(A GraniteGrok photo, taken by a friend of the ‘Grok)
"…having attended and spoken at many of its events around New Hampshire…"
I have a REAL big problem with this, a la Charlie Bass. yet, it seems that the GOP insiders can’t seem to understand my motivation for pursuing this – it has nothing to do with who I support in which race. It is ALL about what politician-wannabe is, from my standpoint, trying to co-opt the TEA Party movement for their own benefit.
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I know this is starting to be disjointed (when the other Grokster are saying "get ON with it", I guess it is) but have no fear, some of the blocks will start to fall into place. I hadn’t really planned on this, but when the video of Sean Mahoney was posted about his incoherent answer on immigration (really, semantically or from a themantic standpoint, Steve is right – there’s a bunch of sentences strung together that say….what? The title of the post does fit.
And now a pattern is starting to develop – he speaks, we report, you decide. Now, don’t get me wrong, Sean IS a nice guy – really! Warm personality, a ready smile, and a willing handshake – and that was before he started running. But when you run for elected office, especially Congress, words start meaning things – and quickly and seriously. And we here at the ‘Grok are known to take on those that speak "unwell", (to coin a word), even those that we have supported either in the past or presently. Our motto remains:
Thank’em when they’re right, and spank’em when they’re wrong
And we’d be hypocrites to do otherwise. So, what’s the problem here? A word, a single word. But words have meanings and so does context. So a spanking (public flogging?) is in order.
Here’s the context – GraniteGrok was a co-founding member of the NH TEA Party Coalition (we have recently pulled away; not on principle but on direction of action [er, really, the lack of inaction quickly enough for our purposes – we still agree wholeheartedly in the principles]). At the beginning, NO one wanted anything to do with politicians and the GOP which was rightly blamed for failing their principles (even as a number of us were and still active in Republican politics – ONLY in that the GOP seems to be closer in philosophy than the Dems, even with their failures). As time progressed, some of the anger dissipated as one thing emerged (at least here in NH) – it was unlikely that a third party was the way to go (even if it would have likely been "ideologically pure"). It became clear that it would be a case of "if the mountain won’t come to Mohammed…".
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