Well we heard President Trump's opinion on the subject at the rally last night in Missouri...."Get out in 2018, because you're voting for me in 2018." This is a big part of the problem. I want to vote for a representative of 'we the people' in November.....not a representative of Donald Trump. I want a representative who will vote his or her own mind....not President Trump's chaotic mind. The egotism alone in this statement is stunning....and the gullibility of his true believers is truly sad.
I'm waiting for that Republican Congressman seeking reelection this November to stand up and say...."I'm running on the same agenda that conservatives have opposed the establishment with for the past ten years and even much longer than that. This is not the agenda that President Trump has settled into.....but the one that he ran for president on. I never have nor ever will take my marching orders from a Republican Speaker of the House or Republican President of the United States. They have their job....I have mine....and that is to support good legislation....no matter who sponsors it.....and oppose bad legislation.....no matter who sponsors it.....and with no compromise based on political expediency. If I should lose this reelection bid then I will return to life outside of the Congress of the United States and support those who have the same ideals and who were fortunate enough to secure their seats in the House of Representatives. This is not about me or my future but the United States and its future. It is not about President Trump but about a government that Abraham Lincoln described in his Gettysburg Address as...."of the people, by the people, and for the people." I will support my party and its leadership when it is in the right....and oppose them when they are not. I will support President Trump when he is in the right.....and call him into account when he transgresses either his promises or that which is right....so help me God!
This is what would motivate me.
I'm waiting for that Republican Congressman seeking reelection this November to stand up and say...."I'm running on the same agenda that conservatives have opposed the establishment with for the past ten years and even much longer than that. This is not the agenda that President Trump has settled into.....but the one that he ran for president on. I never have nor ever will take my marching orders from a Republican Speaker of the House or Republican President of the United States. They have their job....I have mine....and that is to support good legislation....no matter who sponsors it.....and oppose bad legislation.....no matter who sponsors it.....and with no compromise based on political expediency. If I should lose this reelection bid then I will return to life outside of the Congress of the United States and support those who have the same ideals and who were fortunate enough to secure their seats in the House of Representatives. This is not about me or my future but the United States and its future. It is not about President Trump but about a government that Abraham Lincoln described in his Gettysburg Address as...."of the people, by the people, and for the people." I will support my party and its leadership when it is in the right....and oppose them when they are not. I will support President Trump when he is in the right.....and call him into account when he transgresses either his promises or that which is right....so help me God!
This is what would motivate me.
