Tea Party Archives - Granite Grok

SKIP: I’m Betting That Scott Brown Still Doesn’t Like Me from 2014

September 7, 2026 Skip

The smell from his record, 12 years ago, still wafts into today. I didn’t forget, and neither did GraniteGrok. We all took potshots at this anti-Second Amendment dude – WHY vote for someone who was antithetical to our beliefs even though he had an R next to his name? Ayup, he really didn’t like that … Read more

GrokTALK!: Is This Why The Left is Afraid?

October 20, 2025September 22, 2025 GrokTALK!

The left isn’t stupid; they’re crazy and increasingly not afraid to let you see it. And while the progressive movement’s leaders are concerned about Middle America getting too strong a whiff of that stench, it isn’t what they fear most. That’s our topic today on GrokTALK! “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the … Read more

Before Boston: The Tea Revolt That Began in Philadelphia

February 6, 2025 Mike Maharrey

The Boston Tea Party is arguably the best-known event leading up to the war for independence, but a number of leading Revolutionaries, including Benjamin Rush and John Adams, held that it actually started in Philadelphia. Resolutions adopted during a Philadelphia town meeting on Oct. 16, 1773, set the stage for the Boston Tea Party in … Read more

Skips Sauntering Snippets Trust (or lack thereof) and Politicians Special Edition

March 17, 2023 Skip

Skips Sauntering Snippets Trust (or lack thereof) and Politicians Special Edition We used to be a high Trust (and honesty) Society. Woe to us as we are rapidly moving to a low Trust one and more to an “Us vs Them” (especially as in “Politicians are their own Special Interest Group”). Doubt me? Our nation’s … Read more

Promoted from the Comments – The UniParty Collusion at the Top over SCOTUS?

December 25, 2022 Skip

Over at Ed’s “And Yet They Claim They’re NOT The Reason There Was No Red Wave …“, Commenter James “Vito” Lanese had a longish comment that caught my eye that I thought was worthwhile to promote to the ‘Grok Front page to cast a bit more light on it: Before the election on the tube, … Read more

Democrat Values vs. TEA Party Values: Technocrats or Elected Officials – Who Should Actually Govern?

October 27, 2022October 27, 2022 Skip

BUMPED from 9/30/2012: MaggieCare. Having just put up a video, HARD WORK, for Don Bolduc (for US Senate), I remember this about Maggie Hassan’s attempt to “nationalizing” NH’s hospitals and putting with a “Commission” that would have been beyond the reach of voters (sorta like what Democrat US Senator Elizabeth Warren did with the Consumer Protection Bureau – which just got shot down as unconstitutional in its structure and operation).

Liberals and Herman Cain

March 21, 2022 Skip

This brought back a flood of 10-year-old memories. I met Herman when he started stumping to be the next President of the United States back in 2019.

It Can’t Be a Coincidence That So Many Things Have Gone So Wrong in So Little Time – You Wanted Answers? I Got Answers!

February 24, 2022 Skip

Well, my post “It Can’t Be a Coincidence That So Many Things Have Gone So Wrong in So Little Time” went kinda viral. I’ll be honest, I had no idea that it would strike a nerve. Or, as it turned out, lots of nerves:

New Narrative: CRT is a Right Wing Conspiracy Made Up By Republicans.

June 22, 2021 Steve MacDonald

In 2009 the TEA Party (Taxed Enough Already) rose organically in response to Obama and Democrats’ fiscal abuses and power grabs. Ordinary folks, previously paying little to no attention, turned in and tuned up. The midterms were a disaster for Democrats. More than a decade later, history is repeating itself.

Notable Quote: The Right’s problem is this and I’ve been saying it for years

April 23, 2021April 23, 2021 Skip

As commenter Nitzkahon has said, the Left doesn’t have campaigners, it has missionaries that never stop and never relent (emphasis mine). Because Leftists care more about politics than anything, and people on the Right don’t. In a democracy, every vote is supposed to be equal. If about half the country supports one side and half … Read more

Quick Thought: So Why No Eblast From the NH GOP Thanking Trump for His Service?

January 22, 2021 Skip

You’d a thunk that with NH GOP Chair Steve Stepanek being one of his co-chairs during the campaign and now being the NH GOP Chair, they could have at least issued ONE email to simply say “Thanks for what you accomplished”?

Tucker Carlson Wonders Why the GOP Loathes Its Voters and Explains a Lot of Things in the Process

January 9, 2021 Skip

I keep harping on what happened a decade or so ago but things have a habit of recurring because memories grow short – or the other side’s cynicism of “we got away with it before, we can do it again!” keeps growing. And yes, TEA Party, again.

A Long Set Up And Reaching Back Into History But It Was Worth My Time.

November 24, 2020 Skip

ONE HAND WASHES THE OTHER: Joe Biden, Black Lives Matter activists helped you win Wisconsin. Don’t forget us. “These demands are not coming from Kenosha alone, but from all across the country, where the Black Lives Matter movement – the largest social uprising in our nation’s history – has inspired a new generation of voters and activists. … Read more

NHGOP Annual Meeting: The Reports

January 27, 2020 Skip

Although not contiguous in time during the meeting, part of the requirement is for the officials (Secretary, Treasurer, the Chair and VChair, et al) to give their reports of what has happened this past year. Money in the bank is up and a lot of field work is being done. A LOT of it! Anyways, … Read more

Notable Quote – Vectorman

October 6, 2019 Skip

And this is why I endorse and will vote for Donald Trump for re-election. Reformatted, emphasis mine: “Brooks is, of course, horrified at Trump and his supporters, whom he finds childish, thuggish and contemptuous of the things that David Brooks likes about today’s America. It’s clear that he’d like a social/political revolution that was more … Read more

Quick Thought – If it wasn’t for double standards, they’d have no…

November 12, 2018 Skip

Well, you know what the rest of that line is, right? I do agree with Jon that money is not the root of the NH GOP problems – but it is rather easy to point to as an overall symptom:

The silver lining is a timetable in which the membership of the Republican State Committee picks a new chairman in late January. Incumbent Wayne MacDonald of Derry took over a party last July that had $650 in the bank, $14,000 in bills and $48,000 in long-term debts.

“This isn’t any one person’s fault, especially Wayne, who was handed a bag of crap at the 11th hour,” posted Jon DiPietro, a conservative activist from Manchester. “But we had better get it fixed. There’s a presidential election in two years and it’s going to be here in the blink of an eye.”

Why, what is the problem here? His immediate predecessor was Jeanne Forrester – and he was the Vice-Chair so he knew about the problem. Now, the point of this post is not Wayne. It IS about

Quick Thought – seeking redress should not require police escorts for elected Representatives!

October 4, 2018 Skip

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

While TEA Party folks like myself did protest and assembled all over the country and in DC (and generally left the protest areas cleaner than they found it), while boisterous, we were peaceful. The Left, seeking “redress”? Not so much:

Police escorts for senators after protesters swarm the Capitol ahead of Brett Kavanaugh confirmation vote

The impassioned fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court has led to heightened security at the Capitol, with some senators using police escorts to shield them from protesters. United States Capitol Police have arrested dozens of protesters in recent days and stepped up their presence in Capitol hallways. Some Republican senators have expressed unease over protesters who have confronted them at their Senate offices, restaurants, airports and even their homes.

A Font Deserves More Faith than The Party Platform (among other things)

September 26, 2018April 29, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Jennifer Horn started out as a Tea Party Conservative. Defend the Constitution. Fight the Establishment Ruling Class. No Government Health Care, blah blah blah. That very quickly went by the wayside. Way (way way way way) by the wayside. She’s still faithful to Times Roman 12pt, though. Feel free to take that wherever you like.

GraniteGrok: Conservative? Check! ‘Grok: TEA Party? Check! Bill O’Brien supporters? Check! Mark Hounsell seeking out the ‘Grok as a platform? Hypocrite!

September 26, 2018April 6, 2018 Skip

During the Womens’ Defense League of NH‘s annual Gun Rally, Mark Housell ( now FORMER candidate for US Congress in NH’s CD-1) actively sought me out (not hard to miss – ‘Grok hat on, camera in tow) almost as soon as a “late arrived) to have me do an interview. We tried to do it right then but the volume of the PA system was too loud so he waited until after the event had concluded – which took quite some time. Then he waited as I interviewed several other people first so it was clear that he craved the publicity this Conservative, TEA Party, Bill O’Brien, multiple AFP award winning site could provide him. Yet, this is what he told the Laconia Daily Sun as he exited the race (reformatted, emphasis mine:

Hounsell did say that those pushing a liberal agenda are making “blatant and unabashed attempts to buy New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District with out-of-state money,” while the state’s Republican party “is hog-tied by right-wing extremists passing as conservatives.”

Hounsell disagreed with the “big tent” analogy [of NH GOP Forrester’s big tent analogy -Skip]. “The people who are in that big tent are doing all they can to change it from a big tent to a pup tent,” he said, naming Bill O’Brien and Americans for Prosperity. “If you don’t pass their so-called purity test, you’re not really part of it. I don’t fit their definition of what a conservative is; that is, neo-con, Tea [sic] Party.

GrokTALK! – Mark Meckler

July 15, 2024April 24, 2016 Steve MacDonald

Mark Meckler, one of the founding leaders of the TEA Party movement, joins us to discuss convention politics, candidates, post-convention fallout-scenarios, what we need to do to take over the GOP, and more.