How Republicans Could Get My Vote
August 9, 2010 by Ed Tsunoda · Leave a Comment
I’m an Independent voter. I voted Democrat mostly in 2008, but my vote is up for grabs this fall. Here’s a list of things that could earn Republicans my vote in November.
- If President Obama or one of his commie underlings actually comes out to the house and kills grandma.
- If you actually let the Senate Democrats pass the bills they passed in the House, and THEN blamed them for making things worse.
- If you preached fiscal conservatism and said we had to raise taxes or at least let the Bush tax cuts expire to achieve deficit/debt reduction.
- If just once you actually voted your conscience, instead of automatically voting against every single proposal that is offered or supported by the Obama White House even when it’s your idea.
- If you gave credit where credit was due, like saying “Yeah, the stimulus created some jobs, and he did save the US Auto industry, and that whole no nukes deal with Russia was pretty slick.”
- If you stopped trying to pin debt and deficits from your wars and your TARP fund on the Obama Administration.
- If you rejected stimulus funds for your district/state on principle instead of posing with the big fake check and taking credit for it in between times you bash the Democrats for it.
- If you stopped abusing the fillibuster rule.
- If the last three times you had held the White House and/or Congress, you hadn’t lowered taxes and increased the debt and the deficit.
- If you explained how you were going to reduce spending without eliminating Social Security, Medicare, and reducing military spending.
- If you stop anonymously blocking every single item that comes up in the Senate.
- If you stopped treating me like I’m an idiot.
It insults my intelligence to pretend that the economic disaster isn’t a function of at least in part the combination of the Bush Tax Cuts and the incredible costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those things aren’t the only reasons, but they’re certainly major contributing factors. And those things are on your tab. Trying to pin them on the Obama Administration is treating me like an idiot. So is trying to pin racism on Shirley Sherrod, or lying about Health Care Reform, or defending Wall Street and the Banks and the Oil Companies and pretending that it’s for the good of anyone but those corporations and your net worth. So is blocking every item in the Senate and then acting offended when you’re accused of being obstructionists.
Be honest. Give credit where credit is due. Take the blame when it’s on your party. Stop obstructing the government the people voted for and let it stand or fall on it’s own merits or flaws. Treat me with enough respect to not try and sell me on trickle down voodoo economics again because you think I can’t remember Reagan or either of the Bushes.
Then I can vote for you. But, as long as you keep trying to sell me on the same tired story and obstructing the change I voted for last time, and just flat out lying to try and create divisive fear and hatred, I have no interest in wasting my vote on you.
When America voted for Change, we weren’t voting for Democrats. We were voting for cooperative government, instead of partisan obstructionism. For being treated like we were smart enough to listen to intelligent debate, and for bi-partisan compromise that was in the best interest of the many. I guess you missed that, because the Republican Party is the party that has failed to deliver on that. And I can’t vote for you until you figure that out.
