Posted by
novelator on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 10:39:44 AM
The following is the email I sent to GOPAC.org after taking their survey sent to me by Townhall.
I recently took your [Republican Party Issues] survey and have a few suggestions.
One is you should've given a person the opportunity to say what he or she thinks is wrong with the Party.
Even though you didn't ask, I'm going to tell you.
The stench of corruption that taints candidates from both parties cannot be removed as easily as "training" a new candidate or producing a new face with a so-called squeaky clean past. Both parties are equally responsible for the mess this country is in, and both parties continue to play the same corrupt political game of trading favors and kissing the [assets] of corporate sponsors while ignoring the interests of the People of these United States and especially the rights granted under the Constitution of these United States.
If there was one candidate who honestly admitted his or her party was equally responsible for this country's current woes, if the same candidate refused donations from corporations looking to buy political favors in future, if the same candidate then called for a return to the Constitution and abolishing the Federal Reserve, if the candidate promised to limit themselves to two terms, and if this candidate can show the world a track record of honest and upright dealings with regular people, in addition to holding a real job in the workforce at some point in his or her life before proceeding to a career in car salesmen politics, then I might believe some of the rhetoric proceeding from his or her mouth is real and NOT designed simply to pander to the electorate in order to curry votes. I might even vote for this person, whoever he or she might be, although I admit it's a very tall order. But that is the measure of how jaded I've become regarding the candidates of both parties and the political process that passes for governance in these United States. And what's more, I am not alone. Far from it.
Good luck to your party. I am a conservative, but I won't be voting for any candidate nor blindly swallowing the pablum dished out on a national scale by both Democrats and Republicans, not anymore. I am part of the sleeping giant that is America who is now waking up from the American dream to the National Nightmare that the corruption of both parties in Washington has bred.
Mari L. Bushman
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