Editorial: What North Carolina mid-terms mean for the nation.

by:  Jason Bowen

The first Tuesday in November is fast approaching.  Outside of the horrible, false, misleading, inaccurate, typical campaign commercials that are bombarding us from every direction, have you put any time or thought into who you will vote for?  If you haven't, it's time to prep.

Your vote in November is extraordinarily important for the future of our nation.  In my humble opinion, the basic premise of rule of law is in limbo.  Over the past 6 years, our divided congress has allowed President Obama to make up law as he goes along without any threat of push back.  From border control and illegal immigration to red lines being drawn in Syria, Obama has proven himself to be feckless at best and morally negligent at worst.  Apparently, the old saying "the buck stops here" was never part of Obama's vernacular.


Obama has stolen legislative powers from congress to ignore, bypass, change and amend parts of the Affordable Health Care Act to pick who has to be held accountable and who doesn't.  Typically, the people who don't have to be held accounted tend to be campaign donors, large corporations, unions and really anyone who stands a spitting chance at voting for anything democrat.  It wreaks.  The stench of political cronyism wafts out of the White House like the festering smell of rotten brussel sprouts.  The executive branch has been free to do as they wish because of two very important facts on the ground.  The Justice Department is or has been run by Obama's good friend Eric Holder and the Senate's leadership of Harry Reid has served as a defacto buttress against any redress from Republicans.  And that's why November for the state of North Carolina is so important.

In my lifetime, no North Carolina midterm election has been more pivotal than what we have coming up in November.  It's really an opportunity for Americans to fortify the fundamental mechanism of checks and balances that the founders built into our political system.  But lets get real.  The Republican Party is just as bad and unprincipled as the democratic party.  They're both part of the same shit sandwich.  Pardon my vulgarity on the subject.  As Ronald Reagan made famous.  It's now our time for choosing.  If you have the time, this is an amazing speech.  It's certainly worth your time.


This administration and every single democrat up for election is going to lie and distance themselves from this leader of ours.  They have no intention on representing who they really are.  With Washington, it's not really about truth but more or less about spin.  The commercials they purchase and shove down your throat are lies and misdirection on both sides of the political isle.  It's your job as a citizen of this country to weed through the trash information and get to the heart of the truth.  I've already done this and this is what I've discovered.

Although the republicans are spineless and exhibit progressive tendencies like the democrats, their goal isn't to transform our country into a lawless nanny state.  Republicans believe in national defense, securing our porous borders, rule of law and most of the time, a free open economy.  Until we can have the libertarian party rise up and become a viable third party, as a nation, our only hope resides with the republicans.  If you're more interested in the destruction of rule of law, the absence or border security, the continued weakening of our geopolitical role on the national stage, then the democratic choice is probably for you.  I can't promise the republican will do as he or she says.  But I can promise that the libertarians will do everything within our power to guide their decisions.  If you're from North Carolina or you're reading this from the comfort of another state, vote republican.  Your vote will help to restore the checks and balances the founders had intended for our federal government.

I'm voting for Tillis and I hope you do too.  I can't say he's worth a damn but I know for a fact Harry Reid and Obama aren't.  Vote Tom Tillis, it's a vote against Obama and for restoration of federal checks and balances.  Click here for a list of polling stations in Wilkes County


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