Everyone knows or should know, that there is neither a loyalty oath nor an accurate FDA-approved blood test (sorry Dr. Fauci) to verify that someone is actually a real Republican. There ought to be but there just isn’t.
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Isn’t he just a SPECIAL sort of Stupid: Jim Morgan
Yes, we get tips from time to time (actually, more and more often) and this one is a special sort of amusing. However, to set the stage and remind you of some important history, let’s start with these:
Dreaming the Impossible Dream- “Ideological Purity” in Politics
The concept of “ideological purity” simply means staying 100% true to your ideals and values when you vote. In choosing a candidate for whom to vote for any office or position, isn’t it reasonable to expect that the candidate, if elected, will proceed to deliver votes on critical issues that match the candidate’s campaign rhetoric, … Read more
RINOs: The Dilution & Breakdown of the Republican Brand in NH
Dilution is the action of making something weaker in force, content, or value. Have you watched a brand you love just mean less and less? The brand might have gone in a direction you just couldn’t follow, or the quality of their product just kept slipping until their reputation was gone. You are not alone. … Read more
New York Times Goes to Bat for New Hampshire Establishment RINO’s ‘cuz “Trump”
As with all such exercises the Liberal media enjoys framing socially liberal Republicans as “the good guys.” And this begs the uncomfortable question, and the title of the piece, Will Trumpism Take Deeper Root in New Hampshire?
Delivered Every Day Thanks to “Free Speech,” (While it Lasts)
Granitegrok was accused earlier today of being (for the sake of brevity) Republican Party bitches. Anyone who has spent any amount of time here, even just this past legislative session, will know how absurd the notion is.
The sad story of the same suspect Republicans endorsing Democrats – what will the Party do?
Once again, like with almost any election in NH, the same names, the same sorry passel of Progressive Republicans (yes, there are Progressives that call themselves Republicans. HOW they can do that intellectually as Progressivism is antithetical to the beliefs stated in the NH GOP Platform), the same RINOs, the same folks that couldn’t recognize a conservative Principal if it bit in the ankles, pop up in support of Progressive Democrats. At least the latter belong in the proper Party – these should consider a move:
Democrat Chris Pappas has announced that more than 100 Republicans and Republicans-turned-independents from across the First Congressional District are supporting his bid to represent them, including several from Central New Hampshire. “Republicans for Chris Pappas” include Liz Hager and Robert Joseph of New Hampton, Alida Millham, Peter Millham, Richard Coggon, and Donna Gaudet Hosmer of Laconia, Marlene Woodaman of Meredith, and Richard Thayer of Wolfeboro.
I’ve bolded my three “locals” but first, what is the official statement of the NH GOP? Let’s review their own bylaws:
“I get we like to fight for what’s right, but I wish it were channeled against our common foe”
The NHGOP recently held scheduled an event at a venue owned by a notorious Democrat donor. Skip took them to the woodshed. They didn’t care for that. In one email exchange he forwarded to me from someone who sounds like they are inside the State Republican Party (or carry their water) we got this response.
I really try to wrap my head around the circular firing squad we so often engage. I get we like to fight for what’s right, but instead of just fighting for fighting’s sake, I wish it were channeled against our common foe.
Help me out here? Who exactly is this common foe? How do we recognize them?
Seven New Hampshire House Republicans Try To Silence Political Speech They Don’t Like
American’s for Prosperity in New Hampshire has been doing some issues advocacy. Alerting the residents of seven House Districts held by sitting (r)epublicans that their elected officials opposed Right to Work.
The seven “Republican” House Reps are mad at AFP for daring to let voters, who might not otherwise notice, know how they voted. So they wrote a letter to the Secretary of State and the State’s Attorney General questioning AFP-New Hampshire status as a nonprofit 501(c)4.
Put another way; this truth could hurt them politically and rather than explain their votes to constituents they’ve taken the liberal road to silence an inconvenient exercise of free speech.
New Hampshire Is No Social Experiment – Thank You
I know politicians often feel they must balance principals against results. Once elected (once) conservative candidates become more practical. They surrender the issues they ran for office on to the ability to get “things done” or to “save what they have won.” I the this entirely. It is a basic human instinct – except for liberals. Liberals, progressives, socialists, whatever you want to call them, go even more radical once surrounded by power. They try and eliminate all opposition, that is in their evil nature.
The best of all worlds for progressives is to get their intended victims to help them along. It is an easy task. Plenty of appeasers will side with progressives in an always unsuccessful attempt at satisfying progressive anger and deflecting attacks. This plan never works for long.
Kasich Konservatism
After the last debate is has become as clear as ever that John Kasich is simply an ass, as in, a Donkey, in elephant clothing; a costume in which NH Senator Kelly Ayotte has found increasing comfort. The Grokster discuss Kasich, Ayotte, Guinta, and other unprincipled invertebrate Republicans forced on us or who sounded good … Read more
Enabling for me but not for thee!
Senator Stiles says about SB 11 (scheduled for a vote today in the House): “Instead of drafting legislation for one/two particular towns I made it ENABLING legislation for any community that saw a need. NO mandate to do anything”. House and Senate Dems, Progressives and RINOs dig it. Senator Bradley said in SB 102 In “…cities, … Read more
NH GOP RINO’s, State Representative Stella Tremblay, and the Destructive Democrats….
High-level NH RINO’s (“Republicans In Name Only”) are at it again: Jennifer Horn, Gene Chandler, Steve Duprey, and Fergus Cullen are all in a tizzy over state Rep. Stella Tremblay’s recent thoughts on whether the Boston bombing might have elements of an “inside job.” In the Union Leader today, Cullen called Rep. Tremblay “delusional.” Well, whatever error in judgment she may be making, it is less egregious than “Republican leaders” who go out of their way to publicly attack a sitting Republican member of the State House. Here’s what I said today in response to a Union Leader article about it:
“Republicans” who oppose our most basic right
…that is, the sacred and inalienable right to self-defense. There are only 3 Republicans in the U.S. Senate who voted against that right by supporting Obama’s just-defeated attempt to strip away a little more of the 2nd Amendment. I memorialize them here so we will remember…and so they can be defeated in their next reelection campaigns. Here they are, the three anti-2nd Amendment RINO’s:
A Bolder Kind of RINO
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so. —Junius
House Bill 135 passed out of the House this week. The bill repeals the stand your ground bill that was passed over the governor’s veto last year. The vote was very close on this bill and would have failed had it not been for some Republicans that, “jumped ship.”
RINO’s have such a checkered evolution. They were first, “Moderates…” Those Rockefeller Republicans…Republicans in Name Only,” commonly referred to as “RINO’s”… Now
Rand Paul as Shakespeare’s “Henry V”!
Chris Muir in Day By Day Cartoons, nails the Rand Paul filibuster spot-on:
Dem NH Majority Votes To Kill School Scholarship Program
Children and poor families hit hardest
So which Republicans’ voted against private scholarships for poor kids in New Hampshire?
Ann Marie Banfield provided a list, with contact info, and reminds us (On Facebook), a vote against will actually cost taxpayers more. (I talked about it here yesterday.)
The HB370 (repeal) passed 188 to 155 and now moves to the Senate where it had better fail- that’s a hint.)
The lefts list of GOP guerrillas on the jump as well as the entire roll call.
Fergus Cullen and The Other “Smartest Guys In The Room”
“Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.” —Will Rogers
As I sit and read the paper over morning coffee, I read yet another hit piece on Bill O’Brien. Fergus Cullen…former incompetent, do-nothing, New Hampshire Republican party chair periodically takes to the commentary pages of the Union Leader, bestowing upon us his pearls of wisdom about all things, “Republican,” while eschewing the underlying foundational principles that once defined the Republican Party.
This from one of the crowd of “neo-cons” who brought us, “Vote for Romney! Only Romney can beat Obama!”. Fergus Cullen…just one of the
AN ESSAY: Mark Levin & Andrew Hemingway? Or Mitt Romney & Jennifer Horn?
Strange juxtapositions, you say? Especially when talking about the the race for NH GOP chairman between Jennifer Horn, the “establishment” choice, and Andrew Hemingway, the “Movement Conservative” choice? No, I say, not at all. Levin/Hemingway on the one hand, and Horn/Romney on the other are emblematic of the state of the Republican Party today…both in New Hampshire and in the United States. It is separated—note that I did not say
“divided,” “fractured,” or “split”; the word is chosen carefully—into two divergent “points of view.” On the two sides there are what might be called “the hard-corps, committed, Constitutionalist, activist, movement conservatives” on the one hand, and the…