Holding your nose when you vote?

Holding your nose when you vote?

Where do the “good” politicians come from? How do we get someone that holds true conservative values and honest principles that we can believe in?

“I held my nose and voted” is something that we have all said after an election. We hear of corruption, crony ism. We see weak/non- conservatism and “good o'l boy” politics in all levels of government. In most cases, our dissatisfied sentiments are exactly right. So, many times we take the easy way out and just declare that “all parties and politicians are ALL the same, it doesn't matter”. Many question come up but are we asking the right ones? The most important questions that should be asked (which I have never heard) is ..where do we get better choices or who replaces them?

We have simply lost the very basics of the republican political system that brings good candidates to the top. We grumble and gripe and say that we are going to “hold our nose” when we vote or that we voted for “the lesser of two evils”. Why? Are there no conservatives left? Is conservatism dead? Are we saying that good men and women can not be found? If so, where are they? Do they not exists? We have been fed and take the lies that only a certain class of people are qualified to hold office.
What happened to the days when this country elected men on their vision, principles and character? These are the ones that we should be electing to office. Instead, for the most part they are

I believe the simple reason of the lack of good, strong candidates is that we have no roots. We just leave it to the government “elites” to pick them for us. In most races, we have to accept the one and only person to throw the hat in the ring. Our republican “tree” is top heavy because the roots are very shallow and few. Good government must be created by all of us, from the ground up! Not the other way around.

We have come to a point that the “informed” voter is one that looked over the sample ballot a few days before the election. We have forgotten that candidates and campaigns do not start a few months before election day. They start in most cases, years before November 4th. They started when someone decided that “something must be done, I want get involved in the process”. They got busy asking questions, writing, calling and talking to people.

It is you and I that are the “roots” of our political system. If we in our own small way do not get active, then we are the reason weak, non-conservatives are in offices today. We leave it to the “buddy system” for the selection of candidates.

You and I both know of many strong conservative men and women that work hard, live everyday honestly, responsibly doing the mundane things to provide for their families. This is where future republican candidates must come from! The answer to “who will replace them” could be you, or someone you know. Get involved. Find the precinct chairman of your voting precinct. Call the county party headquarters. Check out what your elected officials are doing or not doing. Find out out the system works. Get active early in the primary elections. Find a strong candidate that you believe in and help get them elected.

Those in office would be forced to listen and do a better job if more republicans would wake up and simply be more informed. We would have more candidates that we would be proud to promote and vote for. Lets strengthen our republican roots! Start today!