An Open Letter to GOP Faithful on George Allen and Upcoming Events
on September 24th, 2011 at 2:25 amPlease reference back to last post for information on events next week and our opportunity to boot the Democrats out of the State Senate. We will also be spending time on ICLEI and host a Roanoke County Board Forum. We will be re-posting the ICLEI for Doubters article in the next few days. All of the ICLEI information is found here. We will be recording the forum for others to see as well.
Next week will be a big week. But recent news has compelled me to do something I normally don’t do….
Write an open letter to GOP Conservative voter.
Dear Conservative Friend,
Can we talk? Some of you get irritated with the Tea Party crowd. I get that. But we really do agree on most stuff? We both believe in the Constitution right? And fiscal responsibility? And the core principles of natural law laid out in the Declaration of Independence? So I saw this news item and I thought we ought to have a chat. Have you seen that George Allen will be debating Tim Kaine?
You should be outraged at Allen for accepting this debate with Tim Kaine. It is scheduled for December, 6 months before the primary. As I am sure you know the GOP will have a primary to select a Senator to run against Tim Kaine.
You do realize you have 3 other serious candidates running against George Allen?
- Tim Donner
- Jamie Radkte
- EW Jackson (who we have a video of at the top of his article…and the bottom…..this guy is the REAL DEAL…why aren’t you guys FLOCKING to support him??)
The criteria established by the Associated Press are ridiculous and pretty much pre-determine that Kaine and Allen will be the only two participants.
Don’t you think this is a problem?
I would think that Republican officials from across the Commonwealth would be demanding that Allen not participate in this event. Why bother having a primary if you are going to let the mainstream media pick your candidate? This process undermines your entire primary process. Even if you like Allen you ought to be upset that he is sabotaging your party process. It’s not like the GOP isn’t going to make sure he wins (since your leadership loves him)
Republicans at the local level should be demanding that the process not be destroyed. Party leadership should be outraged.
But they likely won’t.
As I said leadership loves him. And he has plenty of money and influential backers.
Have you done your research on George Allen? Just in case you don’t know:
- During his term as governor, government spending increased more % wise than spending increased under Tim Kaine.
- During his term in the Senate, he had a hand in creating the budget mess we are in, by voting for budgets that added trillions to the the deficit.
- Plus he has a little racial scandal hanging around his neck. The macaca thing was ridiculous, but his handling of that situation must have set some kind of record for incompetent media relations.
Why do you like this guy? He may be charming and his dad was a good football coach, but his record is not good. Despite that record your leadership will push him on you and try to sell you on why he is so wonderful and why he is the only one that can win.
How long will you sit by and allow a small group of elite leaders in the party manipulate the system to ensure you get candidates like Allen on the ticket?
Is he really what you want? How much better will he be than Kaine? Probably better, but if you nominate Allen, aren’t you just accepting the abuse you continue to get from your leadership. How many more McCain’s do you have to have foisted on you before you realize that the majority of your party leadership doesn’t share your values.
I love you guys. But you guys need some tough love.
The GOP leadership’s relationship with conservative GOP members is like an abusive husband and an enabling wife. Leadership keeps abusing you, taking your money and foisting candidates like George Allen on you. Most conservatives GOP members can’t like Allen and certainly can’t like what is happening to the process. Yet when push comes to shove, after the fixed primary is over and Allen is inserted on to the ballot for November 2012, most of you will hold your nose and cast a ballot for Allen.
How did it feel holding your nose and voting for McCain in 2008? Want to feel the same way in 2012?
To go back to the abusive relationship analogy, if you meekly accept George Allen as your US Senate candidate, you are exactly like the wife who has been continually abused by her husband and is too afraid of the consequences of standing up and doing the right thing. All the wife is doing, by complying with the abuse, is allowing the same behavior to continue indefinitely. When will the abuse end? When the wife finally says enough is enough and ends the relationship.
Any of the 3 candidates mentioned above would be better than Allen (EW Jackson would absolutely be the best choice of that lot). Board members of the RTP have met with all 3 of these candidates. They are all earnest, solid conservatives. And they don’t have the career baggage that the Democrats will crush Allen with in the 2012 general election (did I mention EW Jackson was the best of that lot?)
And all 3 better represent the values of the majority of Republican voters (did I mention that EW Jackson represents it best) than George Allen.
So are you going to sit back and let your principles be destroyed…or are you going to stand up for yourself? If your local GOP leadership is going to allow the Allen/Kaine debate to go unchallenged, do they really care about principles?
So my plea to my friends in the GOP is simple.
- Demand your leadership fight the Allen debate
- Learn about the other candidates (especially EW Jackson)
- If your leadership isn’t going to make this stop, you should stop giving your money and time to an organization that doesn’t support your values
- Instead help the Roanoke Tea Party continue to grow
The relationship isn’t going to change until you make it change. And the Roanoke Tea Party will not support candidates who don’t consistently uphold the principles we all agree on.
You don’t have to be abused anymore. You can join a group who will always fight for your principles. Even when it isn’t politically correct. Even when it is hard. In these desperate times, the time for half-measures and retread politicians is over. Join with us and lets make RINOs an endangered political species.
Our next meeting is October 6. And you can always join on line by clicking here. Or just feel free to donate…
Don’t stay in your abusive relationship anymore. Join us and if we band together our numbers will dwarf our local GOP….and then you will never have a local election again where you have to hold your nose. The decision is in our hands. Choose wisely for the sake of your families and the future of this nation. God bless you and I pray he gives you discernment in these days to see the truth.
Chip Tarbutton
PS….As promised, here is a little more on EW Jackson
Being a current member of the Roanoke County Republican committee I have a message for that committee regarding George Allen. Of all of his failures as our Governor, one that stands out is his ‘Standards of Learning’ (SOL) that was soon implemented in like form by George Bush under the ‘No Child Left Behind’ program. The SOL program was a failure in Virginia by any metric, only to be mandated in a similar form by the federal government with his support as our Senator. The fact that even Obama is urging states to opt out of this program shows how abysmal that idea was. No need to belabor his failures as Governor or Senator.
I will say this. As a Republican committee, if you continue to support candidates like George Allen because ‘the party’ says that is what you will do, then you might as well burn the Virginia Republican Creed you are so fond of reciting. It means nothing if you ignore it and will not think for yourselves. I say that because I can honestly abide with that creed, but I have no use for pretenders putting party before personal principles.
I do not and will never understand people who blindly accept party dogma. It is only common sense that you will disagree with your party. Yet time after time, I see people accept the unacceptable because someone, somewhere in the “party” has decided for them what is right. Candidates do it to get the party support; elected officials do constantly. This blind loyalty is true of both Republicans and Democrats, and then we wonder silently why the “party” has changed and why they are not doing what is right for the people. It reminds me of the parent who sets rules and makes demands and whose reason is “because I said so.” Is this what you, as a thinking, freedom loving adult will accept? George Allen is obviously the “party’s” choice. Is he yours? Are the “party” decisions, both locally and nationally your decisions? Now is the time you to demand that the “party” represents you and to stop this bowing to “the party” . If political parties are not forced to respond to the members, our government will continue to be disfunctional and nothing will change. More and more voters are thinking and demanding the parties and government do what is right. They are not going to accept “because we say so” any more. Are you one of them?
Good posts Linda and Terry. Maybe we need to do a better job of detailing all of Allen’s bad votes and issues. There are so many I just assume everyone knows.
The issue isn’t just Allen’s insufficiencies, but what you laid out: the willingness of the parties to collude with the media to select a candidate without input from the voters.
Shameful.
Well said John…even if you support Allen, this guts the very process and any pretense of any fairness.
But isn’t the RTP just as bad as the MSM for helping to shield Ralph Smith from having to man up and debate Brandon Bell? After what the chamber of commerce did for Smith (invited two VA senate candidates from further away and then lied and said they didn’t invite Smith and Bell because they didn’t have room! LOL) Smith is rapidly developing a reputation for being a chicken. And we’re as guilty of it as he is. The public deserves to watch a true conservative like Smith mop the floor with Bell. We shouldn’t help him chicken out.
What exactly are we going to learn from a Smith/Bell debate that we already don’t know about both candidates? I am fairly certain Smith’s decision not to debate Bell is based primarily on political calculations and I would prefer it if they’d debate. But it doesn’t materially change the facts of Smith’s voting record, vs. Bell’s voting record. Go out to LIS http://leg1.state.va.us/ and look for yourself. I think you can learn more about them from their voting records in 60 minutes,….than you can by listen to them blather on in a debate. I don’t see a point personally in a Bell/Smith debate…..just like I think a Edwards/Nutter debate is essentially a waste of time. Same question…what more do you need to know?
I’ve been discussing this with fellow conservatives, some who consider themselves Tea Party and some don’t, for the past several days. It’s unanimous, which is unusual. Everybody wants to see debates for the state candidates, not just the local ones. They say there’s a lot to learn from such a debate that you just can’t get any other way. They also keep talking about how you got some liberal democrats like Jim Webb who served courageously in combat and you got some so-called conservative politicians acting like scared rabbits running away from debating. How ’bout it, Chip? Can you arrange a debate?
I’ll talk about it with our board. I personally don’t see the point. Do you really need a debate to know anything that comes from Jim Webb is crap? Do you really need a debate to know that John Edward’s stinks and is the worst state senator in the commonwealth? Nutter, while far from perfect, would be better, but anyone with 15 minutes and an internet connection would know this….
But given the positive reviews from our local debate….I’ll run it past our folks.
Chip