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Tea Party Candidate Victories and Consequences

Sep 16
Posted by Administrator in Articles, Editorials, News

I am reprinting the introduction from this week’s newsletter along with some comments that have been sent in. Although I have replied to these comments through email, I will list them here also.

1. I live in the 4th district and support BJ Lawson for US House of Representatives. Since I do not vote in the 11th district, “my candidate” did not lose and I don’t have to get over it.

2. Read the introduction carefully: I am only asking questions. I appreciate the responses to this newsletter but this post will allow the people to interact on this subject more fully. I will add some of the comments below the introduction.

3. I don’t mind “It’s David’s Fault” mentality IF it gets people thinking. I want to point out that I am not NCFreedom and the new steering committee and the new chairperson will be posted shortly. When people attack NCFreedom, they are only attacking all of our efforts to communicate.

4. I will continue to question anything that will point out our country’s problems and issues. If we do not question boldly, we can submit meekly: you can choose your future.

5. For the people who responded without attacking me personally – thank you.

6. For everyone who thinks the political parties and politicians who have turned us into the Divided States of America are the solution to our country’s future, kindly GET OUT OF OUR WAY!

Prior to the release of the newsletter, I invited a response from Jeff Miller or his campaign to address being a grassroots’ candidate based on another email thread. This will be posted on NCFreedom when it is submitted. I posting this article on the Western Region since the responses are coming from this area.

NEWSLETTER INTRODUCTION – September 15th

 
What will be the fallout for the elections if the GOP does not endorse and support these people’s candidates?

Should the people support GOP candidates who defeated Tea Party candidates? John McCain comes to mind in Arizona but what about Jeff Miller in North Carolina?

I know one thing for certain: political parties will not save our country. If we cannot look past party affiliations and ideology to come together as Americans, we will remain a Divided States of America and will fall.

David DeGerolamo

Comments:

1.

The object of this election it to change the Congress and throw out the trash on November 2nd.  That means both Republican and Democratic trash.    The Tea Party members MUST vote or the others have already won the election.  They must vote for the candidate closest to the ideals and government they want.  They can’t sit it out waiting for “next time” or for perfection.  Party is not a factor in the election at this stage.  With less than two months to go they have to choose between the available candidates.  They can’t vote or not vote based on what might have been!      To specifically address the North Carolina issue you should be aware that a failure to vote is a vote for Schuler!  A vote for Schuler is a vote for Schuler!  A vote for Miller is a vote for change and a no to the process we have been seeing in Washington these past years.  If you really prefer the status quo then vote for Schuler.  If you are just unhappy that your candidate lost, then don’t vote and thereby vote for Schuler.  If you believe in change and a move toward you principles and a Constitutional government then vote for Miller!   This applies in Arizona for Tea Party members and in Delaware for Republicans and in every other election in the nation.  If you only vote party or sulk and don’t vote because your candidate lost you are not working to solve the problem.  The people who do that are voting for Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the rest of “in crowd.”  Pick the candidate you most believe in and vote for them.  To do otherwise guarantees that you and the country loses.

2.

William F Buckley, who some say is the father of modern conservatism, said something like ” Republicans need to run candidates as conservative as can be elected.” I think we are witnessing the evaporation of control of the senate with the nomination of candidates such as Angle in Nevada and O”Donnell in Deleware. Where the control of the senate was probable in the early spring, it is now impossible given the choice the voters have in Deleware and Nevada. Where Reid was a sure looser, he is now statistically tied with Angle and that is a race that should not even be close. 

I beleive Buckley understood the problems created by a candidate such as Goldwater in 1964. Even though Goldwater would have been a much stronger president than Johnson, his policies could not be accepted by those in more liberal states, leading to his eventual defeat. The same can be said for O’Donnell. Her policies are ones needed by the country, but they will not be supported by a much more liberal base like Deleware.
 
The question becomes one of compromise. Does the Tea Party and republicans accept 1/2 a loaf and begin picking candidates that are attractive to the independants, or do they continue to pick candidates like Angle and O’Donnell and get no part of the loaf at all.
 
I, for one, want the country controlled by the Republicans, but as long as we have the far right wing like Angle, Palin…Etc running, that will not happen early enough to make changes in Obama’s left wing government take over of people private lives, leaving our grandkids in a total mess (no matter what we do today, Bush 43 and Obama, along with the congress during those years have already screwed up our kids future, now do we want our grandkids future messed up also?)
1/2 a loaf or nothing, what does NC Freedom prefer?
 
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These points beg immediate my response:

     1. If the GOP can be taken over from the grass roots, why can’t we do the same thing in the Democrat party?
Why should we.  80% of Americans identify themselves as conservative or moderate.  Steer the GOP back to a conservative course and the Conservatives and Moderates will follow.  The Democratic Party is under the influence of the far left.  Let’s leave it that way.  The number of registered Republicans and unaffiliated voters outnumber Democrats now.  Why try to make the Democratic party look like what we want the GOP to be?  Or put in other words why have two parties if there is not a clear difference?  
   2. What will be the fallout for the elections if the GOP does not endorse and support these people’s candidates?  The GOP will lose contributions.  Many are already pledging to not give to the GOP,  but to give directly to the candidates as a direct result of the NRSC’s initial position to not support O’Donnell.  Even though the NRSC has flip-flopped and now supports her, the damage is done.  Also the real nature of the national GOP leadership has been revealed.  It is too late.  There will be a major fight for the party leadership because the leadership is not listening to the rank and file members.  I for one promise it to the best of my abilities.
 
 4.

Should the people support GOP candidates who defeated Tea Party candidates? John McCain comes to mind in Arizona but what about Jeff Miller in North Carolina?

Yes to either one, unless the opposition has someone that better represents the constitutients.  However, national or (even state support in local primary elections) should not be given to the Republican candidates over another Republican under any circumstances, unless all Republican primary candidates in that race are given equal financial support.  Endorsement from national or state level endorsements should not be allowed to be made by party officials in the primaries period.  Such support can only be interpreted as the leadership dictating to the people, who the candidates will be.  That is the very essence of why the Tea Parties have grown so large.  The GOP leadership is trying to dictate who the candidates are.

5. 
 
I am not a spokesperson for Jeff Miller and my words should not be attributed to him or his campaign but from what I can see he is and always has been the “grass roots candidate” here in the 11th District.  
 
6. 
 
 

Jeff certainly had the support of the Hendersonville Tea Party members and enough of the “grass roots” folks in the 11th to win the election.  He has a proven record as a patriot as the founder of Honor Flight and of consistently supporting the conservative principles I support.  As a businessman and not a politician he is someone we need in Congress if we are to break the strangle hold of the tax and spend liberals who are now in control there.  It is perhaps the fact that he is not a politician that has led to the strange concept the he is, as you say,  ”not our candidate.”
 
Regarding your question about whom would I vote for if the ICaucus gave its support to Heath Schuler I am somewhat at a loss on how to answer.  I, and hopefully everyone else in the 11th, vote my own mind and not the opinion of any group.  That is the very principle of the Tea Party and its related movements.  It was to be open to everyone who agreed on the results sought – not based on the candidate they supported.  Signs at Tea Party functions were to be about ideas, not people.  Anyone who wants what Schuler stands for should vote for him and anyone who wants to change Congress for the better should vote for Jeff. 
 
When you ask why Jeff Miller isn’t trying to get the support of ICaucus you sound like a true “old time politician” demanding the candidate plead for their support like a supplicant.  To my knowledge, and again I don’t speak for him or the campaign, Jeff has never done anything to turn down ICaucus support and would welcome it so long as it came without strings or a demand to compromise what he stands for.  Isn’t that what we are trying to get in our representatives?  People who will stand up for what is right and vote their principles which, ideally, agree with ours. 
 
You say “If I was voting in the 11th, I would not vote for Heath Schuler…”   You do not say you would vote for Jeff Miller.  Since not voting in this close an election equals a vote for the incumbent anything less than a vote for Miller is a vote for Schuler.  If people dislike Schuler that much and disagree with his actions and politics that much then they should vote against him.  Today, as it was in the old English Common Law, silence, which is what not voting is, indicates acquiescence.  To not vote is to agree with the present status quo and Schuler, Pelosi and their ilk are the status quo.
 
Good luck in the 4th.  Hopefully we can all see a return to Congressional sanity after the next election and a rebirth of our Constitution and country in the near future.  Here in the 11th some of us are working hard for that.

 

 

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  1. Mark
    September 16, 2010 at 11:59 pm

    What about getting people to do things like use digg and other social media sites to support the candidates endorsed by iCaucus? Been trying to get people to do this but the arguing and wasted time continues.

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