I think most of you, by now, know what my Rule #1 is (and I only have a few):
Articles tagged as
Principle
Chinese Slave Labor Pays the NBA
There’s a terrible optic out there for the NBA. It appears slave labor pays for the NBA in China. Don’t you just love professional sports these days? Neither do I. The National Basketball Association is full if hypocritical social justice warriors. Don’t misunderstand. They believe what they say… for as long as they are talking. … Read more
Eastwooding The New Hampshire State Senate On Roll Call Votes
If party designations connote principles, and party pledges imply performance, and we extend that assumption to the relationship between electoral action and legislative response, then it should not be beyond the pale to expect the elected to provide proof of individual effort toward securing the principles and pledges upon which their election to office was presumably based.
And why do I care? Apart from an obvious and general interest in politics, as a conservative, I’d simply like to see some regular and consistent evidence that those people in the state legislature who style themselves as conservatives are, in fact, voting like conservatives, without necessarily having to go through some other groups filter (or here-say) to arrive at a conclusion, one way or the other.
Indeed
H/T JR Hoell
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
NH GOP hierarchy – damage control: Oh no, that wasn’t REALLY a vote (er, was it?)
Last night I put up this post – a Presser by the Coos County Republican Committee sent out by Eric Catman, the Coos County Chair:
Expressing no confidence in New Hampshire Republican State Committee Chairman Jennifer Horn
Be it resolved that we the members of the Coos County Republican Committee do hereby issue this resolution due to recent actions of Chairman Jennifer Horn in her handling of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee.
Whereas the recent attack on longtime New Hampshire Republican State Committee Treasurer Robert Scott by Chairman Horn has distracted the party from its objectives…
Well, THAT didn’t take long – the Area 1 Vice Chair Vicki Schwaegler seemingly immediately ran to the media in full out damage control (some reformmating, emphasis mine):
A no-confidence vote taken by members of the Coos County Republican Committee against New Hampshire Republican Party Chairman Jennifer Horn Wednesday night via conference call was not an official act, according to the party’s vice chairman, Vicki Schwaegler.
Please note that she is not THE Vice Chair – that would be JP Marzullo; Vicki is only 1 of 5 AVPs; in fact, this next part of the article is absolutely wrong:
This is THE Question confronting the Establishment Republicans: What DO you stand for (besides mere winning)?
This exemplifies the divide in the Republican Party today; it is especially true given the events in the NH House with Republicans voting for a $1 Billion gas tax (emphasis mine, reformatted):
Club for Growth President Chris Chocola charged that Republican establishment figure Karl Rove cares more about the Republican brand than Republican “core beliefs.” “What Karl Rove and some of the establishment groups only care about is the brand,” he said during an appearance on CBS’ “Face to Face.”
“They only care if someone’s a Republican or not. They don’t really care what their core beliefs are. I think voters actually care what their core beliefs are.“…
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.