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jstaff: Your remarks are reasonable and well taken, which is what my post was intended to convey. Each of us who wish to preserve individual liberty by a return to a "People's" control of government, as prescribed by our Constitution, must understand that where we have an incumbent who is solidly opposed to Obamacare and its role in destroying our economy, who is solidly in favor of free enterprise principles--the only principles which can restore prosperity and jobs--and who agrees with conservative principles in general, then we must recognize that all the money and power of Obama and the Democrats will be used to unseat that person. We should not aid and comfort them in their goal by taking up one single point and unseating our own for one of theirs.

This election is the Republicans' to lose and can be lost by buying into internal bickering over a candidate's choice of words on one single issue at one single meeting (no matter how "worthy" the issue is). Can't we imagine how happy her Democrat opponents are to see this division?

If we truly want to hold our own representatives' feet to the fire, we might want to follow the example of the Farmer in the story about Congressman Davy Crockett of Tennessee. We do it by providing educating that representative and our neighbors about liberty and our Constitution.

Perhaps a reading of Crockett's (TN) experience might be a revealing exercise for those who don't see the dangers of turning over our individual responsibilities to those who promise to "help us."

The current Democrat appeal for "fair share" and against "inequality of income" is simply "slavery" by another name. Government "masters" buy votes in exchange for retaining their "master redistributionist" status, while their "voters" yield up freedom for themselves and future generations.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C. S. Lewis

Hear Samuel Adams:

"Is it now high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns more than anything in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in this event. For wherever tyranny is established, immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent, it is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice.” - Samuel Adams

And:

“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.” - Samuel Adams