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Jack Kimball Wins

Most everyone will know by now that the GOP convention was a rousing affair, very goodhearted and unifying overall, and that Jack Kimball is the New Party Chairman.

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.

The Debt Ceiling Vote: STOP THE MADNESS NOW!


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There’s a heated discussion going on all over America. It’s about the upcoming vote on whether to "raise the debt ceiling" so that Congress and the political/government/ruling classes can continue spending money we don’t have…WE DON’T HAVE IT! But…there are always "excuses" to continue DOING THE WRONG THING. NH Republican Reps. Charlie Bass and Frank Guinta will show who they are, what they are, what they believe in, and what they don’t believe in, with their votes on this issue.

And let there be no doubt about it: There can be only one decent, honorable, intelligent way to vote….

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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.

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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.

Choosing an RNC Chair

Guest post by Phyllis Woods, RNC Committeewoman from NH:

CHOOSING AN RNC CHAIR

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman, Michael Steele, will face four challengers on January 14th in Maryland as he seeks a second term for that post. The problems which have plagued the Committee are pretty well-known so it’s no surprise that all five people running generally agree about what the priorities should be for the next two years as the RNC chooses a leader going into the presidential election cycle.  Since they are all in substantial agreement on major policy issues and philosophy, the Members will need to dig deep to uncover the differences so that the best can prevail.

Quite simply, the job will require someone who is able to raise money and manage it efficiently and wisely, develop a winning message, stay acutely focused on message, and rebuild the public’s trust and confidence in the RNC.
The goal is to develop the best possible winning strategy to take back the Oval Office in 2012, gain a majority in the Senate and increase our numbers in the House.  Needless to say, the job of selecting who is most capable and best suited for the role of leading the RNC responsibly requires a lot of in-depth study, thought, discussion, and reflection. A good deal of time must be spent talking to and meeting with each candidate.

I have, like many of my colleagues on the Committee, formulated my own set of criteria for when I “vet” the candidates.  My process for choosing a candidate involves measuring the candidate against those criteria as well as other research. In addition to reading bios, endorsements, and memorandums in preparation for a personal one-on-one interview with a candidate, I also am speaking at length with a number of colleagues and associates on the Committee who are involved in their own “vetting” process. I give weight to the endorsements by other Members whose judgments I value as I know they are looking for many of the same qualities and traits that are important to me.

After doing this work and gathering as much information as I can on the individual prior to meeting them, I pay close attention to what…

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Reading The Constitution…

Reading the Constitution to progressives on the floor of the US House is like a priest reading from the bible at an exorcism. They scream out and writhe, swear, insult, spew hatred, and do everything in their power to intimidate you before you can get to the end. They started screaming days ago, actually.

The New Hampshire Republican bumper sticker

There’s a little bit of a story behnd the NH GOP bumper sticker introduced in the GraniteGrok posting below. The design was originally going to be "New Hampshire" on the top line, with "New Republican" on the bottom line. But some people whom I respect greatly were a little bit chary about whether the words "New Republican" could be misconstrued. Here’s some of what passed between us….

 

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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.

New Hampshire’s New Republicans

Today is 1-1-11. It’s a New Year, a New Decade, and in New Hampshire it’s a New Republican Party. Thanks for the historic new Republican majorities in the State House, the State Senate, and the Executive Council, a new day dawns for our state. Much damage has been caused to New Hampshire over the last … Read more

Republican Weekly Address…

New Hampshire’s own Senator Kelly Ayotte was tasked with presenting the Republican’s Weekly Address, in response to President Obama’s Weekly Address.

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.

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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.

Regarding the race for Chairman of the NH GOP

Skip Murphy made the following observation and asked the following question earlier today:

It is nice to see (courtesy of Pindell) that both Bill O’Brien and DJ Bettencourt have endorsed Jack Kimball for NH GOP Chair.  As a Member to the State Committee, I certainly will be voting for Jack.

I thought this, however, a bit strange to see in Pindell’s post:

But what is probably the most significant development here is the simple fact that the party is not coalescing behind Bergeron who for weeks was the only candidate in the race and was building up support.

A reflection of Sununu trying to anoint his successor backfiring (and not just tied to his pick being Bergeron)?

PLEASE READ ON….

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