As I have written about before, there is a part of the electorate that has just about had it with the Republican Party.  I watched Gorge Will as he spoke about them on Fox News Sunday after Laura Ingraham talked about the part of the Republican base that is tired of working hard but have no results for putting R butts in Congressional / Senatorial seats – and how will they win without those 10-30% of the base that thinks this. Far be it for me to take on one of the most erudite thinkers on the Right, but on this with his attitude, he’s dead wrong.  Worse, he’s dead wrong and is condescending about it.  Throw in a bit of what I call the Establishment GOP’s belief that they are entitled to Republican votes, and you’re still way short of the mark of how bad Will sounded to these ears:

These are voters the Republicans want, the Republicans want all voters, and particularly these voters, but to say that he’s tapped into something;… {shaking head} … Henry Wallace tapped into something, with the far left of American Politics in the late 40’s; the John Birch society tapped into something, George Wallace tapped into something, and it was up to the grown-ups in the labor movement in the late 1940’s, and the grown-ups in the conservative movement in the 1960’s to read those elements the riot act, and say: come back in, but come back in on our terms because we are not going down the road you want to go”

We saw how well THAT worked out here in NH, didn’t we?  Yes, I am QUITE sure that the NH GOPpers were extremely angry at the outcome

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RedState is a site that is a daily read for me.  OK, I have to admit, multiple times a day and I link to the writers there a lot.  Anyways, this weekend is the 2015 RedState Gathering down in Atlanta and a number of the present Republican Prez Wannabees were invited to speak to that community.  Maybe, maybe, one of these days I may get to go but since one of those days isn’t this year, I’ll settle for video:

A couple of other posts had some info as well:

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Update: Forgot to post up her RedState Gathering speech as well – after the jump.

While Obama did affect the nervous system in Matthew’s leg, Carly takes a figurative baseball bat to his other political love, Hillary Clinton – and there’s nothing he can do about it:

(H/T: Free Beacon)  This is yet another indication – when Republicans actually fight back (and do it effectively), they win.  Carly’s been doing it by banging on Hillary like the #1 drummer in the USC Trojan marching band.  And right after the debate, she continues that roll but this time, Matthews is getting the action end of the stick as there is NOTHING he can say contrary to what she’s saying – all he can do is sputter about “tone” and cannot refute a single lie that Carly enumerates. He’s speechless when she stops – for all of his bluster, he knows he’s been schooled.  Hard.

Screw you, Chris, you political hack with a byline.  You go girl, Carly!  Daily Signal adds (reformatted, emphasis mine):

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And we wonder why Politicians get away with what they do – we do not have an informed electorate.  If we, as voters, do not understand or know what the limitations of what Government should be, then the greed for power that politicians crave will always be unlimited.

Well, here’s the text of the First Amendment – how many did you get?

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Question of the week was asked by Chris Matthews of MSNBC on his Hardball show “What is the difference between Democrats and Socialists?” – asked of the Democrat National Committee head honcho Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) to the curious event of self declared independent and self-avowed Socialist Bernie Sanders seeking the Presidential nomination of a Party to which he doesn’t even belong.

Funny, that – she has NO answer.  Given that the Democrat Party has rid itself of ITS moderates (the so-called Blue Dog Democrats), it has swung further Left than what GOP has gone right.  In this respect, which is better – the GOP returning to our country’s roots in the Constitution, or the Left moving to the Communist Manifesto?

And on today’s Meet The Press, the question came up when Chuck Todd, host, asked again:

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Almost to the end of the videos (yes, it has been a bit of time since the last one – Life, folks!). This installment has:

• Keith Carlson for the Health Compact legislative movement
• Peter Hinkle for the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies
• Max Abramson

Keith Carlson, Health Compact

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““just not going to call people by their names, and that they’re going to misgender them, just because they can.””

Ah yes, the Liberty provided by the First Amendment to the US Constitution (and, I might add, from our very fine NH Constitution):

[Art.] 22. [Free Speech; Liberty of the Press.] Free speech and liberty of the press are essential to the security of freedom in a state: They ought, therefore, to be inviolably preserved.

So this is supposed to be a foremost guiding principle of our Republic, eh?  Free Speech – the Right to speak your mind, regardless of whether or not you want to listen (you don’t have to), you like it (you don’t have to), or it offends you terribly.  To that last part, tough noogies – not my issue, only your’s.  But this faint hearted Social Justice Warrior (SJW), Danielle Moodie-Mills,  believes she her values of what is right can trump my Right to free speech.

Yeah, that’s fascism:

Did you know there’s a NEW crime against Political Correctness?  Misgendering.  Yup.  Never knew it existed.  But she does and you have to live by it!

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Like I said, a lot of small organizations laser focused on specific issues here in NH and the march continued at the CNHT Annual Picnic.

• Two of those came up at the same time:  NH Families for Education and School Choice NH represented by Michelle Levell and Doris Hohensee.  Both on the issue of education and it is easy to see what their overall thrust is – WHO should be in charge of childrens’ education?
• And a group that has taken a lot of grief over the decades, the John Birch Society, was represented by Bill McNulty.  Concentrating on the Constitution and our governance by it, it is clear that their major concerns have come true – under Obama, we have almost become a post-Constitutional nation.  Given that, and the complete disdain for its check-and-balance philosophy, they can say “hey, we warned you”.

Previous video:

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Continuing on!  One of the nice things about the CNHT Annual Picnic is that the myriad of group on the Conservative side of the aisle (both politically and morally).

• A new force in NH that recently came on the scene is the 603 Alliance which is pushing the idea of gathering behind a conservative candidate in the FITN primary – they are tired of seeing good conservative candidates fail and lose when a squish splits the vote and wins.  They will be holding a round robin caucus for conservatives to rally around a single candidate and return the favor towards the moderates.
• Certainly we know that the NHRTL has been a force to reckon with here in NH in protecting the rights of the children-in-process.  And as we saw in the US Senate race back in November, cross them like Scott Brown did and their followers will cross YOU off their ballot.

Diane Bitter for the 603 Alliance

and for NHRTL, Kurt Wuelper:

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