I told you
Published Mon, May 10 2010 5:22 PM
Some time back, I parted ways with some of my fellow bloggers. You see I have been saying for some time now that if we really want to take our government and our party back from the career politicians that run roughshod over the founders’ principles and the will of the people that we have to do it before they get on the ballot for the general election, and that more than anything else the key to doing that is early involvement of individuals. I was told that, essentially, I was “full of shit”. It was this statement, more than anything else, that caused me to break fellowship with them and to return to “obscurity”.
I would like all of you that think of yourselves as true conservatives to consider for a moment the election of 2008. While many of us rejoiced that John McCain had settled upon Sarah Palin as his running mate – arguing that she was most certainly a stronger conservative than he was, can you honestly say that that election for most of us was anything other than being forced to choose the “lesser of two evils”?
These days, I am still receiving e-mail from John McCain’s campaign – because he faced a real challenge in winning the nomination for the Senate seat that he’s held for altogether too many terms. No true conservative really believes his claims that he honors our founders or that he’s a real conservative. McCain-Feingold should have been enough of a clue – without even considering his attitude toward the voters that wanted the Senate to listen to the will of the people regarding the amnesty program that was so euphemistically called “comprehensive immigration reform” in 2007.
Yes, despite the obvious problems that his own state was suffering at the hands of illegal immigrants, John McCain saw them as a new constituency. He wasn’t interested in the safety of the legal residents of his state – he was interested in the potential votes of the illegal residents. For some time, it looked as though he might be defeated in his campaign for the Republican nomination – until the liberal Republicans in Florida put him over the top, thanks in part to an als0-ran splitting the conservative vote with Mitt Romney. And so it was that we were left with a “maverick” that often “crossed the aisle” to work with the opponents of conservatism as our only choice opposing outright socialism and anti-American rhetoric.
In November of 2008 we truly were faced with a choice – between two evils. Sadly, as a nation we didn’t choose the lesser of the two.
Today, Paul Jacob in his Common Sense program made mention of something remarkable. This past weekend, voters in the Republican caucus defeated the lying sack of three term Senator Robert Bennett, before the state’s primary election. Both of the candidates that defeated him had heavy support from the Tea Party activists. That’s right, a bunch of individuals fed up with career politicians and big government acted to block a sitting Senator from receiving his party’s nomination. What a sweet thing that is.
You see Senator Bennett violated his pledge to hold himself to two terms when he was first elected. He was running for his fourth term – and the individual voter decided that they didn’t want yet another career politician that can’t honor his own pledges, or apparently the express will of his constituents – to represent them. In Utah at least voters won’t be faced with a choice to select the lesser of two evils. The lesser of the two evils won’t be on the ballot.
Instead, it’s pretty much a sure bet that a liberal Democrat will face off against a conservative Republican.
This is what I’ve been talking about. If you want to take back our party, it doesn’t do any good to wait until the general election and “punish” the career politicians that are running it. Get the bad apples off the ballot early – before you have to choose between a “maverick” and a socialist.
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Stanford Matthews responded with:
 | I never said you were full of it. Keep doin' what you're doin'. And from time to time do something else just to stay interested. |
Perri Nelson responded with:
 | Stanford,
You're not among the set of bloggers that I've disassociated myself from. No, I refer to a former Sammy winner that thinks that a media empire is the way to take our country and party back. |
David responded with:
 | This is not just the road to taking back a party but the road to taking back our country. |
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