No leadership on the Local, State or National Level

Last Thursday Night I decided I’d wanted to attend the Clatsop County Republicans meeting in Astoria. I knew the meeting was on Thursday and that it was at the Port but wasn’t sure if it started at 7 or 7:30 pm. I did a search on the internet to find the right time and couldn’t find it. I did find the Oregon Republicans website however but no meeting time or place was listed.

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?