Newt cancelled NH event, security concerns

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[WellyP]

Newt cancelles event in NH. Security concerns.

[manc]

I wish the GOP would only allow republicans to run on our primaries not libertarians too.

[dforest]

Probably occupiers or union thugs.

[Marcella]

I have a Newt cup and Newt magnetic bumper sticker on the way. Next time my communist sister-in-law and her equally communist husband come see me, I will proudly wave my cup in front of them. I love both of them and they helped me tremendously when husband was ill, but they are true communists and proud of it. They get their news from Al Jazeera - they say Al Jazeera tells the truth.

I asked them what did they want from government? Both said tax rich people and give that money to non-rich people. Her husband is a genuine genius, no doubt about it and he believes this crap.

[kristinn]

Thanks again! Good details.

[WVNan]

Jim, please send your plan for primaries to the GOP ‘s Mr. Prieus or whatever his name is. In fact send it to everybody you can think of who might be able to make the changes needed.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

My wife and I went to Manchester after we heard Newt Gingrich speak at the high school in Hudson, New Hampshire. When we arrived at Gingrich's headquarters on Main Street in Manchester, the place was being picketed by Ron Paul supporters, Vermin Supreme and his supporters, a few #Occupy people (who looked and smelled as if they needed to occupy a shower), at least one person with a "Tax Meat" placard, and maybe a few others. There were perhaps sixty or so people picketting mostly Ron Paul supporters who were angry, yelled at the police, and were exceedingly argumentative. The crowd made it very difficult for anyone to get to the front door of the headquarters. The Secret Service realized that there was no way to guarantee the safety of the Gingriches since the Manchester police were unwilling to move the protesters to the side to allow Mr. and Mrs. Gingrich to safely access his New Hampshire headquarters.

What was interesting is as soon as the campaign staff apologized to those inside the headquarters and those people left, the Ron Paul crowed boarded a bus with their "Ron Paul" on the first line "Love Peace" on the second line. (No, I don't know if Love is a noun or a verb in that context. It did look like a 1968 sign "Love and Peace man", "Make Love not Ward" type of sign.

The Ron Paul bus was bound for Rich Santorum's next event to picket and to be generally disruptive and disrespectful to the police. I did get a laugh because the Ron Paul bus in addition to the "Ron Paul" and "Love Peace" also had a "Revolution" sign with the "R: in one color that made it difficult to see and the EVOL in a different color with the letters reversed and the "ution" in another prominent color. I thought the Love spelled backwards was too cute by half but it looked to me as if the sign said "Ron Paul Evolution". I commented to my wife that perhaps the Ron Paul Neanderthals would evolve into homo sapiens in another 100,000 years or so.

[who knows what evil?]

NOTHING on WMUR or Union Leader websites about this...

"Manchester Police were unwilling..?"

[who knows what evil?]

I commented to my wife that perhaps the Ron Paul Neanderthals would evolve into homo sapiens in another 100,000 years or so.

It will take much longer, but admire your optimism...

[Palladin]

Thanks for the report.

An incident like this just goes to show why we must not elect Ron Paul, who is a crazyman.

[TexasFreeper2009]

the Mormon Mafia strikes again.

[annieokie]

YES, YES, YES.

[annieokie]

Love those ideas, same as mine, and I do hope they catch on and SOON, we are being hijacked with the alien invaders.

The only problem, the media will not let this happen, as it is BIG BUSINESS for them to continue with the caucuses and carry that nonsense on for weeks, and Iowa and NH would both go ballistic.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

They did not appear to want to make the crowd step to the side. The Manchester police were there, maybe six to eight of them. They only person I saw them ask to move on was a guy with a pit bull who was trying to pick a fight with anyone, but they did not ask the people to stand aside to allow anyone to bet able to get to the door of the campaign headquarters. That however may have been a moot point since there was no way they could have vetted everyone in the crowd.

[Palladin]

The Manchester police must be a bunch of Barney Fifes.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Yes, Ron Paul is a crazy man, but he is not nearly as crazy as many of his uncouth supporters who apparently believe their own talking points that Ron Paul is the only person who understands the Constitution while some of them believe we really don’t need any part of the Constitution other than the Bill of Rights (Yes, some of them said as much not realizing that without Article 2 there is no Executive Branch and therefore no presidency...at least not of a constitutional republic.)

It did dawn on me from listening to some of the Paulbots that the PBs are angry at the Federal Reserve, the Internal Revenue Service, the (blank blank) Agency, etc., and mistakenly believe that the President can govern without the Legislative Branch and without the Judiciary. In short, they apparently do not believe in a government of checks and balances and are ready to elect a person crazier than they are!

[Palladin]

The Paulbots are not too bright.

As the nuns used to say in grammar school: “Empty barrels make the most noise.”

[MIchaelTArchangel]

I don’t think the Manchester police are a bunch of Barney Fifes. They refused to take the bait from the Paulbots and the others in the S.W.I.N.E. coalition who appeared to be trying to provoke a confrontation. I think they did well to avoid that confrontation.

Al Capp coined the term S.W.I.N.E. in the 1960s to refer to Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything. The only difference is that most of these people were in their late 30s and early 30s, had graduated from high school with a disdain for education, and are unemployed (or underemployed) wait staff with few saleable skills. More were unable to engage in dialog preferring to hear themselves spout their talking points as if they were given to them by God Almighty on Mount Sinai. If there were any Barney Fifes at 368 Main Street in Manchester tonight, it was not the Manchester police; it was the Paulbots (and the other weirdos).

I must admit that the affair took me back about 44 years to 1968, a presidential election year when I was in college (though too young to vote). I listened to much of the same rhetoric yapped back then by the people Al Capp referred to as S.W.I.N.E. I suppose now the “S” no longer refers to Students but to the Stupid who are Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything.

[Palladin]

Al Capp—that’s going way back. He was brilliant, and I do remember his depiction of the S.W.I.N.E.

Al was too conservative, and that’s why he lost his job.

Anyway, thanks for reviving the acronym, which suits very well the current dregs of society, like OWS.

[Ann Archy]

He said “PROBABLY”, Newbie. Who ELSE would he have concern about....CHRISTIANS???? Maybe Radical Gays also.

[raccoonradio]

Margery Eagan, Boston Herald:

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Lest you think they’d let this national opportunity pass, members of Occupy Wall Street have organized Occupy the New Hampshire Primary in a small park across from the Radisson Hotel in Manchester. That’s media ground zero, where former CBS anchor Dan Rather had breakfast yesterday and where NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and dozens of TV stations and national radio shows stage their broadcasts.

The outdoor press centers of both CBS and The Associated Press have clear views of Occupy’s encampment, their “Hungry? Eat a Banker” signs and their occasional performances, with flute and African drums, of “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” And they’ve gotten themselves lots of attention.

Today some occupiers and out-of-work veterans plan to hand out “Ballots on America’s Future” at polling places across New Hampshire. They’ll ask voters: would they like a Cabinet level Department of Peace, a decrease in military spending and a guaranteed living wage? Occupier Jeffery Allen, in charge of the ballots here, said an anonymous donor will pay $80 to every unemployed veteran for polling place work.

Dozens of occupiers showed up Sunday night for a Mitt Romney campaign rally at an Exeter high school with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, chanting “Mitt kills jobs!” and “Christie kills jobs!” Romney politely shrugged it off but combustible Christie replied to the woman heckling him, “Something might go down tonight, sweetheart, but it won’t be jobs.”

Outside the GOP debate Saturday night, about 300 occupiers held a “Funeral for the American Dream” rally complete with a mock coffin and a Dixieland band, said Tim Cunningham, a Roger Williams University student home in New Hampshire for Christmas break. The occupiers’ small site in Manchester — about a dozen tents — is temporary, from Friday to tonight. They have an 11 p.m. curfew so no one’s there overnight. And reaction has been mixed.

“Occasionally a person will drive by and say, ‘get a job,’ ” said occupier Marty Jackson of Nashua, who’s actually retired from a 30-year computer career.