Steve MacDonald

Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, an award-winning blogger, and a member of the Board of Directors of The 603 Alliance and the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor, Executive Editor, assistant editor, Editor, content curator, and more (yes, there's more) at GraniteGrok.com. Steve is also a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, the Republican Volunteer Coalition, and has worked for or with many state and local campaigns and grassroots groups, and is a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

Notable Quote: Max Eastman (Socialism Doesn’t Jibe with Human Nature)

September 26, 2018October 15, 2012 Steve MacDonald

“It seems obvious to me now–though I have been slow, I must say, in coming to the conclusion–that the institution of private property is one of the main things that have given man that limited amount of free-and-equalness that Marx hoped to render infinite by abolishing this institution. Strangely enough, Marx was the first to … Read more

Maggie Hassan Proud to be a Sponsor of That Tax

September 26, 2018October 15, 2012 Steve MacDonald

Maggie Hassan keeps saying we need to have a conversation about taxes. We have them all the time. The difference is that Democrats talk about raising them (hundreds of them), and Republicans talk about controlling or lowering them. And then there are the conversations about taxes that slip out when you are least expecting them to.

We get just such an example from the September 19th Gubernatorial debate on business and the economy; when asked about RGGI, the Regional Greenhouse Gas initiative, Candidate Hassan said this…

I was proud to be a sponsor of that tax, eh, the energy efficiency program because it has saved businesses millions and millions of dollars and created over 400 jobs.

That’s a notable quote right there.

Jay Leno on VP Biden and The Debate

September 26, 2018October 14, 2012 Steve MacDonald

Jay Leno goofs on Joe Biden.

October Surprise – Democrat Party Civil War “Clinton’s vs. Obama’s”

September 26, 2018October 13, 2012 Steve MacDonald

Three Days ago I suggested that someone had to take the blame for Benghazi and the cover up and that the Clinton’s would never let that ruin Hillary’s chances at a future Presidential run, or at the very least would they let it spoil their place in history. I summed it up like this.

This cannot be disguised as some conspiracy theory. Americans died – Obama lied. So someone has to swing and I can’t see Clinton taking the fall, or taking it alone.

Seeing as we are talking about the blamer-in-chief, finger-pointer extraordinaire, narcissistic child-president, there is no way he (Obama) is taking the blame for this. He has czars and secretaries of this or that to take the blame, that is why they are there, at least in his mind. But that particular act of arrogance (against Hillary Clinton) might be all that is needed to topple him completely. And Friday, Jay Carney got the ball rolling by inferring that State is responsible for handling security at the embassies not the White House.

Gauntlet thrown. Let the civil war begin.

Does Merrimack Journal Editor Susan Clark Know Merrimack is a Republican Town?

September 26, 2018October 13, 2012 Steve MacDonald

This week’s Merrimack Journal is a left-wing work of art. It includes seven letters to the Editor. All seven are in support of Democrats. Six of the seven have headlines that either downgrade Romney or Promote Obama. (One supports a Democrat for the NH House).

While I am willing…barely…to suggest that in a predominantly Republican town of 28,000 (roughly), that not one of those Republicans sent a letter to the Editor of the local fish-wrapper, the odds seem a bit high.

The icing on the cake? The ‘editors’ comments on the same page, suggest that they receive all kinds of letters but that they do not want to publish any that attack candidates. They are looking for positive letters. This, in conjunction with the published content, is meant to imply that they got letters from Republicans, they were just too mean spirited to put in the paper.

But how does a biased left wing editor even know what that might be? She doesn’t.

Ambassador Died- Now Biden Lied

September 26, 2018October 12, 2012 Steve MacDonald

I’m playing catch-up, having missed everything that happened in the past 18 hours–VP debate, Town council meeting, a few hundred emails…but this is low hanging fruit. It’s so low that even MSNBC couldn’t help but pick it. Joe Biden, at the VP-Debate (In Biden’s case the V apparently stands for Vaudevillian), said–not once but twice–that … Read more

To New Hampshire Democrat Aaron Gill – About That ‘Free From Out Of State Influence’ Thing…

September 26, 2018October 12, 2012 Steve MacDonald

This makes an excellent followup to what Skip just wrote about the DLCC endorsing a local New Hampshire Democrat.

Speaking about New Hampshire legislators that same Democrat candidate, Aaron Gill (Hillsborough 39) writes

We expect their personal conduct to reflect the character of New Hampshire citizens, that the work of the people will be conducted openly, fairly, and consistently, and that our neighbors in Concord will make independent decisions.

Most importantly, we expect members of the House to represent us free from the constraints of pledges, free from rigid ideology, and free from the goals of out-of-state interests.

This is a direct quote from Aaron’s Act Blue donations page. (I’m not linking to it, but I cached it)

What does it say (out of the gate) about the conduct and character of a candidate who is only collecting donations to his campaign through a third party aggregater, based outside New Hampshire?

Romney Ahead in NH?

September 26, 2018October 12, 2012 Steve MacDonald

Another Poll, another result. This one, from American Research Group, (Hill Blog) shows Romney up in New Hampshire 50-46. In other polling, the Granite State WMUR poll shows Romney still down six points, but at the same time they recorded an 18 point swing in Romney’s favor among women voters since their last poll. So … Read more

It’s alive….ALIVE! (Sort of)

September 26, 2018October 12, 2012 Steve MacDonald

My conspicuous absence has been noted. I felt lousy yesterday. That evolved into a full blow ‘bed-ridden’ 16-hour marathon nap. I’m not done feeling lousy so I won’t be blogging much until I feel better–or at least a little better. I just wanted my liberal “friends” to know so they wouldn’t worry about me. They … Read more

Heartbeat from The Oval Office – Biden Lies Some More

September 26, 2018October 12, 2012 Steve MacDonald

omg Joe Biden — You Cannot Even Believe How Full of Crap I am!!

Politics before principle is bad enough, but when you clearly do not even have any principles its just that much worse.

So here we have serial exaggerator, story-teller, gaff-o-matic, and professional fib teller Joe Biden, blaming Paul Ryan for spending on Iraq and Afghanistan-while claiming he never voted to fund them himself.

See? Joe is special. He’d never vote to fund those wars….except that he did. Both of them.