7 AM–Polls open: Vote Early, vote often?

This tried and true maxim of the Democrat party comes alive as the polls spring to life at the opening bell.  It’s a lot easier to vote more than once when you have already sent in your absentee ballot, and can use the day off (if you have it off) to get college students to the polls to vote illegally for your candidates.  (Yes, it happens early and often–and there’s tons of proof.) Oh, and the fact that the democrats have watered down the voting rules so much that my dog could vote isn’t suspicious at all, is it?

Are you a NH resident?  “Woof.”  Here’s your ballot.

My polling place was moving along briskly, which is more than I can say for the traffic you had to wait through to get there.   And this was a 7AM when they open! 

But whatever the result it is good to see people getting involved in the process.   For years people complained about how Americans didn’t vote, and now they are complaining about how partisan and divisive everything is.  Well, this is America.  If you don’t piss a few people off, they’ll never get off their fat backsides, drop the remote, and exercise their civic duty.

OK.  Most of these marshmallows have no idea what the actual issues are, who or how they are being misled, or what the consequences of their vote could mean, and I would freely accept a mandatory civics test as a pre-requisite to demonstrating competence (probably because I know I could pass it), but they do have the right to vote, and if they never see the consequences of their action (or inaction) they’ll never learn more and do better.

In 2006 Republicans got lazy and stayed home in droves.  Look how that turned out.  This year, the Democrats have done everything they can think of to convince them to stay home again.  (becasue if they don’t Obama loses, as do others.)  I don’t think that’s going to happen, but if it does, they get what they deserve.  They lose at the state and national level.  They suffer through at least two more years of a Democrat congress, with a Democrat president, and open bar on big government spending and control. 

But no matter who wins, there will plenty to blog about.  For now, we have a long day ahead of us

My Early predictions for my neighborhood

McCain-Palin-President/VP

John Sununu-Senator

Jeb Bradley-Congress

Steve Stepanek-Executive council

Shelia Roberge-State Senate

7 of 8 Seats in the State House.

Lynch will remain Governor for no good reason.

How this translates across the state and the nation, we shall see.  Just remember, the same people who lied about voting for Obama in early polls, will do the exact same thing in exit polls.  They don’t like his policies, but they don’t want to be accused of being a racist.  The News networks will be screwing this the wrong way all day and night.  The truth–if such a thing is possible, won’t be know till late tonight.

Mike ‘Kato’ Kaelin part II

Rep Mike “Kato” Kaelin wants’ to sell himself as better than sitting state senator Sheila Roberge based almost entirely on the notion that he’ll actually do something. 

So while in part one  I reviewed what Kato wants to do (or has already done) to taxpayers with his environmental and energy policies—which is to make it more expensive and less desirable to live here while wasting our tax dollars–in part II I want to look at choice bits of his voting record to see if his opus—that is, his idea of doing something, is really what New Hampshire needs. (Hint: The answer is no)

 Details on the Jump!

Merrimack Journal toes the Cabernet Press-Liberal Line

The Merrimack Journal is entitled to its opinion, even if it doesn’t actually have one of its own.  In this weeks edition the editors (Of the Milford Cabinet) prove me right again by endorsing only democrats for Governor, Congress, and the Senate.  They use the Journal as a natural extension of their out of the Cabinet love affair with Obama, whose endorsement the Journal printed—I believe it was last week—almost verbatim (only edited for space) from the Milford Cabinet version published the week prior.

 

But to their credit, and in the interests of unbiased Bias, the Journal did offer us this one nostrum in advance of their endorsements.

 

“…we encourage all voters not to take our word for it, but to invest the time and effort to learn about the candidates on their own.”

 

Sounds to me like they had a gun to their heads; too bad they couldn’t take their own advice.

What say the NEA

My wife (she’s a part time teacher) got this nifty piece of NEA propaganda yesterday, (we actually get enough annually to clear a small Brazilian Rain Forrest–just in case you wondered where those dues went, other than to Democrat politicians) and in it we have comments from four Arizona Teachers, all claiming to be Republicans, and all pointing out how “disappointed they are with John Mc Cain.” (Oooh, act surprised!)

 First off, claiming to be a Republican does not make you one.  I present John Mc Cain as proof.  He’s not a democrat, but if he is such a great republican, what’s he need Palin for.  Anyway, while these “educators” (they are not necessarily teachers) may be registered as Republicans, their associations are primarily with organizations who promote democrat policies, and the lefts agenda. 

Kathy Ray of Mesa, AZ–she’s got an issue with Arizona’s per pupil funding (Arizona is 49^th), and because pay is performance-based test scores apparently “should not be the only measure of an ability to teach.”  

I suppose we could follow that logic down to, “why give tests at all.”  Maybe like-ability is a better measure.  Why don’t you guys go to school for 160 or 180 days— or whatever it is— and do nothing but recess, then promote everyone to the next grade.  That’s definitely not test-score based.  No homework, no tests, hey wait a minute.     What do we need you for at all?  Parents won’t even have to pay you.  I’m sure you can find another job where performance doesn’t matter.  Democratic presidential nominee comes to mind.

Misleadership – Shaheen

One of my favorite pieces of the Shaheen-Hypocrisy pie, of which there are many, is her evolving stance on the war in Iraq.  She was for it before she was against it.  This of course means she is party to the “we were misled crowd,” the excuse we get from invertebrate politicians, about why they overwhelmingly voted to go to war, (or publicly announced they were in favor of it) but later changed their position.

 

A thoughtful legislator (or legislator in waiting) should be more than willing to acknowledge that there were plenty of good reasons to take out the dictator, and we all felt that had to happen.  And Shaheen was only one of many people who spoke out in favor, appearing to have a grasp on the important issues, supported sending soldiers into harms way.

 

But far fewer had the character or courage to acknowledge after the fact that we didn’t or couldn’t have anticipated all the problems that would result from deposing Saddam in that environment, at that time, in that manner.  When these problems created instability, when it was clear we had a serious problem—one that might leave Iraq worse off than it was before we showed up, instead of engaging in the  effort to plumb the potential benefits or consequences of every option,  the democ-rats jumped ship.