Thank you PB and AB.
Oh nobody’s working harder than me here in the swamps. I am campaign treasurer for a tea party type...heh.
“What’s this $614, Don? It’s on the bank statement yet I have no receipt?”
“It’s for door hangers, Pat. I ordered them off of the Internet. I didn’t get a receipt.”
“Don, you didn’t get a receipt by email? Forward it to me and I’ll print it out. Don’t you see how this looks Don A. himself might have taken that money and maybe bought himself a new TV?”
Below the dashed line.....a comment I came upon on a Delaware thread to my great surprise. Jon Mosley just happens to have been Christine O’Donnell’s attorney during her campaign.
I’m just not sitting in on their meetings. There’s an active 9-11 patriots group in this area. I’ll deal with my activism this way.
When enough people realize the time has come to let go of that part of the entrenched political class known as the Republican party, I’ll be here.
At some point together all of us, squabblers today, will begin the process of taking back our country from the political elite.
Jon Moseley
I refer you back to Pat Fish’s post, which is when it first dawned on me that this controversy was (a) not going away and (b) bigger than just an arcane tussle over some obscure technicality.
The purest or idealist hates the fact that perception can replace reality. It naturally irks me and always bothered me. But you have to accept reality. The information received and processed by humans is all they have to go on. So, like it or not, perception is reality. It shouldn’t be so. Yet it is.
People can only form opinions based on what they know. And if they are busy in their lives and they only catch a shallow impression of things while swamped with the responsibilities of life, that hasty impression is all they have to go on. For them, that is reality…. even when they are absolutely wrong.
Pat Fish explained the PERCEPTION created among the voters, who only have time for a quick glance at the issues.
So when you have a Democrat White House suing the various States — THE US SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR ARIZONA’S SB 1070 LAW ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ON APRIL 25 — and it looks like “Here’s one more example” that fits within that theme, it’s a powerful theme. Pat Fish called it. I didn’t see it until Pat Fish wrote it.
Fish,
I completely understand the quitting and organizing the T Party to combat the Country Club. I have a manual you may want to use to get you started. We have used it to pretty good effect and now we are doing more in our section of County than the rest of the county combined. Some say the rest of the state, but much of the state are starting to use it to great effect.
One of the posts they were outraged about was how Romney was too much of a moderate and would lose. It was not very complimentary of the Country Club.
Pray for America
“People can only form opinions based on what they know. And if they are busy in their lives and they only catch a shallow impression of things while swamped with the responsibilities of life, that hasty impression is all they have to go on. For them, that is reality…. even when they are absolutely wrong.”
Agree whole-hartedly. Which is why my “perception” of the american voting public would not allow me to get excited about any candidate who would not meet the dumbed down criteria.. . . . too distracted, uninformed, uninterested and easily media manipulated. (Despite, btw, personally being much more aligned with Santorum or Gincrich ) Many on this forum who dared say that, like me, were instantly branded as a troll, commie, RINO, etc.
Someone on this thread said that posts seem to be down here. Maybe that’s because those of us who love this country as much as most of you do (but have a different approach to winning in November) have been made unwelcome in no uncertain terms.
This great nation cannot take another 4 years of Obama madness, and supporting a candidate who wouldn’t be able to win with the above electorate seemed like a fantasy from day one. Reality should come into focus really quickly to anyone who lives and works in this country today. The votes for a pure conservative are just not there. Just look around. Sad, yes, but REAL.
The comparisons between Romney, and Dole, McCain, etc as candidates has been nothing short of ridiculous. The latter were the most horrid picks, but losing had nothing to do with their moderate views. No. The thing so many don’t understand is that elections are not won on policy alone. Dole & McCain had NO persona, NO energy, NO connection to the young voter, and they were both running against uber charisma plus candidates. Both those races were over before they began. Getting a good read on the electorate (which we stink at, but the Dems do so well) is more important than choosing a candidate based on policy alone, unfortunately. Those of us who got that from the beginning have been tarred and feathered here over and over again.