Oct

31

These are the stakes

by Keith Rothra | GOP News |

All you need to do is sit on your couch, do nothing, and all of these things will happen.

  • We can turn our health care over to a Canadian/British system that failed miserably and, in the process, give the government control over one seventh of the US economy.1
  • We can return to tax rates of the 1990s where you give up nearly half of what you earn to the federal government.2
  • We can return to estate taxes that will require heirs to sell half of their family treasures in order to pay the taxes on the estate.
  • We can open US borders to illegal immigrants and grant them all amnesty and/or citizenship for violating our national integrity.
  • We can reduce our military to levels that are not able to respond to international threats. Furthermore, we can reduce the active force to half of its present size, reduce the reserve forces, and slash the budgets of training and equipping our forces to render them incapable of meeting terrorist or other growing national threats.

  • We can withdraw from Iraq and give the Islamo-Fascists the courage and motivation to attack our American cities again.
  • We can return to income redistribution in which the government determines what everyone deserves to have, but instead, ensures that nobody has enough income to achieve the American dream.
  • We can tax corporate America into shutdowns that will bring massive unemployment and collapse the economy.
  • We can give the federal courts over to activist judges who will read their leftist philosophies into the law and strip America of its Judeo-Christian moral code.

We can accomplish all of these things by electing Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, or any of the leading Democratic candidates. Each of them promises these things, though not in these terms.

All you need to do is sit on your couch, do nothing, and all of these things will happen.

This is a call for Republican Reunion. America is suffering because of a dispersed Republican voter base. Nancy Pelosi is Speaker of the House because the Republicans stayed home. The most destructive and nonproductive Congress in recent history is convened because the Republican Party got mad and stayed at home in 2006.

It is time to forsake our petty personal preferences and pull the Republican Party together. It is time for a Republican Reunion. We need it in this county; we need it for this county. We need it in Texas… and Okalahoma… and Idaho… and Ohio… and every state.

From the local grass roots to the national leadership, we need to put aside the ’single issue’ arguments and unite to elect a Republican Congress and a Republican President.

Join the Republican Reunion. Volunteer to work in a Republican Reunion office. Enroll voters. Tell friends. Vote. Bring friends to the polls. Get off the sidelines and become a contributor.

In a family reunion, not every family member agrees on every issue, yet they come together as a family. Likewise, the Republican Party needs to have a Republican Reunion to remember our common goals. Failure to do so will bring an end to America as we know it.

1Associated Press, “Canadian Health Care In Crisis,”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/20/health/main681801.shtml?cmp=EM8705. The article states that the average Canadian pays 48 percent of his or her money in taxes, primarily to fund a failing health care system.

2Citizens for Tax Justice, “Top Federal Income Tax Rates on Regular Income and Capital Gains since 1916,” http://www.ctj.org/pdf/regcg.pdf; PDF. People paid a tax rate up to 40.8 percent between 1993-2000, the Clinton Administration years.