Patriots or Pawns?

I am simply amazed that the news continues to talk about the important NOVEMBER election between Blunt and Carnahan. It fills me with contempt that our primary election is being decided months before it happens and just simply omitted from our election cycle.

I knew the Republican Party did not care about me or the others running for the office but I also became quite aware that the Tea Party, Patriots, 9/12ers, local radio, and national radio did not seem to care either.

Part of the reason I decided to run for office was the fact that I didn’t like the path of our government in general over the last few decades and thought that all of the people attending rallies and events felt the same way. I thought we wanted one of us to represent our state and not someone in for 14 years looking for 20. I thought we wanted to make a statement to Washington and the Republican Party we are tired of the status quo.

NEWS FLASH Roy Blunt will not send anyone any message!

After the candidates had filed I waited for my phone to ring but nothing happened. After my first debate and winning the online poll against Blunt and Purgason I waited for my phone to ring but still nothing. I sent out e-mails to all of the news and party people I could find and nothing.

Do not get me wrong I am invited to several events as a crowd participant, to sell advertising, or buy a booth, but rarely to speak. In fact I purposely did not go to a recent event because the organizers were almost insulting over the fact that I had not yet purchased a booth.

So what are all of these event organizers after? Money, power, fame, or what? Where is the guidance for the primary election? If they are not going to pick a candidate to support in the primary election then what is everyone out there really taking their time to do? Are we all just pawns doing the Republican Party dirty work under a different name?

If the TEA, etc Parties do not stick their necks out to support a primary candidate then we are all just Roy Blunt supporters saying the past 14 years of nothing we received from him and our party were ok, that term limits are ridiculous, that we believe in generations of the same families speaking for us, and that all of our protest signs should really just have a big elephant on them.

Hello, the primary election is for all of us to tell our party who we want in the general election and not the other way around. Before you waste one more minute of your time holding a sign ask your leaders who the organization supports in the primary election? If they say Blunt or nobody ask them why? If they say that they cannot because of their organization standing with the Federal Government, then ask them why they can’t invite anyone running they may favor to speak at an event? If they still say no then call them a coward.

I will continue to go where asked to speak even though my chances of winning the primary are almost nonexistent. I am doing what I can to fix this, can you say the same?

If I am not at your event then it was most likely because I was not invited to address the crowd and I am not a merchant peddling my wares at the market. The people that do donate what little I have expect me to spend it wisely and lining the pockets of someone that does not support me (or anyone else) seems a little wasteful.