Wild Cards saved our country once before (think 1776!). They can HELP do so again, with YOUR help as engaged citizens.
So take the plunge for freedom, prosperity, and sanity. Vote Republican where appropriate, but vote for the two unaffiliated (formerly life-long Republicans) for these two ESSENTIAL offices:
in a state where a democrat has not won a major election in years and registered Democrats are about 30% of the population it is impossible to elect a Democrat by voting for Bundy or Cleveland. This false statement has done more damage to the effort to rid the state of RINOs than almost any other. Do vote your conscience but do not fear "splitting the vote" for these races. Not possible.
Stop thinking that voting R or D is the best way to vote. It's time to vote for American's that love Idaho and this country and it's constitution. We have been lied to by the R's for too long and it's time to make the change,
Your reasoning is sorely lacking and certainly not based on principles! In Idaho, the Republican Party has been in control for decades and what do we have? We have all the same moral degradation, financial distress, economic failure, and all other problems as any democrat controlled state. Republicans have not saved this state from the ills of society and in fact have advanced those problems that destroy a society. You, Mr. Almon, are promoting the very reasoning that has brought Idaho to the brink of destruction. The idea that Republicans are a better choice than Democrats. You leave out the fact that Republicans have brought us to this very point in time where Idaho will soon be the next completely failed state, just like so many other once conservative states. I literally tremble to think what four more years under Brad Little and his ilk will do to Idaho. Now, more than ever, we must vote for moral, courageous, third party or unaffiliated candidates to save Idaho from utter destruction.
"We have therefore to resolve to conquer or to die. Our own, our country's honor, calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shameful fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us then rely on the goodness of our cause, and the aid of the Supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions. The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny mediated against them. Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a feeman contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth." General George Washington Orders, July 2, 1776
Idaho is on that same precipice that our country faced in 1776. Let us resolve to preserve freedom and liberty in Idaho by voting for the third party candidates who will defend God-given rights at the peril of their own lives.
I'm not saying the Republicans are perfect. Obviously as a one-party state, the GOP deserves the blame for any problems currently in Idaho. But there is no hope in the Democratic Party, and third parties simply do not work. They have never worked, save to occasionally throw the election the other direction. If everyone who has committed time, money, and energy to the Libertarian Party or the Constitution Party would become a PC in the Republican Party instead they would get a lot more return on their investment, better bang for the buck.
I think we're on the same page, regarding principles. Our disagreement is in strategy.
Wild Cards saved our country once before (think 1776!). They can HELP do so again, with YOUR help as engaged citizens.
So take the plunge for freedom, prosperity, and sanity. Vote Republican where appropriate, but vote for the two unaffiliated (formerly life-long Republicans) for these two ESSENTIAL offices:
* Ammon Bundy for Idaho Governor (https://www.votebundy.com/)
* Scott Cleveland for US Senator, Idaho (https://www.clevelandforsenate.com/)
in a state where a democrat has not won a major election in years and registered Democrats are about 30% of the population it is impossible to elect a Democrat by voting for Bundy or Cleveland. This false statement has done more damage to the effort to rid the state of RINOs than almost any other. Do vote your conscience but do not fear "splitting the vote" for these races. Not possible.
Stop thinking that voting R or D is the best way to vote. It's time to vote for American's that love Idaho and this country and it's constitution. We have been lied to by the R's for too long and it's time to make the change,
Your reasoning is sorely lacking and certainly not based on principles! In Idaho, the Republican Party has been in control for decades and what do we have? We have all the same moral degradation, financial distress, economic failure, and all other problems as any democrat controlled state. Republicans have not saved this state from the ills of society and in fact have advanced those problems that destroy a society. You, Mr. Almon, are promoting the very reasoning that has brought Idaho to the brink of destruction. The idea that Republicans are a better choice than Democrats. You leave out the fact that Republicans have brought us to this very point in time where Idaho will soon be the next completely failed state, just like so many other once conservative states. I literally tremble to think what four more years under Brad Little and his ilk will do to Idaho. Now, more than ever, we must vote for moral, courageous, third party or unaffiliated candidates to save Idaho from utter destruction.
"We have therefore to resolve to conquer or to die. Our own, our country's honor, calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shameful fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us then rely on the goodness of our cause, and the aid of the Supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions. The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny mediated against them. Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a feeman contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth." General George Washington Orders, July 2, 1776
Idaho is on that same precipice that our country faced in 1776. Let us resolve to preserve freedom and liberty in Idaho by voting for the third party candidates who will defend God-given rights at the peril of their own lives.
Wendy Leatham
Hi Wendy, I appreciate the comment. I am mostly in agreement with you - see the following posts if you have time:
https://gemstate.substack.com/p/governor-little-or-king-brad
https://gemstate.substack.com/p/stymied-reforms
https://gemstate.substack.com/p/convention-day-3-tsunami
https://gemstate.substack.com/p/king-brads-court
https://gemstate.substack.com/p/is-ammon-bundy-the-trump-of-idaho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey1djpQXgDQ
I'm not saying the Republicans are perfect. Obviously as a one-party state, the GOP deserves the blame for any problems currently in Idaho. But there is no hope in the Democratic Party, and third parties simply do not work. They have never worked, save to occasionally throw the election the other direction. If everyone who has committed time, money, and energy to the Libertarian Party or the Constitution Party would become a PC in the Republican Party instead they would get a lot more return on their investment, better bang for the buck.
I think we're on the same page, regarding principles. Our disagreement is in strategy.