Thanks for the reminder. Ugh. We're hearing good things from the repubs now but I fear they'll cave once again if elected in November. We lack leaders with the courage to stick to their convictions.
Posted on 07/01/2012 6:52:19 AM PDT by rodguy911 (FreeRepublic:Land of the Free because of the Brave—Sarah Palin 2012 )
So ... we have to elect congresscritters who WILL stick to their convictions & when they don’t, send them home. Pronto. No re-election for 30 years or whatever some of these guys have been getting.
The country as set up by our Founders is “BY the people, & for the people”. It has been perverted to ‘by the politicians and for the politicians’. The country should be like a manual shift car .... requires constant work/attention to drive it. We’ve let it morph into an ‘automatic’ .... we elect whomever wants to run, send them to DC & let them do as they please. We should get involved at the grass roots level and rigorously VET candidates there ... then if elected, they should get CONSTANT feedback and instructions from their constituents at home. If they are not responsive, they lose the next election.
This is how it ‘should’ work. We’ve gotten soft & lazy. The founders, who set this up, pledged their lives, fortunes & sacred honor & many paid up on that pledge. I don’t think they envisioned what we have now .... folks who wouldn’t be engaged at all. The Army ad is “An Army of One”. We can only for sure make sure that we as individuals step up & do what we can do. We can ‘for sure’ try to influence others to do the same. On another thread, ‘freedommom’ was talking about her dad who was on the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor .... his comment on how he survived that experience was “everyone did whatever they were big enough to do......” If we want to survive as a country, we need to follow his advice.