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Joe Manchin Is Neither A “Moderate” Nor A “Hero”

July 21, 2023 Ed Mosca

So this is in response to this post: Joe Manchin Might Be Our Unlikely Hero. The post describes Manchin as “a moderate Democrat in a government that is more polarized than ever.” The Biden-Regime is packing the federal judiciary with hard-core Communists. Manchin did not cast a vote against any of these Communists until May … Read more

Alleged “News” Agency Will Spend 8 Million Dollar “Donation” to Fund Biased Reporting on Climate Change

February 16, 2022 Steve MacDonald

This ties in nicely with the news that legacy media outlets will feature climate change “Desks.” Reporters and reports focused specifically on the issue at places like the Boston Globe, Concord Monitor, and now the AP, which got 8 million from somewhere to report on climate.

Trump Drops the Idea of Starting a Third Political Party

January 25, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Donald Trump has apparently dropped the idea of creating a third political party to pressure spineless Republicans. He has agreed to focus on building a bench and taking back congress from within the GOP.

Does New Hampshire Need a Third Party?

January 22, 2021 Ed Mosca

This: The history of third Parties … in Presidential races … is (1) that they allow the Democrat to roll up an electoral college landslide without winning a majority of the vote and (2) they have no staying power. The most recent example was Ross Perot. Perot allowed Bill Clinton to win 370 electoral votes … Read more

Is Donald Trump Forming a Third Political Party – The Patriot Party?

January 20, 2021 Steve MacDonald

Third Parties can be the Third Rail of the political machine. People who spend time inside this sausage factory will tell you they never work out. Third parties. They only take seats from Republicans. Quick question. With Republicans like these, don’t we need a third party?

Facebook-Censored Social media, Shadow-banning

Candace Owens is Suing Facebook’s Fact Checkers

November 8, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Candace Owens has stepped up and taken one for the team. Well, not the team. Social media’s so-called independent fact-checkers are none of the above. They create facts you never asserted and even fact-check your opinion. Owens has had enough; she’s suing.

Affordable Quality Healthcare

April 15, 2019
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Trump administration does it for the children Don’t we want a properly functioning healthcare system? Hasn’t the time come to make it happen? The Trump administration is moving this month to make healthcare providers disclose their prices. That includes the prices they charge insurers. The new initiative complements several related steps the administration has taken. … Read more

Will Libertarians Help Obama Win Re-election?

September 26, 2018November 27, 2011 Steve MacDonald

It is rumored that Governor Gary Johnson might consider a third party run as the Libertarian candidate. Given that a center right GOP electorate will not be nominating Ron Paul, and Ron Paul seems to have enough sense not to split the party himself, a Johnson third party run presents some interesting possibilities, including the likely reelection of Barack Obama and the knock out punch to the America the Libertarians swear they are defending.

Even if Johnson is right to argue that he has been ignored by the media is having a hissy fit really the answer? There is no third party electoral victory in America and only an arrogant fool would think otherwise. The Best hope we have is to continue taking over the GOP and replacing its moderate leadership from below.

But I think the elites in the liberty movement are too impatient for incremental change. Many of the "principled" libertarians are so possessed of their own agenda that they would split the vote giving Obama and the czars four more years of liberty destroying power, rather than elect any other Republican as a stop gap until they can make further in-roads into the party establishment.

A Johnson third party run could be the best thing to happen to Obama since the Media.

Not so fast….

September 26, 2018June 22, 2010

I received an email yesterday from the Republican Party of New Hampshire. I am registered Republican, and have subscribed to the NH GOP’s mailing list.

The opening paragraph goes like this:

"Our Republican leadership team did a great job in setting the table for the November Elections. We recruited more candidates for state office than the opposition party for the first time in 4 years, and our candidates are really good candidates!"

While it is true that more Republican candidates filed than Democrats (and that we have "really good" candidates), I feel a little unsettled by the notion that the GOP seems to be taking much of the "recruiting" credit.

From my vantage point, it looks like the majority of candidates filed on their own accord, not because of any GOP recruiting. In fact, I would say that a large number of the "first time" candidates are part of, or are very sympathetic with the 912, Tea Party, Libertarian, or Free State mindsets. They have simply had enough, deciding on their own, or at the request of friends, to be part of the correction.

I think it would benefit the established GOP to show a bit more humility towards this phenomenon, else feel a potential backlash of a significant part of their “membership”.

I would have started off the email with…