My Fellow Republicans
My Fellow Republicans, Many of us have been duped into believing that there is a difference between the Republicans and the Democrats. We have put our faith in the leaders of the Republican party, believing that they would preserve and protect the Constitution of the Unites States. We have been misled. There are two opposing forces at work in this country. They are good and evil and they have been at war since the beginning of time. When this great country was founded by the Declaration of Independence it was recognized that our unalienable Rights were endowed by our Creator. Our Founding Fathers sought fit to guarantee these rights in the Constitution and specifically detail them in the Bill of Rights.
The enemy of preserving our God given rights is compromise. A true compromise is a settlement of differences in which each side makes concessions. We have been guaranteed our God given rights. This is the line in the sand for free and good people living in the land of liberty. There are evil forces bent on destroying the principles upon which this great nation was founded. They do it by chipping away at them in the guise of compromise. They throw out some arbitrary line that means nothing in the struggle for liberty. Their whole goal is to get us to move left by giving up our freedom one bit at a time. Those who would take our rights away offer no concessions. They give up nothing. Their line in the sand is false.
Lately we have been subjected to a strange new party called the Bipartisan party. We have heard this in the news whenever a new law gets ushered in with Bipartisan support. It is reveled as a wonderful thing. If bipartisanism is such a good thing why then don’t we just give up one of the two present parties and form one called the Republicrats or the Demolicans. We could save fortunes on fund raisers that could be used for more important things. Bipartisanship is one side getting its way and the other going along with it. I have voted Republican for many years thinking that I would be represented in congress and in the White House. I have not voted for my candidate to cave in to the will of the opposing party. There are supposed checks and balances in government designed to ensure that changes will be made slowly with much debate. In this spirit I want more partisanship, not less!
Principles have been squandered away in order to get along. Either we have principles or we have not. Either we elect persons with principles and hold them to it, or we care not and are only concerned that a candidate with an elephant lapel pin wins as opposed to one with a donkey.
Elected officials use our God given rights like poker chips in an unsavory game of cards where the dealer is a known cheat. Perhaps it is time to reevaluate the value of our chips to the value of theirs. In the great poker game of liberty we will learn that they are wagering worthless coins against our priceless currency. It is time to fold them and get out of the game! The recent campaign finance reform bill (CFR) is a prime example. Most everyone knew that it was unconstitutional as defined by the First Amendment ‘Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;...’ Yet, no elected official with any power to send it to an early grave did so. They all passed the buck for the sack of their political futures. They were either scared of repercussions from the left or they would like to see it become the law of the land. Which is it? All over the country, in every state, gun control legislation is being debated and voted on. Against all rational arguments and statistical information that criminals avoid doing business in environments, unfriendly and unsafe to them we give up more of our God given rights because a few vocal groups convince people that they would be safer if only the criminals had guns. Those who would take away our Second Amendment right won't be satisfied until all firearms have been banned. They will be satisfied, however, to take them away a little at a time. We could apply the same absurd logic to all of the forest fires raging. The best way to prevent forest fires is to eliminate the forests. I know many, like myself who have finally taken the plunge and become involved in the political process. We are political neophytes and have been called rough around the edges. The truth be known when anyone tries to infringe on my rights I am rough all the way to the bone. Remember, you invited us and we are here. To sum it up, I would rather vote for an elected official willing to be bloodied in a poltical war over one who will cry "Please don't hurt me, I'll compromise" when the going gets rough.
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