Vote for 'None of the Above'Posted Monday, October 11, 2010, at 3:08 PM
With the November "off year" elections less than a month away, it's once again time for us to call for "None of the Above" to have a place on the ballot.
We'd suggest if "None of the Above" were to "win" any race the parties would have ten days to put up alternate candidates, any independent who didn't get at least 20 percent of the vote would be dropped from the ballot, and a new election would be held within six weeks. This election, at the national level, has offered up some of the worst candidates, incumbents and challengers included, in our memory. Frankly, there's too many arrogant incumbents and crazy challengers out there. Some are so off the wall it's unbelievable they've gotten as far as they have. If they were elected it truly would be a case of the lunatics running the asylum. This country needs elected leaders who can look at real facts (not make them up out of thin air), who are knowledgeable (too many really aren't smarter than a fifth-grader), and who are willing to compromise and more interested in finding workable solutions to the nation's problems than just exercising personal power. But we're not getting that. Today, elections are all about how much money you can raise for television advertising and whether or not you can smear your opponent more than he can smear you. Thanks to the Roberts Court, millionaires and billionaires are literally buying the elections and putting candidates in their vest pockets. The little guy -- that quiet, reasonable, middle-of-the-road American who just wants things to work fairly effectively and not cost him an arm and a leg in taxes -- is being ignored entirely, or at best being given only lip service. Our democracy is becoming a demagography. The voice of reasoned debate has been replaced by screaming argumentation. Let's face it, for at least the last 10 years, Congress, playing all of its power games, has failed the American people completely. Even a significant turnover (several times) hasn't helped. And all too often these days, the alternatives we're being offered in the voting booth aren't any better, may be worse than what we've got, and in some cases are downright scary. Take the Nevada senate race for example. The arrogant incumbent clearly should be turned out, but his opponent is a raving loon. The voters there can't really feel great about their choices. Right now, we think "None of the Above" would win in half the races in this country. We need an opportunity on the ballot to tell the parties "no thanks, try again until you get it right." Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
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Hang in there, Kelly, cavalry's comin'.
This Tea Party movement isn't going away after the mid-terms or even after 2012. Tea Party candidates are NOT Republicans as many think. They are CONSERATIVES, and the two aren't necessarily the same, which is why they're going to pull a TON of Independent swing votes-------and also why they have been UN-seating some of these old GOP crocks in the primaries.
You see, those of us who are truly on the "RIGHT", do NOT just stand blindly by our "established ticket", and are more than willing to band together and OUST our own "Party Regulars" for the welfare of the COUNTRY.........not the Party.
Screw the party.
The Tea Party candidates that the leftwing media likes to degrade and call "NAZI's".......(and isn't THAT a funny name coming from a party that is trying to TAKE OVER every facet of our lives!).............
THESE candidates are not already part of the problem. Not so long ago, they were farmers, ranchers, small businessmen, and they are as sick of the "Republicans as they are of the Democrats.
They support the Constitution---------first and foremost.....the old multi-termers of the GOP can go hang! A lot of Republicans have become just as corrupt as their Democrat counterparts.
You want CHANGE?.........we already KNOW what THAT means, don't we!
Most people in this country want our COUNTRY back.........and it will never happen through "business as usual" voting.
Independents, while winning on occasionally, don't have much of a chance among the "trained seals of family voting traditions."
Since the Republican party platform is much more inline with our Constitution than their opponents, Tea Party candidates connect better with the voters than the "old GOP Guard" that everyone is fed up with.
There ARE good choices out there, Kelly........not enough of 'em yet Kelly, but the ball has to start rolling someplace bro.......or we're GONE. You have to know that........we cannot continue as we are and survive much longer as a nation. "Business as usual" clearly doesn't work.
And we don't have to study history very hard to know that socialism doesn't work either, and we have a government in-place RIGHT NOW that breaches its OWN OATH of office virtually eveytime it makes a decision.
"Change we can ALL agree on" comes NOT from those who've been playing this game for decades and have entrenched themselves in the royalties of corruption------------
-----------REAL change comes from those who KNOW what it is to live from month to month, and have finally said "ENOUGH" and enetered the political ring to do something about it.
You & I are taxpayers, Kelly............WHO knows our burdens, struggles and needs better than those who have just been OUT here---------and NOT been basking in our "endless tax dollars" 30, 40 and 50 years!
We are a massive sick body, in desperate need of a complete transfusion, if we are to ever be "cancer-free" of this crap.
Ronald Reagan, who put a SPENDNG FREEZE on these thieves and believed in a small government------(which was a lot more affordable than a LARGE one), said it better than ANYBODY:
.......and I have proudly repeated it time and again........
As an old journalist, you surely remember.........."Government isn't the solution to the problem, Government IS the problem."
There ARE good people out there, running for office, who ARE listening to us.
They HEAR us because they just CAME from our ranks........not Washington's.
We're don't always agree on very much, but we're fairly CLOSE on THIS one..........
YOU say........"None of the above"
I say...........RE-ELECT no one!
And that DOES cover both parties, does it not? Later bro.........Semper Fi
Totally agree bazookaman!
We just need true statesmen and women not the good ol boys who owe each other favors. The founders never meant the congress to be a "career"
organization.
CITIZEN SENATORS
***NOT LAWYERS MAKING A CAREER OUT OF POLITICS***
Time to flush the toilet get them ALL out of there!!!!!
By letting Laywers make laws that benefit themselves, then paying them (with our taxes) to argue with each other about those laws in front of people in robes (who used to be lawyers) we are basically opening our wallets to these CROOKS.
ENOUGH ENOUGH ENOUGH!!!