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 ...
You’ve got to stand for something or you’ll fall for anything...
Exactly!
“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.)?
How does she distinguish herself from a democrat? She and her ilk are the reasons I quit calling myself a republican.
Have you ever noticed that the Press never worries about moderate or conservative Democrats being sidelined by the hard line Statist Democrats.
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.
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!
ROFL!
Funny, I consider someone who advocates the murder of the innocent unborn to be a dangerous extremist.
That's a GREAT point & spot on.
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.
Want a rematch.
Two words. GET OUT!
(nice Dylan quote, BTW Jim).
No enemies to the Left, which is why the RINOs always end up on the left.
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.
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.
Really?
Rep. Priscilla Lockwood (R-NH Merrimack District 6)
7th term Republican from New Hampshire Merrimack District 6.
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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
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