"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards New Hampshire to be born?" —with apologies to W.B. Yeats and "The Second Coming"
I HAD THE PLEASURE recently to attend a meeting of the House Republican Alliance (HRA) in Concord. The HRA consists of the brightest, strongest, most energetic, and most committed Republican members of the New Hampshire State House of Representatives. They are the hope for fixing the damage that has been inflicted upon our state over the past six years by the Democrats and—let’s face it—some Republicans who led the state into the $500 million dollar structural deficit that exists today.
IT WAS ALSO MY PLEASURE AT THE HRA MEETING to see a verbal battle break out.
Members of the HRA are well aware that the future of New Hampshire and the NH Republican Party rests upon their shoulders. It is they who must mend the fiscal and legislative harm that has been committed over the past six years. They must move aggressively and decisively, starting in January 2011, to address the problems bequeathed to our state by the Democrats. Thus, the HRA contains the vanguard of a "new Republican Party" being born in New Hampshire.
But what are these "new Republicans"?
That was the subject of the debate at the HRA meeting: According to the excellent HRA leader, Rep. Bill O’Brien, these new Republicans should forthrightly call themselves "conservatives." "Not so fast!" responded the sainted former (and likely future) Rep. Paul Mirski, the actual founder of the HRA: The term "conservative" is too narrow an appellation, he argued. After all, just as many new Republicans—including those in that room—are comfortable calling themselves "libertarian-leaning." The same people are also be comfortable with the term "Constitutionalists."
Yet none of those get to the nub of the thing.
Fortunately, at the HRA meeting I had and have the answer: It is clear that above all, New Republicans look to the excellent, new state GOP party platform!. And if you support the party platform, you’re not merely a "conservative Republican," or a "libertarian-Republican," or even a "Constitutionalist-Republican."
You are a "NEW HAMPSHIRE REPUBLICAN" And as such, you will be part of the new party vanguard that will defeat the endless growth of state government taxing, spending, regulating, borrowing, and generally interfering in people’s lives. In New Hampshire WE will show the way to the national GOP, and to Republican Parties in every other state.
That’s why you need to proclaim that you’re a… 
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