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Congressional Republicans have record low popularity ratings for very good reasons. They’re cowardly, corrupt, ineffective, greedy, selfish, often amazingly stupid, haven’t had an original thought in years, and seem utterly unable to field candidates for national office capable of independent thought. There isn’t a leader worth a bucket of warm spit among them. They can’t be trusted to keep their word, and they can’t be trusted to do the right thing.
But we, gentle readers, have to vote for every Republican we can see on or before Tuesday. Mrs. Manor and I voted early. We showed our driver’s licenses and our voter registration cards and were glad to do it. We walked in and out of the polling place within 5-6 minutes.
I know what you’re thinking: if Republicans are so bad, why vote for them? They’re all corrupt buffoons and liars, Democrats, independents, whatever. Just stay home.
Unfortunately, Democrats are worse. Much worse. And we, fellow Americans, aren’t much better. We get exactly the politicians we deserve, and boy are we getting it good and hard these days.
We have six years of damage to undo–if it’s even possible–and two more years of even more and more lawless damage to endure. If we don’t take both houses of Congress now, we may never undo the damage. If we don’t take the majority in the Senate, we may never get the chance.
Mr. Obama has already appointed more than 200 leftist federal judges. They don’t see the Constitution as anything special or as a restraint on their desires for social experimentation. Some 90 more are waiting in the wings for confirmation. Stopping at least 90 of them may be the difference between preserving some semblance of our representative republic and tyranny. It may preserve the Second Amendment and maintain some semblance of national sovereignty and border integrity.
Shall I go on? If you’re reading this blog, It’s very likely you read others, and you’re better informed than the average bear. I don’t have to tell you what’s at stake.
But it might be worthwhile to remember that we need to start somewhere to repair the severe damage already done to the foundations of our republic. Republicans are a disreputable lot, the appellation of “the stupid party” is well earned. They seldom miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity and spend huge amounts of other people’s money, but they’re not nearly as bad as Democrats. Getting rid of Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader is sufficient reason in and of itself to vote Republican.
It’s a sad state of affairs, but we don’t have anything better at the moment. Vote in the Republicans, and thereafter, we can work on electing honorable people, people that will honor their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. That process can’t begin until we clear out the Democrat majority in Congress and begin to clean out the Democrat corruption that is strangling the permanent bureaucracy and America. It is, for the time being, a holding action: one thing, one thug, at a time.
Vote, gentle readers, if you haven’t done it already, VOTE!
Stately McDaniel Manor 
“…so that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men and gives it to whomever He will. And He sets up over it the lowest of men.”
— Daniel 4:17
Looks like we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel all around.
Dear Navyvet:
Not every politician is corrupt, of course, but so many are we are indeed scraping the bottom of the barrel. We’re in real trouble. Our “leaders” are too dense to realize they’s legislating and ruling themselves into insignificance. Their power and property are entirely dependent upon the rule of law, and they’re destroying it.
Only a few seem to think as I do that this interim election might hurt the Democrats significantly and only a few agree with what I’ve been saying about the Democrats being fixated with things like gun control. On Face the Nation, the panelists seem to think the Dems will lose control of the Senate (as I do). But only the host came right out and said that the most troubling thing is that we’ve arrived at an ideology-dominated national “conscience.”
It was not like this 40 years ago. That decade (the 70s) was when everyone was thinking about the U.S. Bicentennial and we sang the Coca Cola jingle, “Id Like to Buy the World a Coke” (and keep it company). The Waltons was the most popular TV series. We were the UNITED States of America. Migrant grape pickers formed their own union and called for better working conditions and pay – but they didn’t demand that government cater to their cultural and language preference too.
We have a preference: we prefer America and being Americans. Sharing does not mean giving away. America is its own brand. There’s no such thing as Democrat Americans, Republican Americans, Christian American’s, Black Americans, Moslem Americans. We are Americans, period.
The last president and the present one are not examples of good presidents. Congress is almost despised – yet “two sides” staunchly defend those who are merely “fellow party members” and their choice of one of the two parties – based solely on ideology (and propaganda). Congress is run by both sides. Both sides are producing: crap.
We don’t owe our loyalty to the Democrat or Republican parties. Party loyalty is for citizens in totalitarian societies, citizens in religion-dominated societies. Here: our loyalty and pride is in America – a country built on a great and gorgeous continent by men and women who believed in government for the people, by the people.
I will vote when my vote is again counted. At the moment it is an utterly pointless waste of time. I watch votes being manufactured wholesale, altered, thrown out – it’s a joke.
The only way to ruin it for the crooks running the joint (Yes, they are all crooked – the very, very few who are not become crooked the moment they join the game.) is to stop pretending. Make it SO obvious that it’s rigged that even the low-information idiots get it.
Stop wasting your time following ‘politics’, ‘voting’, or otherwise participating in the Democrat street-theater that is our electoral process. It’s a fabrication from start to finish.
Orion
The whole “they’re all crooks” schtick is a cop-out, one that gets you off the hook of participating in the democratic process.
Hint: voting is just the start.
No, it’s not. It’s a statement of fact – I refuse to participate in a farce and pretend it has meaning. By participating I would be lending legitimacy to the crime, and that I will not do.
As I said, I will vote again when our electoral system is not the joke of the world.
Orion
My take on this issue is that even mediocre candidates like McCain and’
Romney would have been infinitely better than president Merkin Muffley!
By not voting, a person is voting for the status quo of collectivism and
corruption. Those people have no right to complain if by their actions,
they help to elect corrupt and morally bankrupt leftists.