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Establishment, Palin join forces in NH Senate race
Google/AP ^ | 9/12/10 | Dave Epso

Posted on 09/13/2010 12:39:20 AM PDT by pissant

MANCHESTER N.H. — Can the Republican establishment and Sarah Palin find happiness in New Hampshire? First-time candidate Kelly Ayotte hopes so

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KEYWORDS: ayotte; elections; establishment; nhgop; palin; rinos; sarahpalin
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To: pissant

Ovide v Ayotte on the 2nd Amendment

http://ovide2010.com/?page_id=1289

http://www.ayotteforsenate.com/second-amendment


21 posted on 09/13/2010 2:28:19 AM PDT by tiger-one (The night has a thousand eyes)
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To: Semper Vigilantis

Sharron Angle, Brenna Findley, Jackie Walorski, Christine O’Donnell, Renee Elmers, Vicki Hartzler, and Beth Chapman. All Tea Party candidates. All recent endorsements.


22 posted on 09/13/2010 2:37:57 AM PDT by UncleHambone ("Laughter is America's most important export." - Walt Disney)
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To: pissant

Almost as bad as Hunter supporting Whitman. Though I’d bet Palin actually knows Ayotte’s position on the issues, unlike your phone pal being ignorant of Whitman’s.


23 posted on 09/13/2010 2:56:34 AM PDT by jla
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To: pissant

Why do you think its necessary to destroy her too? We need everybody we can to get out the message, so why try to silence one of our most dynamic speakers? So what if you don’t agree w/everything she says or everyone she endorses, neither do I but I doubt I would agree w/Reagan on everything.

Pray for America


24 posted on 09/13/2010 3:48:24 AM PDT by bray (The Tea Party Manual: http://www.brayincandy.com/id239.html)
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To: onyx

That picture is of Sarah saying “I just saw Pissant in the shower.


25 posted on 09/13/2010 4:22:57 AM PDT by Paddy Irish
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To: pissant
"Ovide Lamontagne is the man to support in this race."

Thanks pissant.
Now we know who the two idiots, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney,
support.

Go Kelly Ayotte.

26 posted on 09/13/2010 4:25:21 AM PDT by Diogenesis ('Freedom is the light of all sentient beings.' - Optimus Prime)
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To: Paddy Irish; pissant; onyx
That picture is of Sarah saying “I just saw Pissant in the shower

Spot on!

Another caption would be, pissant's brain is as big as his, um....er......

27 posted on 09/13/2010 4:42:50 AM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: pissant
Ovide received an “F” rating from the NH Firearms coalition. Is your dislike of Palin so great that you want to elect people that don't support the second amendment?
28 posted on 09/13/2010 5:04:17 AM PDT by Durus (The People have abdicated our duties and anxiously hopes for just two things, "Bread and Circuses")
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To: onyx

Kelly Ayotte For US Senate

New Hampshire is not an ATM for Washington, DC bureaucrats. Kelly Ayotte will stand up for New Hampshire’s families when Congress attempts to raise their taxes. She will fight to rein-in wasteful spending and to balance the federal budget. In her announcement speech, Kelly Ayotte said, “Enough is enough. Washington needs a good dose of New Hampshire common sense….You can’t spend money you don’t have. Like most New Hampshire families, Joe and I sit around our kitchen table and we have to prioritize and live within our budget. Our government should be no different. Our elected leaders must be willing to make the same hard decisions.”

Kelly Ayotte supports the following reforms to eliminate out of control, wasteful government spending:
• Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. (New Hampshire and 48 other states have some requirement to balance their budgets)
• Stop spending taxpayer money on the bailouts and the stimulus package and return the money to pay down the deficit
• Sunset government programs that have far outlived their utility
• End the reckless earmarking process that has used taxpayer dollars to fund wasteful projects such as the “bridge to nowhere”

Kelly has signed the ‘No Pork Pledge’ and supports the Balanced Budget Amendment. She has also signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, promising to vote against tax increases. Recently, Kelly was honored to sign Americans for Prosperity’s candidate pledge to cut taxes, cut spending, cut the size of government, and uphold the Constitution.

Kelly Ayotte believes we can responsibly tap U.S. reserves of natural gas and oil, ensuring both a careful balance of environmental considerations while increasing domestic energy production, leading to job growth.

She supports using innovative technology to develop and use more efficient, cleaner methods for the production and use of all energy forms, including natural gas, oil, nuclear, coal, hydro, and renewables such as wind and solar. Kelly believes America must continue its role as a technology leader by developing new, cleaner energy technologies that help reduce pollution and create new markets and jobs for the people who produce them.

She believes in protecting private property rights as well as encouraging landowners to participate in common sense conservation efforts through local and federal incentives.

Kelly understands that we need common sense solutions to our energy problems and opposes “cap and trade” legislation that is essentially a tax on Granite State families at a time when they can afford it least.

Kelly knows that small businesses, not the government, create jobs. Kelly’s husband, Joe, is a small business owner and she worked with him to help create the business. When Joe returned from serving in the Iraq war, he started a landscaping and snowplowing business. When Joe started the business, there were many nights he needed help. Kelly shoveled snow through the night, then left to go to her day job at the attorney general’s office.

Kelly appreciates how hard it is to make a small business succeed. She has seen Joe grow his business from just two employees to twenty. Kelly understands that we need our small businesses to create new jobs and help grow our economy.

To help small businesses create jobs, Kelly believes Congress should:
• Lower taxes on small business, making it easier to create jobs
• Reduce over- burdensome regulations that make it difficult for small businesses to succeed
• Pass meaningful health care reforms that lower the cost for small businesses in providing health insurance for their employees, including tort reform, allowing the purchase of insurance across state lines to increase competition, and allowing small business owners to pool together to obtain better insurance rates

Kelly Ayotte believes we need to clean up Washington and her steps to ensure a more responsible, transparent government are below:
• Post all legislation online for at least 72 hours, allowing legislators and the public, the opportunity to read each bill before they are voted on
• End the corrupt earmark process
• Freeze congressional office budgets (this year, Congress voted itself a 5.7% increase in their office budgets)
• Senate campaigns should file their returns electronically and post them online immediately so the public knows who is donating to campaigns

Kelly believes that Congress should pass term limits legislation and has publicly pledged to only serve two terms in the Senate, if elected. There are too many career politicians in Washington who worry about reelection and the next campaign, and are not focused on the people’s business.

Recently, Kelly was honored to sign Americans for Prosperity’s candidate pledge to cut taxes, cut spending, cut the size of government, and uphold the Constitution.
As Attorney General, Kelly fought to keep our children safe and our public officials honest.

She led efforts to pass tough new laws to crack down on sexual and internet predators. Kelly vigorously pursued the prosecution of white collar crimes and public corruption cases, regardless of a person’s political party.

The Union Leader named Kelly Citizen of the Year in 2008 for her successful prosecutions of the first capital murder cases in New Hampshire in over 60 years. While Kelly served as Deputy Attorney General and Chief of the Homicide Unit, she led the prosecution of numerous murder cases, including the successful prosecution of two defendants for the brutal murders of two Dartmouth professors.

Kelly believes in the importance of enforcing our national borders and in ensuring only legal immigration. Kelly’s strong record clearly illustrates that she will enforce our drug laws, incarcerate predators, and work with our state and federal law enforcement officials as a well-respected and trusted partner.
“Kelly is committed to rescinding taxpayer funding of abortion in health care. She has expressed her strong determination to be a vocal advocate for women and unborn children in abortion debates on the floor of the U.S. Senate.” - Susan B. Anthony List

Kelly Ayotte believes in traditional marriage and is Pro-life.

As New Hampshire’s Attorney General, Kelly aggressively fought an attempt by Planned Parenthood to challenge the New Hampshire Parental Notification Prior to Abortion Act. She personally appealed the case to the Supreme Court and in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England and the Court remanded the earlier ruling, saying that “States have the right to require parental involvement when a minor considers terminating her pregnancy.”

Kelly’s unmatched record on life has earned her the recent endorsements of the Susan B. Anthony List and the New Hampshire Citizens for Life , the state chapter of the National Right to Life organization.
As New Hampshire’s former Attorney General, Kelly understands the urgent need to stop the dangerous flow of illegal immigrants into our country. Arizona’s move to address this issue at the state level reflects a failure of leadership in Washington to solve this problem once and for all. With a wave of violent crimes in the state, Kelly believes Arizonans were fully justified in passing their law.

In the Senate, Kelly’s top immigration priority will be to secure our borders – no excuses. Simultaneously, she will work to ensure that existing immigration laws are enforced and is against amnesty. Kelly knows that Americans can solve any problem if they put their mind to it – and she will bring that results-oriented approach to this critical issue.
Kelly is a strong and passionate supporter of our citizens’ individual right to keep and bear arms.

Kelly supports nationwide recognition of concealed carry licenses in accordance with the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution. She believes the ability to carry a firearm is an individual protected civil right under the Second Amendment and that the right to self defense is a basic human right.

Kelly Ayotte has a strong record of protecting New Hampshire citizens’ rights to keep and bear arms. As Attorney General, in District of Columbia v. Heller, Kelly Ayotte joined a brief filed in the United States Supreme Court defending Americans constitutional right to bear arms. In that case, Kelly Ayotte urged the United States Supreme Court to uphold a court decision striking down a handgun ban in Washington, DC. Kelly advocated for the position that “by banning all handguns, while rendering rifles and shotguns inoperable, the District of Columbia unconstitutionally prohibits citizens from owning operational firearms.” The Supreme Court held that the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns violated the Second Amendment.

In July of 2009, Kelly again joined a brief filed in the United States Supreme Court defending Americans rights to keep and bear arms. In National Rifle Association v. Chicago, Kelly supported a challenge by a Chicago citizen who lived in a high crime neighborhood and who had been the subject of threats from violent drug dealers, but who was prohibited by city ordinance from obtaining a handgun to protect himself. Kelly argued that the city ordinance violated his individual right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment. In the brief, Kelly advocated that:


29 posted on 09/13/2010 5:28:04 AM PDT by curth (SarahPac: Over 2 million members! Are you in for $20.12?)
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To: Diogenesis

If Lamontagne wins the primary does he have a shot in the general election? Ayotte is a heavy favorite, and it is always good to have conservative women in the Senate. Don’t want to see the GOP blow this race. We shouldn’t have Hodes in the Senate. Shaheen is bad enough.


30 posted on 09/13/2010 5:34:28 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: onyx
Jeanne Shaheen did not win the NH statehouse in 1996 because Lamontagne ran a poor campaign. She won for several reasons: first, she ran as a "moderate" and an "outsider" (sound familiar?) and had huge financial resources that came largely from out of state (e.g. - Emily's List, AFSCME, NARAL, etc.). Also: the governor's office had not been held by a Democrat since 1982, and there was a natural tendency for people to desire a change. Finally, Bob Dole was an awful Presidential candidate who dragged down the entire Republican ballot.

I know Ovide and like him a great deal - he's a solid conservative, and in spite of the fact that he is far too nice a person to be in politics, I'd urge all my friends in New Hampshire to vote for him in the primary tomorrow.

31 posted on 09/13/2010 5:47:42 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: onyx
NH is one of the the least socially conservative states in the nation, and the only one that regularly elects Republicans to statewide office.

Why is this (or why WAS this)?

It's because our prime directives are 1) Mind your own business and 2) Leave your neighbors business alone.

The arrival of socon Republicanism in NH, personified by Ovide in his governor's race against Shaheen, realigned our politics because nobody who isn't willing to leave their neighbor's business alone can get elected dogcatcher here.

Call it RINOism, call it liberdopianism, whatever - it's the majority view here.

And the result of turning the state over to RATs has been disastrous. It's become so bad that even a somewhat socon-ized GOP may prevail on the local level.

But a socon candidate for Senate? Not a chance.

32 posted on 09/13/2010 5:55:18 AM PDT by Jim Noble (If the answer is "Republican", it must be a stupid question.)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

“Ayotte is a pro-choicer. NRO did a piece on Ovide, endorsing Ovide”

Sorry, but you are wrong. This is right off Ayotte’s website. Ayotte is very prolife:

“Kelly Ayotte believes in traditional marriage and is Pro-life.

As New Hampshire’s Attorney General, Kelly aggressively fought an attempt by Planned Parenthood to challenge the New Hampshire Parental Notification Prior to Abortion Act. She personally appealed the case to the Supreme Court and in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England and the Court remanded the earlier ruling, saying that “States have the right to require parental involvement when a minor considers terminating her pregnancy.”

Kelly’s unmatched record on life has earned her the recent endorsements of the Susan B. Anthony List and the New Hampshire Citizens for Life , the state chapter of the National Right to Life organization.”

Sarah Palin and the Susan B. Anthony List do not endorse candidates who are proabortion.

KELLY AYOTTE IS PRO-LIFE

And as for NRO’s endorsement of Ovide, they are also pushing RIINO proabort Mike Castle in Delaware. I don’t give a hoot what NRO says or does.


33 posted on 09/13/2010 6:16:23 AM PDT by Brices Crossroads
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To: BigSkyFreeper

I sent a contribution to Ovide today, in response to Jim DeMint’s email request. I’m not real crazy about Rand Paul, but Jim is right on with his other endorsements. We’re not all perfcet, anyway! Jim has a better track record in support of true conservatives. Nothing against Palin, as I like her lot, but I think she’s missed the mark a few times this cycle, especially in support of female candidates. I think she doesn’t always look as closely as I would to their track record.


34 posted on 09/13/2010 6:26:55 AM PDT by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: Brices Crossroads

Ayotte is pro-choice. Life means that, life. Ayotte believes there should be exceptions for rape, incest, and emergency. That’s the view of pro-choicers. Pro-lifers believe life begins at conception. A life is a life whether it’s conceived properly through marriage, rape or incest, anything beyond that and humans are playing God. God believes all life is sacred, “exceptions for rape, incest, and emergency” goes against that. Incest is a sin, but you don’t punish an unborn baby for the sins of the others involved.


35 posted on 09/13/2010 6:44:32 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: Diogenesis

LOL. You cultists will are hilarious.

You forgot to mention DeMint, Laura Ingraham, & Levin.


36 posted on 09/13/2010 7:28:04 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: bray

SHe’s a RINO, and she’s in a primary. Why WOULDN’T I publicize that.


37 posted on 09/13/2010 7:30:00 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Kelly Ayotte believes in traditional marriage and is Pro-life.

As New Hampshire’s Attorney General, Kelly aggressively fought an attempt by Planned Parenthood to challenge the New Hampshire Parental Notification Prior to Abortion Act. She personally appealed the case to the Supreme Court and in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England and the Court remanded the earlier ruling, saying that “States have the right to require parental involvement when a minor considers terminating her pregnancy.”

Kelly’s unmatched record on life has earned her the recent endorsements of the Susan B. Anthony List and the New Hampshire Citizens for Life , the state chapter of the National Right to Life organization.


38 posted on 09/13/2010 7:30:37 AM PDT by curth (SarahPac: Over 2 million members! Are you in for $20.12?)
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To: onyx

That spin is why Palin needs her head checked.


39 posted on 09/13/2010 7:35:11 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: jla

Wow. Can I see the link where Hunter supported Whitman over her primary opponents?


40 posted on 09/13/2010 7:40:47 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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