Looking at the field of GOP presidential candidates we should ask: is this the best conservatives can do? The same question should be asked about the senior "leaders" of the GOP, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell (no relation). Of course it's not. We all know outstanding leaders, smart people. They are our friends and neighbors. So why do the best and brightest among us shun political office like the plague? I believe it is because all politics is local. What happens here in Western Colorado is a microcosm of the problem we conservatives find ourselves in at the national level.
Tisha Casida, a bright, young entrepreneur from Pueblo believes that party politics as usual has let us down. More than just this belief, she has courage and determination. She has taken the next bold step. She is an Independent (unaffiliated) candidate for the US House here in the Third CD. In the land of the free, the home of the brave, in the nation that was once an inspiration for the rest of world, her boldness would be seen as refreshing. Then her ideas would be reviewed and discussed by the people she wants to represent. The People would then either agree with or reject her ideas.
However, getting to a discussion of issues is very threatening to some here in the Third CD. So the machine - the power brokers, the king makers - try to prevent that from happening. It starts right here and it results in choices between Obama and McCain, Pelosi and Boehner. Nine months into her campaign Casida has made national news. Yet here in Colorado, the machine, people you know, label her a "criminal" and a "puppet." Unable or unwilling to engage in intelligent discussion of ideas, they engage in lies and deception and the cycle continues. What sane, decent person would subject themselves to this cesspool?
It is time to call out people like Marjorie Haun and others. Expose them for what they are. Challenge them to engage in honest debate. Reject their lies and deception. Enough is enough.
You may not agree with her, but Tisha Casidais not a criminal or a puppet. Listen to her ideas. Look at your choices and then decide. The Democrats offer you Sal Pace with his penchant for peeing in public. The Republican candidate, incumbent Scott Tipton has been a disappointment to the conservative base that mobilized to elect him in 2010. Independents will determine the outcome of this election. The question is whether 20% of Democrats and Republicans will reject their Party candidate and make their own decision based, not on lies and deception, but on ideas.
Do you wonder why DC is a mess, why we are no longer the leader of the free world? Look no further than our own congressional district, because all politics is local. The power brokers, the king makers need to be stopped. They need to be shamed. And they need to be reminded of the power of the People.
Keep the faith,
Bob McConnell
beawatchman@aol.com
