Posted on 01/13/2012 4:28:27 PM PST by passionfruit
In the 2010 election the New Hampshire Republican Party took 298 out of 400 House seats, 19 out of 24 state Senate seats, and all five seats on the Executive Council. A little over a year later, in the state's presidential primary, the same (more or less) electorate gave over 56 percent of its votes to a couple of moneyed "moderates," one of whom served in the Obama administration and the other of whom left no trace in office other than the pilot program for Obamacare. Another 23 percent voted for Ron Paul. Supporters of the three other "major" candidates in the race argue that, if only the other two fellows would clear off, a viable conservative alternative to Mitt Romney would emerge. In fact, even if you combine Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum's share of the vote, it adds up to a mere 19.5 percent: Were Bain Capital to come in and restructure the "conservative" candidates into one streamlined and efficient Newt Perrtorum, this unstoppable force would be competitive with Jon Huntsman.
According to George Mason University's annual survey of Freedom in the 50 States, New Hampshire is the freest state in the union, so one would expect there to be takers for Ron Paul's message. On the other hand, facing a very different electorate in Iowa, Paul pulled pretty much an identical share of the poll. It may be time for those of us on the right to consider whether it's not so much the conservative vote that's split but whether conservativism itself is fracturing.
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Agreed. Our military should have one purpose and that is to kill countries or entities that attack us or our allies and break all their stuff. Screw this nation building crap. It hasn't worked in 60 years, largely because we don't know how to do it.
Look at Iraq. We aren't even really gone yet and they're already back to killing each other. Ef the lot of them. Either we utterly destroy enemies and those who support them (Saudi Arabia, are you listening?) or we stay the hell out of it.
The US Navy can keep the sea lanes open, that's a vital US interest. But these endless wars with nebulous definitions of victory have to stop. We can't afford them and those savages over their aren't worth another single drop of American blood or another single American nickle.
American foreign policy should be "screw with us and you die". And that doesn't mean privates and corporals, that means the political leadership. Attack America, American interests, or American treaty partners and it's mushroom cloud city.
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He is talking about the New Hampshire state house of reps. Not the federal. They only have 2 reps, and 2 senators in congress.
I would disagree. We know how to do it, we did it with Germany and Japan, and what man has done, man can aspire to do.
But we have thrown out reality for a bunch of feelgood politically correct nonsense, and the populace has been dumbed down to buy it all.
“Defense is rapid and deadly...aimed at heads of state, heads of power who try to attack.”
As I said, “naive.”
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I don't think so, this is the focus of our special forces today. Not naive, but the response of people who know guerrilla warfare. Welcome to Modern Times.
Am I too late for the ZOT? I have missed so many of them lately.
Yes you were. We have been having a regular shooting gallery around here lately.
Fighting politically correct wars leads us inevitably to politically correct failures.
Be careful, you might get branded a "Paulbot" and ridiculed as an "isolationist" because you don't want US troops spread across 135 nations around the globe.
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