How Elections (Should) Work

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When people are busy they don't pay attention. When they don't pay attention they lack understanding. Such is the current status of our election process. Now, to be fair, the electorate is more involved than I have seen in my lifetime. The Constitution has likely been read more in the last ten years than in the previous 90. That being said, many in the electorate lack a fundamental understanding of how elections within our two-Party system should work. Briefly, in the primary you vote FOR someone while in the general you vote AGAINST someone.

What does that mean? Simply this; in a primary all of the candidates are from your side and presumably are better than whoever the opposition has to offer. This is more true than ever with the current polarization of the two major Parties. Therefore, one is presumably free to vote their heart and conscious, knowing that even if they lose they win. Why? For the following reasons:

• All voters choosing their most principled candidate ensures that the core principles of the Party as a whole are confirmed and promoted
• Cheap political posturing, identity politics, personal attacks and low character are exposed
• Traditional media hype is minimized
• Because of the delegate structure, a candidate that does well, but does not win, can bargain with the leaders to endorse. This allows a 3rd or 4th place candidate to extract concessions from one of the top two, often to the betterment of the Party base.
• Primaries are often the only time that a Party has the chance to reaffirm it's collective conscious and demand conformity to core principles. In the case of the GOP it is to insist that they actually act as a second party and refute the Marxism that has wholly absorbed the Democrat Party.

Sadly, too many voters lack this basic understanding of how the primaries should be used to focus the Party candidates on the core beliefs of it's voters. They are too busy with the day to day grind of life to research candidates before the campaign gets into full swing. They fall into the trap of media hype and drama which focuses on candidate disputes rather than character, patriotism and policy. They view the contest as a sports tournament and they deeply desire to be on the 'winning' side. The new Social media phenomena only exacerbates this innate desire to 'pick the winner'. This allows the most honest, decent, smartest and most patriotic candidate to fight for single digits while the boisterous showman reaps 35% approval while extolling nothing but braggadocio and perceived toughness through instantaneous attack on perceived rejection.

In the current election cycle this phenomena has caused a paradoxical conundrum. While rejecting the principled conservative in the race, and instead backing the showman; the race is likely to come down to two candidates. One, the showman, clearly not conservative but tough and decidedly politically incorrect. The other, a once bright light that has succumbed to the Siren's call of the establishment. Somewhat conservative but obviously pro-immigration and pro-big business. The result will be disastrous regardless of outcome.

If the mask of the showman should be removed and the electorate should have that heart-stopping moment of insight that they have hitched their wagon to a bottle rocket, there will be only one place to go; the lobbyist and establishment puppet. The principled conservative will no longer be available. All because the voter listened to the hype instead of their heart. The smartest, most honest, most relatable and most America-loving candidate doesn't get the votes because of the manufactured perception that he 'cannot win'. He only loses if you don't vote for him. And now, you'll be stuck with the showman...for four years...and all of his faults will be amplified and impugned by the very same media that forced him upon you. Your shame will be little consolation to all of us who have to live with your sports bet.

The greatest opportunity to right the republican ship is being squandered on a media whore...and we are his John. I hope you wear a condom when you vote.

by: Keith D. Rodebush

Liberals Are Stupid...sorry, truth hurts.

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My wife said an interesting thing to me the other day. She had been cursing the tube as usual and when I came home she pulled me to the side and as serious as could be she stated, "I'm not that smart."
Now, I'm not going to agree with that here in front of God and everybody but I understood exactly what she was inferring. We live in a time when the most obvious idiocy is passed off as just normal disagreement. Social media magnifies this intellectual abomination or does it simply expose it? It has gotten to the point that many good people simply shut up about politics because the grief imposed by otherwise loved ones is just so disheartening it just doesn't seem worth the trouble. But it is. Fight on good Patriots! Fight On!
In Liberalville, Hillary Clinton can call the loved ones of dead patriots liars and the media doesn't blink. It's a 'vast right wing conspiracy' after all much like the one that accused her poor innocent husband of sexually assaulting a dreamy eyed girl young enough to be his daughter. But for his semen stain on her infamous Blue Dress, she would be just another Bimbo for Hillary to destroy. But, wait. Bill Clinton is a hero to this very day for Leftists the world over while they fight against the 'War on Women'.
In Liberalville, Barak Hussein Obama can destroy all sense of stability in the Middle East, cause 100's of THOUSANDS of Christians to be abused, displaced and murdered and the 'Progressive' world yawns! And then, just to really rub a little salt into the wound he announces that he will be bringing the oppressors here to our very shores while his intelligence chiefs admit they have no way of vetting ANY of them. Not to worry, it's just the JV team whom we have contained. In any sane world he would not only be impeached; he would be tried for treason. But it is not a sane world is it?
In Liberalville, thugs are celebrated. White House luminaries attend their funerals, while police are targeted and attacked openly by a domestic terrorist group and the media simply 'feel their pain'. Good is bad and bad is good in Obama's America and every day we hear another unbelievable affront to our tradition of the rule of law. These actions are not only accepted but trumpeted across the land by mind-numbed robots.
In Liberalville, a rogue president can simply ignore the immigration laws and demand the country's enforcement arm stand down (sound familiar?). Millions of ILLEGAL immigrants flood the nation saturating the work force and driving down wages for the very people Obama claims to represent. Black unemployment soars. They vote for him in the 90 percentile range.
In Liberalville, Iran is not our enemy they are our partner. We give them everything they could hope for and they respond by humiliating our troops when they aren't killing them. Obama and Kerry smile and say their engagement with Iran is working and all is well. Meanwhile, 100+ BILLIONS of dollars are given to Iran...with interest...that YOU pay...while even this administration's officials admit that 'some' of that money will go towards investing in terrorism against the United States.
As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton uses her own PERSONAL server for all of her emails, sends thousands of classified emails with it completely unprotected; PERSONALLY decides what is relevant and what is not and DELETES all the rest; and the FBI simply thinks about investigating it all. ANYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET WOULD ALREADY BE UNDER THE JAIL. Liberals yawn. Another right wing conspiracy to bring down our girl. War on Woman.
In an insane world, speaking truth is a revolutionary act.
I could go on all...day...long. The usurpation of authority, destruction of tradition, diminution of influence and destruction of America continues daily without a feint of pushback from the feckless GOP.
My Ol' Lady may not be smart...like liberal professors; but she has the common sense to know that ALL of the above is WRONG. It is evil and destructive to our beloved nation. And it is patently
S T U P I D!!!!
I'll take Southern common sense over Ivy League smart ANY DAY ANY WHERE ANY TIME. May God Bless America. Lord knows we're going to need it.

BTW, Tania has more knowledge in her little crooked toe than Barak Hussein Obama has in his entire cranium! You go Girl!! Mwah!

by: Keith D. Rodebush