, 2014 in a meeting with Republicans in Portsmouth, N.H.).  Remember these numbers: 22%, 46%, 62%.

Shaheen votes 99% with the Democrats, Brown votes 62% of the time with Democrats.  And he boasts about it?  Shades of “Monkey Business” (in another way) – he dared the Press / us to catch him?  Shaheen may be co-joined with Obama at the hips, waist, and shoulders but 62% would be more than just a shoulder bump from where I stand.  Hey Andy Leach – Did you know about this?  That Scott is openly creating his own oppo research and giving it out?

And you were worried about me videoing last Wednesday….how’s this going to play with the Conservatives in the Republican Party – unless your game plan was to write them out of consideration?  Scary proposition in an off-year primary when it is the Conservatives generally outvote the Independents and moderates.

Be careful of what you boast – somebody will take you up on it and they did!  From Politico (emphasis mine, reformatted

…”I was the most bipartisan senator in the United States Senate,” Brown said, according to a report published in The Portsmouth Herald. “I voted 50-50. So I worked with everybody. And here’s the problem, I was the most bipartisan senator.”

Well, I would certainly agree with that – that IS a problem.  Helping the opposition to 

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Speaking to the Second Amendment:

Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American . . . . The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.”

– Tench Coxe,  The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788

(H/T: Bearing Arms, more after the jump)

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Earlier today, Grokster Steve alerted the rest of us that Kathy Sullivan tweeted out my post describing and opining on the talk that Scott Brown gave last Wednesday:

1. Usually don't read Granitegrok but this post on @Senscottbrown house party hate to admit is must read. #nhpolitics http://t.co/VcA8hVAmTL

— Kathy Sullivan (@NHKathySullivan) April 2, 2014

Or as Steve paraphrased: “I don’t always read GraniteGrok, but when I do…it’s about attacking Scott Brown“. She’s wrong about the attacking part; after all, we’ve done more on attacking Shaheen than we have commenting on Brown.  She also gets it wrong that she thinks we’re necesarily Republicans (heck, so do the Establishment Republicans).  Scott hasn’t been here long enough to understand who we are and what we represent – bad tutalege by Andy “The Muscle” Leach for that.  You see, we don’t defend Republicans just because they are Republicans and we don’t attack Democrats for not being Republicans.  In fact, we could care less which Party (e.g., Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Socialist, Communist, Green) anyone belongs to.  Not at all and not a tittle.

Rather, our allegiance is to 

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This past Wednesday nite, fellow Grokster Mike and his lovely bride Mar-Mar opened up their home and brought in their friends and family to meet Scott Brown (if you haven’t heard, he may or may not run for US Senator from NH but at least is in the exploratory phase – much to the relief of NH GOP Chair Jennifer Horn and all of the NH GOP Committees to which he’s been sending money).  Now I was rather surprised when Mike said he had done so but his stated goal was to hear all of the candidates (or possible ones) and to give his friends and neighbors an opportunity to hear what they had to say.  By the time Scott had arrived, well, it was clear that there was a mix of folks at Mike’s; certainly there were those I see all the time but there was also more than a few folks I had never met ending up with a full house.

It was clear that even though we had never met, he knew who I was and his demeanor changed  – I guess that Andy Leach (former Sununu aide-de-camp, former NH GOP Exec. Dir (who remembers that I did not take “no” for an answer and finally got him in a ‘Grok micro-interview), Kelly Ayotte aide-de-camp, and now working for Scott Brown). I am imagining that he “advised” Scott as he immediately wagged his finger in my face and made it clear that there was to be NO video recording.  Sure, I did make the anti-argument, that I do this kind of activity so that those that cannot be there in person would be able to hear his message: unadulterated, unedited (except for time – attention spans and all) and that if ANYTHING got abstracted out, the ENTIRE video gets posted (I was doing that before Project Veritas was doing that) so that the complete context would be seen and heard.

No dice.  It was clear that he is not happy with bloggers – even as Mike and Mar-Mar were standing there with their GraniteGrok shirts on.  Sure,

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