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Sunday, March 22, 2015

A THIRD PARTY IS NOT THE ANSWER…


To say that I am not greatly disappointed in our new Republican majority in Congress would be a lie.  I too remember all of the promises that were made and how many of those same promises have managed to have been broken in such a remarkably short period of time.  But who is it that can be said to actually be to blame for our current situation.  For in the words of Obi-Wan Kenobi: "Who's the more foolish, the fool, or the fool who follows him?"  Having said that, it was this past November, conservative voters were presented with an opportunity, an opportunity that, as it turns out, was rather badly squandered.  In short, we f*cked up, we trusted them.

And I say squandered because really all we had to do, the only task that we needed to accomplish, was to defeat those who seem to so proudly count themselves among the “Establishment Republicans”, or what many of us have now come to refer to as, RINOs.  Our task was not only to defeat as many as possible, but to replace them with those willing to more closely adhere to our conservative principles.  But we failed at that task, and failed quite miserably.  And now I’m beginning to hear demands that we abandon the Republican Party and to perhaps construct what would be a truly ‘conservative’ alternative or ‘third party.’

Much has been said about the vast amounts of money spent to ensure that these RINO’s were able to remain in office.  Now while I cannot argue against that fact, it’s at the same time that I have to ask, whose fault is that that money accomplished that on which it was spent?  Who was it that bought into bumpersticker slogans which they knew to be false?  Who was that allowed themselves to be literally talked into voting for candidates even if against their better judgment?  Now we can all sit back and blame groups like the Chamber of Commerce, and others, but to do so does nothing more than to ignore who it is that’s really to blame.

Ask yourself how different might things now be if only we had had the courage to rid ourselves of RINOs like Boehner and McConnell as well as any number of others who seemed to have forgotten for whom it is that they work.  But instead we apparently thought it better to maintain the status quo, and the sad fact is that we are now reaping nothing more than what we ourselves have sown.  And now, although some will says that’s it too late to even make the attempt, it’s in looking toward the future that I would argue we have but one more opportunity left in our effort to salvage at least something of this once proud nation.      

And if we are to succeed, it’s going to take more than just a little hard work on everyone’s part.  We can no longer afford to believe any of what we are told by so-called experts.  We need to research candidates ourselves, their beliefs, their past and their positions on what are the truly most important issues.  We can no longer base how we will chose to vote for a candidate solely on a series of 60 second TV ads.  We must never take a face value anything that we are told, because those doing the telling will always have their own agenda.  We must listen only to those asking the truly tough questions and we must actually listen to the answers.

The bottom line here is that we must be willing to expend the necessary time and effort and do all of the necessary legwork to determine for ourselves who the best candidate is.  The candidate with whom we most closely agree on the issues important to us.  Either that or we must be willing to say sayonara to the greatest nation this world has ever seen.  Because that’s now what we have allowed things to come down to.  The days of being able to trust others in assisting us to make our electoral decisions are long gone.  We can trust no one but ourselves, which is going to require us to question everything when deciding for whom to vote.  

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