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Pasha’s Dignity
A friend of mine recently urged me to watch Doctor Zhivago, the film based on Boris Pasternak’s book. He stated that it had been on the American Film Institute’s top 100 list and was inexplicably removed recently.
Impeachment 2.0 – Republicans Are Lining Up to Dump Trump (So What Does That Mean?)
One of the features of a political crisis is you get to see who your enemies are. Faced with a tyrannical incoming Biden Administration, compelled and controlled speech, purity tests, weaponized bureaucrats, propaganda media, and an all about war on the American Republic, who is with us?
Vote To Retake New Hampshire’s Representation From the Antifa, BLM, Anarchist, Islamist, Democrat Party.
U.S. Senate candidate Jon Ossoff is a Democrat running in Georgia. California donors provided twice as much through large contributions as donors from Georgia. That’s according to federal election filings. Somebody is buying a senate seat if they can.
The Biden-Harris Ticket on Religious Freedom
The Biden-Harris ticket has a position on religious freedom. Joe Biden promises to protect religious freedom… except when it is politically inconvenient. Both he and Harris advocate policies contrary to the religious convictions of many Americans. Joe and Kamala know the right words to say. We all have a right to practice our faith openly, … Read more
Down on the Plantation
Was Biden’s gaffe of the week a down on the plantation threat? This week we heard Uncle Joe Biden’s comment, “… You ain’t black if you’re not votin’ fer me…” Was this a reflection of more than Biden personally? Was this another forgivable Bidenism or was it something else?
Which Side Are You On
Asking which side are you on is happening with greater frequency? Marco Rubio gave a speech at the Catholic University of America in early November. He made the case for a “common good capitalism” that looks on markets in the light of Catholic social thought. “We must remember that our nation does not exist to … Read more
Do Good Dems Have to Pass a Color Litmus Test?
What happened to the executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)? Well, it is now more appropriate to say former DCCC executive director. Allison Jaslow was forced to resign from her position Monday, because she’s white. Who is Allison Jaslow? Jaslow is an Iraq War veteran. She attended an all staff meeting on … Read more
The New Hampshire Democrat Party War On “You!”
Every day you use the income you earned to improve the lives of others. You “create and save” jobs with your choices and stimulate the economy. New Hampshire Democrats exist to take that power away.
What Hope and Change Has Brought…
America from the founding The essence of our republic has been self-restraint toward fellow citizens. “My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins…” was an Abraham Lincoln quote. We have respected each other as equals. The U.S. Constitution was our philosophical and theoretical framework. Under its words and by its laws, Americans … Read more
A Letter sent to NH GOP Chair Jennifer Horn, based on her HB617 Press Release
I wondered what Jennifer Horn would do as I wrote this; now we know – the non-silent silent answer. She did not “Choose Well”. The Press Release, which went out this morning, is after the jump. This is my Letter just sent:
Dear Jennifer (NH GOP Chair),
Right you are concerning the proposed gas – this should never have made it out of committee with a single Republican vote.
And that’s the problem – it got every single one of them. All of the Republicans on the committee, every one, voted for it; not a single Nay vote amongst them. In other words, they have turned your words below into hollow ones with their votes – that presser is of no importance at all as every single elected Republican just cut you off at the knees. Wait until NH Democrat Chair Buckley sends out his PR about “But Jennifer, all of YOUR Republicans sided with the Democrat Leadership and Maggie Hassan – doesn’t that put you on the wrong side of the issue?”. I see no comeback – your Party members have done just that from a perception standpoint – and voters will see that.
Your press release does make you look rather blinkered for ignoring the very Republicans that put you into such a position – a very foolish one. Castigating the Democrats while ignoring the bad behavior of your own Republicans – including the Minority House Leader? Not good at all and badly played.
Unfortunately, this PR blurb does not “thread the needle” that was necessary – you’ve now given more Republicans cover by not mentioning these chuckleheads at all. You have now given out the message “S’all right, vote for more expensive and bigger government – I’ll just ignore your part in it“. Again, how is this perception going to help in recruiting more voters to the Republican Party?
Yes, Jennifer, my answer would have been:
A Bump On The Road To Unity
As a Blogger I am encouraged by the calls for unity from the NH-GOP leadership. But I do not believe they have a clue about how to get there from here. And blaming bloggers is clearly not the answer. In fact, it is exactly the opposite of “the answer.” I make that quite clear in the status update I posted on Facebook this morning.
“…the NHGOP is very bad at messaging. They are terrible at policy support during the session. They are not aggressive at all when it comes to going after Democrats. They never use the media resources at their disposal effectively. And they do a poor job of supporting local candidates. Meanwhile, ‘Bloggers” are doing all of those things…for free. But rather than thank me for the 1200 articles a year I might write attacking left wing policy, narrative, legislation, or commentary; or thanking me for supporting the platform, conservative principles, good legislation, or local Republican candidates, they piss and moan like children over the fifteen or so articles where I call out the GOP for acting like progressives.“
The first step toward recovery is accepting that you have a problem. The NH-GOP has a problem and it is not bloggers.
Greg Carson For Republican Secretary
Greg Carson has a very impressive resume, one which makes him more than qualified to serve as the Republican Party Secretary. He has already served several years as the assistant secretary, the job I endorsed Pam Manney for yesterday.
Pam Manney For NH GOP Assistant Secretary
I would like to give a personal endorsement for Assistant Secretary for the New Hampshire Republican Party to Pamela Manney. Ive known Pam for several years now, and worked along side her as an activist. She has a level of commitment and dedication to the party and the platform that make her an exceptional asset.
Bend It For The Benjamins
As a follow up to this, yesterday or maybe the day before, the NH Journal (NHJ), New Hampshire’s prominent internet news source if the news is whatever Hynes communications is being paid to call news, decided to float a lie called pin the conservative blogger to Jack Kimball. Someone the NH Journal staff knew would stir the pot was fingered as Kimball’s communications director if he won the job as GOP State party chairman, even though no one–including Kimball and the blogger–knew anything about it until after the digital ink was dry.
The goal for Hynes and Millerick, (owner and editor respectively at NHJ) appear to have been to send the RINO’s into a mad stampede. RINO’s stampede easy so it worked. Some RINO’s were so miffed, and wanting so badly for just such a story to jump on, they picked up the lie and ran with it. (Just like a progressive if that’s not too provocative a statement to make.)
There was a bit of damage control but once it’s out there, it is out there, no different than when CNN or MSNBC does it. But the story did not end there.
How To Know You Have A Winner
You can just tell when you have a winner. It becomes more important for your opponents to smear your candidate than to promote theirs. It’s all about scare tactics. The noise machine. The echo chamber. Creating a narrative. And the media and the career party folks all seem like they are on the same side frantically offering doomsday scenarios.
Unite Behind What?
As for “bringing the party together,” it is not a notion in a vacuum nor desirable if the product moves us in the wrong direction. Unity, more often than not, is the product of a force of nature whose clarity about the goal or mission is so clear that people gather round to listen and then feel compelled to act. Julianna Bergeron may be faithful and competent from the perspective of a party insider, but so is a good accountant. That does not make them capable of leading and inspiring a movement.
What’s In Your Narrative?
Plenty of people who think they are quite attuned to the echo chamber are spending a good deal of time doing the progressives and RINO’s dirty work. These are people on the right, so-called insiders who get how the game is played. Yet again (and again) I find the chorus repeating the message which the left and the media have ingrained in them…every time they hear the bell ring.
"Sarah Palin." Ding!
Independents will never vote for her. Her resignation as governor is a deal breaker. You can’t bring social issues into the debate or Republican’s lose the center, she is stupid, inexperienced, too provocative, and on and on and on.
This is the message of the establishment elites on both sides. It is the growl of a cornered animal that fears for its life. A life dependent on the growth and power of government. And it has been picked up and repeated by people who should know better.
And Let Me Add This…
Let me add this to Skips post just a short scroll below this one. State GOP candidate for Chairman Juliana Bergeron’s false grass roots mantle (and it is false) is not just an opportunistic stab at tapping populist enthusiasm, she could find herself left behind should she win by simply tilting at the TEA parties windmills.