A great disappointment (Washington: house, taxi, income)

[dzmjp]

Originally Posted by WannaComeHome

I suspect jmatt got confused by your phrase 'go up there' and didn't realize that since you're in FL - all of the state is 'up' and that you weren't referring to going only to the North Country.


Geez I can't wait until the election hoo-ha is over! I swear every single thread right now turns into political ranting.

WannaComeHOme, I'm there with you! This is a very close election - and even in states where 1 is a winner over the other - by predictions, it is still a very, very close election. Lets just, let us vote and see what happens. You can't change what others think or support, just vote for the person you feel can do and lead our country the best.

I know that some of our rights may change with the change of the President, but NHer's will still keep the "live, free, or Die" in their blood and that you can't take away! It is part of the person, not something regulated by the govenment!

Happy Halloween everyone!!

[yinduffy]

Newspapers today pick and choose the articles they wish to print from the wire services. Just a casual glance at other news sources shows that there are many interesting stories they could print on a given day but don't. This is where bias come in.

[GreenGene]

Originally Posted by dmcsherlock

How excited I was at the thought of moving to New Hampshire! A few of you have read my posts and answered my questions, and I've been grateful for your replies.

Then I see in the news: the Concord Monitor endorses Barack Obama.

My Lord, what a blow. "Live Free or Die", what a crock. It turns out New Hampshire is no different than Massachutsetts to the south, just another east coast socialist state. I'm crushed.

So you would change your plans, not based on New Hampshire voting one way or another in the coming election, but based on the endorsement of one New Hampshire newspaper? With all of the important factors to consider in making an important decision like where you are going to live, and you let one newspaper's editorial make the decision for you?

Unbelievable. {shaking head}

[seamusnh]

Check the circulation of the Concord Monitor (20,107 daily, 22,747 Sunday) to some of the other papers in NH. The union leader is 5x the size of the Concord Monitor....

[movingover]

I'm late to this thread, but I'd have to add myself as someone who had NH as their #1 place to move to, with TX as #2. After the drubbing this state gave to McCain, and the fact that the Dem ticket ran on a platform of redistributionism and has a record of curtailing constitutional rights, I really am not seeing a reason to move up there.

Unless someone can persuade me that there will be some kind of political backlash against liberalism in this state, Texas here I come.

P.S. - No disrespect to Democrats here, I am actually a Democrat at heart, but a conservative one. Today's Democrats are not the Dems of yore.

[motoracer51]

Originally Posted by movingover

I'm late to this thread, but I'd have to add myself as someone who had NH as their #1 place to move to, with TX as #2. After the drubbing this state gave to McCain, and the fact that the Dem ticket ran on a platform of redistributionism and has a record of curtailing constitutional rights, I really am not seeing a reason to move up there.

Unless someone can persuade me that there will be some kind of political backlash against liberalism in this state, Texas here I come.

P.S. - No disrespect to Democrats here, I am actually a Democrat at heart, but a conservative one. Today's Democrats are not the Dems of yore.

I'm in the same boat as you ( although I'm not a Dem), and the fact that NOT ONE COUNTY went to McCain is what's bothering me.

For months, people have been telling me that the people from Mass are causing the liberal shift in NH, and ironically, the county closest to MA, Rockingham, had the closest race.

I'm really giving the relocation to NH a second thought.

[movingover]

Originally Posted by motoracer51

I'm in the same boat as you ( although I'm not a Dem), and the fact that NOT ONE COUNTY went to McCain is what's bothering me.

For months, people have been telling me that the people from Mass are causing the liberal shift in NH, and ironically, the county closest to MA, Rockingham, had the closest race.

I'm really giving the relocation to NH a second thought.

I probably should not have said I'm a Dem at heart, what I meant really was that I was raised as a Dem and not until 2002, shortly after 9/11, did I become a conservative. I remain a Dem on social issues though. Truth be told I registered independent and if I identify with Republicans almost exclusively in terms of national politics. I guess I'd consider myself a Mark Levin conservative.

And yes, the fact that Christopher Shays in CT, the last Republican in NE, lost his bid for re-election, tells me what I need to know about NH.

Also I have to say I found it quite weak that NH gave us (republicans) McCain to begin with this time, and yet they walked away from him in the general election. Frankly I thought that reflects poorly on the state in a small political way.

I still love the state, but politically it seems to be trending in a direction that leaves me believing it will not be able to withstand the influx of its very liberal neighbors.

[WannaComeHome]

You guys really need to stop thinking about 'counties' as having much meaning in NH. It may be a convenient way to group things, but that's about all it is.

It's the TOWNS that set the taxes, that vote, that have the character. Check the websites for the towns you're interested in - it may not be what you think. While it's probable (from what you say) that Hillsboro county voted democratic (considering some of the towns there), yet my town, I just looked, voted almost 2:1 republican on all elections - except governor, and that was close.

If you feel you are very conservative, you probably won't feel comfortable in a very liberal town - and vice versa. Not much to do with the county.

[georgio_93]

Originally posted by movingover:

I probably should not have said I'm a Dem at heart, what I meant really was that I was raised as a Dem and not until 2002, shortly after 9/11, did I become a conservative. I remain a Dem on social issues though. Truth be told I registered independent and if I identify with Republicans almost exclusively in terms of national politics. I guess I'd consider myself a Mark Levin conservative.

And yes, the fact that Christopher Shays in CT, the last Republican in NE, lost his bid for re-election, tells me what I need to know about NH.

Also I have to say I found it quite weak that NH gave us (republicans) McCain to begin with this time, and yet they walked away from him in the general election. Frankly I thought that reflects poorly on the state in a small political way.

I think politically, a social liberal and fiscal conservative = a libertarian but there is no represented party for that... independent is probably the best one for you

I am surprised that NHerites love McCain so much. He was pushed to the nominee of the GOP largely because of NH and Huckabee holding evangelical votes instead of giving them to Romney... our stongest candidate this time around (but one I don't personally like because of the forced healthcare plan he helped to pass in MA). To be quite honest, conservatives didn't have any strong candidates this time around. Ron Paul was who I thought NHerites would have liked the most with is "laissez-faire" politics but I don't know what they saw in McCain. McCain worked as a government official his whole life and was the son of an Admiral. What could he possibly know about the private sector and the economy which he said in public "I don't really know much about the economy".(Which I can't believe he said) In fact I don't know how much he knows about his supposed "strength" being foreign policy. Crashing four US military planes... 3 of which were his fault hardly says much about McCain and his competance in the military. Giuliani would have been the best for foreign policy with a VP ticket for Steve Forbes. You got foreign policy and the economy all in one scoop. That would have been the perfect Republican ticket.

I mentioned the following in a previous post but this is a more appropriate place for it:

The US has a strong probability of creating an American Union like Europe where the individual sovereignties of the US, Canada, and Mexico will be expunged. The dollar will inevitably be replaced with the Amero dollar... a currency that can be used between all three North American countries. Illegal immigration will no longer be an issue because everyone will be able to move freely from nation to nation. If you think this is some conspiracy theory... think again. Europe was planning their unionization a decade or two before it was introduced and implemented over the course of a few months. Socialists want this country to fall in power... just get ready to become like Italy, France, Portugal, or Spain where you have the consolidation of wealth for high government officials and few families controlling few businesses.

Obama has a chance to govern in the center and be a moderate and recover this stock market crash. If he governs like he campaigned you will have the above happen. Remember the first implamentation of this American Union was when Bill Clinton passed NAFTA. That was the first step and that was close to 16 years ago. So by the end of Obama's first term we could very well see a union... then you can kiss the "live free or die" motto right out the window. Pretty scary stuff now. I wish more people read up on this Unionization stuff. It is rarely covered in the media. Online you can see that they are building a super highway that starts in Mexico and runs through the US and into Canada.

[GregW]

For what it is worth I have noted that the Republicans have been the party of redistributing the wealth (sending nearly a trillion dollars to bail out the Wall Street life boat with the taxpayer’s money) from most of us to the few of us and trashing the Constitution with the Patriot Act and the Homeland Security thugs.

I am pleased with the State and National results but disappointed that Mary Tatreau did not become a State Representative and, our village idiot, Al Baldasaro did. Well ya win some and ya lose some.

GregW
Londondery, NH
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