Tomorrow, is the day… like a wedding, can’t wait for it to finally be over so life can go on again…. But there is one last thing to do.
Look at the Republican Party. The only reason Romney is doing well, is because he pivoted in the first debate, and became a liberal. His past track record had almost pushed him to the point of no return, until he reinvented himself upon that first debate stage. In other words, Romney is now the more liberal candidate, if one just looks at what he has said since October 4th.
However the old message is still prevalent in Delaware’s Republican exoskeleton. Kovach who once was considered a decent person, is now a compromised decent person. Kevin Wade, is nothing more than a word to rhyme with suede. Jeff Craig wants us to believe that if you can run a 16 X 40 foot retail outlet buried in the middle of a Fairfax strip mall, you can run the entire state’s government. Greg Lavelle believes that if you trash your opponent hard enough, you will get elected. Cathy Cloutier believes that no one gives enough of a hoot, making it so simple that she can be endorsed by the pro choice and pro life movements in the same election. Evan Quietsch believes the United Nations has set up a secret outpost somewhere in the woods of the 11th District, and that his challenger is the Manchurian Candidate who is actually from Manchuria. Rick Jensen has to ignore 99% of a story to make his case in support of any Republican who shows up on his show. Dori Conner, is running “Go, Go William Penn” down in Cavalier Country. NCCE Blake has to put stickers on his campaign signs, that say “I’m not Tom Gordan.” Then there is DelawarePolitics.Net, which although it has great people, they all get their orders from Homer Simpson. There is Brian Pettyjohn who, whenever his name gets mentioned, reminds one of the Lollypop Guild soliciting a hooker on the side of the Yellow Brick Road… And then, there was Two Timing Booth, kicked out for…. oh my. Don’t even get me started on Bodenweiser…. And above all this mess, flies the green faced witch on her magic broom, saying 2014, 2014…..
What happened? Siegler, is this what happens when you put the NRA actually in charge of something?
From top to bottom this party is (I’ll bend over backwards and be very nice here)…. dysfunctional… It is time for it to go away….
I heard a caller put it very well on Al Masciti this morning. Business needs representation. With this party they don’t have it. What they do have is Jack Markell, Chip Flowers, and Beau Biden, working with them as well as representing “we the people” who simultaneously do the necessary work for these businesses as well as us who depend on their health to live well ourselves…..
Delaware works better as a single party state than as a two party one…. Why? Simply put, everyone is an individual again. There is no reason NOT to work with someone who’s viewpoint is different from yours… It is called “compromise” and with today’s Republican Party from the top down, that compromise gene is simply not in their chromosomes……
Now here is my argument… Any vote for any Republican, weakens our state. I’m guessing we need an 85/15 democratic majority to permanently make this party go away…. I’m worried that many in Delaware may not vote this time because our national election is a foregone conclusion, and really, there is no reason to suspect or worry that any Republican will win….
Here is why you must… Your vote against the Republican Party, is needed to make it be gone forever….. We need single party government now more than ever… WE need cooperation between workers and businesses, and only one party, the Democratic one, can provide that.
Some say we need another voice to balance out one party rule… We will have them. 21 separate voices in the Senate, and 45 separate ones in the House, but only if they are all Democrat … Every person is an individual, and every person has to represent their district. There are some conservative districts, there are some progressive districts. but it still will take a majority to get anything passed.
At least if there is only one party, they will get things done the old fashioned way. The conservatives will express their needs, the progressives will express their needs, and some type of compromise all can live with, will get hammered out….
That can’t happen if there are Republicans anywhere in government to mess things up…..
So do your civic duty… Vote Democratic or Libertarian, or any another candidate…. Just make Republicans go away…. I used to like watching cartoons on Saturday… Now, that I have to watch them 365 days at 24/7, it is too much…. (Now, where’s that Advil?)
Make them go away.
kavips 
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November 6, 2012 at 10:42 am
anonymous
OK, kavips, your argument is strong, (as it always is.) Here’s what I was thinking this morning before considering your article.
“As a Democrat from generations of large families of Democrats, who now have families of Democrats, I am going off to the polls this a.m. to cast my vote. And I don’t positively know, who I will vote for. I’m not pleased with some of the Democratic candidates. Politicians, who when asked for help, advisement, offered nothing. Politicians who knew of discrimination against workers, minorities, youths, the poor, the middle class, did nothing. Politicians, who when asked, how to start a small business, gave the royal runaround instead, not even offering advice, just unanswered questions, unanswered phone calls, as if creating employment didn’t matter, someone wanting to work, create a business, didn’t matter. Politicians of the Minner years, who still protect their own. Yes, on election day, I’ll mention Minner; even though it’s like mentioning Bush at a republican convention. Politicians, when told of government wrong doing, permitted the wrongdoing to continue. Politicians who can’t bridge a gap with a $150,000,000 bridge; politicians of a state without effective, accessible mass transportation, without safe roadways, but plenty of mindless Non Planning and over development instead. Politicians who spend millions on a bus terminal into which buses can’t fit in a building too low, a lot too small. Politicians who pay rent for land use when the land won’t be used. Rt 1 at Rt 14, white knuckle to drive past, right? The beach stretch, all road East to West.
Politicians who actively work against a better environment, in fact, grossly contributing to the environments’ demise. Politicians who permit toxic waste dump sites, in flood zones, over drinking water aquifers. Politicians who facilitated the worst and filthiest of power plants – coal plants, allowing old, inefficient, polluting units (horrors) to continue to pollute, while (more horrors) new coal plant units are built – in the very face of known climate change. (And they brag about that, not mentioning the CO2.) Shheesh. As if the public doesn’t know. Delaware, the coal state, the State of DEnial, means more CO2 for the world’s atmosphere. Facilitating climate change, in a sinking, low region, where sea levels rise the quickest, and the public pays the price for politicians with coal interests. Coal interests who fought against clean energy till it was ‘dead in the water.’ Take the outstanding New Jersey coast for example. Gone. It could have been Delaware instead. Perhaps next time Delaware politicians.
When I get into the voting booth, it may take a while to decide for whom not to vote. Born with a heart that beats Democrat of Democrats, my mind says, these aren’t the Democrats one would have in mind. Across from the ‘Democrats’ names, will be named Republicans. I’ll be looking back and forth, wondering, who best would serve the people, state, the country, the planet.
A Democrat not vote? No. I need to go vote for Obama/Biden. No question there. And I need to not vote for ‘democrats’ who aren’t Democrats.”
Now, back to the time, after I read your article kavips. You made convincing points. A most convincing one for me is, democratic politicians are more likely to act together. One can only hope, democrats of sound mind can lead the way to a future. Do I really believe that can happen? I can only say, there’s more of a chance, with one party of democrats.
My own two cents. Vote every last republican out of office.Remember the years and years of republican denial, the climate hoax – which republicans own. Guilty democrats, yes, but Republicans own climate change. And that’s how I’ll vote.
Yes Democrats aren’t perfect, some far from perfect; some can barely be called democrats, a special hello to Carper. A nod to Markell. A republican can never be trusted. We’ve seen them in action. Paul Ryan in congress for example – the republican way, before the good of the people, the country. Or the endless horrible list of Bush Co republicans. The new horrible list of tea partyers. There is no choice. The most important issue in the history of mankind is at stake. The immediate reduction of anthropogenic CO2. Straight Democratic it is. Now I gotta go vote.