Hindsight is 20/20

Hindsight is 20/20. Now that my mind has cleared after the primary election and have reviewed the results, I have realized that we conservative candidates shot ourselves in the foot. If you add up the votes for Steve, Clayton and me it totals over 18,000 votes and we would have a conservative candidate to go against “Nancy” Dahlkemper. Maybe if the three of us had played rock, scissors, paper and those not winning agreed to combine efforts, resources and staffs with the winner, we would have sailed easily to victory! But hindsight is . . .

Instead, we have a RINO, who has given money to democratic opponents of conservative candidates. On the night of the election I called to congratulate Mike Kelly and offered to help and later left a message again offering to help his campaign. I have heard nothing. Abraham Lincoln said to keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Mike should have contacted each of us and offered each one a position in his campaign. Since I heard nothing from Mike, I have now committed to another campaign for the fall. Rumor is he has gone to Phil English for help. Nothing against Phil but Phil lost to Dahlkemper and while may have been a conservative in 1994, he long ago became too political to serve the constituents of the 3rd district and now is what, a lobbyist! Don’t get me wrong, I will vote for Mike Kelly, but he is at risk of having many of the conservatives stay home and therefore risks losing to Dahlkemper. And that unfortunately, is not good for the United States.

Now, a comment on running negative campaigns. Nobody seems to like them but they, unfortunately, often work. I had many people tell me how disgusted they were with the Kelly/Huber fight. But they were the top two vote getters. Almost 30,000 voters were not disgusted enough. Obama ran a very negative campaign against Bush and McCain refused to say anything negative about Obama and in the end had no chance. I am not saying we should run negative campaigns, but as long as the voters reward those who do, we who don’t want to run negatively will not have much of a chance.

Being new in politics, I am learning something new just about every day. One thing I have learned through this primary process is that the Mercer County GOP is quite dysfunctional. It seems to me that many are more interested in what is best for them and not what is best for the county, the districts and the country. I definitely got the feeling from the entrenched, that I had not “earned the right” to run for congress. Yet with almost no help from the GOP, I was able to impressively win the county. And that was with two other candidates getting a lot of help from the Mercer GOP.

The political parties are meaning less and less these days. We, conservatives, must stay together and stand together. So after much investigation and inquiry, I have signed on with Roberta Biros to help her defeat the long entrenched Robbins duo. Bob Robbins has equalized the playing field by running his write-in campaign as a democrat. Not to mention spending/wasting a lot of money in the process. Remember, the political parties have become meaningless. We definitely must look at the person, who they are and what they stand for, in this and every race. Tough times are ahead. WAKE UP conservatives, the status quo is not sustainable. We must not go with the flow. I discussed negative campaigns in a previous paragraph and I imagine we have seen nothing yet! This will be nasty, nasty, nasty. But Roberta and her husband have proven that they can take it with a smile on their faces. Now we conservatives must stand up and support other conservatives and invite others to join us. When we stand together arm in arm the opposition will have less power. We don’t want to have to learn from hindsight again, do we? So come join the fight.