Tag: Barry Goldwater

Blogline of the Day: SERIOUSLY?? Equating NH Gov. Chris Sununu to Goldwater? Oh, OK…

February 7, 2023

by Skip

From one Republican to another at a Republican event – and Larry Hogan (rumored to have looked in a mirror and said to his image “YOU could be President!“): “I didn’t know you were going to have Lockdown Larry when I bought a ticket to RINOfest. Good job finding the ONLY Republican governor in the … Read more

Why I Vote The Way I Do

October 2, 2020October 2, 2020

by Norm Silber

As a past member of the New Hampshire House of Representative now seeking election once again, and as a past Chair of the Town of Gilford Budget Committee, I am sometimes asked for justification or criticized for my positions and votes on various issues before the NH House, the Belknap County Delegation, and the Gilford Budget Committee.

Notable Quote – well, it sure ain’t Jeb Bradley or Chris Sununu

September 26, 2018July 3, 2018

by Skip

“Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?” -Barry Goldwater They LOVE spending other peoples’ money…and like I’ve said for years, don’t listen to what politicians SAY, watch what they … Read more

Republican extremists: Martin Luthur King, Jr. and Barry Goldwater

September 26, 2018August 22, 2012

Democrats today love name-calling about Republican “extremism.” I’t not getting much traction, but it does have a distinguished history. So…with a hat tip to a recent column by George Will, here’s what Dr. Martin Luthur King, Jr. had to say about “extremism.” In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” he wrote as follows:

Memorial Day, Liberty-&-Freedom, and the military draft

September 26, 2018May 28, 2012

by Tim Condon

From the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution

The quote below is from an article in today’s Union Leader by Vietnam Navy veteran Jim Adams (he was in the Navy and in Vietnam around the same time I was in the Marines in Vietnam):

“In 1940, as World War II loomed, Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie gave his support to his opponent — Franklin Roosevelt — in his push for a peacetime draft. Later in life, Willkie remarked that on his epitaph, he would rather have that he “contributed to freedom” than that he was a President.” But wait….