Just had this forwarded along to me. This was an email blast from Senator Sununu’s office:

I’m writing today to inform you of a very serious and time-sensitive matter. As you know, the far left has made me its top target in this year’s elections. Their operatives are doing everything and anything to eliminate from the United States Senate my voice for low taxes, limited government, local control, and personal responsibility.

And they are. Too many times I see some college kid from out of town wandering around with a “Stop Sununu” button and a clipboard getting out of his car sporting a host of liberal bumper stickers. That hit-job website touts Senator Sununu as one of the “least powerful Senators.” You know what? That’s fine with me. I don’t want some legislative dictator representing my views. Senators should have little power and they should have a healthy fear of their constituents.

This means that not only is the national Democratic Party and its Senate campaign committee attacking me, but also liberal groups with access to virtually unlimited financial resources are trying to distort my record as well. And that’s why I urgently need your help today.

When a party purchases it’s way into power even though it’s the minority - fear is gone. Why be afraid of the voting public when you can just buy your way out of virtually anything. That’s dangerous right there.

The Democratic party is about as corrupt an organization as exists today. There’s nothing more dangerous than wealthy morons. If they can’t find popular support for their positions, they’ll buy their way into power. That’s not to say the Republicans are innocents when it comes to money and power, but at least they aren’t Commies at heart. Well … some of them aren’t.

Personally I can’t wait for the day where we can dig up Samuel Adams, clone him, and start kicking some ass again like the good ol’ days where American Patriots got pissed off enough to really rattle the cages. But, we have to work with what we have, even if it’s a soulless corruptocrat homonculus with a fat wallet and a determination to turn us into something that makes France look like a liberty-loving, mildly bureaucratic shangri-la of personal freedom. Which brings us to John Edwards!

Fresh off another failed Presidential campaign, John Edwards has announced a coalition of left-wing groups, including MoveOn.org and Americans United for Change, is launching a multimillion dollar campaign aggressively targeting Senators who have supported our brave men and women around the world fighting the war against terrorism. I am number one on that list!

While I’ve disagreed with Senator Sununu on a number of issues - and have written, faxed, and called his office numerous times to express my displeasure - I think he’s a good, well-grounded guy. He has solid stances on our troops and immigration and he’s certainly miles better than Gregg has been when it comes to enforcing our borders and sovereignty.

The fact that Democrats are targeting NH shouldn’t come as a surprise. When the state motto of “Live Free or Die” turns into some kind of whitewashed, “Live Together in Peace and Unity”, the rest of this country is surely doomed.

Senator Sununu is asking for financial support to help turn the tide of negativity. I’ll be talking about him when the conversation arises and I’ll be voting for him when he needs it.

I really could care less about this idiot and the whole racist dog and pony show going on, but this caught my eye:

“The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity,” he said. “But she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know. . .there’s a reaction in her that doesn’t go away and it comes out in the wrong way.“

“Typical white person.” You know, your typical white person is a well-meaning racist. They can’t help it. It’s how they were bred.

What do you think would happen if a white Republican started going on about his grandmother being a “typical black person?”

I’ll get to the post topic in a moment. First …

It’s with both a measure of sadness and glee that I observe what’s happening in Tibet and how China is dealing with it. If you haven’t read anything about it, well, peaceful Tibetans are starting to get a little bit pissed about being stomped on and having their culture and history essentially erased by the strong-armed Chinese commie government. Proving that even monks can get pissed off when enough of their freedom and history is whitewashed in the name of collectivism.

Here’s a snippet from an article I came across:

Though many were small in scale, the widening Tibetan protests are forcing Beijing to pursue suppression while on the run, from town to town and province to province across its vast western region. Sunday’s lockdown in Tongren required police imported from other towns, the locals said.

Skittering around trying to stomp out all of those Tibetan cockroaches, eh?

The Chinese government attempted to control what the public saw and heard about protests that erupted Friday. Access to YouTube.com, usually readily available in China, was blocked after videos appeared on the site Saturday showing foreign news reports about the Lhasa demonstrations, montages of photos, and scenes from Tibet-related protests abroad.

Imagine the Bush administration shutting down access to YouTube during something like the weeks following hurricane Katrina. We would have a full-on civil war.

Television news reports by CNN and the BBC were periodically cut during the day, and the screens went black during a live speech by the Dalai Lama carried on the networks.

Imagine CNN, MSNBC, and FOX being shut down by our government when anyone critical of the handling of Katrina starts talking. Think everything would be honkey-dorey?

China’s communist government had hoped Beijing’s hosting of the Aug. 8-24 Olympics would boost its popularity at home as well as its image abroad. Instead the event already has attracted the scrutiny of China’s human rights record.

… but they’re oh-so-content pointing the finger at our “gun violence”.

Thubten Samphel, a spokesman for the Dalai Lama’s government, said multiple people inside Tibet had counted at least 80 corpses since the violence broke out Friday. He did not know how many of the bodies were protesters. The figures could not be independently verified because China restricts foreign media access to Tibet.

Next time some pachouli-smelling, granola-chewing, guevara-loving, deranged code-pink retard starts barking about how we’re living under some kind of authoritarian dictatorship, tell ‘em they can fuck themselves sideways in their organic exit-hole with a pair of BBQ tongs … while watching YouTube, no less.

Fact is our arms - our “gun culture” - should be in place to instill some measure of fear and doubt into our politicians. Our government carries a big stick in the form of a military, increasingly militarized police, and all sorts of tools at their disposal intended to keep watch and “manage” the citizens. Sure, we can threaten them with rocks and molotov cocktails, but really, isn’t it a lot easier just to keep a few firearms around and let everything remain politely distrustful?

Heh.

CLAREMONT, N.H. — City councilors in Claremont have voted one of their new colleagues off the council for trying to get a stop sign erected without council approval. Richard Dietz was elected four months ago. He was not at Wednesday night’s hearing, where his colleagues decided he had violated the city charter.

In mid-December, Dietz sent an e-mail to city Public Works Director Bruce Temple directing him to replace a yield sign at an intersection with a stop sign and not to bring the issue to the council. In the note, Dietz said sometimes it over-complicates matters when the full council is presented with material they feel may be in need of a decision.

Glad there’s no bullshit about the greater good.

Of course they are and there’s an excellent argument here detailing it. Via Say Uncle.

Last month, there were numerous blog postings about “How I will never vote for John McCain.” Most of these focused on how the “Republican Party has abandoned me,” or some other perceived grievance. Let me find my tiny violin.

I supported the Republican Party through the 90s as the party of small government, balanced budgets, and gun rights. But the party didn’t so much abandon me as it hated me from the beginning.

What is the Republican position on Gay Marriage? Why? Prejudice. Oh, they talk a good game, but if you look up the arguments used to justify the laws forbidding miscegenation of the races, they are same arguments.

What is the Republican position on gays in the military? Why? Prejudice. That junk about “unit cohesion” is EXACTLY the same argument used to justify segregation in the ranks before Truman’s decision.

Deb’s thoughts on the Republican party and support for a specific religion are likewise spot on. If an American wishes to form a religious congregation around the belief that giant alien space-octopi masters will soon land on earth and suck the rectums out of all unbelievers, well, they should be free to do so as long as their belief does not harm or restrict my unbelief.

I would, however, disagree with this:

Either Clinton or Obama will work to institute more gun control, starting with registration and microstamping, and everything else, probably including a new “assault weapons” ban. But the holier-than-thou folks will say “it isn’t my fault” for voting for “brand X” candidate. They will be very happy to proclaim how they didn’t compromise. Not just on their first principles, but they didn’t compromise on anything. Of course politics is compromise, but they don’t care. They just want to proclaim their righteousness.

Just because I don’t believe any candidate in the upcoming election is palatable, does not mean I need to be forced to compromise all of my principles in order to simply vote against Hillary or Obama. I find the argument wholly ridiculous when framed this way. I’ve got a ton of patience for political candidates because I have to - they’re generally all assholes. I’m willing to forgive a lot in order to find common ground. Oddly enough, it’s always the voters who are made to compromise. But that’s a different thought for a different day. I will vote for a candidate with which I disagree on some major issues.

I do not vote for candidates who shit on our Constitution. Period.

Unfortunately for supporters of the two major political parties, every candidate left has at one time shat upon or indicated that they would be more than satisfied to shit upon our great Constitution. Voting is a reward for a candidate who manages a position that people support. If you want to use it as a penalty for being less of a gun-grabbing nanny statist than the other first-amendment shredding nanny statist, go right ahead and compromise. When forced to choose between swallowing down a bucket of crap, or a different bucket of crap, I’ll simply say, “No thank you,” with the knowledge that regardless of what choice ends up happening, I’m going to be spending the next four years fighting fights that I shouldn’t have to.

So please, people. Stop with the soapbox speeches about “righteous indignation” and a refusal to vote for a “maverick” authoritarian asshole. If you spent half the time you spend blathering about how annoyed you are with people who you disagree with on learning about your local candidates and who you should be supporting in your own county or state that can actually make a difference, we’d all be better for it.

But there I go lecturing you. Sorry ’bout that. So regardless of my disdain for the “lesser of two evils” argument, Deb does make some excellent points and it’s well worth a read!

Barack Obama, Presidential Candidate, on Crime, via his campaign booklet:

Reduce Crime Recidivism by Providing Ex-Offender Supports:
Obama will work to ensure that ex-offenders have access to job training, substance abuse and mental health counseling, and employment op-portunities. Obama will also create a prison-to-work incentive program and reduce barriers to employment.

Hillary Clinton, Presidential Candidate, on Crime in a 2007 Democratic Debate:

We have to go after mandatory minimums. You know, mandatory sentences for certain violent crimes may be appropriate, but it has been too widely used. And it is using now a discriminatory impact.

Frank Rizzo, former Mayor of Philadelphia on Crime:

“I’m gonna make Attila the Hun look like a faggot after the election’s over.”

My, how times have changed.

Jay started it. Unlike Bruce, I’m not in the thick of things down there in Manchester. But thanks to teh niternnet!!1!!! I don’t need to be to expose the obvious. Well … if it’s obvious it doesn’t really need exposin’, at least I can confirm the obvious. Jay’s question was simple … why don’t they release their political affiliations.

Answer … they don’t need to. I will.

I give you … The Granite State Fair Tax Coalition. Not-for-profit and, so they claim, “non-partisan”.

Yeah. A not-for-profit group calling for income taxes in an income-tax free state. Let’s have a look at the current board of directors list:

Rev. William Exner, President
Jane Armstrong, Vice-President
Mark Fernald, Treasurer
Peg Fargo, Secretary
Laurel Redden
Ruth Heden
Sam Mekrut
David Lamarre-Vincent

Don’t forget Executive Director, Paul Henle

I did a bit of digging over at Open Secrets and guess what I found?

Laurel Redden donated $200 to the NH Democratic State Committee. That was in December. Laurel is also the chair of the Salem, NH Democratic Town Committee.

VERDICT: Laurel Redden is a Liberal.

Mark Fernald donated $250 to Barack Obama last month. He’s a partner in Fernald, Taft, Falby & Little.

Note that this liberal fair-tax group advocating a state-wide income tax is doing so under the guise of “unfair property taxes”. Please note that Mark Fernald (Obama donor), is partner of a law firm that specializes in Real Estate Law, according to Findlaw.

In 2003 Mark Fernald also donated $250 to Wesley Clark.

VERDICT: Mark Fernald is a Liberal

Ruth Heden, in May, 2007 donated to “EMILY’s List”. What’s EMILY’s List, you ask? Go there and have a look. Or just go with their tagline: “Supporting pro-choice Democratic women running for congress and governor.”

VERDICT: Ruth Heden is a Liberal

Paul Henle was on the list for a donation of $250 in 1996 (a long time, yes I know) to Arnie Arnesen. Who’s that?

Before, during and after these political interruptions she managed to pursue her real passion – talk radio. In 2000, Talkers Magazine recognized her and her co-host as one of the 100 most powerful talk show hosts in America. Most of her stints were in AM talk but she also did a point-counterpoint show on Public Radio with Charlie Arlinghaus, at that time the State Republican Chair. Her radio programs have covered the landscape of NH and she has been recognized as the Air Personality of the Year in 2004 and 2005 by the NH Association of Broadcasters. Arnie can still be heard every Friday on WKBK radio in Keene, is a regular political analyst on Iowa public radio and a guest host on Air America.

VERDICT: Paul Henle is a Liberal

David Lamarre-Vincent from Public News Service:

Churches across New Hampshire are starting programs to “green” themselves to become better advocates for environmental action. Through a program called “Becoming Green While Staying in the Black,” church leaders are finding ways to reduce their carbon footprint without budget-busting expenses. New Hampshire Council of Churches Executive Director David Lamarre-Vincent says the program helps churches increase their credibility when they preach action to stop global warming. “It is hypocritical for us to preach about reducing your carbon footprint unless the institution of the church has put their money where their mouth was.” Lamarre-Vincent notes that the program starts with an understanding that climate change is a faith issue. “Caring for the planet is a faith issue from the first word in the Bible, and if things are not good now it’s our responsibility as stewards of creation to care for it.”

I always knew it was a religion. There’s your confirmation.

VERDICT: David Lamarre-Vincent is a Liberal

The President of the Granite State Fair Tax Coalition is Rev. William Exner.

Have a look at this article. Or just this snippet:

“The Rev. William Exner, chairman of the social outreach ministries of the Episcopal diocese of New Hampshire, said the local Episcopal church started a peace fellowship about three years ago. Today, it has about 30 members who reach out to parishes. Exner estimates that today, up to 70 percent of Episcopal churchgoers in the state are “progressive, liberal peacemaker-type people.” But he said that has grown little by little. “There was a small but growing voice, and in the last year a very substantive change.”

VERDICT: Rev. William Exner is a Liberal

This was too easy and Jay was right. This is not a “non-partisan” organization. It’s a group of liberals with a stealth non-profit organization advocating an income tax in a state that makes it’s money because of it’s tax advantage.

So what’s this bullshit about the “religious right”? What a meme that is. As much barking as you hear about this whole “evangelical right” made up of these rabid republicans you’d think we could find some. Seems to me the religious right has been hijacked by the left in quite a bait-and-switch.

What does this all come down to? The New Hampshire Fair Tax Coalition is a liberal organization with a liberal make-up in their board of directors. Lifelong Democrats advancing a liberal public policy through the guise of a non-partisan “fight-for-the-common-taxpayer” facade.

I call bullshit. Kick them out of this state. Live Free Or Die is a great motto, but quite honestly I prefer Live Free Or Fuck Off.

Bill Quick has set in motion a most excellent and worthy exercise, the American Conservative Party.

From everything I’ve witnessed in the past few years, it has become abundantly clear that the Republican party has become a big spending nanny, filled to the core with populists that are quite honestly a little too close in ideals and practices as their Democratic counterparts. Why not set the wheels in motion for a group of like-thinkers that respect the Constitution as written, respect individual liberty, small government, and freedom in all it’s wonderful forms.

Stop by, join up, bookmark it, blogroll it, or do whatever it is you’re capable of doing to stay involved in the project. There are excellent people working on this project (myself included as an editor on the site) and it promises to grow by leaps and bounds. It’s impossible to know what scope it will end up with, but it all starts with a little bit of involvement - even if it’s just reading and joining in some of those spirited discussions. I’ve added the site to this blogroll and I’ll be linking to it often.