I was invited to attend the Rockingham County Republican Committee Freedom Founders Breakfast. I went. It was good to see some folks I’ve not run into in a very long time. It was also refreshing, though not unexpected, to watch a four-panel Q&A representing four factions within the Republican Party. Libertarian, Establishment, Centrist, and MAGA.
Without delving into details, they were mostly in agreement about most things, which is important.
When I first moved to New Hampshire, one of the things I found amusing was how just about everyone I met was in a band, had been in one, or knew someone who was. It was like asking if French Canadians knew how to hang drywall. The answer was almost always yes. When I got into politics a few decades after migrating to the Granite State, I discovered something similar. Everyone was in a group or knew someone who was.
Political groups. Activist groups. Organizations on the Right, be they single-issue or otherwise, may have all agreed on the 40,000-foot stuff, but most of them were quietly (or not so much so) at war with each other over doctrinal minutiae.
I won’t deny that GraniteGrok has had its share of contributors who have chosen hills to die on that were not in the best interest of what I will today call the only point on which we must all agree.
Even the worst Republican is better than a “good” democrat.
To offer context, NH State Representative Jonah Wheeler is a smart young black man who is a Democrat, but he thinks for himself once in a while, and his own party hates him for it. They have tongue-lashed and physically threatened him for daring to step off the party plantation, and while a primary in 2024 failed, we can feel certain they will keep trying.
For more context, Jonah scored 27.3% on the NHHRA scorecard in 2025 (2026 is not yet available). He was against “us” more than 70% of the time. Democrat Dale Girard from Claremont opposed us only 46.7% of the time (he scored 53.3), while the average Democrat in the NH House opposed us 99% of the time.
By “us,” I mean the NHHRA standard, which measures key bills against the Republican Party Platform and the US and NH Constitutions and tracks how representatives vote on these bills.
The worst-scoring Republican in the 2025 session was David Nagel from Gilmanton, with 64.8%. He was only against us 35.2% of the time, which is 54% better than the average Democrat.
Even the worst Republican is better than a good democrat.
Republicans have a statistically meaningful registration advantage in New Hampshire, which suggests that the only reason we lose seats, especially for federal races, is turnout.
Yes, 40% of the state is registered as undeclared or independent, but many of those are Republicans in neutral electoral clothing. They vote Republican at the state level, and for reasons that are hard to explain, enough of them vote for a Democrat in Federal races.
There is no good or logical reason for this except that we have failed to inform them of the risk.
One theory is that this creates the perception of balance, and that sounds great, but only if they are also willing to stand up for states’ rights when the Dems in the Fed come for them. It may not be a position you can convince them out of, and running as “not as bad as my opponent” isn’t a sure-fire path to victory, but it could be.
The Democrat party has changed. It appears to be all in on the Mamdani, Sandy, Cortez, Bernie, Platner, Spanberger agenda. Lie about being moderate. Claim your management will put the people first, and once elected, tax and regulate them into poverty, dependency, and silence.
Even the worst Republican is better than a good democrat.
The Left is all in on insisting Trump is corrupt and incompetent. They say he’s a psychopath and a rapist, but if they were to do it formally, they could get sued, and they would lose. They complain about gas prices but didn’t say a word about it when Biden drove them over $ 5.00 per gallon. They love everything when Dems do it but insist that this same thing it is illegal or intolerable when someone else does anything similar.
By all means, use these and other blatant contradictions to challenge them as the mid-terms approach, but understand that we have to show up, and even the worst Republican is better than a good democrat. If you can’t weed them out in a primary, you have to vote for the Republican, no matter what?
We should also take every opportunity to challenge them, regardless of the point they try to make, to push them off their high horse.
How do we know you won’t do a 180 like Mamdani or Spanberger? Why haven’t you spoken out against their campaign lies or their in-office actions?
Why are you so concerned about Trump being in the Epstein files but have nothing to say about prominent Democrats, globalists, and donors actually being in them?
How can you claim to be about equity and diversity when your party keeps trying to run a black Democrat out of office because he does not share your views on gender surgery for children or men in women’s bathrooms?
You said you opposed an income tax but voted against bills to ensure NH never has one?
The Biden administration had plenty of missteps and controversy. How can you begin to claim credibility on the question of measuring competence or transparency when you not only completely missed Joe Biden’s physical and mental decline but denied it and defended him?
When do you plan to apologize for being wrong about just about every act of tyranny perpetrated upon us during the COVID years?
When do you plan to acknowledge that you want Illegals voting in our elections despite this being against laws Democrats voted to pass?
By all means, create more and share them. I’ll be working on some of these myself as we head through the summer.
If we can make the case that voting for Democrats or not voting against them is too risky, then drive that turnout; we can’t lose, and we must not.
Every bad thing about the Biden years is not over. It’s just on hold. The moment the left gets enough votes, they will bring it all back. They will undermine or reverse very positive change from reducing the regulatory state to investigating fraud to border and national security.
Locally, they will raise taxes, increase pending regulations, and try to pass regulations that restrict rights and liberties. That is not speculation. It is a fact. Your democrats are just like the ones that ruined Vermont, are wrecking Maine, and have long since made New York and Massachusetts places to flee, and they will act as quickly to reverse course as Mamdani and Spanberger, with equally catastrophic outcomes.
Even the worst Republican is better than a good democrat.
Better for liberty, affordability, families, jobs, wages, women, minorities, legal immigrants, public safety, public health, free speech, and more.
Do the work, make the case, find a way to make it matter to not just Republicans but undeclareds and independents.
Democrats will never leave you alone. Never. And they will never stop taking your money to pay for things they want, whether you want them or not.
