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Hard Right Turn Worries GOP Moderates in N.H.
Boston Globe ^ | February 1, 2011 | Sarah Schweitzer

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: 2010midterms; are; commies; getting; nh2010; rino; rinoseason; teaparty; worried
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To: Ev Reeman

You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything...


21 posted on 02/01/2011 5:04:06 AM PST by Jim Noble (Reelect Palin 2016)
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To: johncocktoasten

Exactly!


22 posted on 02/01/2011 5:10:06 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
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To: Jim Noble

“and urged that officials no longer “bear faith and true allegiance’’ to the United States and New Hampshire, but rather, only to New Hampshire.”

How could I ever have faith in and allegiance toward a group of criminals in business suits who seek to enslave the American people from their ivory tower in the District of Criminals (D.C.)?


23 posted on 02/01/2011 5:12:17 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Jim Noble
“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...

How does she distinguish herself from a democrat? She and her ilk are the reasons I quit calling myself a republican.

24 posted on 02/01/2011 5:19:47 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Don't tell Obama what comes after a trillion)
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To: Jim Noble
Sarah Schwitzer is a leftwing propagandist.

She was featured in Laura Ingraham's book "The Obama Diaries."

Stephanie Ebbert and Sarah Schweitzer of the Boston Globe wrote of the Boston Tea Party gathering: “Some have charged racism for its mostly white membership..." It was if white, working class people didn't have the right to object to government spending and high taxes.
25 posted on 02/01/2011 5:20:47 AM PST by nhwingut (Palin/Bachmann '12)
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To: Jim Noble

Have you ever noticed that the Press never worries about moderate or conservative Democrats being sidelined by the hard line Statist Democrats.


26 posted on 02/01/2011 5:21:27 AM PST by MCF
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To: Jim Noble

Priscilla Lockwood, a moderate Republican, who said she fears that abortion will be restrict ed and gay marriage banned...

See:

http://www.votesmart.org/npat.php?can_id=21546

My guess is Ms. Lockwood, Like Chrissie Whitman and Tom Kean, is one of those born with a silver spoon in her mouth, blue-blooded liberal eltists whose only interst in being a “Republican” is to protect her business interests and because her family traditionally disdained the Democrats.

These people have the political philosophy of an creampuff.


27 posted on 02/01/2011 5:25:34 AM PST by ZULU (No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
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To: MCF
Have you ever noticed that the Press never worries about moderate or conservative Democrats being sidelined by the hard line Statist Democrats.

My point exactly. Cripes Howard Dean, a MoveOn moonbat, headed the entire DNC.

I don't recall feature stories: "Hard turn left worries moderate Dems"

It's all an effort to make the Tea Party and GOP appear hard line.
28 posted on 02/01/2011 5:28:39 AM PST by nhwingut (Palin/Bachmann '12)
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To: RIGHTWING WACKO FROM MASS.

The Massholes are no longer the problem. This article is spot on. Some of the reddest parts of the state are where good people from Mass. have gotten themselves to hell out of their home state and come up here. I applaud them. They are my kind of people and I am a native who has long been disgusted with the NH Republican party. Not now. We finally got ‘er turned around and you can hear the howling of the dimlycrats and rumpsprung Reps like Priscilla from Nashua to Pittsburg. I love it!


29 posted on 02/01/2011 5:46:15 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (I'd get it myself but I don't have any thumbs.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

ROFL!


30 posted on 02/01/2011 5:49:54 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (I'd get it myself but I don't have any thumbs.)
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To: Jim Noble

Funny, I consider someone who advocates the murder of the innocent unborn to be a dangerous extremist.


31 posted on 02/01/2011 5:51:02 AM PST by PTBAA
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To: Ev Reeman
RINOs cannot convince anybody of anything because they stand for nothing, have no values or principles they stand by and fight for.

That's a GREAT point & spot on.

32 posted on 02/01/2011 5:52:44 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: samtheman; central_va; from occupied ga
I think y'all are being too hard on the RINOs.

I know these people, they're my neighbors. They are members of the Rodney King Party (can't we all just get along?).

They do not see what we see. They do not see that the conflict is fundamental and has become irrepressible.

Like the Constitutional Union Party in 1860, they don't want to believe that war is coming. And can you blame them?

from occupied ga: How'd that war thingy work out the last time?

Decision time is upon us.

33 posted on 02/01/2011 6:00:32 AM PST by Jim Noble (Reelect Palin 2016)
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To: Jim Noble
from occupied ga: How'd that war thingy work out the last time?

Want a rematch.

34 posted on 02/01/2011 6:08:09 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: johncocktoasten

Two words. GET OUT!


35 posted on 02/01/2011 6:14:49 AM PST by malos (Call Me Inpressed)
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To: Jim Noble
Here we have some more faux-earnest hand-wringing from a Boston Globe liberal who is just so terribly, terribly concerned about New Hampshire becoming "too" conservative. Let's just say that it rings a bit hollow, coming from the same people who have worked tirelessly to turn our state into North Massachusetts.

(nice Dylan quote, BTW Jim).

36 posted on 02/01/2011 6:15:12 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: central_va
Here's a headline or thought, you never see: GOP Moderates are concerned about the Democrat agenda.

No enemies to the Left, which is why the RINOs always end up on the left.

37 posted on 02/01/2011 6:27:47 AM PST by Jabba the Nutt (.Are they stupid, malicious or evil?)
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To: Jim Noble
They do not see what we see. They do not see that the conflict is fundamental and has become irrepressible

Then maybe they should step down, stay at home and watch Oprah, because we sure as hell don't need representatives the "do not see what we see." Kind of makes them not really representative doesn't it?

How'd that war thingy work out the last time?

I don't really see the relevance of that question to the discussion, but since you're curious, one heck of a lot better than you'd expect when an industrialized nation of 22,000,000 goes against an agricultural nation of about 9,000,000 and a nation with 90% of the manufacturing capacity vs 10% of the manufacturing capacity. But we're a lot better prepared this time, and won't go about it in open conflict. Think insurgency and asymmetric warfare if the ballot box fails.

38 posted on 02/01/2011 6:29:11 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: andy58-in-nh
(nice Dylan quote, BTW Jim

I was going to use "You walk into the room like a camel and then you frown" for Sarah Schweitzer, but I thought it might sail over too many heads.

39 posted on 02/01/2011 6:29:18 AM PST by Jim Noble (Reelect Palin 2016)
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To: Flintlock

Really?

Rep. Priscilla Lockwood (R-NH Merrimack District 6)
7th term Republican from New Hampshire Merrimack District 6.
BioContactCommitteeLetters

Visit Official Website
Residence: Canterbury
Marital Status: Married (Robert)
Prev. Occupation: Educator, Small Business Owner
Prev. Political Exp.: Canterbury Town Selectman, 1995-2001
Education: BA University of New Hampshire, 1959
Birthdate: 12/22/1936
Birthplace: Manchester, NH
Religion: Protestant


40 posted on 02/01/2011 6:33:30 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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