Steve MacDonald

Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

How About That “Non-Existent Voter Fraud” Meme…or something

by Steve MacDonald

Donna Schlachman writing an opinion piece in Seacoast Online, says she asked New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner (last year) about voter fraud and….

I learned that actual cases of fraud are practically non-existent. Even last year’s staged attempt to prove that people can vote illegally in N.H. was unsuccessful. It turns out that the risk of denying legitimate voters their right to cast a ballot is far greater than the risk of someone voting here who does not live here.

Well guess what?  If the State refused to charge anyone with burglary, actual cases of that would be non-existent as well.

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One Holder DoJ Witch Hunt Comes To A Close

by Steve MacDonald

Sheriff Joe Arpaio went after local corruption, and thumbed his nose at the Feds, so they tried to make an example of him.  But if there is a Joe you don’t mess with it’s the Sheriff of Maricopa county Arizona.

The DOJ initiated a number of investigations from abuse of power to charges of the Sheriff’s office misusing credit cards.  The end result?

All charges dropped.  And the local US Attorney…even she appears to be trying to back away from the whole thing.

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Marshall ‘Lee’ Quandt Want’s To Be The Next Republican Speaker of the NH House…

by Steve MacDonald

Rumor has it that Marshall ‘Lee’ Quandt want’s to be the next Republican Speaker of the New Hampshire House……which is a huge problem, because Lee Quandt is not exactly a Republican to begin with.

Despite that barrier, and a public opposition to liberty, the scuttlebutt is that RINO Marshall ‘Lee’ Quandt still thinks he’d make a great speaker of the House, and he is already trying to build a coalition, and publicly endorsing other House Republican candidates who have told him they would back his move once the House meets to choose the next Speaker.

This is disturbing for several reasons.

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Hopeless

by Steve MacDonald

Based on the quote from GOP VP Candidate Paul Ryan’s convention speech, BKeyser gives us this image.

Hopeless BKeyser

And then there’s the Ad from Crossroads…on the jump

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Demobrats (Updated and Bumped)

by Steve MacDonald

[Update:  Romney left the Republican convention and headed…to Louisiana, to survey the situation.  Obama… had all week to go…still aint been.  Still too busy running for president to be the President.] Louisiana is getting pummeled by Hurricane Issac.  President Obama has chosen to be on a three state campaign tour begging for a second term … Read more

Progressive Zombie

by Steve MacDonald

I’m certain Fergus Culllen and I disagree on a great many things, but I have to admit — I like this editorial in the Union Leader: Liberal Jackie Cilley, Progressive Zombie.   He writes some unknown truths about Democrat Candidate for Governor Jackie Cilley, the accidental State Senator, offering up some insight into things she … Read more

Stingy Old People Who Are Stupid

by Steve MacDonald

I can only guess how Democrat State Senate candidate Lee Nyquist’s campaign manger reacted to Clint Eastwood’s speech at the Republican National Convention.  That campaign manager, Kevin Hodges, (batting coach for the New Hampshire Democrat party), had nothing kind to say about Republicans long before his invocation to beat them with a bat; particularity those who are as old as Clint Eastwood who is eighty-two.  And Eastwood’s party registration, whatever it may be, is of no consequence.  To Kevin ‘Awesome Cool Hodges’ he is probably just another one of those..

“…stingy old people who are stupid.”

That was his opinion of Republicans in the New Hampshire House back in April 2010, not long before his cool and awesome self got benched by the voters.  But he’s back, helping Democrat Lee Nyquist run on a campaign to ‘Bring Civility back to Concord,’  which is extremely humorous considering Nyquist can’t even bring civility to his own campaign.

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About All That Ron Paul Business…

by Steve MacDonald

I’m not following the story about the minority faction of Ron Paul delegates to the RNC.  I don’t watch debates or conventions…it’s easier to wait for the highlight reels.  But I see updates on Facebook and email threads on the topic and I have two thoughts.

First, it is obvious that for months the Ron Paul supporters have been plotting to get their guy the nomination anyway, even though he didn’t get enough national delegates to guarantee him a speaking spot.  They have been begging delegates to vote Ron Paul for months. But the problem with Ron Paul is not Ron Paul at all, it is his supporters, and it always has been…which brings me to point two.

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Rand Paul at the RNC –

by Steve MacDonald

Trying to squeeze in speeches as time allows.  Condi Rice, Susana Martinez, and this guy.  Someday, if no one screws it up for him, this guy would probably make a good president.  

Seminar Callers on Immigration

by Steve MacDonald

I put on talk radio when I’m going to be too busy to do any reading at lunch.  Thanks to declining hearing I miss most of it anyway, but today I caught a caller on the Rush Limbaugh program who was concerned that the speakers at the RNC were not addressing the issue of immigration, … Read more

Read My Lips…

by Steve MacDonald

Not to put too fine a point on it, if “point” is even the correct word, but do you know any women who base the scope of their human rights on their labia?  I don’t.

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There Are No Republicans For Obama

by Steve MacDonald

There are no Republicans for ObamaBack in 2008, and I may have shared this story before, I was discussing with a longtime friend my conclusion that then candidate John McCain was not really a ‘Republican.’  He could not understand why so I asked my baptist minister friend…”there are a lot of ‘interpretations’ of Christianity, and for the most part each is reasonably accepting of the others…but isn’t there a point at which what it is they are “practicing” is no longer Christianity?”  He said yes.  I said, “OK, same with being a “Republican.”

Believing in abortion, global warming, stifling paid political speech (to name a few) and…most importantly, the very strong belief that the federal government must regulate things from a central location, to mandate policy to the states and the people from on high….that is what progressives and socialists do, no matter what they call themselves.  That is not what it means to be a Republican.  We have a different party for people who think that way.  They are called Democrats.

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Obama Dumber Than Dan Quayle

by Steve MacDonald

Tim posted this on media bias, but there are parts too good to leave to the chance that you’ll follow the link to IBD (which you should.) It wasn’t like he (Quayle) repeated the mistake in all 57 states, or more precisely in Beaverton, Ore., in May 2008; or while traveling on the “Intercontinental” railroad … Read more

Mia Love…”We Built It.”

by Steve MacDonald

As a suitable followup to my post on there being no Republicans for Obama, here is Conservative Republican Mayor Mia Love (running for the US House in Utah), on the American Story and how “we built it.” (c/o Hot Air)  

A Message from Artur Davis…Former Democrat Congressman from Alabama

by Steve MacDonald

As Ed Morrissey points out what a great trade this was.  The Democrats got Charlie Crist for their convention, we get Artur Davis. Davis lost his faith in the Democrats because Obama made him see what had become of that Party.  Crist veered left in pursuit of political power when it became clear that he … Read more

Ask A NH Democrat…About Racism

by Steve MacDonald

I bet you a majority of the Democrats in New Hampshire watch MSNBC.  So the next time you see one ask them if this is racist? In lieu of airing speeches from former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis, a black American; Mia Love, a black candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Utah; and Texas senatorial hopeful … Read more

Obama Tribute to Neil Armstrong…Is About Obama

by Steve MacDonald

Courtesy of the Daily Caller…looks like Team Obama found a use for this stock photo from four month ago.  (The quote underneath it might be new.)  Yes, let us remember Neil Armstrong with..a picture of Mr. Obama. I wonder what he’s thinking about?  Maybe how NASA’s division of Muslim Outreach is doing or if they … Read more

Pledge Zombie Apocalypse

by Steve MacDonald

Taxes and Democrats The pledge politics lie and broad based taxesDemocrat Candidate Jackie Cilley is trying to rally the extreme left of the already extreme left in the New Hampshire Democrat party by pretending to be a moderating voice for tax policy.  Her distinction without a difference (other than that she is being direct about her desire for a broad based tax) is that the idea of taking a pledge to veto (or vote against) any sales or income tax is unfair.  That every option should be on the table.

As pointed out here, this is extremely disingenuous because this is the only policy in which she or any of her supporters (or any Democrat) wants to “have a conversation.”  But it is worse than even that.  The facts behind the pledge zombie antics on the lefts left are, as in most cases when dealing with Democrats, lying by omission.

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Rape is not Rape….When It Is A Democrat

by Steve MacDonald

Juanita Broaddrick Bill Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick. Lisa Myers, NBC News, on Juanita Broaddrick’s interview about being raped by Bill Clinton. – “The good news is you’re credible. The bad news is you’re very credible.” Bill Clinton endorsed New Hampshire candidate Maggi Hassan.   New Hampshire Democrats love their rapist, Bill Clinton.  Democrats all over the … Read more

Kill Mitt Romney…The Facebook Page

by Steve MacDonald

Joshua Scott Albert must be pining for some attention.  He just put up a Kill Mitt Romney Facebook Page. Albert is known for putting up pages in support of cop killers, and otherwise pretending to be ‘edgy’ under the guise of getting peoples attention. I’m a big fan of edgy, and pushing the envelope, but … Read more

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