It's all about get out the vote. Its
sad but true its all about vote getting. It doesn't matter what
ideology or past voting record the candidate may have its all about
getting people to go out and vote. It doesn't matter how its done,
fear, manipulation, lies as long as you get people to vote for your
man or cause. Get out the vote. Its like fast food. Its no longer
about selling a good product its about sales and selling the brand
name. Both major parties do it.
That’s why I don't fill out political
questionnaires anymore. I use to feel so much part of the process
telling the two parties my opinion. I felt that I was making a
difference. I wasn't. The questionnaires the political parties and
the affiliate groups send out are to gather information. They in
turn use these questionnaires to shape their platform which for the
most part they don't intend on following. It has nothing to do with
choosing candidates or molding the party. It has to do with talking
points of what you want to hear and what ads to run to get their man
elected.
Here is a smoking gun statement by a
fellow Republican.
* "What we need to be able to
do is get people excited about the cause, about what the Republican
Party stands for so that they want to be involved regardless of who
our nominee is," said Steve Duprey, an RNC committeeman from New
Hampshire.
Mr.
Duprey it appears you slept through the 2012 presidential election.
The GOP tried this scenario with Mitt and in 2008 with McCain.
Republicans did all they could to rally their base by running on
platform regardless of the candidate and they lost. Do you think its
time that maybe we find a candidate that matches the party platform?
I do and so do many others who stayed home or voted third party this
past election.
A
GOP chairman hi-lighted this very fact when he brought up to me that
the party platform hasn't changed in other words I still should be
supporting it. In response I told him you fail to recognize along
with many others that there are those of us who firmly believe in the
platform. But what good does it do to go out campaign, promote,
argue and at times alienate people from you for defending the
platform only for our elected Republican officials to mock it or not
defend it?
In
years past I was very much indeed a platform voter and eagerly
defended it. My good friend Rich tried telling me back in 2008 he
has had enough of the two party system, all this back and forth saws
down the tree, its getting America deeper and deeper in trouble. I
in turn told him the Republican platform is Godly and
Consititutional. Voting for it you are doing what is right and if the
Republicans who do get elected don't follow the platform its on them
not you, at least you did what was right. I have since changed my
views and couldn't agree more with Rich. A parties platform is only
as good as the elected officials we vote in.
As
a precinct committeeman unless I am totally mistaken I have done
exactly what I am suppose to do which is defend the platform, promote
the party, and help elect Republicans. In that order. But I cannot
defend the platform all the while promoting liberal candidates such
as Mitt or currently Portman. So anyone who has distanced themselves
from me and others like myself all the while screaming we have to
stop regionalism, stop same sex marriage, stop taxes but them go out
and campaign for people like Mitt while ignoring, again, people such
as myself are in it strictly for the Republican party, politics, a
career or blind uninformed sheep.
Isn't
it time our elected Republican officials support their own party
platform? And if we are voting for them shouldn't we expect them to
do it? Or are we strictly voting for Republican candidates at any
cost and it doesn't matter where they stand or how they legislate?
Carey Masci
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