Once again, the operative question: Who Watches the Watchers? We know who our “Watchers” are – our readers. Smart, opinionated, know all the pertinent facts/issues – if we screw up, they’ll let us know.
And I am actually happy about that as we can’t know everything, and we readily admit it. We do know a lot, but there’s no way we can do it all. We welcome it (unless you are like Thad Riley and Jeanne Dietsch, who just make stuff up because we are, at times, their ‘Watchers”) as they can’t seem to prove their verbiage that we are liars.
While most Groksters are registered Republicans, we do look at Republicans and hold them to account more often, and with much more rigor than Democrats (who seldom have only 1) your money is the Govt’s, 2) Unborn babies can be murdered with wild abandon, 3) Govt allocates “rights” when it feels like it, 4) none of you should own a gun because 5) we hate the Constitution and avoid it whenever possible. Sure, there’s other stuff, but those seem to be the main ones.
And yes, when Republicans start to sound and act like Democrats, and we find out about it, we are all good on applying the precepts of Accountability.
Politics is about keeping score. And since we’re here for the principles, not just the party, it behooves us to report on elected officials registered as Republicans who refuse to act like them. Republicans should protect free speech, association, and its public exercise. And yet there are those who will not.
-Steve Mac Donald (“Eleven NH Republicans Join Democrats To Protect Unconstitutional Buffer Zone Law“).
So thanks to Ed for quoting Steve and to both for winding me up for a quick post after getting that “trackback” that another site is using Ed’s post. Go read both of them even if they are four years old (that’s what I get for searching on GraniteGrok – you never know what pops up now and then).
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And yes, MANY THANKS to those who contributed to our February Fundraiser. I have no idea what the final number is, but I DO know that one of the projects we’ve started is looking for a better search engine. We’re talking with our webmistress, who brought up JetPack. I’ve done an afternoon eval, and it may work “good enough” to be far better than the basic WordPress one, so we may have her install the free version to get a feel for it and then go to the professional version if it works out.
HT | Ed Mosca – “Meet the GOP Fascists“
