Those crazy Progressives at GraniteState Progress are harboring their very own McCarthyesque “Liberty Menace” movement.  It’s called the “OUR State Project” and it’s like our very own little ‘Red Scare!’ right here in New Hampshire.

They will be looking behind the bushes for anyone who exhibits personal responsibility or that dares to openly suspect that people don’t need the government to do everything for them.  Anyone who even appears to present a threat to the New Hampshire Democrat Party Agenda will be black listed, marked with the “Liberty letter,” and paraded in the court of public opinion as threats to Democracy.

But, I didn’t think the Brown Shirts at “OUR State Project” NH would spend any of GSP’s Democracy Alliance out-of-state stash on “marketing material” suited to their actual mission, so I thought I’d lend a hand.

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We are a 1% family – but for a different reason other than the current (and stupid) “financial inequality” Progressive debate roiling political discourse.  No, we are not part of that 1% (and not the 10% either – keep sliding downscale, folks).  No, we are the 1% because the Eldest and the Youngest have served in our armed forces (US Marines and US Army, respectively).  We are one of the relatively small number of families who have had an immediate family member serve, and we have two (three, if one wishes to count the Eldest’s girlfriend – she served in the US Navy).

I sit here on the couch, in the still quiet of the morning and by myself (with one of our two dogs cuddled up next to me) and think, once again, “I am the lucky one”.  Both came home (Iraq and Afghanistan) and in both cases, TMEW and I had the pleasure and excitement of greeting them after hours long flights in Bangor, ME where many of the overseas flights stopped for refueling.  Sure, they had to get back on and head to their bases, but we got to see them – and some of the changes that the theater of war had wrought.

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The OUR State Project is looking to blacklist candidates and then smear them in the court of public opinion.   Cynthia Chase and Susan Bruce are founding members so, no surprises there.

They have been promoting  meetings (on social media) held at the offices of the progressive lobbying outfit Granite State Progress, in Concord, which ties them to GSP’s out-of-state millionaires and dark money.   And now OSP is trying to distance themselves from GraniteState progress. Not directly affiliated?  That’s not going to fly?

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Steve Duprey is the NH GOP Committeeman from NH.  Pretty much he was short (as he promised) as most of what he had to say was “newsy”.   But there was one thing that caught my ear:

…we are the Party of good ideas, of Limited Government, of Liberty and great solutions. Let’s never lose sight of that, and if we don’t…we’ll be able to come together and we will take back everything we lost in the past.

Once again (pattern, right), we hear the hint of “fall in line, you all out there”. He has a point; primaries oft are raucous and acrimonious events – some feelings and attitudes never heal and any sense of Kumbyahness is sometimes just the sound of lips moving.  But he does have the assumption that primary hatchets will be turned into general election door knockers.  The other assumption is that of “Limited Government, of Liberty and great solutions“.

The question is “Does the general electorate

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Yeah, this will certainly inspire the base:

Anyone who calls themselves Conservative or Republican, who doesn't vote for the nominee of the party in the general election is neither.

— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) May 21, 2014

That’s from US Senator John Cornyn – a demand. I’d suggest that you click on over.  I really do wish that Party officials do so and read the responses; pretty much all of them should start to given the GOP great pause and great worry.  For you readers, this will be nothing new as we’ve been saying it for quite some time: EARN our vote, show us that you deserve it – stop taking it for granted.  Stop thinking “well, where else will they go” (er, see after the jump, one more time).  Making a demand for it, or stating over and over that “ANY Republican is better than any Democrat” is no longer making it.  The Internet has made it clear that there are too many Republicans that are shams – and many of us are no longer willing to spend one of the most precious coins of American Citizenship, our priceless vote, on frauds.

Who is a Republican fraud?  Someone who votes equally or more often with Democrats than with Republicans.  Someone who continues the incremental slide to the Left, to Socialism, instead of the original status of maximum Individual Freedom and Limited Government.  Someone who looks at the Constitution and the Platform – and just sniffs and votes away from it.  Like these “Republicans” (the lowest of the House Republican Alliance scores):

According to the data, Brown [Scott Brown, former US Senator from MA, trying to be next one from NH  -Skip] , who took office in February 2010, sided with a Democratic majority on 22 percent of votes in his first year, ranking him seventh among all senators.  The next year, he voted with Democrats 46 percent of the time, trailing only Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. In 2012, he rose to the top of the list, siding with a Democratic majority close to 62 percent of the time, according to the annual report, which was printed in the January 21, 2013 issue of CQ Weekly.

The Senator tries to conflate two things that are not true –

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Adding a bit more from Steve’s post on the hysterical OUR State Project Progressives that believe that people who seemingly just want to be left alone by Government are THE existential threat to NH!  Remember, this from people who are out of staters themselves and depend on outside money to attack these people who just want to be left alone.  Is their urge and psychological urge to control and be controlled that bad, that the whole idea of Freedom is repugnant to their very being?  Or that the Free Stater Project folks will totally overturn their narrative that we can only exist by utilizing the heavy hand of Government into every nook and cranny of our lives?   From the Concord Monitor:

Fight against Free Staters:

A curious new account popped up in the world of New Hampshire political Twitter this week: @OurStateProject. The account’s description reads, “Exposing the Freestater threat to New Hampshire politics,” and the URL ourstateproject.com links back to the New Hampshire Democratic Party.  The problem is, no one knows where the account came from, and the Democratic Party says it’s not associated with it. There is a group of Democratic elected officials and politically involved people that has been meeting and calling itself the Our State Project, but they insist they’re not behind the account.

Zandra Rice-Hawkins, executive director of the left-leaning Granite State Progress, confirmed that a “loose-knit” group of people has been meeting at Granite State Progress offices on a monthly basis to discuss strategies for informing communities about

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