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Speaker Of The House

Steve MacDonald

Photo Credit: Vote SmartGranite Grok has already endorsed Bill O’Brien for Speaker of the House, and you can see our video interview of Bill to get some idea of his priorities.  But since we happen to be here at the NHGOP convention we have the opportunity to find out what the other candidates for speaker deem as priorities for the next session.

I’ve grabbed some of their literature–everyone is in the convention at the moment–to get a taste of their priorities and one in particular caught my attention–and not in the most flattering way.  Susan Emerson’s hand out to the GOP delegates includes the following bullet points which I have taken to be so important to her in her quest to get the job that they have received this much prominence.

I would…like to continue establishing bipartisan relationships to work collectively on bills that will include the following.

-To provide equal opportunities for students.

-To provide access to adequate health care

-To create and promote tax relief incentives for businesses.

Given the wide range of damage done by liberals this is the best we can expect from Susan Emerson as Speaker of the House?  Given her otherwise impressive voting history, this is not impressive at all.

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It’s the REPUBLICANS who have caused the mess we’re in…


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,,,just as much as the socialist, statist, Democratic Party. It’s not "the people versus the Democrats." It’s not "the people versus socialists." It’s not "the people versus statists." It’s "the people versus the government." And I say…Spot. On. WATCH THIS and see why.

“Put Up or Shut Up” = Fail? Or No-Fail?

Starting in January, the Republican Party has a mountain to climb.  That mountain, should they collectively decide to climb it, is convincing the American people that (1) They ARE serious about reducing the size, scope, and cost of the Federal government, not just the lip-service and fratricide we saw in the early 1990’s, (2) that their approach … Read more

The Republican Civil War: Part VIII

DAMN, I like this web site. These are the New Republicans of the U.S. Senate. With a little help from the rest of us, they’re going to help save America. Did I say I like their web site too?

The GOP Civil War: Part VII

And then there’s the Republican Party Hacks in the U.S. Senate—led by Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn—versus the American conservative movement, including the wonderful Tea Party movement. We win, they lose. But they’ll still lie and spin to benefit themselves. It’s what political hacks do. From either party.

WHAT did I JUST SAY?!?

From RedState.com today: "John Boehner, on Sunday, suggested that he might be willing to support a tax package that included Barack Obama’s tax increase on job creators — those making more than $250,000.00 a year." Sheesh!  What did I JUST SAY about Boehner and the Republican Party? Dammit!

September 15th.

Steve MacDonald

Do we have the sense to realize that with at least three to five well organized groups already keyed in to the base and in contact with the independent voters for every race, that by shifting these supporters into a massive push on September 15th to back each of the primary winners (along with a focused and parallel GOP effort in every local race), all the way to November, that we will not only take back the state, but take it back with huge margins?

The GOP Civil War: Part V

From RedState.com, some thoughts on the struggle over the soul of the Republican Party, why we should support Ovide Lamontagne…and why "Conservatism is not Republicanism." Recommended.

The GOP Civil War, Part VI: Replace Radicals with RINO’s?

Can a good Republican vote for a RINO ("Republicans In Name Only")? I’ll tell you at the end of this rumination, but first it’s important to know that a good Republican should never vote for a RINO in a primary election.  

This whole subject area is more than just a problem for Republicans: It is a feature of modern democratic electoral politics. It is emblematic of the struggle between statism/socialism and their opposites, political/economic freedom. Today the Democratic Party is the party of statism and socialism. Socialism is the economic analogue to statism, which is a political phenomenon….

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Here comes another rant about the NH Republican Party

Yikes. As the vice-chairman of the altogether excellent Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire (RLCNH), I’m very interested in—and active on—our also-excellent public debate email list.

The thing is…in discussing and debating on the RLCNH list, I can often go off on a wild jag.

Like this morning.

We were discussing why a "yesterday’s Republican" like Mitt Romney should be invited to appear and speak at the upcoming New Hampshire state GOP convention (as he has been, and will). "Now, now," I said. "We must be polite" to our guest. Besides, what has he done that was really egregious? I mean, he’s not a socialist Democrat, after all….

To which the perceptive NH Republican activist Laura Jones said: "Tim, Don’t you think that socialized medicine in Mass. paved the way for socialized medicine in the U.S.?"

AARRRGGHHHH!!! She’s right! The fuse having been lit, off I went into a rant, as follows:

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The GOP Civil War: Part III

It doesn’t take a weatherman to see which way the wind is blowing. Just one question: Are these three guys just trying to hitch a dishonest wagon to the gales of reform that are assaulting the GOP party hierarchy…or are they for real? Looks like it might be the former, since Rep. Cantor was part of … Read more

The GOP Civil War: Part IV

Conservatives and TEA partiers throwing out the Republican bums! "Good for them."

The GOP Civil War, Part Deux

Steve MacDonald

Hip, hip, HOORAY! Joe Miller pulls it out in the Alaska senatorial primary against the chosen (and some say corrupt) choice of the hacks at the Republican National Senatorial Campaign Committee (NSRC) led by Mitch McConnell.

The civil war going on right now within the Republican Party is good for us. "Why?" you ask?

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The Republicans Lead….

From RedState.com, we hear that the generic electoral lead of the Republicans in this election is larger than it has been at any time since…1946. The only question is whether the GOP will blow it…or begin the reforms and restructuring that is clearly necessary to save America. In New Hampshire, new GOP majorities are expected … Read more

Civil War within the GOP? Or not?

Tim Condon

I just got this from a close and greatly respected political activist and observer of the political scene in New Hampshire: 

Tim, there are FOUR announced candidates I think: O’Brien, Chandler, Reagan, and Emerson. "Civil war"? Not so much. . .

My response? I said this: Dagny, we’re aware that John Reagan and Susan Emerson are also running. But the real struggle for the Speakership is between two people only, because they’re the obvious front-runners, Bill O’Brien and Gene Chandler. In addition, Bill and Gene are very instructive as direct opponents….

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WHAT KIND OF REPUBLICAN?

"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards New Hampshire to be born?"  —with apologies to W.B. Yeats and "The Second Coming"

I HAD THE PLEASURE recently to attend a meeting of the House Republican Alliance (HRA) in Concord. The HRA consists of the brightest, strongest, most energetic, and most committed Republican members of the New Hampshire State House of Representatives. They are the hope for fixing the damage that has been inflicted upon our state over the past six years by the Democrats and—let’s face it—some Republicans who  led the state into the $500 million dollar structural deficit that exists today.

IT WAS ALSO MY PLEASURE AT THE HRA MEETING to see a verbal battle break out.

Members of the HRA are well aware that the future of New Hampshire and the NH Republican Party rests upon their shoulders. It is they who must mend the fiscal and legislative harm that has been committed over the past six years. They must move aggressively and decisively, starting in January 2011, to address the problems bequeathed to our state by the Democrats. Thus, the HRA contains the vanguard of a "new Republican Party" being born in New Hampshire.

But what are these "new Republicans"?

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GOP or RPP? Pick Your Party

Steve is right. A Republican State House Candidate has just made the following observation on an activist Republican email list: "There is still a split a mile wide [between us and] the Republicans that support anyone who says they are a Republican." She’s right. Faux Republicans need to be identified and marginalized so they can’t … Read more

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