Ouch!  Scott Brown is taking it in the chops, again, for being “famous for being famous”:

“What Is Scott Brown Really Afraid Of? The Voters Of New Hampshire”

…Scott Brown has been driving his truck all across New Hampshire in an attempt to convince Granite Staters that he is one of us. Telling people that by spending time in New Hampshire as kid or weekends at his vacation home makes him a real Granite Stater.True Granite Staters are just not buying it.

If Brown were a real Granite Stater, he would understand that we are less about grandstanding and photo ops, and more about substance. We want candidates who talk about their positions and are willing to stand up for their beliefs.

…“We went to Stoneham on the day of the Massachusetts election when he ran against Elizabeth Warren and held Scott Brown signs, standing out in the cold for eight hours,” McCray told the Sentinel Enterprise. “He knew that. And yet he didn’t even have the common courtesy to respond to our invitation to a debate in 16 days. That bothered me.”

And this:

Even ultra-right wing conservative blogger, Granite Grok, had some choice words about Brown skipping the debate.

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Beating a Dead Donkey?  Of Course.  The lie factory expands daily with these people and the Democrat rank and file who repeat these lies must not go unchallenged.  Which brings us to this from Patterico.

IRS Commissioner testified in March Lois Lerner emails were archived. Here is the video #IRS http://t.co/M6Zbl8Hgqc

— Jason Chaffetz (@jasoninthehouse) June 13, 2014

Yeah…its gets better.

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“George Bush Brought Democracy to Iraq – Barack Obama Brought ISIS”

– Jim Hoft

Unlike Democrats & Progressives that constantly whine about “settled law so shut up!” (when Republicans attempt to undo Democrat law, but then say “I WON” when they repeal Republican laws)and “settled science so shut up!” (“the glaciers are burning due to global warming climate change catastrophic weather!”), we don’t call it “settled history” – we’ll just keep talking about it.  We know that political polarization is such that given a set of actual facts, to which no one disputes (mainly), completely opposite conclusions can be derived.

Yes, Bush went to finish the Iraq War that started with Desert Storm (another reason for WINning wars instead of settling with a stalemate) but a growing democracy was starting in Iraq even after winning the war and almost losing the peace.

Yes, Maliki resorted back to

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Donna Brazile had this had this amazing thing to say:

I have to tell you as somebody who’s observing this race, I’m trying to look at all of these primary races. Low turnout. You got to really go out there in these low turnout elections, although there were a lot more than participated in most primaries. Still, Eric Cantor did not pay attention to his voters. He lost touch with them and he spent the morning of election day, I mean, this is a very important time to be on the local news, not in the national news, the local news, at Starbucks. He should have been Krispy Kreme down in his district. He was out of touch. And the Tea Party is still highly caffeinated. Because the Tea Party is the energy inside the Republican Party. You ignore them, you ignore the base. And that’s a problem. And he ignored the base.

Indeed, one of Cantor’ problem is that he DID ignore the base.  I know of one current NH State Senator that beat the primary opponent for one reason: when she went around to the selectmen and other activists in the district, they went “Wow, we haven’t had visits like this in years!”.  Another problem was immigration which ticked off a lot of people.  And another biggie was that of “hubris” – it didn’t sit well that Cantor was in DC and not actually campaigning; he took it for granted that his name, his leadership position, and all his money meant he’d be a shoo-in.

Instead, he got shooed out.

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My US Senator, Kelly Ayotte, campaigned hard against granting Amnesty to illegal aliens – a stance that sits very well with the base here in NH.  Now, 4 years into her term, she has gone hard Left on the issue – Amnesty is GREAT for Republicans!  If the debacle of Eric Cantor primary loss, in part, doesn’t get your attention, Kelly, maybe this will.  And then there is a quote from one of Obama’s illegal alien children Crusaders:

Hmmm, I’m not seeing much in the way of Hispanics (that make up the majority of illegal aliens) of being a “natural Republican constituency”, eh?

And that quote:

“I’ve heard people come in and say, ‘You’re going to let me go, just like you let my mother go, just like you let my sister go. You’re going to let me go as well, and the government’s going to take care of us,’” Cabrera told the outlet. “Until we start mandatory detentions, mandatory removals, I don’t think anything is going to change. As a matter of fact, I think it’s going to get worse.”

Now, unless the Republican Platform has magically changed, last I knew it was all about self-responsibility and a more limited government.  While it is from a kid, this had to have made Democrats smile from ear to ear: “yup, that’s one of ours”!  How can any Republican look at that tendency, the outright call for Government to take care of them and think “that’s a budding Republican right there!”.

No, this is all the stupid notion that Amnesty will help Republicans.  Do that, and you will see a lot of undeclared magically appearing who would also be thinking “why do Republicans care more for people that shouldn’t be here, and that are about to take my job and put my family at risk, than me?”

And I think THAT is one of the primary (if not THE) motivating over Cantor’s loss / Brat’s win – Republicans in the grassroots think that their elected representatives and THEIR Leadership have forgotten what is important to them.  They aren’t, as Progressives / Democrats would have you believe, against immigration.  

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Yesterday morning I noted that no one in NH media had dropped one dot of ink, digital or otherwise, on the latest feature of the IRS tea Party targeting scandal. You recall the IRS scandal.  That’s one of the scandals where no one wants to testify, Lois Lerner plead the fifth, people are hiding and ducking, democrats are blocking every effort to find out who is connected to the intimidation of tea party groups, and now important correspondence between key players has gone missing –but there’s no scandal, seriously, this was just made up by the Right to distract us. (From what, Benghazi?)

Well, the Union Leader has finally embraced the latest aspect of the IRS targeting scandal.  They have a large article in today’s paper, page two no less, by Rachel Bade, which reports that Lerner’s computer crashed back in 2011 and the IRS lost a lot of stuff.  (A lot!)  They think they can recover some of that, but they may not have even backed up Lois Lerner’s email every day…maybe.  It’s complicated.

whisper/ Write that down and use it the next time the IRS asks you for something.  And why not.  NH Agencies do that as well.

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Steve alerted me this morning that Jazz Shaw over at Hot Air had linked us up on the Karen Testerman announcement that she was dropping out of the race for the NH GOP nomination for US Senate here in New Hampshire AND was endorsing former US Senator Bob Smith.  What caught my attention was a graph that Jazz had put up on data before the announcement:

Jazz had this to say:

Testerman was getting roughly 18 percent support – not inconsiderable in a four way race. Obviously she can’t force her supporters to go in any particular direction, but if her endorsement carries any weight with them, a fair number of those primary voters may indeed go over to Bob Smith. For his part, Smith was already nearly within the margins for going head to head against Shaheen – down by roughly six – and any significant bump from former Testerman voters could easily put him in the lead.

Note that Jazz does the comparison against Jeanne Shaheen.  What is more important, I believe, is that Bob Smith is ALREADY within the margin of error with Scott Brown: 3.2%.  I hardly think this bolsters, in ANY form, Scott Brown’s claim that only HE can defeat Jeanne Shaheen. 

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