Recently I received a "survey" in the mail from Senator Mitch McConnell, minority leader of the U. S. Senate. I answered the survey in the following manner:
Dear Senator McConnell,
Although I appreciate your desire to include my opinion in your survey, I must ask that you quit sending me these things. The questions in the survey have not changed in three years. I still agree with the “conservative agenda”. However, the Republican Party has wimped out on most of the issues that matter to me. The War on Terror is the most important issue. I want us to keep fighting it. That is the only issue that I can even trust the RNC to try to continue. But the presumptive Presidential nominee wants to close Guantanamo and grant Constitutional rights to the inmates. I part company with him on that point and others.
Smaller government versus bigger government? The Party and the current President have left me far behind on that issue. Quit growing the damned government! Everybody’s got their hand out. Tell them to go get their own. Earn it! I am no “rich Republican”. I work hard for a living, doing work most illegal aliens won’t do.
Border security and 20 million illegal aliens? Get the damned fence built. Quit the “virtual fence” crap. If you haven’t read the papers, that was a colossal failure. Build the actual double fence from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico, with all the electronic gizmos you can put on it, then put the National Guard on the fence with real guns, and real bullets and orders to shoot to kill. Then see if the invasion doesn’t come to a complete stop. When we find illegal aliens, they need to be deported. IT’S THE LAW! Why haven’t the Republicans demanded the fence be built for real? Oh yeah, . . . . John “Coyote” McCain. (Also Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison).
Global Warming? It’s a giant hoax with no proof, and fewer indicators in its favor every year. The end result of our continued erroneous belief in it, will be ever increasing government power, regulation, taxes (cap and trade), reduction of freedom, and eventual oppression of the people. Dare I say, Dictatorship? I don’t expect Democrats to speak against it. They like dictatorships. Why the hell aren’t the Republicans speaking against it? Oh yeah, . . . . John McCain.
Energy production? You guys were so weak on that issue, nobody heard you. Drill in ANWR! Drill in the Gulf of Mexico. Drill off the California Coast! Build some damned refineries! Tell Chavez in Venezuela and the Prince of Araby to F-off! Tell the enviros to shut the hell up. Damned hypocrites! Why aren’t we drilling in ANWR? Oh yeah, . . . . John McCain.
Tax simplification. Make it simple. Make it quick. Stop torturing me! It takes me 3 damned weeks to get my taxes together, then try to understand the complicated tax forms and fill in the blanks. There are so many chances to screw it up, its not funny. I cannot even guarantee that the CPA I hired this year did it right. Just tell me to pay 10%, 15%, 20% ,etc, then it will take me 5 minutes to do my taxes and I’ll pay them happily. Where is the RNC on this one?
You guys have lost your moral authority. 2006 was the tipping point. It’s been downhill since and you haven’t stopped the slide. Granted, the Dems have not been an improvement by any means. I will vote for anyone who will stand up and say these things.
Anyone? . . . Hello? . . . .
Chirp . . . . chirp . . . . chirp . . . ."
I still plan to vote for the best conservatives on the ballot, but I see very little hope in doing so. The Democratic Presidential candidates are at best, Socialists, and at worst, downright Communists. John McCain is the saddest excuse for a Republican candidate in my lifetime.
Holding my nose. Holding my breath. Hoping for "the best".
We're so screwed!
