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And for once, we’re not the main cause –  merely willing hands (emphasis mine):

It’s not Brown’s carpetbagging that poses the biggest obstacle, although New Hampshire voters are much more skeptical of outsiders than Bay Staters. Nor is Brown’s biggest problem his faulty internal GPS, which at times causes him to speak of the “people here in Massachuse-” during Granite State appearances. Even Shaheen’s high popularity numbers wouldn’t be Brown’s biggest roadblock.

Above all, Brown would have a very hard time convincing voters that he loves the Second Amendment as much as they do. After sitting on the fence on the issue of gun control for most of his last Senate campaign, he was outed as a gun control advocate by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who cited Brown’s stance as the reason for endorsing and fundraising for him. After the Newtown shootings, Brown went farther, voicing support for a federal ban on assault weapons.

By that time Brown was no longer on any ballot, and he didn’t face the wrath of the National Rifle Association. The NRA largely stayed out of Brown’s previous election battles as well, in part because of the People’s Pledge, but more so because the NRA doesn’t care what the Massachusetts electorate does. But the same cannot be said in New Hampshire, where the issue of gun control is a political powder keg.

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Or “why does the Republican Party keep acting like Captain Luis Manuel Pinho?”

Translation: “Are you willing to die to save the life of a whale?”

So which Captain do we see in the Establishment Republican wing of the Party?

I have to admit that I’ve been watching this “reality show” for quite some time.  Whether or not you want to save whales, or even the politics of the thing, I watch if for no other reason to see if the Japanese were finally going to go” all ninja” on these self-righteous bullies whose morality allow them to attempt to or actually destroy other peoples’ private property to advance their agenda. Not, too, that they are far to easy to call themselves “Victims!” when the bullied retaliate (must have taken lessons from Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton; that white boy Paul Watson can’t jump but can learn Democrat political theory). Anyways, for his antics over the years Watson is now in the legal dinghy in a roiling see – Ninth Circuit has ruled against Sea Shepherd USA and Interpol has warrants out for him.

Thus “sidelined”, a “non-entity,” but with the addition of a new ship (irony: a former Japanese whaler) that allowed two new Captains to step up “for the mission”:

• Captain Luis Manuel Pinho – a history of being a commercial captain, in charge of M/V Sam Simon (purchase monies given by the Simpson’s Exec producer, Sam Simon)
• Captain Peter Hammarstedt – a 29 year old (a save the whaler since 14), in charge of M/V Bob Barker (purchase monies given by game show host Bob Barker)

Let’s apply this to the current Republican Civil War – which kind of Captain do we really want?

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When I first listened to this, I had no idea what to post about it – absolutely incoherent of an answer.  At least on her Benghazi answer, she had the good sense to say pretty much nothing.  Here, you can tell that what’s she believes is not what she can say to this audience (or, once again, absolutely totally unprepared).  Long pauses, obvious searching for words (not even the “right words” but ANY words that can constitute “an answer” without saying not much at all.

All I can come up with is “After all, Israel just can’t pick itself up and go somewhere else, right?”    Here’s my transcript – maybe you can figure out her non-answer of a non-answer:

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DaTechGuy has good advice (emphasis mine, reformatted) for the Speaker of the House, given his outburst about Conservatives.  But guess what?

The reason you have a majority to be speaker , are invited to Sunday shows and have your press conferences covered is because of the Tea Party that mobilized to elect that GOP majority.  The reason you keep that majority is those Tea Party voters also gave the GOP the majorities in state houses when it was time to draw districts.

Imagine if the Democrat wave that swept through in 2012 had been just two years earlier?  How likely would the Republican wave DaTechGuy remembers from 2010 actually have happened in 2012?  Boehner wouldn’t have been Speaker and we would have had an uninterrupted reign of Madame “We have to pass it to see what’s in it” Pelosi.  Now go to the next level of scariness – if you thing US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has enabled Obama’s Unitary Presidency by making the Senate all but irrelevant in the Founders’ scheme of divided Government, where would we be after four years of co-joined rubberstamping by a tag teaming Pelosi?

Gratefulness?  Humility?  For acting as the breakers against which the Obama / Democrat tsunami was stopped?  Hardly – given what many have seen lately, there’s more than a fair share of Republican hubris along with Boehner’s  that they alone were responsible for 2010 – and have subsequently thrown the TEA Party’s enthusiastic ground pounders (with their ‘outmoded’ political philosophy and their totally out-fashioned suburban / rural sense of sensibilities for the absolute nuances rooted in DC) under the bus with the flair and expediency of Obama.  Add in Mitch McConnell’s antics and what we’ve seen at the State level, will 2010 be a generational high water mark due to lessons unlearned?  DaTechGuy continues:

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Every single “crisis” (either real or man-made) always seems to be solvable ONLY with the introduction of a larger bureaucracy, more intrusive Government, and even more abusive intelligensia (are ya listening, NH Listens?) when it concerns the Right to Private Property.  After all, “it’s for the children” is the siren call for more collectivism and “it’s for our future generations” is the Socialist Song of the Environmental set that just can’t stand the fact that we refuse to be treated to child-like sheeple.  It seems as soon as we dispatch one crisis, they make up another.

Even here in water rich NH, we are being told “in XXX years / decades / centuries, we’ll run out!” – they never seem to understand that they are ALWAYS getting two things wrong:

• we still don’t know about all of the Earth’s resources they think they do.
• constantly underplay or ignore how resoureful humans can change their Malthusian religious outlook on the future

The news of this must have really pissed them off:

A new study, the first to comprehensively survey the world’s known reserves of undersea freshwater, estimates that there are roughly 120,000 cubic miles—more than 100 times the amount of freshwater we’ve drilled from the ground since 1900—of fresh and nearly-fresh water trapped underneath seabeds. The upshot: we could be seeing more offshore drilling for water as well as oil in the future. . . .  

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Bumped and updated:  Heh!  Van Mosher is closing in on the top seller spot!  Look folks, a triple win: the MCRC, Van, AND the ‘Grok!  Go ahead, buy a ticket!

Bumped and updated:  Where to buy?  A note from Van Mosher:  I can sell you the tickets. Call me at 228-5483 or e-mail me at bows4sb2@aol.com. The person who sells the most tickets will get 5% of the proceeds. If I am the winner I will ask that that money goes to GraniteGrok [Skip’s response: Yippee!]

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That would just be the only right thing to do – especially since the top prize is an AR!

2013 Merrimack County Republican Committee Raffle

Current Prize List (Additional prizes may be added, Final prize list will be available at the drawing)
Drawing date: December 19, 2013, The Draft Restaurant, Concord at 6:00 PM   Do not need to be present to win.

Grand Prize:  New Stag Arms M4-Style Rifle, Chambered in .223 (5.56 mm) with SightMark Ultra Dual Optic Scope

• Firearm provided by Riley’s Sport Shop.

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FINALLY – a “yay! in that the boat may be swinging about.  We’ve been pounding on NH Republicans and the NH GOP on the truism: Consistency + Trust = Votes (all other things being equal).  But first, you have to ACT Consistently, and talk Consistently, and if you can master that (it really isn’t all that rocket scientist difficult), it becomes easier to “comment” on your opponents’ Inconsistency (heck, we’ve been doing it for….years now).  They may actually be starting to get with the program – and maybe can go on the offensive and not look the fools (as someone on their side is doing the same thing).

Now let’s be clear – Scott Brown may have been the most Conservative guy that could get elected in Massachusetts but New Hampshire isn’t Massachusetts (yet) and the definition of Conservative that works there is, well, rather lame here (e.g., go here).  But hey, go with me here for a bit: the NH Dems are in High Dungeon over the comings and goings of Mr. Brown thinking that he’s going to run for something here in NH, especially against Jeanne Shaheen an take her Senate seat.  So, now they’re in all-out attack mode to demonize him – but are looking like they are in All-Flail mode.  Problem is, they forgot they have a 6 to watch out for – and are now showing their lack of InConsistency, gave a wide open gateway to their opposition.  From DiStaso (emphasis mine, reformatted):

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Yeah – there:

That would be the “Free State” of New Hampshire – 18th most economically free “sub-national jurisdiction” in North America (out of 60).

Even as Progressives are bound and determined to make the States completely subservient to the Federal Government Washington DC (even as much of the fight over the Constitution was to keep that from happening – see what happens when our schools no longer teach history??), we see that what happens in the States still has a big effect on their citizens.

It all comes down to “who is in control” and “who gets to decide what I can do” – the essence of Freedom. 

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Simply, Bright and Shiny Objects become lost in the Memory Hole…and one wonders why President Obama is now the 2013 recipient of Politifact’s “Lie of the Year”? (emphasis mine):

Still, what are we getting for our money?

In 2008, the promise was to save each family of four an average of $2,500.

In 2009, the promise was to insure 47 million Americans who didn’t have insurance, and to save you those $2,500.

In 2010, the promise was to insure 47 million Americans who didn’t have insurance, and to save you those $2,500, and let you keep the plan you have and the doctor you like.

And then the closer we came to the start of it all, when the Shiny Objects started to gather a veneer of rust and dirt, the equivocations and hedges started:

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Read through Founders notes, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Federalist and anti-Federalists papers and it becomes clear that they believed that our Rights came from simply being human – gifts from God and Nature’s God.  They are not bestowed upon any of us by the fact that Government exists.  In fact the existence of Government was to act as a bulwark against anyone taking those Rights away – to protect that which a Higher Power has given.

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Ah yes, that IS the comparison that is now being made: Kuster = Hare:

(Hat tip, Independent Journal Review.) Kuster may not realize it yet, but she’s just become the Phil Hare of this cycle. Rep. Phil Hare, an Illinois Democrat, dismissed objections to Obamacare back in 2010 by quipping, “I don’t worry about the Constitution on this, to be honest. I care more about the people who are dying every day that don’t have health care.” He then quoted the Declaration of Independence to his questioner; when corrected, he said, “it doesn’t matter to me, either one.”

By the way, it is now FORMER US Congressman Phil Hare for the video from here and as Steve pointed out, a Socialist Party member from Illinois:

Of Course Carol Seiu-Porter donor Phil Hare is listed as a member of the Socialist Party in America, and on the record as not caring about the constitution.

“I don’t care about the Constitution…I believe that it says we have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” -Phil Hare (D-Ill)

Video of that after the jump.  Now make no mistake, all  three of them, Hare, Shea-Porter, and Kuster are birds of a feather / cut from the same cloth ideologically.

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