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Newt Gingrich: The Attacks Begin

This from the New Hampshire Newt Gingrich campaign website, “NewtHampshire!”

“ANSWERING THE ATTACKS: Setting the Record Straight on Newt’s Positions on the Issues and His Record”

“Now that our campaign to rebuild the America we love is gaining momentum, those who want to see us fail are on the attack, digging through Newt’s past to try and stop us. Newt, Callista and our campaign welcome the opportunity to tell the truth about Newt and set the record straight about Newt’s positions on the issues as well as his record in public life and as a private citizen.

We’ve set up this page to arm you with answers to the attacks. See an attack that is not answered? Let us know. This page will grow as we receive more feedback to help you answer the attacks.

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Ron Paul Supporter – “Please pollute the GOP Primary”

I have been alarmed in the past when people have told me, back in 2008, that they liked either Obama or Ron Paul.  I couldn’t figure out how they made that leap.  A few years on and I’m not all that surprised anymore.  They both evoke a cult like following that scares the crap out of me.  (Reagan fanatics scare me a bit too.) Screw policy differences, and to hell with being right on even 80% of the issues–it is a cult of personality and I do not care what party you claim to be in, that is dangerous.

Here’s a recent example from facebook.  A proud Ron Paul Supporter, whom I shall not name, is begging Democrats to register as Republicans (today is the last day) so they can vote for Ron Paul.

What the?!

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Herman Cain leading in South Carolina

The latest GOP primary poll—this one for South Carolina—has just come out from the American Research Group. Here are the top four: Herman Cain       26% Mitt romney       25% Rick Perry       15% Undecided       12% (Then came Gingrich at 8% and Ron Paul at 7%.) It’s coming down to a two-man race, people: Mitt Romney versus Herman Cain. … Read more

Sarah Palin

I think she’s going to announce next month. And I think she’s going to be the one for all Republicans to support. I find her acceptable, likeable, and far more intelligent and experienced that Obama and all the Ivy League educated "smart people" he’s gathered around himself in Washington, DC. Look what we have for it. Palin … Read more

When It Comes to the Second Amendment, Guiliani’s The Man!

“I love New York City; I’ve got a gun.”~Charles Barkley

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As I often do in the morning, I settled in with a hot cup of Joe to read today’s edition of the New Hampshire Union Leader. Turning to page A3, Dan Tuohy’s headline read, “Giuliani takes stand on firearms rights“. Now, given Mayor Guiliani’s high public profile and his history on the second Amendment, I just had to read this story before anything else. I mean, why pass up a chance to be amused first thing in the morning? This might even be funnier than one of Raymond Buckley’s quotes.

Manchester Harley-Davidson dealership owner Steve Talarico introduced Mayor Guiliani, wanting to  “help clear the air” of any misconceptions about the former New York Mayor’s record on gun issues. “The mayor seems to be probably one of the most misinterpreted politicians on the Second Amendment,” Talarico tells his audience. Really Steve? Damn! sorry about that…Guess the Mayor really is a gun guy when he told the St. Louis Post in December of 1993, “…a uniform licensing system with real teeth in it, and a period where you’d have to demonstrate your capability of using a gun, and then every two years you’d have to go back and once again show that you’re stable, your healthy, you’re able to handle a gun and you know what to do with it…”Now, that doesn’t much resemble a gun control measure, does it? how ignorant of me.

Or how about this little gem as recently as February 2007 while making an appearance on Larry King Live? King asks, “Favor Gun Control? Favor Brady?” Guiliani responds, “For Handguns, And I did…” Silly me, I took that to mean Rudy told Larry King that he supported the Brady Bill. I must have been in doofus-mode that day.

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AFP New Hampshire Legislative Score Card is Out!

Americans For Prosperity has released its 2011 Score card for New Hampshire Legislators in the House, and the NH State Senate. The tally is based on eleven bills AFP focused on in 2011 and whether the New Hampshire Representative or Senator took AFP’s position.

Sarah Palin: Is it now or never?

A picture of Palin in her home town of Wasilla, Alaska, from the current issue of Newsweek magazine:

Palin Plots Her Next Move

Sarah Palin hasn’t jumped into the race for the White House (yet), but she believes the prize is there for the taking. In a conversation with Peter J. Boyer, Palin warns Boehner not to raise the debt ceiling, proclaims that Obama is beatable—and says the 2012 field is far from settled.

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Conservatives! Help Romney win! Don’t unite behind Bachmann!

From the Des Moines Register, via today’s Drudge Report (which also includes various stories about the unraveling of America), the latest poll shows Bachmann and Romney in a dead heat. No one else comes close. Sooo…. Bachmann wins in Iowa, taking away Romney’s "next in line" status. Then the conservative movement unites behind her in … Read more

Meet Matt Strawn: NH and IA GOP Chairs Stand United on First in Nation

By Grokster ‘Columbus’ New Hampshire’s GOP Chair Jack Kimball welcomed his opposite number from Iowa Matt Strawn to the free state for talks to reinforce the potency of their first-to-the-ballot box status. Chairman Strawn made it clear that there is a common bond between the parties and the people of Iowa and New Hampshire, saying: … Read more

What If You Could Not Leave?

So is it any surprise that the unions and their pet government bureaucracy the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the epitome of the fox in the hen house, didn’t want Boeing to move any of its manufacturing from Washington State (where employees are forced to join unions), to South Carolina (where workers have actual rights.)

THIS is a potential GOP Presidential Candidate who could win the Presidency…if he will get in the race!

He is a candidate that every freedom-lover—and every Ron Paul supporter—should be urging to get into the GOP primary race. Here he is on the issues:  

  • On economics: "I love von Mises. When I go on vacation and I lay on the beach, I bring von Mises."
  • On the Troubled Asset Relief Program ("TARP"): Congress "just gave the Treasury [an unconstitutional] $700 billion blank check."
  • On the U.S. Constitution: "The Constitution is government’s stop sign. It says you—the three branches of government—can go so far and no farther. With TARP, the government blew through the Constitutional stop sign."
  • On the Chrysler bailout and screwing the bondholders: "We essentially watched over 100 years of bankruptcy law thrown out the window. President Obama eviscerated the private property interests of the secured creditors. He called them ‘greedy’ for enforcing their own legal rights."
  • On the Federal Reserve flooding the world with printed money: "What has gotten us into deep trouble and has people so perturbed is the debasing of the currency."
  • On Obama entering yet another war in the Mideast: "I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security case on Libya."
  • On the failure of government schools and getting into politics: "The kids were coloring posters in 11th grade algebra class. I decided to do my duty, go to the Republican convention…and gave a five-minute speech on freedom, economic liberty, and all the rest. And no one could believe it, but I won a supermajority on the first ballot."
  • On federal taxes: "In my perfect world, we’d take the 35% corporate tax down to nine so that we’re the most competitive in the industrialized world. Zero out capital gains. Zero out the alternative minimum tax. Zero out the death tax."
  • On the income tax: "I love the FAIR tax. If we were starting over from scratch, I would favor a national sales tax." BUT…the federal income tax must be Constitutionally repealed; otherwise "we would end up with a dual tax, a national sales tax and an income tax."
  • On energy issues: "We need an America-centered energy policy [based on] drilling and mining for our rich resources here."
  • On Obamacare: "You cannot have a pro-growth economy and advise, simultaneously, socialized medicine."
  • On the looming economic crash: "People realize the crisis we face isn’t in 25 years or even 10 years off. It is right now."

Who is this man who articulates the same positions as Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, and other conservative leaders…one who could win the Presidency, IF he got into the race?

I’ll tell you who….

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Can Romney Do It?

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“If you can’t convince them, confuse them.”   -President Harry S. Truman 33rd American President.

 Mitt Romney came to New Hampshire Thursday and formally announced he will seek to unseat President Obama in 2012.  Despite his formal announcement being overshadowed by Governor Sarah Palin’s visit, it’s official: Romney is in for 2012.

Can Romney win the nomination? The former Governor of the People’s Republic of Massachusetts has a very well-documented laundry list of problems. Romney supporters cringe at similarities between the Bay State’s health care program and Obamacare. Romney has shown himself to be a clear and unadulterated flip-flopper on the hot-button issues such as abortion, gun control, immigration, and gay rights.

In his 1994 bid for Senate, Romney said, “I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I believe since Roe v. Wade has been the law in this country for 20 years, we should sustain and support it. I sustain that law and the right of a woman to make that choice…” Romney would ultimately go on to proclaim himself to be “pro-life.” The late Senator Edward Moore Kennedy, when campaigning against Romney in 1994, quipped, “(My opponent isn’t pro-choice or anti-choice, he’s multiple choice.”

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Shea-Porter To Face Democrat Primary

The Concord Monitor is reporting that Portsmouth businesswoman Joanne Dowdell intends to challenge former Congresspersonista Carol SEIU-Porter for a shot at Frank Guinta in 2012.

NoLabels, NoWay

I think I nailed it on the head (here) back on November 17th with my first impression of the group NoLabels.  But now that the Live Free or Die Alliance (LFDA), whom I have often opined springs from the same pedigree of liberal-fronted groups pretending to be middling ports of in-betweenedness in the political/ideological storm, is seeking the opinion of its members on NoLabels effort to penetrate New Hampshire, it is time to revisit this.

Let me save you the trouble of wondering what they are about.  I believe NoLabels goal is to shift the electorate to the left.  Their first, and so far only plank, is to open primaries to everyone who can vote.   Now ask yourself, who does that help?

It helps Democrats.

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