Posted by
Roxanna M. on Thursday, October 21, 2010 7:06:59 PM
I got an e-mail from a friend of mine today, which was a copy of the letter/e-mail he sent to Carly Fiorina, who is trying to unseat Barbara Boxer.
He said that he could not possibly vote for Fiorina because she said in one of her ads that she would work with Dianne Feinstein, and even vote against her own party. I told him that I could not agree with his position.
There have been and always will be times when politicians vote against their own party. Working together for the good of this nation and We the People is what our elected officials are supposed to do. So, it seems to me, that this man (and his wife) are not going to vote for someone because she said that she might do something she should be doing.
But there's a bigger question. If you've ever had an argument with a loved one, then you know that there are people in your life that you are not always going to agree with. Why should that be any different when it comes to politicians.
Right now in California, some Republicans are having a hard time accepting Meg Whitman. They say they can't vote for Brown, but aren't quite sure if they can vote for Whitman. In my opinion, this is a no-brainer.
Jerry Brown is a democrat. What's the one thing democrats are really good at? Raising taxes. What could possibly be worse than a democrat governor? A democrat governor, a democrat-majority legislature and Proposition 25, which would amend our state Constitution to provide that a budget could be passed with a simple majority, rather than the 2/3 super majority now required. Do you really think that a democrat-controlled legislature would hesitate to raise taxes to close any budget gaps and then send it off to the democrat governor for signature?
Bingo! Bango! Bongo! A budget in record time!
Brown is running ads saying "no new taxes without voter approval". The operative word being "new." Saying he isn't going to impose any new taxes without voter approval is not the same thing as saying he's not going to raise the taxes we already have.
Meg Whitman may not be the perfect candidate (who is), but a Republican governor just might be a check on a democrat legislature that's never met a program it wouldn't love to raise taxes to pay for. Furthermore, she brings with her private sector experience, and she just might appoint people who actually know what it takes to create jobs, something democrats know nothing about. Don't forget, governors appoint judges.
Same with Carly Fiorina. She may not be everything we would have hoped for, but she just might be another brick in the dam to hold back the socialist torrent that Obama seems intent on loosing on America. She, too, would bring private sector experience to a body sorely lacking in it. Boxer's been slurping and burping at the public trough for so long now that's she lost sight of the fact that the private sector is what makes the public sector possible.
There are no perfect candidates. Get over it. When I go to bed on November 2, I want to do so knowing that I have done everything in my power to not put a democrat in a position of power . . . I hope that some of my friends will feel the same way.