Every election we are told to wait one more election until we are in a better position. How much better do things have to be to get change? We, the voters gave the Republican Party all three and they gave the power away. I’ll be voting for conservatives across the board, regardless of party.. Congress thru presidental. A 3fer.
This is what I’ve felt the need to be doing the past few elections. Dole, W, W again. I couldn’t take it anymore. My vote has and will continue to be a vote of conscience—and message. I will look for/pray for conservatives to make their way into Congress and LEGISLATE conservative principles. I will expect that they (elected conservative LEGISLATORS) will provide the loyal (to the CONSTITUTION) opposition to any measures put forth by the elected figurehead (president) that fly in the face of national security, national sovereignty, CONSTITUTIONally mandated freedoms and protections, or that threaten to move us (further) away from these.
I realize that Keyes can’t win. I realize, too, that America can’t win with any of the current choices. Something else I’m beginning to realize is that our country is inundated, INNUNDATED, with individuals who seem bent on fleeing the field of battle, looking to the government for a piece of the American dream, seeking to have all responsibility lifted off of their stooped shoulders because they haven’t the stomach for LIVING life as FREE men and women. These folks are everywhere. They are weak. They are fools. They want us to come off the battlefield in the Middle East because they fear reprisals. They don’t understand the reality (that reprisals have not come SINCE we’ve joined the battle.) They want this and that taken care of by the government. They fail to grasp that all of the THIS AND THAT comes with mighty long, costly strings that actually strangle the very freedoms we’ve historically enjoyed in America. Their soft hearts long for the ideals of peace, unity, love, equality but their dull minds fail to grasp that these come by sacrifice, duty, responsiblity and sometimes the shedding of blood. And these folks are everywhere (John Edwards’ 2 Americas). Each of the remaining candidates will, in their own way, take us further along this path, create more of this type of American (be they legal or illegal) and create what is fast becoming a steeper descent toward the end of our nation, our nation’s sovereignty, our precious freedom.
So, my vote for Keyes is to express to both parties that I detest you. I loathe what you stand for (Democrat) and what you are coming to stand for (Republican). I find you to be what is wrong with our country on so many levels. You are betraying the trust you were granted when you were elected. You have shown me that you are not up to the challenge. You have shown me that you have failed the American people. At this critical time, I am willing to send out this message because, while we may suffer further in the near future (under the guidance of whoever is elected in November), I believe that that bit of suffering may (I said MAY) not be fatal. There may still be an America left when you set forth your programs of socialism, communism, liberalism. Yes, I believe that there still may be time to bring some of my fellow countrymen back to their senses (when they see how you’ve messed it up.) And maybe, just maybe, in 2012 we will see a realization by just enough Americans that the only hope left for this country is for America to follow the path of the principles that brought us to the place of greatness where we were once the envy of the world. This, to my thinking, is what the conservative faces in this election.