Steve MacDonald

Yesterday I tweeted out the CNHT Straw poll results as they were announced, but I never had the time to post the actual results.  CNHT’s Straw poll is known for its accuracy as it takes a sample of the core conservative and libertarian grassroots activists–something we insiders have another name for.  Primary voters.

(Just noticed…Skip posted the video of the results just a few minutes before I posted this.)

Here are the results.

CNHT Straw Poll Results 2014

GOVERNOR

Andrew Hemingway – 111
Walt Havenstein – 43
Jonathan Smith – 1
Daniel Greene – 0

US SENATE

Bob Smith – 76
Jim Rubens – 44
Scott Brown – 34

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I wrote this in comments under Kimberly’s video/post where the NHGOP’s establishment pick for Governor, Walt Havenstein, is singing to the “Establishment Choir.” Having long ago pegged him as the old-rich-white-guy inside solution the NHGOP has been waiting for, hearing Walt heap disdain on the base does not surprise me at all.

Pegged him as the ‘Made man’ the minute they hinted at a run. And for the record, the NHGOP’s problem is not the base. It is their influence addiction.

Don’t give me this crap about dividing the party and ignoring calls of unity. As I’ve written before, we are unified under the principles in the platform. But whenever a candidate comes up that is also united by the principles of the platform who may not be one of the GOP’s ‘Made men/women’ they find someone to primary that candidate even if they have more baggage than Lindsey Lohan.

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When you modify the text of the original report, and replace all the anti-gun references with the words ‘Birth Control‘ you  get a different sort of response from the liberal left.  (Not to worry.  They wont suddenly begin to empathise with gun owners.)   (Read the original here)

A draconian (birth control) bill set to be voted on by the California legislature would allow police to confiscate a person’s (birth control) solely on the basis of an accusation made against the owner by a family member or a health professional.

Although the bill was amended after an onslaught of complaints, the legislation is still being labeled as the harshest (birth control) law in the country.

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Jeanne Shaheen and more than half a decade of Democrat majority Government have spent more than 20 trillion dollars on that government.  We’ve had plenty of advertised stimulus, some of it sold as specific to the very thing that now motivates the US Senate to ask for a raise in the Federal gas tax.

Failure to keep pace with inflation over the past 20 years, along with steadily increasing fuel economy, has caused the Federal Highway Trust Fund that receives the money to sink to a dangerous level.

Failure, yes.  I’d agree that there has been plenty of failure.  Where the government is concerned failure is always an option.

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I’ve made similar points about Liberals/Feminists demanding government interference they claim to oppose, here, and here.

The notion that denying a subsidy for a product is equivalent to banning that product is one of the odder tenets of contemporary liberalism.

This gets us to why I think the ruling’s majority (on the Hobby Lobby decision) essentially agreed with the (pro abortion “birth control is not my bosses business”) protesters. If I like to dress up as a character from Game of Thrones on weekends, pretending to fight snow zombies and treating my mutt like she’s a mystical direwolf, that’s none of my employer’s business. But if I ask my employer to pay for my trip to a Game of Thrones fan convention, I am asking him to make it his business. If my employer refuses, that may or may not be unfair, but it’s his right. If, in response, I go to the convention and have the government force my employer to pay for my travel, that only makes things worse. It not only makes my private pursuits my boss’s business, it makes them the business of taxpayers and a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington.

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RCP

BILL O’REILLY: How do you secure the border, Charles?

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Alright, here’s what I’ve been on for years. You start with a fence. It’s very simple. People say, ‘Oh, fences don’t work. You make a ladder.’ Well, then you build two fences, triple strand fences. San Diego did that in the mid 90’s and within a decade, the illegal immigration rate at that point was reduced by 90% and people ended up going through other places like Arizona.

If fences don’t work, why is there one around the White House? If they don’t work, why is it that the Israeli fence which separate Israel from the West Bank has cut down terror attacks within Israel by 99%. Fences work. Yes, there are parts of the border where you can’t have a fence, fine. So you don’t have it in those areas and you do heavy patrols. But there is no reason why a rich country like us cannot put a fence across — a double fence, a triple fence and patrol it all the time. That would have a tremendous impact.

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