No "Lesser of Two Evils" Involved in THIS Race

http://frankcreel.org/archive/whyimportant.html ^ | 8/9/2002 | Frank Creel

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Why This Campaign Is Important

This race is important primarily because no Democrat filed to run against the Republican incumbent, Tom Davis. The only candidates on the ballot are Davis, a four-term incumbent, chairman of the Republican National Congressional Campaign, and independent Frank Creel, a political newcomer.

Davis is usually described as a "moderate" Republican, a term used repeatedly by the media to describe Republicans who are not strongly against abortion. Creel, by contrast, is strongly pro-life, a staunch defender of the Second Amendment and advocate of limited government. He favors the elimination of the federal personal income tax.

Nobody will be surprised if Davis defeats Creel in November. In addition to incumbency and broad name recognition, Davis will probably outspend Creel ten to one. Life will go on, Democrats and Republicans will continue to scratch each other on the back and contentedly share power while the status quo goes its accustomed way—"slouching towards Gomorrah," as Robert Bork so quaintly put it a few years ago.

If Davis is upset, however, millions of people and thousands of surprised political analysts will be asking, "How did this happen?" The real pros will ask, "How did the chairman of the Republican National Congressional Campaign, whose main job is to get Republicans elected, himself get bushwhacked by a no-name opponent?"

Indeed, if Creel wins the election, how will it happen?

It will happen for the following reasons:

1. Voters, when they step into the booth, will NOT be faced with the old dilemma of having to choose between the lesser of two evils. Pro-life and pro-gun Republicans, in particular, will not have to ask themselves whether, if they vote their conscience, they will help install in office one of those horrible Democrats.
   
   
2. A broad-based coalition of constituencies—pro-lifers, Second Amendment defenders, anti-taxers, slow-growth advocates, right-to-workers, school choice proponents and Jeffersonians committed to the ideal of limited government—will be energized by the opportunity this race presents them: to leverage their issues dramatically upon the national stage.

A Creel victory in November, in short, will shock the political establishment and result in a great windfall of publicity for the organized constituencies that supported his candidacy and made his victory possible.

A Creel victory also means:

• The Republicans will have to find a new chair for their National Congressional Campaign
  
  
• The Republican Party will have to decide whether or not its professions of being the pro-life party can be taken seriously in the future
  
  
• If the Republicans decide against a firm return to pro-life and Second Amendment principle, they will find themselves battling with the Democrats for the same political turf, and they both will leave their flanks open to the emergence of a new independent coalition committed to the constituencies that elected Creel
  
  
• If the preceding occurs, either the Democrats or the Republicans will go the way of the Whigs within a decade.

Pray and work for a Creel victory on November 5th!

It could jumpstart a long-overdue process in which America could recover its political and constitutional bearings and become what divine providence has always intended it to be: The world’s model for political freedom and stability, economic dynamism and justice, and cultural sanity and sensibility.

[Maelstrom]

Fairfax and Alexandria had nasty reputations in the 80's.

They've improved?

[ELS]

The D.A.'s office refused to pursue the case.

Bummer. :-( I'm very disturbed that the DA refused to investigate a crime.

[EODGUY]

"Bummer. :-( I'm very disturbed that the DA refused to investigate a crime."

As were my son and I. Typical of the leftist controlled political arena in Madison and Milwaukee. You may recall that a multi-millionaire (fron another state, no less) was convicted of paying homeless people (using cigarettes as the medium of payment) to vote for Gore in Milwaukee.

She got a $5000. fine and the case was pursued no further. Both examples are extremely disturbing because the margin of Gore's victory (I can hardly stand to say it) in Wisconsin was slight. You can bet if President Bush had acquired Wisconsin's electoral votes by such a small popular vote margin, every ballot would have been examined under a microscope ala Florida.

[SEA]

Thanks for the PING. I urge you, even if you don't live in VA, to send a few dollars to Dr. Creel's campaign. I did, and more on the way. I wish Illinois had a candidate like that.