If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them - Granite Grok

If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them

Go ahead...Speak!The day after a prominent democrat called for party reform to demonstrate how the left are the real fiscal conservatives in New Hampshire, the same democrat announces the formation of a 501(c)4 issues group, presumably to counter groups like Cornerstone Policy and Josiah Bartlett.

There are two direct quotes worth laughing at–I’m sorry noting.

"The big difference is that this will be a fact-based group,” she said. “I look at this as pragmatic and progressive, which is the New Hampshire way.”

New Hampshire is Progressive? That suggests some kind of substance abuse don’t you think.  Kool Aid perhaps? Then there’s this…

And Sullivan said that just like the conservative groups, her 501(c)(4), this organization will not be required to disclose its donors. While she’d rather have all sides disclose, “that’s not going to happen,” she said. “So, if you can’t beat them, join them. You have to play with the cards you’re dealt.”

(Quotes are taken from yesterdays Granite Status by John DiStaso.)

So let’s see.  The hypocrats are going to create a non-profit with mysterious donors, and this is a) new to them? and b) something we are supposed to give a damn about?

Well first off, good luck.  I want you to know that I am more than happy to extend to you and your little secret-donor non-profit the same constitutional free speech protections I would defend for any other–something you would never do for me and mine unfortunately.

Second, the entire funding system currently in place for New Hampshire democrats turns on the ability to take money from national donors, non-profits, anyone at all actually, and funnel it into local groups who then shuffle the money back and forth between state PAC’s, committees and the State party itself.  This is all managed, for the most part, from the same office to cloud otherwise open transactions in a Rube Goldbergian, habitrail-like maze guarded by the topiary likenesses of such historical figures as Marx and Lenin, just to make tracing the original financial source as exhausting and difficult as possible.  Put more simply, the democrat leadership in New Hampshire has been actively obscuring their funding sources for years, what makes them think we care now that they have publicly announced their intention to do it some more?

Thirdly, unlike even pragmatic progressives, we embrace all forms of political speech because we know your party has been breaking the very laws you cry and whine about since at least the Clinton years–to be kind. 

We’ve also put up with decades of liberal media bias so it amuses us to see the contorted visage of  left wingers as they scare their one-designer-child with visions of Rush Limbaugh or Fox News.   "Savannah-Mercedes, you had better drink all your soy milk and eat that arugula or else Fox News will camp out under your bed and wait for you to fall asleep."

"Aaaaahhhhhggggghhhhh!!!!.

And besides, what are you going to do with your secret money, at your shiny new non-profit; figure out how to convince Granite Stater’s you are the real fiscal conservatives in New Hampshire?

Give me a break.

 

 





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