And finally, the third section of the Seacoast GOP Candidate Debate at the Exeter Town Hall, produced by the Exeter Town GOP, Rockingham County GOP, and the Seacoast Republican Women and most ably moderated by Master of Ceremonies Extraordinaire, Jeff Chidester.  However, the “players” changed to those running for the US Senate seat now held by Democrat Jeanne Shaheen:  Bob Smith, Jim Rubens, and Scott Brown.  Same format as for the Gubernatorial and Congressional Debates:

• Opening Remarks
• Formal Questions Round 1
• Lightning Round
• Formal Questions Round 2
• Closing Remarks

Here are the candidates’ Opening Remarks (and as previously mentioned, headphones are suggested to compensate for our new livestreaming technology that needs tweaking):

And then we get started with the good stuff: Formal Questions Round 1: 

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Then it was time to swap one set of candidates out and bring in a brand new set – those running for US Congress in NH’s First Congressional District:

• Brendan Kelly
• Dan Innus
• Frank Guinta

Same format as before: Opening Remarks, Formal Questions Round 1, Lightning Round, Formal Questions Round 2, and Closing Remarks.  Here are their Opening Remarks to the crowd assembled at the Exeter Town Hall, with the event put on by the Exeter GOP, Rockingham County GOP, and the Seacoast Republican Women:

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Yesterday was the Seacoast GOP Candidate Debates (Exeter, Rockingham County, and Seacoast Republican Women) Candidate Debates – Gubernatorial, US Congressional, and US Senate) held at the Exeter Town Hall.  Being under the weather, Grokster Mike filled in for the livestreaming – new way for GraniteGrok in using some new technology.  Yes, not able to zoom in and the audio is not what we normally present – but that’s what happens when our dedicated equipment wasn’t available.  Adapt, innovate – overcome.  Solutions to those problems are now known and we’ll be trying to implement them as soon as we can.  In the mean time – if you have headphones, use them (better than your PC speakers).  In the mean time, here is the first video – candidates for the NH GOP nomination for NH Governor – Andrew Hemingway and Walt Havenstein:

For each debate sequence, the format is the same:

• Opening remarks (above)
• Formal Questions
• Lightning Round
• Formal Questions
• Closing Remarks

…except here, we also have the opening ceremonies. Jeff Chidester served admirably as Master of Ceremonies in keeping on time and the candidates on point! After the jump, the Formal Questions for these two:

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Second installment of the Seacoast GOP Debate showcasing the candidates running for the NH GOP nominations for NH Governor, US Congress, and US Senate.  This is the Gubernatorial Lightning Round / Formal Questions Round 2 between  Andrew Hemingway & Walt Havenstein with Jeff Chidester acting as Master of Ceremonies and “Interrogator of Candidates”:

Lightning Round (only Yes or No answers, headphones are suggested):

Formal Questions Round 2

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Being really under the weather on Sat means I didn’t get as much video as I should have – and certainly not enough of the automatic firearms. Two of the popular ones were the “Ma Deuce” (.50 cal. heavy machine gun – the Youngest’s favorite weapon while deployed to Afghanistan) and the 1919 (.30 cal machi1ne gun).  Here’s a taste of both:

Ma Deuce:

1919: 

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Long Story Short, Max Baucus was a Democrat albatross shipped off to China as an ambassador (to save some face).  His sterling ‘conservative Democrat’ replacement was busted for having plagiarized the majority of his Army War College thesis.  He bailed.

Left to decide at the Montana Democrat Party State Convention,  the curdled cream of Montana’s left wing crop, cloistered amongst themsleves, picked the candidate they really, really (really-really) wanted.  A Total moon bat.

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Regional planning subverts authority from taxpayers, town councils and selectman, state reps and even the Governor’s office.    Anyone who does not know this is ignorant (bad) or lying (worse).  To get a feel for how screwed you are if you embrace any of this garbage, check out this video from a County Commissioner with some thoughts on that for my original post…

While the County has signed on and is attempting to do what is reasonable, at 2:22 Commissioner Rob Astorino gets to the heart of a problem;  the devil in the details.  Details that were not even in the agreement they signed onto–though we know, as folks who have seen Ken Eyring speak on this, the details are in the agreement, couched in vague language that hides the real agenda, and the forfeiture of property rights and decision making to unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats in perpetuity.

OK. Now, watch some of this Southern New Hampshire Regional Planning meeting.  It sounds all warm and fuzzy, littered with progressive buzz words, but it is the same game and leads to the same abusive relationship and loss of local control…

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It’s a two-fer from the best-est, dreamiest-est, presidential president ever…or something.

First – ‘Obama vows not to take vacations if elected president’  c/o Ace. Via Weasel Zippers.

Second – ‘I promised to end the war in Iraq and did, uuuuh, actually that was the government of Iraq, uhhh – al Maliki did it, just ignore all the video of me… taking credit, …on the campaign trail…over and over again…for ending the war in uhhhhraq  c/o Ace via Free Beacon

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“Will you stop?  Will you let him go?  Will you stop?”

Those of the words of a patron of a bar beseeching NH State Senator Dave Boutin to stop his drunken rantings over nothing.  It gets worse – NSFW (Not Safe For Work) – Play the video away from young / impressionable children and don’t play it at work (foul language) (sorry, forgot the warning for Part 1).

NH State Senator David Boutin continues to go after two men from across the bar from him simply because two men had been talking to a lady and the lady left.  In his inebriated condition, Dave Boutin gets it in his besotted head that the two men have been uncivil, and then proceeds to show the world what happens when someone verbally (and logically) loses control under the influence.  All of this with judgment that he has the right to publicly and loudly berate these two for something that they have not done:

Again, a short clip just like the previous one.  The reason was that the guy with the cell phone camera took quick shots – he never believed that NH State Senator Dave Boutin was even a NH State Representative (“if you were really a representative in our House, your boys would have gotten you out of here in a hurry“). He kept thinking that Dave Boutin would stop (and relayed that if he had known in advance, he just would have kept it rolling – he couldn’t believe that Dave Boutin just would not stop!).

Well, one has to wonder if Dave Boutin has any boys around – no one came to save him, even as a fine upstanding example of what an NH State Senator should be.  Judgment – was there any displayed by him?  The epitome of reasoned and logical debate:   “All you care about is getting

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The new CO2 emissions regulations now being put forth by the EPA is going to have a huge impact on the American economy and people.  Here, Dan Joseph of MRC TV went to interview (yeah, in DC he gets to do interviews with all kinds of folks) some folks that were demonstrating FOR the EPA to implement them (as opposed to say “Who the heck is the EPA to put itself up higher than the Congress in making this huge impact on America”?

I think the supporters were a bit, shall we say, lacking:

You know, if these folks want to reshape and restructure their own lives to use less energy in every aspect of their lives, go for it.  It is this “forced communitarianism” by

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