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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