Posted on 02/01/2011 4:25:42 AM PST by Jim Noble
New Hampshire Democrats conceded a dramatic loss of power to a Republican insurgency last November. Now another group is coming to terms with its sidelining.
Moderate Republicans, the practical-minded mainstay of the state’s venerable GOP, have watched in dismay as conservative legislators have proposed restricting state education funding to English, math, science, social studies, and physical education and urged that officials no longer “bear faith and true allegiance’’ to the United States and New Hampshire, but rather, only to New Hampshire.
With the recent ascension of Tea Party activist Jack Kimball to head the state Republican Party, many moderates now say they are resigned to having little sway in shaping the state’s agenda.
“We know we don’t have much of a chance of convincing anybody of anything,’’ said Representative Priscilla Lockwood, a moderate Republican, who said she fears that abortion will be restrict ed and gay marriage banned...
The 2010 election produced Republican supermajorities in the Legislature, but with many new members leaning further right than their predecessors; in the House an estimated 100 of the 400 members are Tea Party-affiliated. The election also yielded a Republican US Senator, Kelly Ayotte, backed by Sarah Palin, and two Republican US representatives...
The impact of the conservative sweep has been evident in the Legislature where conservatives’ first order of business, with the backing of William O’Brien, the new speaker of the House, was to change rules on weapons in the Statehouse, making them explicitly welcome rather than tacitly permitted. A string of proposals followed, including those on restricting school funding and the oath of office...
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They are called RINOs.
You know what I say to the moderates in NH (and everywhere else):
...well, this is a family site. I’d rather not say.
If Pricilla Lockwood is worried about restrictions on abortion, and banning gay marriage, she should just be a democrat. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
LLS
There is a place for moderates in the GOP, just not in any leadership role.
The problem with RINOs is that they are all too willing to compromise on their principles and then once done, they have nothing to show for that, no bang for their buck; they are far too trusting of the democrats who are known for their perfidy and deception.
Once RINOs understand where this anger comes from against them, maybe they will not be so willing to comrpomise with democrats which is what the rank and file conservatives are demanding and which is why the Tea Party came into being and into such prominence.
These so-called “moderates” (aka: losers) are always worried about something. Good. People with functioning brain cells reject you and reject your opinions. Become DIMocRATs, you RINO losers.
The battle isn’t between Dem and Rep, it’s between “progressives and legit conservatives. If you help elect a typical GOPer, you haven’t accomplished anything, you’ve just deluded yourself. All you’ve really done is invited the enemy inside the gates while you scan the horizon looking for where the next attack is coming from. How many knives in the back will it take before conservatives wake up to this fact?
I feel bad for NH. The MAssholes have invaded to get away from their mess, just to start their mess all over again.
Elections have consequences, don’t they?
Moderate Republicans, the practical-minded mainstay the traitorous sell-out democrate-lite liberals of the state’s venerable GOP... There fixed it.
Personally, a line needs to be drawn in the sand by conservatives and the rinos need to go home to the democrat party they adore.
We have the same problem in GA. People from MA, NJ, NY, CT, etc. have moved here over the past several decades to get away from the economic mess and police states that their government loving ideas have given rise to. In short having sh!t where they ate up north and then not liking the consequences, they're proceding to sh!t where they eat and where I eat too.
[The problem with RINOs is that they are all too willing to compromise on their principles and then once done, they have nothing to show for that,...]
McCain and other rinos come to mind.
These RINOS are essentially TRANSPLANTED MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATS.
That's because facts have a funny way of getting in the way of your convincing.
I never understand conservatism until it’s patiently explained to me by a liberal newspaper.
RINOs cannot convince anybody of anything because they stand for nothing, have no values or principles they stand by and fight for. They are like Claude Rains in Casablanca, they blow with the wind, and as such they make enemies on both sides. Better to stand for something and have an enemy on only one side of the aisle.
And what principles are those?
Turning right politically without becoming more moral is just a waste of time.
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