NO DEMOS FOR ME

I don’t spend much time on local politics - my interest is in what happens in Washington. National politics is where the power lies. Local politics is more nuts and bolts. I am a conservative, politically, socially, and economically. I am liberal in the sense that I believe that we are all created equally and that people of all races, religions, and ethnic backgrounds can live together peacefully and respectfully. I believe that men and women should be paid the same for equal work, and that men and women who love each other should be able to marry no matter what … and I think most American’s feel the same way.

I have not voted for a Democrat since 1996 because I could no longer give my vote to a party and its candidates that would support a man (Bill Clinton) that I felt was void of virtue. Dishonest, unfaithful, cruel, and abusive are just a few of his shortcomings that come to my mind. He has been given far too much credit for good things that happened during his time in office. He lost Democratic control of the Congress because people like me paid attention to the direction he and the party were trying to take the country. Because of that, Republicans gained control of Congress and the country was better for it.

Ted Kennedy is another politician that caused me to stop voting for any Democrat (even if I would have liked to have voted for some of them). He was a failure as a husband, a father, and a man - not much more has to be said about him. Robert Byrd is another - I cannot respect anyone in politics that has been a member of the Ku Klux Klan no matter the reason or how long ago. The list goes on and on. But in 1996 I had enough. After Democrats in the House of Representatives circled the wagons around Bill Clinton, the party lost me.

In the years that have followed, the party has done nothing to change my mind. I often say that until the Democrat party leadership is changed and the party direction is corrected, people like me will not vote Democrat. I believe Democrat majorities in Washington are not good for the nation because, as the party leadership goes, so does the country. Politicians like Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, William Jefferson, Maxine Waters, and the like leave me to wonder how they ever got elected. A party that would support and praise them is not for me.

I wrote all of the above back in September of 2009. Here it is a year later and nothing has changed and now I am only more convinced that the Democrat party is not for me.

It is Democrats that have attacked things that most Americans hold dear. They have attacked traditional marriage, the sanctity of life for the unborn, and US sovereignty. They have ignored the rule of law while at the same forcing new laws onto the American people that the majority of Americans do not support. They haven’t learned lessons from the recent past. When Bill Clinton won his first election he had a tough time moving things in a congress that his party held the majority of … sound familiar?

Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama both are guilty of misreading the American people. Both of them came into office and immediately began to overreach because they foolishly thought that they were given a mandate to implement changes that run counter to the will of the American people. Their policy initiatives haven’t been very different; however, Barrack Obama has used race as a weapon to move his liberal progressive movement forward. Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi have continually blamed Republicans for holding up their agenda when they have all the Democrat votes needed to get most their bills passed. Why haven’t they been able to move their agenda more swiftly? … because some Democrats in Congress know that they are not working with or for the will of the people they represent. They know that they are causing themselves political harm back home by being in lockstep with the party leadership. However, in the end they’ve stuck with party rather than with the people of their districts and states.

By circling their wagons around Barrack Obama, just as they did with Bill Clinton in the1990’s, the Democrats are losing the political middle ground. They are losing independent voters and Republicans that voted for Obama because he (as then talk radio host Paul Alexander and self-proclaimed Conservative Republican told me) was too smart to make the kind of mistakes that G. W. Bush made. Never mind that Paul Alexander could not prove that statement … it was more of a feeling than it was fact. To add insult to injury, he is losing Democrats that are out of work and don’t have any hope that he (just as when Jimmy Carter was President) and the Democrats have a plan they can trust or BELIEVE IN. It has also become apparent that this group in political leadership simply does not understand how average Americans have to live. We are cutting back at home while DC continues to borrow, spend, and squander our money!

Republicans and Democrats are entering a new era ... one where they will have to re-learn that elected officials serve at our will to do our will, we are not here to be ruled by their will. They should know that we are paying attention and that we will not sit idly by anymore. No party is safe from removal. The Democrats learned that in the 1990’s, the Republicans learned that in 2006 and this crew will learn in November not to miss around and try and fundamentally change this nation we love.


There you have it.
Pass it along if you like or let me know if I don’t have a clue.

Eddie