I called the contact person that was on that site and he
said he wasn’t the party Chair anymore because of some health problems. He said
he wasn’t sure what time the meeting started. I asked him if he could give me a
contact name and a phone number. He said he didn’t have it near him, I said
could you get it and again he said it wasn’t near him. I never got the number so
I didn’t attend the meeting.
Later that night I was reading about the Dorchester
Republican Conference (Oregon Republicans Annual State Meeting) that’s being
held in Seaside starting this Friday. I noticed that 2 topics are on the
agenda for discussion. One is on gay marriage and another is removing troops
from Afghanistan.
I’ve got mixed feelings on both issues but frankly these are
not the kinds of issues Conservatives like me care to move forward. It is a
mid-term election so the only reason they’re advancing these topics for
discussion is to increase their chances in this election cycle. It isn’t
because they really agree with touting these causes. They’re simply attempting
to get more votes from left leaning Republicans and moderate Democrats which
are few and far between in this State.
Instead of sticking to the economy, jobs, taxation, spending
and the terrible public union funding problems we have in this state they’re
throwing the traditional Republican agenda out the window attempting to pander
to people who won’t vote for Republicans anyway. It’s a futile exercise and a
symptom of the leadership void we have in the Oregon Republican Party and on
national level as well so I won’t be attending the conference either.
I want to believe the only way I as an individual can change
the status quo is to be on the inside but my State and National Party are only
interested in winning elections instead of sticking to a foundation of
Conservative issues and principles. It’s frustrating that as a party we have
the Democrats right where we want them on laundry list of issues. The GOP
should be able to clean house in this election cycle in Oregon and the next
Presidential election but no real leader on a State or National level has
emerged that will receive wide spread support from the party nor does unity
exist on the issues that really matter.
I’m a registered Republican but not a Republican by the definition
of the National or State GOP which are under the control of RINO’s. I’m not a Libertarian,
nor a member of the Tea Party I’m a Conservative. In today’s GOP they don’t
want to hear Conservative voices. I feel completely powerless and frustrated
because there doesn’t seem to be anything I can do as individual except to vote
for the most Conservative candidates in the primary and pray they don’t
surrender more of my freedom or financial security.
Today my feeling is we’re in for more the same with the far
left controlling the narrative and continuing to take our once great country
down the path to total destruction. Am I the only Conservative in Oregon with
this angst?
