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“…who wants a president who will knowingly, repeatedly tell you something he knows is not true?”” That’s easy. The entire Democrat party. They are still in love with your disbarred, cheating, womanizing, marriage vow breaking, serial lying, impeached, perjurer, backside. … Daily Caller
Just returned from voting – in my little hamlet in Central New Hampsha, it seems like this may be a record setting vote. We have 5,454 registered voter (excluding new registrations today) – as of 12:30pm when I left, there were 2,093 votes today and 600 absentee ballots to be counted. That’s almost 50% – … Read more
Updated and bumped: The results are in at RightWingNews:
1) Who do you think is going to win the election?
- Mitt Romney 87.9% (58 votes)
- Barack Obama 12.1% (8 votes)
2) Whom are you voting for?
- Mitt Romney 92.6% (63 votes)
- Gary Johnson 2.9% (2 votes)
- I’m not voting 2.9% (2 votes)
- Won’t say 1.5% (1 votes)
Original post after the jump:
The very thing that makes the race appear even remotely close between Obama and Romney will be multiplied today. I’m talking about exit polling. My guess is that the same people who do not want to admit that they will not vote for Obama before the election, will not admit they didn’t vote for him … Read more
Look, all of we political junkies are on the veritable edge – worse than a druggie looking for that next fix or the gambler looking for that elusive royal flush. It is both the best of times (“NOW it all comes to an end”) and the worst of times (“NOW it all comes to an end”) for this (here in NH) two year process. So, time for a bit of a joke – so, since we at the ‘Grok have now riled up the Democrat Socialists / Progressives, always have the Establishment RINOS ticked off, and now have torqued off a lot of the Libertarians, who else can we get mad at us?
Oh yeah – Feminists! From Maggie’s Farm:
A man on his Harley was riding along a California beach when suddenly the sky clouded above his head and, in a booming voice, God said, ‘because you have tried to be faithful to me in all ways, I will grant you one wish.’
The biker pulled over and said, ‘Build a bridge to Hawaii so I can ride over anytime I want.’
God replied, ‘Your request is materialistic; think of the enormous challenges for that kind of undertaking; the supports required reaching the bottom of the Pacific and the concrete and steel it would take! I can do it, but it is hard for me to justify your desire for worldly things. Take a little more time and think of something that could possibly help mankind.’
The biker thought about it for a long time. Finally, he said, ‘God, I wish that I, and all men, could understand women; I want to know how she feels inside, what she’s thinking when she gives me the silent treatment, why she cries, what she means when she says nothing’s wrong, why she snaps and complains when I try to help, and how I can make a woman truly happy.
This may not sit well…. Actually, what I wrote below I did before stumbling on this: “The Cloward – Pivens of the Right” where the topic is about a Libertarian that will be voting for Johnson and will not even consider a vote against Obama:
The fact that his vote might end up causing Romney to lose and Obama to win is irrelevant to this man. He and others of his ilk, who might be addressed by Bill Whittle’s video [here -Skip] but who close themselves to its message and who look instead to the imminent arrival of an economic apocalypse, have more in common with the far left than they think they do. They are the Cloward-Pivenistas [who willingly almost drove New York City into bankruptcy; more here -Skip] of the right. They believe that, if things get bad enough, the system will break down and enough people will see the light and then the true conservative dawn will break.
Cloward and Piven thought the breakdown would lead people towards the leftist light. People like Susanamantha’s friend think it will be the light on the right. But the idea is similar: endure (or even cause) pain now for future gain….Both sides are idealists, Don Quixotes if you will (although perhaps that’s being unfair to the Don) against the rest of us plodding Sancho Panzas. It’s an old story, isn’t it? A perfectionistic idealism is where the Don Quixotes on the right meet those on the left, in a dangerous no man’s land. The ones on the right could well end up encouraging the triumph of what they most hate.
It seems to me that the full bore / hard core Libertarians (“HCLs”) on this list (which, after all is the REPUBLICAN Liberty Caucus and not the LIBERTARIAN Liberty Caucus – I could not resist) are turning out to be not Libertarians concerning this election but Nihilists.
Given that their more favored candidates absolutely bombed out during the primary and have gotten no traction since, you folks are all deciding to go home and pout. Given that the expected Home Run At Bat (perhaps expected given the tremendous gains that Libertarians had here in NH in 2010) has turned out in THIS election to be the Biggest Whiff since Casey in Mudville in actual candidate attraction to the general electorate (as opposed to other Libertarians), all I am hearing is a massive hissy fit. Instead of treating it as a double or triple in 2010 and knowing that sometimes that only singles or strikeouts happen, if you can’t get that four bagger, then the game is rigged, the umps stink, and the ball has lard on it. So effectively, you all are going to throw your votes away. Period. That is how you all are coming across (and that means you Jane – I saw some of the NHTEAParty tweets and retweets during the debates you sent and utterly cringed).
Just got this via email – names taken off to protect the screwed: I just got my Open Enrollment Package from my company’s Human Resources Dept. I guess I should have been more aware of how Obamacare will impact me on 1/1/13. Well my paycheck will be significantly smaller. Not only did my health and … Read more
Question 1: Live Free or Tax Harder
By Lee Schalk, National Taxpayers Union State Affairs Manager
Whichever way they identify themselves politically, Granite State citizens who abide by the “Live Free or Die” motto tend to agree that government has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. For New Hampshire, one of the State’s trademark features is its lack of a personal state income tax, and Question 1 is an opportunity to enshrine that freedom in the constitution.
Positioned in the Northeast amongst largely liberal leaning, tax-and-spend states, New Hampshire has remained one of the most attractive states for businesses and individuals, thanks to the absence of punitive state income and sales taxes. In fact, New Hampshire was recently ranked seventh in the Tax Foundation’s 2013 State Business Tax Climate report, while the rest of the Northeast failed to crack the top twenty.
For the sake of economic competition, neighbors Vermont (47th), Maine (30th), and Massachusetts (22nd) would be wise to follow New Hampshire’s lead on the state income tax, and get rid of it. Though, it’s likelier they’ll seek more money from taxpayers than reform their governments, and breathe a sigh of relief if Question 1 fails.
For their part, New Hampshirites seem to be divided into three camps on a constitutional income tax ban: for and against, and those who are on the fence because they’re hesitant to alter the State Constitution in any way.
(H/T: Mary)
What is at stake tomorrow? It is, once again, a time that I cannot just excerpt a piece of another’s post and then do the obligatory “go read the whole thing”. This piece sums up why Conservatives are going to vote for Romney, like him or not. And once again, it illustrates why Libertarians should also do the same without explicitly stating such. This encapsulates the difference between the incipient Marxism masquerading as Progressivism with Black Critical Theory and Black Liberation Theology all rolled into the Collectivist known as Barack Hussein Obama, vs the Sovereign Supreme Individual who was the focus of the American Founding Fathers. They could not be any further apart.
Michael Walsh has written a knockout defense over at The Corner of why voting against Barack Hussein Obama is a vote for America. Emphasis is mine but go read the entire piece as I have taken some out:
Conservatives have a rare opportunity tomorrow to do something they signally failed to do in the landslide elections of 1972 and 1984: finish the job…
…In retrospect, of course, William Jefferson Blythe III was Pericles of Athens compared to Barack Obama, who far more than Clinton has revealed the true face of contemporary American left-liberalism in all its coercive ugliness: a blizzard of executive orders; the deployment of the regulatory agencies that have (in the words of the Declaration of Independence) “sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance”; and the naked Marxist appeals to race and class envy. The most anti-American of American presidents has run the most un-American of campaigns.
And that, by rights, should be it. That it’s not explains the alarm of conservatives whose view of patriotism is that they love their country as it is, not as they wish it might someday be. From Day One of the Obama administration, real conservatives understood the explicit threat of “fundamental change,” whose meaning can now be clearly discerned in Obama’s “revenge” remark; for the Left, “revenge” is precisely what this election is all about. For them and their voting-bloc constituents, it’s payback time: payback for slavery and segregation; payback for poverty; payback for foreign wars; payback for restrictive immigration laws. They’ve long used the goals of the civil-rights movement — which after all was directed precisely against Democrats – and the Vietnam-era “anti-war” movement — which arose in opposition to the foreign policy of the Democrats — as wedges with which to crack the larger social structure and now, so close to realizing the ultimate expression of “critical theory” — that everything about America stinks — they and their media allies are doing their best to swing one last election for Obama.
From Instapundit: They will crawl over broken glass to unseat Obama, whose actions over the past 4 years have consistently demonstrated that he neither loves this country nor its Constitution. Yep, that about sums it up! As I have told many over these last couple of years (as that is how long the Prez campaign … Read more
President Obama flew to New Jersey for a photo op and to make lots of promises before flying on to campaign events. Apparently he has forgotten about Sandy and the hurting Americans. A week later, hundreds of thousands of people in New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut are without power, without running water, without food, … Read more
We’ve been waiting months, even years, but the day has finally come. That’s right! HALO 4 has arrived with the return of Master Chief. (There is also that election thingy….the one that sucked up more of my life than I’ll ever spend playing HALO 4…)
We all know that the Federal Government’s debt is high, and climbing. We also know that each child in America owns some ungodly share of it, from the moment they are born. Well, this article puts it into scary perspective, which we often need to see; and if you are on the fence about whom to … Read more
Even if it does not appear obvious, even to the casual observer, once government gets started on something it is difficult to get it to stop. So where exactly do we expect the Democrats notions of state managed economic leveling to take us? Their talk of economic equality centers on the idea that the government not only knows what “is” the best idea of equality but that it can actually deliver it.
Let us assume, even for just a moment, that this can be done at all. Does anyone in that group of believers think that the government can make us all rich? Can the government even regulate and tax into existence a nation of middle income householders of adequate means?
To answer this consider the arc of recent spending. Since 2006 when Democrats took congress, we have added almost seven trillion in debt. Since Mr. Obama took the White House,we have added six trillion of that. So in just a few years the Democrat party–the people who claim they can deliver economic equality–have added 40% to the national debt. Forty Percent.
Are things better, more economically equal?
Tomorrow you can decide some things that will change your New Hampshire State constitution. Media outlets and others who object have been actively trying to make them as confusing as possible, so as a public service, we’re here to help. Question 1 asks if you would like to keep the Legislature from taking taxes directly … Read more
“There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods that dazzles the imagination, but which neither belongs to, nor becomes the sober aspect of truth.” And… “There is an air of plausibility which accompanies vulgar reasonings and notions, taken from the beaten circle of ordinary experience, that is admirably suited to the narrow capacities of … Read more
To regular readers of the ‘Grok, this should have come as no surprise at all – in fact, this is almost expected (think Ray Burton in drag. Or is that the other way around? I dunno, all RINOs not only talk and vote alike, they seem to look alike….) as she has won our RINO of the Week award in the past. This is what happens when the Republican Party Leadership (such as it is) continues to do head-in-the-sand reactions when Democrats-with-Rs-next-to-their-name sully the Republican Party brand. Oh, I’ll ask the Belknap County Chair, and I’ll ask the Area Vice-Chair (a two-fer, in this case) and I will ask the NH GOP Chair for what they will do, but I bet I already know the outcome of doing such – words, maybe even a lot of words, but in the end, it’s back to a mush muddle of middlingness madness of self-denial. I would use Jim Bender’s magnificent phrase of “self-assured incompetence” but that seems to be a bar too high for this crop.
So, Alida has seen fit to endorse someone that openly financially threatened the entire Town of Gilford simply because voters would vote Her Highness’s spending ways? Yup. Way to go, Alida – endorse not the person who wants you to keep your own money and make your own decisions, but someone who had no problem DEMANDING that others pay for her demand. To wit, Lisa DiMartino, NH Democrat Extremist from the Town of Gilford. She wants to go to Concord to spend your money. She says so herself – and RINO Alida agrees.
“It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.” —Mitt Romney
Throughout this campaign, there is one issue Mitt Romney has not talked about. What the Romney has not talked about is his profound generosity over many, many years to so many people. Mitt has not only given of himself personally, but he has given his time and a significant amount of his wealth to truly help others in need.
We have seen report after report of others (Not those in the Romney Camp) going forth to the media and speaking of how Mitt and his family have been so exceedingly generous to so many for more than 40 years. Let me say that again. Mitt and his family have been so exceedingly generous to so many for more than 40 years.