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Skip Sheriff Joe, at the heart of the illegal immigration controversy, is speaking to the Nashua GOP Republicans at their annual Steak Out!. He was graceful to take a few minutes with GraniteGrok…
The ‘Grok was invited, so off we go! While the Eldest watches the house and the GrokDogs, we’ll be listening to this guy: Come listen to the guy that is doing the job that Obama’s AG, Eric Holder, refuses to do – uphold and enforce the law. Sure, this guy drives the Open Borders squishes … Read more
A green story of another sort…and certainly begs a different answer to the famous Mr. Roger’s question “Won’t you be my neighbor?” I quite sure that Mr. Binnie’s neighbor has a very UN-Rogers like answer. (H/T: Paul)
Guest post from Kevin McHugh, Chair of the NHRVC (NH Republican Volunteer Coalition) Please note: GraniteGrok has endorsed all of the same candidates that the NHRVC did with one exception: GO JACK! as in Jack Kimball for NH Governor. Sorry, Kevin – otherwise, same page, same paragraph, but different sentence for this Tuesday, Sept 14th. … Read more
…this picture, via Instapundit, is appropriate. We fight not against a nation-state but a totalitarian ideology masking itself as a religion. They take advantage of our open and free society even as they hate it as its principle foundations are anathema to Shariah Law. Even the Imam behind the Cordoba Project (aka, the Ground Zero … Read more
One last televised debate by WMUR – those seeking the Republican nod to be the person to take out Democrat John "Do Nuttin’" Lynch (who is already boasting in TV ads that he cut spending even as the overall spending by NH State Government rose by 17% and 11% over the last two budget seasons). … Read more
Filed under Proper Role of Government. This reminds me of the Rochester 9-12 debates (Congressional, Senatorial, and Gubernatorial) where the attendees / voters knew the Constitution better than the candidates: 4. U.S. Citizens Have No Obligation To Answer Questions. Ultimately, the cops let me go, because there was nothing they could do. A returning U.S. … Read more
Chris Muir, who does Day by Day, is a treasure. Here – he compares and contrasts the US Constitution and Shariah only as a satirical cartoonist can: (H/T: Big Peace)
GraniteGrok endorsed Ovide Lamontagne for US Senate, and continues to give its unwavering support to him. Given his unexpected rise in the polling, it was only a matter of time that he would come under attack from those (and their surrogates) The New Hampshire Firearms Coalition is such a surrogate – unlike the ‘Grok that … Read more
Oh really? And who funds most of its operation, dearie? You should know – your boss signs the checks, right? Or is that "far Left" (he is, after all, a true Lefty – watch him sign his name – a two-fer!) No, Madam Secretary – the UN is a mere Wild, Wild West town facade … Read more
Problem. Customer. Have. Solve. Before. TV. Moving. Towards. Drat….Hoping that the DVR caught it….sigh…..
The words on the Gadsden Flag – the unofficial flag of the TEA Party movement. No one decreed it, no one ordered it, and no law / regulation / statute was passed demanding it be so. It just became, it just IS. The people spontaneously decided (with no controlling legal authority, Mr. Gore) that … Read more
Well now: same desired result: to silence our speaking out or about concerning given campaigns Same tactic: threat to report to and involved legal authorities so as to accomplish the above Two different campaign bullies: The first was Pat Hynes, of Hynes Communications (or as DiStaso of the Union Leader calls it, the "Patrick Hynes-David … Read more
Tweeted out (see widget on the right sidebar or go here) Sorry, helping a client right up until the start…no analysis before hand. Will keep going through the Democrat debate – given that I don’t know either, it should be interesting. Behind the scenes, it seems to have been a case of "More Progressive than … Read more
Update II: WMUR: Guinta – A Bestani – A Ashooh – C Mahoney – FAIL I disagree with #2 and #3, but vindicated on #1 & last place. Now the question is: will anyone drop out and throw support to another? Possible Predictions: Rich, to Frank (one gentleman to another) Bob, to Sean (little birdies … Read more
In yet another email, my answer (posted here) was challenged as to why we Conservatives / TEA Party / 9-12ers / Liberty & Freedom type folks should be working from within the Republican Party:
Skip, it’s not about the party, it’s about the people…I may have lost faith in the party, but I’ll never lose faith in my ability and willingness to keep on fighting for what I believe is right in the best way I can…the party has so little meaning as I illustrated by saying what good is a platform (or a party for that matter) when there are no consequences for breaking the rules laid out by the party?…if the party is so loosely defined and controlled it becomes too difficult to actually fight for a common cause…this party (the GOP) appears to more interested in keeping the party together than it is serving the people…so then the cause becomes fighting for the party?…I’d rather fight for the people and for myself and my family…it’s about the people and not the party Skip…
My answer was this (given that the Democrat Party, now controlled by their Constitutional value hating Progressive Wing):
First, read the Platform – really! Then come back here and tell me where it is wrong (and…
Having lived under Communism and knows what a centralized planning society, Vaclav Havel knows of which he speaks with this warning for America as Obama takes it towards that State (H/T: The Corner): The government has embraced an arrogant ideology. They claim to know the key to prosperity. It’s analogous to communism. They thought the … Read more
Still culling emails (gosh, this could take a good long time!) and although written a while ago, it fits what I posted here concerning shaming RINOs (edited just a tad for posting):
>> Sensitivities
No one has the right to not be offended. Period. If you need a good telling off, deserves such, then don’t complain when someone delivers it to you.
When an elected Republican (like Doc Pilliod of Belmont, NH) is voting more in line with the Dems than with the Party Platform, I have no problem in pointing that out over and over and over again in public. Sure, when two candidates in a primary are close to each other philosophically, and are pretty much in line with the Platform, the Party ought to either leave them totally alone or support each equally. I don’t think anyone has a problem with that.
Now take a case of a Liz Hager (former Repub House Rep from Concord, NH) – she got primaried out – the proper thing to have done and much more conservative folks in that Concord district won in the primary. Unfortunately, the reality is that Concord is a very liberal town and they lost in the general election. You can bet, however, they demonstrably showed the chasm between them and her, her voting recording vs what they stood for.
GraniteGrok endorsed Jack Kimball for NH Governor a while ago – I think this video gives a good sense of who Jack is: what you see is who he really is.
