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There’s a lot of discussion just now about Eddie Edwards’s decision to pull out of the first Republican Congressional District 1 (CD1) debate rather than sign a pledge to support the eventual primary winner.
Is he showing ‘character’, and ‘standing up for his principles’, by refusing to sign the pledge? That’s one way of looking at it. Another is that he’s indicating a basic misunderstanding of what a political party is for, and what it means to belong to one. He’s not alone.
Three Steps to Smaller Government
Here in New Hampshire, the Republican party — the ‘party of small government’ — controls both houses of the legislature and the governor’s office. But government continues to grow. Why? Because in order to actually shrink government, three reforms are necessary, and none of them are in place.
(1) Everything, including existing RSAs and agency regulations, must sunset after a reasonably brief period, like 10 years.
Grok Poll Results – Would You Vote Republican to Keep Nancy Pelosi from Becoming Speaker?
The poll question was “Would You Vote Republican In Nov. to Keep Nancy Pelosi from Becoming Speaker?” 100% of respondents said yes! Pelosi continues to be a gift that keeps giving to Republicans, even when they might not deserve it. The original poll is here. View the results of our previous poll here: “Will You … Read more
GraniteGrok reports: Annual Belknap County GOP Lake Winnipesaukee Cruise – Steve Negron
Following Brian Belanger was his friend, Steve Negron. Both are running for the US House of Representatives in NH’s Second Congressional District. Like the others, Steve addressed the crowd on the M/S Mount Washington on Lake Winnipesaukee.
Note: it seems that a number of the candidates are prior military – many of them Air Force such as Steve Negron (Major, retired, Missile command). Turns out that David Webb, the MC, is a prior Marine – and was egged on a bit by Al Baldasaro. I think you’ll enjoy that the inter-branch rivalry that was brought up.
Full Disclosure: GraniteGrok has endorsed Steve in this election.
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GraniteGrok reports: Annual Belknap County GOP Lake Winnipesaukee Cruise – Dr. Stewart Levenson
Last of the candidates to talk during the Belknap County GOP’s annual fund raiser on the M/S Mount Washington on Lake Winnipesaukee was Dr. Stewart Levenson. He, too, is running in NH’s Second Congressional District:
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They Like to Try to Weaponize Our Morality Against Us
Kurt Schlichter has invested some time to help the peeps deal with progressive mic-drop rubbish designed to prevent debate or silence dissent. He calls them obnoxious liberal argument cheats. And he’s got a reliable answer for each that I’ve advocated for years. So read them all. But I wanted to share at least one of his scenarios because this one comes at us from all sides.
They like to try to weaponize our morality against us, which is hilarious since they hate morality almost as much as they hate us. They create some sort of moral test, usually out of thin air, and then announce you have failed it. One of the best was the recent “Splitting up families of undocumented workers is not who we are!” Except it is who we are. We split up the families of criminals all the time and we should – there’s no nursery in San Quentin for a reason.
New Hampshire’s Bipartisan Cultural Elites
Mr. Trump won the presidency on an issue no one else in the ruling class took seriously. Immigration, border control, and the very definition of what it meant to be American. For years the cultural elites in Washington and across the nation have shared a growing disinterest in the idea of citizenship. Their reactions have run the gamut from patronizing to insults. Republicans pander to narratives while Democrats call them xenophobes, racists, and even white supremacists. Policies and priorities that resulted in the opioid crisis, and a range of national security issues.
Trump won because citizenship means something, and securing that something matters. And when we look at New Hampshire, we have a similar problem just waiting for someone to capitalize on it. “Border control” for voting purposes.
DNC Platform Committee Burns Bernie
We start with what the DNC left out of their platform, talk about alphabet agency gun-buys, the GOP, Convention shenanigans, Trump and more…
GrokTALK! – Mark Meckler
Mark Meckler, one of the founding leaders of the TEA Party movement, joins us to discuss convention politics, candidates, post-convention fallout-scenarios, what we need to do to take over the GOP, and more.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen Hands NH Republicans A Free Pass on Everything, Ever
New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen has a problem. She has just made it very difficult for State Democrat Party Chair Ray Buckley, the entire NH Democrat party, and all of its candidates, to use anything any Republican has ever done in the past against them, ever.
January 16th, 2016
In a GrokTALK! Exclusive Jorge Mesa-Tejada explains what really went down at that Hampstead committee meeting as opposed to what the NH media has been misreporting. Kevin Kervick is back in NH to discuss Campus culture, Students for Common Sense, and Campus carry. And Doug Sachletben (Club for Growth) joins us to talk about the … Read more
WTF: Senate Republicans – Losing is Winning
It was a busy week for the call sign Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. We had five or six solid contenders. But did this one take the crown? Senate Republicans fumble a show-vote on the Iran Treaty then declare a day later that losing is winning.
GOP Promises not kept
The Republicans asked for the majority to fix things like ObamaCare and big government and when the voters gave them that majority what did they do with it? That and trimming the administrative state. (Yes, I said that last time – got my segment notes mixed up. It’s in this segment. My apologies.)
Changing GOP Ground Game?
Has the GOP finally changed its ground game. A series of impressive special election wins suggest that something is different. We discuss the most recent winner in NH, then how chasing votes in the wrong direction cost them elections in NH in 2014.
So Much For Republican Unity
Former House rep George Lambert joins us to discuss the Republican war against one of their own in New Hampshire. We talk about the players and the political cost at the local level, all (apparently) so Senator Ayotte can clear the battle space to run for re-election as a RINO.
GrokTALK! – David Bozell on Amnesty, The NSA, and Republicans
David Bozell from ForAmerica is back to discuss the recent 5th circuit ruling on Executive Amnesty. We also discuss lousy Republican leadership in Congress, and Rand Paul being all he can be in his fight against NSA spying.
Great, Just What We Need, More Anti-Republican Crap
When I first announced the return of GrokTALK! a few weeks ago, in pursuit of likely guests, the very first response I got on my status update from a Republican Facebook page was, “Great, just what we need, more anti-Republican crap.”
In some respects yes, but not because the objects of our remarks happen to “claim” to be Republicans. It would be a result of their behaving as something other than a Republican. (And yes, I probably am a better arbiter of who is or is not behaving like a Republican, as we shall see shortly.)
And while we (I will include all of us on the Grok) are more than willing to accept the 80-20 rule in a general sense, there are specific issues and some votes that are just too important to let slide.
And when Party leadership itself does stupid things, yes–we will be all over that, as any regular reader already knows.
Here’s a recent example.
GrokTALK! Snippets–Segment Three: Former State Senator Gary Lambert and the GOP Autopsy
In Segment Three of this weeks podcast Skip and Steve speak with Marine Col. Gary Lambert, former State Senator from Nashua, about the GOP Growth Opportunity Project, also known as the GOP Autopsy Report. Due to a technical problem this segment was cut short. The full April 13th podcast is available here . If you … Read more
GrokTALK! Snippets–Segment Four: Ellen Kolb on Life, Religious Liberty, And The Pursuit of Media Responsibility
In the Fourth and final Segment of this weeks podcast Skip and Steve talk with longtime New Hampshire life Advocate Ellen Kolb about the HHS mandate, the GOP and Social Issues, Kermit the Killer Gosnell, the missing media, Planned Parenthood and more. Due to a technical problem the first few minute of this segment were … Read more
