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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.

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Republicans Against Free Speech

NHGOP Woodshed
Taking them out to the Woodshed again…

Carolyn McKinney’s rebuttal to “some Republicans” pushing to remove the word ‘traditional’ as a qualifier to the word ‘marriage’ in the New Hampshire Republican State Platform is brilliant. It’s so good those Republicans don’t want you to read it. (If you have problems with the above link the piece is also cross-posted here.)

Somone or perhaps a few someones are flagging every effort to post this on Facebook as in violation of Facebook’s rules making it difficult to share.

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Leave ‘Traditional’ Marriage in the NHGOP Platform

marriageTo advocates for removing “traditional” from marriage in the NHGOP platform.

First, you are guilty of using the most frustrating and pernicious leftist debate tactic.

To try to make your case, you use examples outside the norm – such as families who adopt, grandparents raising their grandchildren, single parents due to the death of a spouse – in an attempt to undermine the norm. It’s no different than those who are pro-abortion trying to undermine opposition to abortion by raising rare cases of rape and incest, or more recently, using the existence of intersex persons to try to undermine natural sex/gender.

Many of us have friends or family whose situation is exactly one of those examples, but their efforts are a compassionate response to a crisis, not something that we should set as a legal standard.

Second, articulating an ideal is not exclusionary.

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GrokTALK! May 21st, 2016

We welcome Dr. Michael Brown to the program to talk about LGBT politics, the Transgender bathroom edict, and the course of cultural politics in the waning days of the Obama years. Before that,guest host Aaron Day, and backup guest host/guest Dan Hynes talk upcoming November races,Aaron’s third-party US Senate bid, and Dan’s run for the … Read more

The Cost When Principle and Policy No Longer Matter

We continue with RLCNH chair Aaron Day on his threatened third party challenge to NH Sen. Kelly Ayotte, the failure of Medicaid/ObamaCare, and the cost to New Hampshire if the Republican State legislature reauthorizes expansion.    

Will Sen. Ayotte Pay a Price For Meddling?

NH Senator Kelly Ayotte meddled in the race for NH Speaker of the House. As a result, moderate Republican leadership took command with plans to extend Medicaid Expansion. One local activist has a plan to make her pay a  political price.  

State Party Tries to Co-opt Young Republicans

Former gubernatorial candidate Andrew Hemingway joins us to discuss a recent NH-GOP Exec. board meeting at which the state party chair and others moved to co-opt the New Hampshire Young Republicans (NHYR). Andrew recounts the events from the meeting, and the degree to which the state party has or is trying to control a group over … Read more

GrokTALK! “J-Ho Must Go”

George Lambert announces his campaign to organize a special meeting of party voting delegates who will be asked to defend the abuses and usurpations of their leadership or replace the party Chair.  We also talk about how Senator Kelly Ayotte’s meddling comes with a political price, and how the NH GOP is chasing the Massachusetts … Read more

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! – Who’s The ‘Conservative’?

We opened yesterday with some discussion on Rick Perry’s entrance into the Republican primary, then on to some thoughts about the recent Scott Walker event, and how some Republicans call everyone a conservative (or even a good conservative) when to an actual conservative most of them come up short (and some shorter than others).   … Read more

GrokTALK! – GOP It’s Hard to Know Ya!

We talk Jaspercrats on the House Judiciary Committee (hello! primary); NH RNC Committeemen (and women) actively undermining the Republican party platform; and the Republican House passed a bill to harpoon local transparency this week. We also spend some time on the casinos, the Hoell amendment, and other stabs at liberty with regard to gambling.  

GrokTALK! – The Red Tail Hawk Bill

A bill about a bird makes national news because it was proposed by fourth graders who were in the House when it was killed.  (The Bill, not the bird.)  But it wasn’t just that it got voted down it was the testimony against it. The story went national but we’ve got a rep from the … Read more

Facebook Doodlings…How To Treat Your “Republicans”

If you are a Republican in New Hampshire the official party response to Stella Tremblay’s “opinion” (regardless of your opinion about her opinion) is a stark reminder of how you will be treated by them, regardless of your value to the parties so-called political goals (the platform).

I mention it only because of a relatively recent Facebook status update posted in the Republican sphere, that said…

Tremblay criticized for comments on bombing victim. NH GOPers like this are giving NH Dems even better odds at retaining the legislative majority…

There were a few comments both ways to varying degrees but I felt compelled to add my thoughts…

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Re: Take it back or burn it down

“Fire upon it, my dear Marquis, and never spare a particle of my property so long as it affords a comfort or a shelter to the enemies of my country. – Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson, when asked by Marquis de Lafayette, who was commanding the artillery barrage of Yorktown in the American War of Independence, … Read more

A word about criticizing “our own”…

Yeah, you!

Call us honest. We criticize anyone, including “our own” in the New Hampshire GOP.  No wool over these eyes, no regrets, no guilt.  We sleep very well at night.

Our targets include anyone who directly, or indirectly, works against the founding Conservative principles we believe in – reverence of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the rule of law not men, small and sensible government, sound money, realistic budgeting, emphasis on individual liberties, and local control.  That pretty much defines us, regardless of what you read or have been told to think.

While all Democrats are virtually hopeless on these measures, too many Republicans these days are failing to stay in bounds, or are guilty by association.

Putting my money where my mouth is,

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Lean on Me.

I just can’t seem to help it.  (Maybe the next video could be Come on Eileen lean on me?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QPoTGyWT0Cg

Dumpster fire

Take It Back or Burn It Down?

The current New Hampshire Republican Party has devolved away from being any kind of bulwark against creeping progressivism and the ardent promotion of candidates who will man the bulwark or (God help us) take us into battle, to little more than an exclusive group for hand-picked political insiders, partying away in the captain’s quarters of our anchored and sinking fleet.

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