The Way Politics Really Works

1st Person Testimony | 14 Nov 2018 | LTC.Ret

[LTC.Ret]

My experience for your edification.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

It’s rigged to support the RINO candidate.

[Alberta's Child]

Very interesting.

Reminds me of the ridiculous (but hilarious) episode a few years ago when the Democrat Party in Illinois tried to beat Jesse Jackson Jr. in a primary for his House seat ... by running another candidate named Jesse Jackson against him. LMAO.

[marron]

Would you do it again?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for your personal story. Sorry you were unable to gain any traction in your campaigns.

Consider for a moment if you had actually won a Congressional seat. Then you would have discovered up close and personal how politics REALLY works. Corporations and K-Street control everything. They write the legislation and give it to the lobbyists to have it introduced, debated, and eventually passed into law. Then, one short year into your first term, you would begin campaigning for re-election and have to suck up to the same power interests for their money to run your campaign.

“Mr. Smith Goes To Washington” was a fairy tale.

[LTC.Ret]

If I felt strongly called, I would have to try -— but never on my own volition.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for sharing with us.

Before this fecal storm is over, we will hear of more stories like yours.

You/we are dealing with a terrible enemy, pretending to be on our side.

Thanks to President Trump and people like you, we are finding out how deep and dangerous the swamp/Deep State is, in DC, national, state and our local elections.

[CJ Wolf]

Thanks for sharing, I had the same experience in a different way.

They co-opted the Tea-party movement and screwed a lot of good patriots like your self out of politics, mostly because they were scared of you and your kind and your ideas and those things are counter to their own agenda and they have a system to deal with that.

[sparklite2]

Congratulations for at least trying.

[SoFloFreeper]

yep. this is how lindsey graham stayed in power last election cycle.

we win bit by bit, and a lot of bad stuff happens in between.

I truly do salute you and praise you for getting involved. You are a real patriot.

God bless you.

[RKBA Democrat]

Sounds about right. Its rare that anyone of good character can get through the uniparty gauntlet. And they’ll fight tooth and nail against any outsider.

You seem like a good person. So it’s probably for the best that you didn’t win.

Politics is a scam and we’re suckers for playing.

[JPJones]

Good read. Very believable, sad.

[Romans Nine]

“Politics is a scam and we’re suckers for playing.”

Playing? You mean “paying”?

[RKBA Democrat]

Good point.

[Romans Nine]

Shocked totally shocked...................not.

Thanks for posting this. Sending it to all my friends, one of which had a very similar experience.

[central_va]

The primaries are the place to destory the GOPe and they know it.

[BlissinNC]

My husband became a precinct chairman because he thought he could support a conservative in the primary, but they told him he had to be neutral...while they were setting everything up for Thom Tillis. He won’t be fooled again. I love the way Alabama has a runoff between the top two primary candidates. I wish NC did that.

[combat_boots]

I am so sorry

So sorry

[Engedi]

I was at Ft Sill in 1979 as my ex husband was stationed there.

Thank you for trying to run and make a difference. Thank you for serving our country.

How amazing it would be if 62 million Trump voters would become Independents and vote for Independent candidates.

[campaignPete R-CT]

U made a difference in your corner of Tx