MITT ROMNEY: DEMISE OF LEGACY MEDIA EMPOWERING CONSERVATIVE ‘INSURGENTS,’ PREVENTING MORE ‘COLLABORATIVE ACTION’

Ugh…this post about Romney, divisiveness, Democrats, media, and Paul Ryan is wrong on so many levels….but that’s why I pay myself the big cents to wade through this slosh. Emphasis mine, reformatted:

Failed GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney lamented that the demise of traditional media is empowering Republican “insurgents” and preventing establishment Republicans from compromising more with Democrats.

Gak!  First thought – it was BECAUSE the traditional media that the Left didn’t appear to be all that Left in the first place.  Why?  There was no contrarian and competing media to present other views.  Homogenous was all you get – and all of the news anchors of the Big Three Networks were very much Liberals as well as the powerhouse print media.  It really wasn’t until Rush went and took talk radio over (from around 125 stations at the time to over 1500 today) that stalwart conservative views were heard on a wide basis.

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I took a quick look at the recent RCP polling this morning. These are polls released today or yesterday.

Iowa/Quinnipc has Ben Carson is +8, followed by Trump, Rubio, Cruz, Paul, Firoina/Bush, Jinadal…

Yesterday’s ABC/WashPo has Trump at +10, followed by Carson, Rubio, Bush, Cruz, Fiorina, Huckabee, Paul…

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Today Seacoast Online reported a story about a 63 year old grandmother who is believed to be the first Uber driver cited in Portsmouth. Two young women called for an Uber rideshare and within minutes they were pulled over, ordered to get out of the vehicle and the grandmother fined $500.

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That would be THIS post: So, will Frank Guinta (R-NH) vote for “open borders” Paul Ryan for US Speaker of the House?

I got a call from Guinta’s Chief of Staff, Jay.  I did think it a little bit amusing that he said “you could have called me” to which my rejoinder was “Not at around midnight, which is when that post went up”.  To make this a short post, let’s just say that that Frank is supposed to sit with Paul Ryan next week to “discuss issues”.  I asked a simple question: without the spaghgetti code of an omnibus type bill (re: a “Continuing Resolution” or CR, which may be coming up because the Republican majorities in the House AND Senate couldn’t get the job done of “regular order” appropriation / spending bills done) and simply on Principle, would Frank vote against Paul Ryan (R-WI) for Speaker of the US House (and third in line in the Presidency) for his open borders stance, given just the “overwhelming success” of the open borders we’ve had the last decade?

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The national debt ceiling is maxed out and the vote is coming up on whether to increase it.  I’ve already heard / read that a bill may be getting ready that duplicates the Iran Nuke bill but for the debt – again, the Congress may totally toss out its power and responsibilities and hand Obama total control over increased spending and that Congress would have to have a 2/3rds vote NO to stop him (instead of CONGRESS determining what the spending should be and must decide YES with a majority).  Why bother having a Congress at all if all they are going to do is emasculate themselves simply to “have consensus and be able to govern” (note to idiots – that ain’t “governing”)?  Especially in light of what came out of the Dems’ Prez debate the other night for spending that would make Obama look like a piker?

Anyways, how will our NH Federal Delegation vote?

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It’s Hunger Games from DC.  After all, don’t they know what is BEST for us all – even if the lunch programs are losing money, food is just thrown away, and kids opt out by brown bagging it, scampering out to the closes fast food joint, or go into a homegrown “food black market”.  We’ve documented all this for years (re: “Thanks Michelle”).

So Londonderry, NH decided to opt out like a rising number of districts who, by the way, almost immediately see participation rates go back up, happier kids, and programs no longer losing money.  So, in the face of this rebellion from our Betters, what happened (emphasis mine, reformatted)?

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So Frank, whatcha gonna do?  Vote for the anointed that seems to think more highly of immigrants than native born, or this time, vote to protect your constituents?

At the meeting, Paul Ryan told a predominantly Hispanic audience that the job of a U.S. lawmaker is to put oneself in the shoes of foreign nationals who want to come to the United States, then work to discover solutions to make their lives better.

Funny, I thought it was for those he represented in his actual district. I find this very disturbing -a Republican, Paul Ryan (R-WI) who would basically erase the borders of the USA to anyone that could get here, would ascend to the Speakership AND be a scofflaw minded person towards American sovereignty? 

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We hear this from Obama’s Secretary of State about Israeli citizens arming themselves against the Palestinians that are attacking them in what is being called “the third intifatah” (emphasis mine, reformatted)

Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters today that Israel has a right to defend itself, but discouraged against “self-help” responses to random stabbing attacks from Palestinians.  Israeli authorities have encouraged citizens with gun permits to carry when they’re out and about, as they can possibly stop an attacker before police can get on the scene.

Of COURSE he did – American Liberals, of which Kerry is a Prime case, hate the idea that Force should be shared – FORCE should be the purview and monopoly of The State. Firearms should only be owned and used by agents of the State (note to Kerry – the reason why older Americans carry guns is that we can no longer carry cops on our backs). However, the Israelis seem to know better.  After all, they are THERE (versus their “Better” deigning from thousands of miles away) where the knives, guns, and cars are being used to injure, maim, and kill Jews.  They’ve already been through this – I hope they tell this blowhard to go pound sand (or rather, go wander around Gaza for a while – without his armed bodyguards):

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Sanders is possessed of the ancient 20th century Nordic “tradition” of the socialist paradise. He loves him some “modern” Swedish economics, see also Socialism the Third Way. He may also think those Lads from Liverpool are still on tour and he’s just waiting for them to come ’round so he can see the show.

Sorry Sanders, the Beatles are not on tour and your love affair with the Swedish model of central planning is also so last century, kind of like you.

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Due to circumstances well within my control I did not watch the game against the Colts until last night. Good game. The Colts looked better, and Andrew Luck appeared more capable in this outing, though given their division, Indianapolis could probably go 8-8 and find its way to another playoff loss against the Patriots come January.

As for the Patriots, the much sought after blow-out did not materialize (NE 34 – Indy 27), primarily because both Brady and his receivers had some problems with ball control.

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