Posted on 09/30/2014 10:20:54 AM PDT by Jacquerie
We do most things in our lives out of habit. Each of us has various routines that outline our day, family and lives. This isn’t to say we shouldn’t step back now and then to consider change for the sake of improvement, for we should, yet just as the sun follows a predictable yearly path, man has a natural tendency to favor the familiar and regular.
So, out of habit I will vote in the mid-term election. Aside from local and state officers, my representative Steve Southerland (FL-2) is in a tight race against a legacy candidate, the daughter of a past Florida governor. Like Michelle Nunn of GA, the only thing Gwen Graham has going for her is her name. No senators are up for reelection in Florida 2014.
Speaking of habit, I’ve never missed an election. Not one. As both a duty and privilege, I’ve long believed that American voter participation should be 100%. Shortly after the 2012 Presidential debacle, a brave Freeper admitted he couldn’t pull the handle for Romney. I gave him a hard time, for my belief is that just as sovereign monarchs cannot slough off their duty to serve their kingdoms, the sovereign people of the American republic cannot gaff off their moral responsibility to attend to their duty, to vote.
That was then. Over the past two years more and more of us have come to realize that the republic is gone. Only its Constitutional form remains. We still have a President, Congress, Courts, States, even year elections . . . and not much else. The clause which established the American republic, Article I § 1, “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress . . . “ is but a memory. Through executive branch agencies, the President issues thousands of regulations with force of law every year. Though less voluminous, Scotus enjoys lawmaking as well. Scotus rewrote Obamacare’s penalty into a tax, and will soon rewrite a tenet of western civilization, for somewhere in a crease of the Constitution will be found the homosexual right to marry.
Instead of being the only place, Congress has become the last place to find law making.
Republican government does not exist where consent of the people’s reps to the law is no longer required. Popular voting is not necessary to the functioning of non-republican forms of government, and is no longer necessary in these once United States.
After the mid-terms, and unlike 2012, should another Freeper take flame for not voting, I won’t be among those who pile on. Habits are tough to break, but I can learn.
I don’t support Hitler but I won’t vote against him.
LOL
There is never a good reason to vote for the worse of 2 evils.
Its one thing to take out a single candidate, its a whole different thing to try to take out a whole party when the other party is openly trying to permanently eliminate you.
I refuse to vote for liberals or statist. There is nothing on the ballot for me to vote for. I moved to a red state to escape liberals only to see the new state Republican Governor embrace Obama care. He is now running for reelection.
Im out. The people in this country can happily go to hell and I no longer care. I fought communist overseas in the late 60’s only to live long enough to see them running both political parties in my country.
Its just pointless
“against a legacy candidate, the daughter of a past Florida governor. Like Michelle Nunn of GA, the only thing Gwen Graham has going for her is her name. “
I would not consider a school board member running for congress to be “legacy candidate” even with her family pedigree. Jacquerie failed to note that there is also a third candidate whose has some disjointed positions according to his own campaign website. I don’t expect he will get many votes, but he could be factor in the outcome. Also interesting to note that the district has a 21% dem registration advantage although ballotpedia sometimes misxes old info with new. Steve Suthermland won in 2012 with 52% of the vote.
In researching this info, I came across this little factoid:
District 16: Republican Vern Buchanan has represented the district since being elected in 2012. He previously represented the 16th district from 2009-2013, prior to the decennial redistricting. 101-year-old Joe Newman is running as a write-in candidate.
http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2014/02/20/101-year-old-joe-newman-congress-florida/
I understand. Venezuela conducts elections too.
Seems that some folks are begging for a repeat of 2012. Hmmm
If Romney or Bush are forced on the ticket by their fellow GOPE, you will be proved correct.
I are don’t want to be THAT correct. ;>)
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