Once again, Dave takes on the illogic of the left, proceeds with logic!  From the Laconia Daily Sun (7/28, P5):

To the editor,

Last week, Senator John McCain spoke very passionately, eloquently and adroitly as he addressed questions on Veteran’s medical care from the N.H. Veterans delegation. His concerns and solutions included better medical attention and helping the homeless veterans. There was no doubt in my mind that his words were sincere. The audience in Rochester concurred. Senator McCain’s history of military service and sacrifice is unimpeachable.

The surge in Iraq has succeeded and I am personally glad that Obama has crawled out from his hiding hole, with his new found courage and freshly grown anatomical parts, and is taking this pilgrimage to the Middle East. Some say that he left the country out of fear that Jesse Jackson wanted to harvest these new appendages. This is his fi rst trip in three years. John McCain has been there eight times. John McCain is one of the prime reasons that we even had the surge and its subsequent success. Obama cannot even acknowledge that it was successful militarily and politically. However, as it was billed as a fact finding trip, most wise people would wait until they landed and actually talked to the generals before offering the results of the investigation.

Obama thought it necessary to remove from his website any reference to his two-year opposition to the surge prior to embarking. Why? So now I am asked to go to his website and see how he cares for our military and our veterans. You are trying to convince me that Obama is not the arrogant elitist that has shown open disdain for our troops and steadfastly voted against funding them. Words have meaning. It helps to convince me if they are not changed constantly as Obama does his.

Once upon a time politics ended at the waters edge. Gore, Kerry, Reid, Clinton, Pelosi, et. al. have created a new political art form in their overseas excursions and the blame President Bush, blame America first mantra. Obama has had ample opportunity in the recent past to meet with our Generals, specifically General Petraeus, in Washington. He chose not to. When his prime sponsors, the far left radical, Moveon and DailyKos, ran the “General Betray Us” infamous ad in collaboration with the “New York Times”, Obama could have joined with most of our senators and congressmen and denounced this ad. He opted out. How does Obama’s “fight the smears" site address these truths?

Obama has not held one Senate meeting, let me repeat that, not one meeting, on Afghanistan affairs and he is the chair. Today, he tried to take credit for the financial pressure that has been exerted by the U..S against Iran, claiming it was his banking committee’s efforts. He is not on that committee. Today, he said Iran is a grave threat. He used to say it was a puny country. A year ago he wanted to meet with Iran’s leaders without “preconditions”. He has been waffling ever since. Truth or smears?

Senator John McCain was accurate and honest with his assessments of Obama and most defi nitely justifi ed in making these criticisms. Most people recognize that Obama is not qualifi ed to lead this nation in any capacity.

Cathy Merwin is correct. We need to start paying attention to the truth. I would suggest that she differentiate between truth, talking points and opinion. There is only one set of facts from which truth can be derived.

David R. Horvath, Sr.
Gilford

And who, pray tell, invoked this righteous missive - look after the jump!

From the McCain NH campaign, a note to those that wish to assist:

Town Chairs, 

 

My name is Ben DiSesa and I am writing to you on behalf of the McCain campaign from the Manchester Office on 250 Commercial Ave, Manchester, NH.  We are strongly involved in gathering volunteer support for McCain and as you probably know, just opened the office last week.  We now need volunteers to come down and help to organize volunteer events.  We are also opening up offices around NH and are going to need dedicated people to staff them.  My cell phone number is (603) 978-5710, my email is Ben@nhgop.org, and you can contact me at anytime if you have any questions about what you can do to help McCain and other Republicans get elected.  With only 120 days left until the election, we can't stress enough how important it is to build a strong support network of volunteers.  Starting tonight at 5 pm people will be coming to the Manchester office and anything you can do, either by volunteering yourself, or giving this information to people who you know can help, would be appreciated. 

We need volunteers as soon as possible!  Thanks,

 

Ben DiSesa

Victory Campaign Staff

603-978-5710

Ben@nhgop.org

I think that it is fair to say that we have work to do here in Gilford.  The following charts show current registrations here in Belknap County - notice what happened in Gilford.

01/08/08	NAMES ON CHECKLIST				Reg.
Belknap County	Rep	Dem	Und	Total	at polls	Rep	Dem	Und
Alton	1,545	606	1,731	3,882	174	438	542	606
Barnstead	654	249	2,302	3,205	200	243	425	533
Belmont	1,649	1,152	1,741	4,542	323	418	524	392
Center Harbor	381	216	249	846	52	87	153	124
Gilford	2,428	1,524	2,304	6,256	199	561	812	894
Gilmanton	891	562	910	2,363	168	245	415	515
Laconia Wd 1	693	363	767	1,823	140	152	192	345
Laconia Wd 2	478	338	583	1,399	161	132	232	184
Laconia Wd 3	452	331	622	1,405	152	134	245	201
Laconia Wd 4	468	355	602	1,425	170	144	268	152
Laconia Wd 5	384	321	530	1,235	152	98	204	186
Laconia Wd 6	686	430	794	1,910	131	195	236	194
Meredith	1,616	851	2,480	4,947	316	435	723	313
New Hampton	547	384	576	1,507	95	143	274	324
Sanbornton	778	623	927	2,328	157	192	346	289
Tilton	814	777	846	2,437	156	176	365	325
Totals	14,464	9,082	17,964	41,510	2,746	3,793	5,956	5,577

Also, here's how Republicans voted in Belknap County:

Best wishes this holiday season. I want to invite you and your committee to join the New Hampshire Republican Party at the First in the Nation Presidential Brunch. 

On January 6^th, 2008 the New Hampshire Republican Party is holding the First in the Nation Presidential Brunch, featuring top presidential candidates, major media and a salute to our Senator John Sununu. We will be honoring the Senator during the event as well as offering a salute to him in the official event program.

I would like to invite you to be apart of this great event by organizing a table for your committee or purchasing an advertisement saluting Senator Sununu. Please find the sponsorship form attached.

When: January 6^th, 2008, 11am to 1pm

What: First in the Nation Presidential Brunch

Who: Republican Presidential Candidates and GOPAC Chairman Michael Steele

Where: Hampshire Hills Sports and Fitness Club, 50 Emerson Road, Milford, NH

Register Online:  www.fundraisingbynet.net/fbn/eventeticketnhgop.asp  

Questions?

Stephen DeMaura
Executive Director
NH Republican State Committee
Office: (603) 225-9341
Cell: (603) 801-7620
steve@nhgop.org

I've been remiss in commenting on things Republican to keep we Gilfordites up to speed (what with Budget Committee meetings, biz travel, and other such meetings).  Anyways, for those that missed the latest meeting this past Wednesday, here's my meager meanderings:

• Treasurer's report: $9,769.53 and money spent to secure the Mount Washington for the "Lincoln Day" cruise / fund raiser.
• Emphasis is being requested for Letters to the Editor for AFTER the primary.  My thoughts were at this were "so what the heck are they planning on doing on assisting the Republican Prez campaigns - look at what the Ds are doing??"  It was mentioned that legislative talking points (past out at the National Committeewoman election) are available if so led.
• The meeting was poorly attended - other than Kelly from McCain and Dr. Hugh Cort and his assistant, there were only 15 present.
• Kelly from the McCain campaign sort of did a good-bye at the meeting.  I'll be sorry to see her go as she was always kind and hospitable to both Doug and I when we were attending any of the events.
• I offered to help with email blasts.
• I had given a proposal to Frank Tilton on hosting a new website for the Belknap County Republican Committee; Frank had me give a brief talk about what it entailed.

We also had a guest speaker, Dr. Hugh Cort III spoke about his candidancy for the  Presidency of the  United States.  I had brought my webcam with me  just to try out - the video of his  speech can be watched by clicking here (66MB, approx 26 minutes)

This afternoon, the 'Grok went over to Weirs Beach in Laconia, NH to see Governor Mitt Romney (of Massachusetts, formerly) as he is criss-crossing the state.  No WiFi there, so no immediate blog report.  However, a bunch of pictures, notes, MP3s and a crack at a video from a new webcam (Doug will have better quality later).

Saw a number of folks there;

• Judy Krahulec - Introduced Mitt
• Frank Tilton - Belknap County Republican Chair (see video here)
  
• Chuck Clark - Representative
• Greg Kyntych - Laconia Ward 1 City Councilor Elect

as well as a few folks that I have met from the Mitt campaign.

The room is packed and Mitt just walked in – it is 4:17pm.

Here is the complete audio of the event: click here.

Judy Krahulec is introducing Mitt to a standing O to the crowd – over 200 people (they expected much fewer). She announced the Red Sox won and the Sachems won. Mitt is her guy (she is the Belknap County organizer for Mitt and his campaign asked her to do the honors). Big applause from those gathered as she turns it over to Mitt.

There was an amusing moment as Mitt retold a Boston voting story about Billy Bulger (former Speaker of the House in Massachusetts and head of UMass Amherst). It was remarked that 246 votes had been recorded from a single triple decker (a three story house, each with a separate family, common in Boston neighborhoods). It was recorded that Billy replied “yeah, the third floor was empty”.

Mitt asked if any in the crowd has been to any of his previous events...and only a few claps could be heard.

Note to candidates: I think that it is telling that local Republicans are willing to come out and see the candidates if only they would come during hours that we working folks can see them! Certainly Mitt seemed to be impressed that he basically was talking to a fresh crowd.

The beginning of his speech was replete with examples of people who showed American values and gives him confidence in the future of America. He especially talked about the Olympic athletes that he had met (both during the Salt Lake City Olympics he managed and others):

• Peekaboo Street - the skier – talk about enthusiasm!
• Dan Janseen – the speed skater – who went to 4 Olympics to finally get his Gold medal – the story of persistence and determination. Quality of the human spirit.
• He mentioned the US Hockey team at Lake Placid - our amateurs vs the world's pros. He praised their patriotism, their spirit and their emotion.
  

Gives him confidence in our future.

As he talks to the crowd, he seems very confident in his material and his style; certainly a lot less formal than what I have seen him on the TV debates. While one could tell that some of the speech was “canned”, it was more an intimate talk instead of a cross swords moment with the moderator and other candidates (and face it, at this time during the campaign, they ALL have canned snippets!).

 

More pictures after the jump along with the MP3s and video (either tonite or tomorrow)!

Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, will be in Laconia next Saturday, 11/10/07, at around 4:15pm at the Weirs Community Center. 
Given the level of activity that the Democrats are showing about ANY of their candidates that come into the area, come out and support our Republicans as they come to our general area.  Yup, he may not be "your" candidate during the primary, but remember - the general election is coming!

(H/T: Gus!)