Posted on 11/07/2012 6:57:41 AM PST by KeyLargo
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Live Free . . . Or Die By Mark Steyn November 6, 2012 11:03 P.M.
As disappointing for me as Mitt losing New Hampshire has been the down-ticket races in the Granite State. In 2010, Republicans won both House seats, the Senate seat, three-quarters of State Reps, 80 percent of State Senate seats, and 100 percent of the Executive Council. Two years later, Democrats have taken the governorship and may well take both House seats, and the vote tallies they’re racking up in hardcore plaid-clad North Country towns far from the Massachusetts border are remarkable.
A lot of the telly chatter is about how Republicans don’t get the shifting demographics: America is becoming more of a “brown country,” as Kirsten Powers put it on Fox. But New Hampshire is overwhelmingly white — and the GOP still blew it. The fact is a lot of pasty, Caucasian, non-immigrant Americans have also “shifted,” and are very comfortable with Big Government, entitlements, micro-regulation, Obamacare and all the rest — and not much concerned with how or if it’s paid for.
If this is the way America wants to go off the cliff, so be it. But I wish we’d at least had a Big Picture election. The motto of the British SAS is “Who dares wins.” The Republicans chose a different path. A play-it-safe don’t-frighten-the-horses strategy may have had a certain logic, but it’s unworthy of the times.
Don’t feel so bad. You have great company.
ALL of the New England states SUCK!!!
I had planned on doing some travelling sometime in the near future. Northeast was on the radar. No more.
I am thinking fo talking to the wife and seeing if she would be up to moving.
The problem is I LOVE the atmosphere up here...I love the leaves falling, I love seeing the occasional moose walking down the street and yes I do love the snow...something about the seasons has me captured up here. It's the homo sapiens that have turned this area into a hell hole..such a tragedy.
Whatever happened to that “Free State” project back in the 90s? A bunch of people were supposed to colonize NH and turn it into a libertarian paradise.
Thanks for the pings. [smiles]
Why Mitt Romney Lost
Newsmax ^ | Nov 7, 2012 | Christopher Ruddy
Posted on Thursday, November 08, 2012 6:53:31 AM by KeyLargo
Newsmax Why Mitt Romney Lost Wednesday, November 7, 2012 02:24 PM
By: Christopher Ruddy Newsmax
Christopher Ruddy’s Perspective: It was the worst of times and the worst of times.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2956927/posts
Why Mitt Romney Lost
Newsmax ^ | Nov 7, 2012 | Christopher Ruddy
Posted on Thursday, November 08, 2012 6:53:31 AM by KeyLargo
Newsmax Why Mitt Romney Lost Wednesday, November 7, 2012 02:24 PM
By: Christopher Ruddy Newsmax
Christopher Ruddy’s Perspective: It was the worst of times and the worst of times.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2956927/posts
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