Taking a stand, Maloney for governor

I want to take a break from the GOP presidential race for a moment and offer my endorsement to Bill Maloney in the WV gubernatorial special election on Tuesday.

In a state where Democrats have been in the majority since time began, (1863 in WV terms) and where to be fair the Dem. Party is not so extreme as they tend to be on a national level, it is encouraging and telling that the governor’s race to fill the void left by Joe Manchin is so close just 2 days before votes are to be cast. Remember, this is the state where the legendary Robert C Byrd occupied the US Senate seat for 50 years. I can guarantee that those who wish to name every public building after the man would never have supported a new comer with the same voting record as Sen. Byrd compiled in the past 10-20 years. West Virginia politics has been dominated by a Democrat cabal as much as has Detroit Michigan, albeit a more benign one. Of course when West Virginians make that hour and a half drive from the eastern panhandle to Washington DC they become socialist hacks willing to sell out every principle and freedom of the voters who sent them there. As proof I offer the voting record of Sen. Jay Rockefeller.

So how do we challenge this cabal? Conventional wisdom is to choose candidates who are “Democratish” and maybe offer the voter a cookie or two more than the opponent. If you will forgive me the narcissism of quoting myself, this is my view of that philosophy.
            Oh for a man of the mushy middle! How my heart yearns for one who can lay aside such divisive concepts as principle and constitutionality and just be civil. What hope is there but for a man willing to smile and compromise as the liberals erode freedom? Where is the leader who will extend a hand to the president and ignore the knives thrust into his, or her, back?

            Are not these the ones who have inspired us throughout history? Was Scotland not unified behind William Wallace’s message of moderate civility?  Was Samuel Adams not famous for his lack of extremist rhetoric? Didn’t Thomas Payne inspire a nation by seeking common ground with the British? Was not the purpose of the first tea party an attempt to compromise with the British on tax policy?  Surely no one like Patrick Henry would have used the inciting words liberty and death in the same sentence. Certainly Abraham Lincoln saved the republic by embracing the slave owners with the stirring refrain “why can’t we all just get along”. Didn’t Reagan inspire the nation by…? I think you get my point. To quote Braveheart’s Wallace “men do not follow titles [or moderates] they follow courage.”   

(5/4/11)

Men of courage are men of consequence and Maloney distinguished himself from a strong Republican primary field with an uncompromising conservative message and a willingness to take a strong stand on moral and social issues as well as economic ones.

This is why I think our little race here in our little state deserves much more attention then it has gotten nationally. Win or loose Maloney has moved conservatism forward in our state and Lord willing will continue to do so as Governor.  

Maloney, like Christine O’Donnell, is up against a steep challenge but I believe its better to fight on principle and loose than to fight on expedience and win. Mike Castle might have won in Delaware but if he did all we would have had was a Republican who often sided with the Dems and gave them bipartisan cover for there far left agenda. Like wise even though the Manchin administration was largely successful and popular in WV in a day where a Democratic President seeks to destroy the coal industry through regulations that are beyond oppressive and where Obama care seeks to redefine the very meaning of individual liberty, we need the courage of conviction of a man like Maloney.

For more info:  http://www.maloneyforwv.com/

Agree or not, don’t forget to vote, men died all over the world to give you that right.

Until next time, keep on the firing line.