WASHINGTON ELITE: ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION? THE SAME QUESTION FOR WE, THE PEOPLE

The current sentiment is that the anti-Washington, anti-establishment national sentiment played a major hand in this Tuesday’s primaries. From “professional politicians” to candidates endorsed by party elites, a strong message was sent out that reaffirmed the sentiment reflected in the Massachusetts Special Election earlier this year and the governors’ races in New Jersy and Virgininia last November. This is the same message from We, the People in our efforts to elect Constitutionally principled, morally ethical citizens back into our government (from local to state to federal). However, there are no silver linings for We, the People as a result of Tuesday’s primaries; only more hard work in order to achieve true victory in November.
Blanche Lincoln (D) finds herself in a runoff in her attempt for a third consecutive term as Senator from Arkansas. Her opposition, Lt. Governor Bill Halter, was within just a few thousand votes of Sen. Lincoln ( out of over 300,000 votes in the primary). Perhaps Sen. Lincoln played one too many “political games” during the past year, when it came to the 2009 budget stimulus package and the health care reform statute where she had pledge to filibuster any health care legislation that contained a public health insurance option. Blanche, did you ever finish reading the final bill? We, the People found the option live and well, just hidden to another provision within the bill. As a member of the Washington elite on Capitol Hill since 1993, you would think she would know how the game is played by now. Well, she DOES!! She may pay for it in the June runoff against a politician who will at least admit he is a far-left Progressive.
In Kentucky, Rand Paul defeated Trey Grayson as the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate. Rand Paul, a favorite of the Tea Party groups in Kentucky, is an ophthalmologist who’s only claim into the world of politics (besides being Ron Paul’s son) was in establishing the Kentucky Taxpayers United, a non-partisan citizens watchdog group dedicated to rating the state legislature’s tax honesty. But the true “kiss of death” for Trey Grayson was the endorsement by the Republican Party establishment, as represented by Mitch McConnell. When will the Republican Party get the message: We, the People are looking for Constitutionally-principled CITIZENS to represent us in Washington, not “professional politicians” (which is the label McConnell subliminally stuck on Grayson with his endorsement). Mitch, you should have left Trey alone.
In Pennsylvania, a multi-term Senator since 1981 was defeated in the Democratic primary by a liberal Representative for the Senator’s seat. That Senator was Arlen Specter, Mr. “scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours”. His wheelings and dealings behind closed doors finally caught up with Arlen. But his replacement for the November election, Joe Sestak, is a straight-up hard core liberal who contrasts very well with the conservative Republican nominee, Pat Toomey. Like him or not, We, the People in Pennsylvania have a lot of hard work ahead to ensure Toomey’s victory in November.
Now, for some harsh reality for We, the People to take into deep consideration: First, in Pennsylvania, both Mark Critz (D) and Tom Burns (R) won their primaries for the 12th District’s Representative seat and will face off in November. However, in the special general election to fill in the current seat of deceased Representative John Murtha, Critz defeated Tom Burns by over 10,000 votes (8% of the total votes cast). If We, the People in Pennsylvania don’t stay on top of the campaign between now and November in support of Burns, that seat could still remain in the hands of the far left Progressive/Socialists known as the Democratic Party. But, an important detail occurred during Tuesday’s primaries. In Tuesday’s primaries, where both parties had contested primaries for the same seat, the Democratic Party amassed more total votes in their primaries than in the related Republican primary. I’ll repeat that: IN EVERY CONTESTED PRIMARY (WHERE BOTH PARTIES HAD CONTESTED PRIMARY ELECTIONS FOR THE SAME RELATED SEAT)!!! Either We, the People did not like what we saw in the respective candidates or the push to get out and vote for a Constitutionally principled, morally ethical candidate was not as strong as is desired. Keep this in mind for the following primaries and November’s general election.

As researched by your fellow Patriot,
Wild Bill Conant