Posted on 10/09/2014 5:06:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
There are plenty of politicians I like. There are some I admire from time to time. And I support quite a few.
But I don’t trust many – or really any, although that could change if the voters of Maryland’s 6th district do the right thing, the smart thing, and elect my friend Dan Bongino to Congress.
You’ve probably seen Bongino on cable news or heard him on various radio shows around the country; he’s the media’s go-to expert on security issues. And I can assure you he is the real deal on this.
Bongino was a New York City police officer before he joined the Secret Service and went on to serve in the personal protection details of Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama. He had a comfortable life as one of those built dudes in dark suits and sunglasses, blurry in the background of pictures of the president at events around the world. He had a good life. He had job security, a government pension, resources to support his family and a front-row seat to witness history being made.
It was the front-row seat that changed everything for Dan Bongino. Although he’s never violated the code of the Secret Service, he saw what the current White House occupant was doing to the country he loves and felt compelled to step from the blur into focus. The man entrusted to protect the life of the president did not like the direction he saw that man taking the nation.
Rather than sit silent and keep comfortable, Bongino walked away from the job he loved, the pension and the security to run for office. In 2012, he ran for the Senate. Running as an “independent” third-party candidate in deep-blue Maryland made that race near-impossible. He didn’t nurse his wounds, and he didn’t run out of the ring.
Martin O’Malley, Maryland’s corrupt Democratic governor, and his goon squad in the state legislature gerrymandered Maryland to the point of national embarrassment. The party of “celebrating diversity” brought Republican representation to near-extinction, leaving Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland’s 1st District as the only voice of sanity in the state’s delegation.
But despite Democrats’ best efforts, one district remained possibly winnable district for Republicans – the 6th.
Bongino could have returned to the private sector – former members of the president’s personal protection detail do quite well in the security business – but he didn’t. The difference he wanted to make two years earlier had not been made, so he re-entered the ring to run for that 6th district seat, currently held by Rep. John Delaney.
I got to know Dan through the 2012 campaign. I’d have him on when I’d fill in on various radio shows. He was the Republican candidate for Senate, seemingly fighting the whole race by himself. He’d come in studio for an hour, we’d chat during the commercials, and we became friends.
After the election I kept having him on, eventually asking him to co-host from time to time. When I had to stop hosting on one station in the market because I was offered a job at another, I suggested Dan fill the occasional Saturday slot I’d been doing. He was good because he’s not a politician. That quality, coupled with his pro-American, solid conservative ideals, are exactly why he’s needed in Washington. Why Maryland needs him in Washington.
The Republican National Congressional Committee has limited resources and looks at Maryland as a lost cause, so it won’t sink any money into Dan’s race. Outside groups view Maryland the same way. Plus, they view Dan as a problem.
The thing about Dan Bongino isn’t that he has a burning desire to be in Congress, because he doesn’t. He also doesn’t want to be in Congress forever, having promised voters and his wife and kids to support legislation on term limits and impose them on himself. It’s that he’s the type of guy who, when he sees a problem, he sets out to solve it.
The job of a Secret Service agent, in spite of recent news reports, is to spot a problem and deal with it immediately. That’s why Bongino is running. He won’t be the most-liked congressman. He won’t be a “go along to get along” backbencher. He’ll be a principled voice for the ideals that made the country the envy of the world; a boat-rocker leadership will hate.
So I was wrong in the first paragraph, Dan won’t be a politician I trust, he IS a man I trust. A congressman such as Dan Bongino is exactly what each state needs. How beautiful would it be to start by electing him from one of the bluest of the blue states?
Learn about Dan Bongino from his book “Life Inside The Bubble” and about his campaign by clicking here.
It’s up to the individual members to resist getting sucked into the vortex. Too many weak-willed, ambitious or power-hungry people end up there, and it is up to us to be vigilant against nominating them. We absolutely must get control of that process, which is highly flawed at the present time.
If losing out on committee posts (or being stripped of them) is the end result of resistance, that I can sympathize with (more so than going in as an “Independent” and refusing to serve on a committee, which is a big difference, because you’re willfully rendering yourself impotent).
There should be non-stop pressure on GOP leadership to stop feeding the proverbial beast (because at this point, it’s the only party open to that — trying to play off both parties as an “Independent” won’t. The Democrats have already gone full-blown Communist-Fascist, they won’t brook ANY anti-ultraleft dissent, and that was especially clear after Watergate to the remaining centrist members).
Basically, we need more Cruz types who are not only not willing to go along to get along, but are there to force the REAL change to get us back to our Constitutional moorings.
Every timed you vote for a gop candidate you feed the beast. The gop leadership’s lifeblood is the gop caucus.
Only vote for Constitutional Conservatives or vote to throw out those in both parties who are not. Getting a majority of the GOP caucus who are pro-Constitutional Conservatives is a must so we can change the status quo.
I can go with that.
OK. I never would agree with some others on this board who have a mutual suicide pact with RINOs... vote Republican or else ! If the Republican candidates are horrible, we have a duty as Conservatives to oppose them and stop them. It was bad enough in 2008 with McCain (whom we soon learned was a ringer for Zero - he had no intention of winning), but 2012 was the final straw.
I’ve not voted “Republican” for President since 2008, and that only as a positive affirmation of the VP nominee hoping McCain would drop dead. I voted for Conservative VA ex-Congressman Virgil Goode for President in 2012.
For Senator, I’ve not voted Republican since 2006, but neither one of my RINO Senators are worthy of support. Lamar!, who failed to get a majority of the vote in an open primary (this summer) riddled with Democrat chicanery, now ranks as the 4th most liberal RINO (while TN ranks as one of the most Conservative states) and expects Conservatives to back him. He can pound sand. He also lied about running for this 3rd term (his own book said, “Two terms and OUT !”).
The Governor is another liberal Republican weasel (who set off my weasel-detector back in 2010). He’s spent money behind the scenes trying to unseat Conservatives in the legislature and has been very uncomfortable with the GOP supermajority (conversely, he’s quite comfortable with leftist Democrats, he helped anoint a moonbat as his successor as Mayor of Knoxville and put a Zerobot in charge of education in this state, who is predictably incompetent). As with Senator, I haven’t voted GOP for Governor since 2006 and will support an Independent ex-Democrat who wants to return our state to pro-Constitutional moorings (John Jay Hooker). I voted for Hooker when he was the Democrat nominee for Governor in 1998 against our sleazy RINO incumbent (the Democrats hated Hooker and easily got in bed with the RINO).
The only office I do routinely vote GOP for is opponents of our liberal spendthrift Democrat Congressman Jim Cooper, if only because no Republican has won this seat since President Grant got his second term in 1872. That is largely a protest vote, since any Republican is lucky to get to 40% in this district.
So much has got to be changed and cleaned up from top to bottom in every imaginable way.
Dan Bongino is a true normal person amongst all the freaks.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Yawn.
Actually the “yawn” is for fools like you, who constantly complain about black eyes and loose teeth, but you still run back to your boyfriend after each beating.
You don’t know what a beating is, hoss. If they elect 400 democrats to the House like you want, you’ll see a beating like you can’t imagine. Lady Liberty, raped and left for dead.
The gop have turned on their own; offering their wives and children to the dems to be raped and beaten, just because they didn’t wear the right dress to dinner. And for good measure, they join in the fun.
I want nothing more to do with a party that has behaved as the republicans have the last few elections. Apparently you have agreed with them that you have nowhere else to go, and must accept their abuse; me? I’m planning on burning their bed while they sleep.
The gop have turned on their own; offering their wives and children to the dems to be raped and beaten, just because they didn’t wear the right dress to dinner. And for good measure, they join in the fun.
I want nothing more to do with a party that has behaved as the republicans have the last few elections. Apparently you have agreed with them that you have nowhere else to go, and must accept their abuse; me? I’m planning on burning their bed while they sleep.
The author is full of it. Obviously it’s a tactic to solicit donations from “GOPE” haters. Both parties fund any race that they assess is winnable and more money will make a difference, period.
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