Letter: Protest vote needed in Massachusetts presidential primary

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January 31, 2012

The Salem News Tue Jan 31, 2012, 04:30 AM EST

To the editor:

Regarding David M. Shribman's Saturday, Jan. 28, column ("Lack of established leaders adds to Republican Party's woes"):

Welcome to the pre-Super Tuesday primary festivities. Political pundits, media spinmasters and the elite establishment cronies have pretty much saturated, flooded — no, tsunamied — the public with the same old election-time rhetoric, i.e., pronouncing candidates as not electable, not a viable candidate, spoilers, not mainstream enough, the independents will never vote for him, if you vote for this guy the country will collapse, ad nauseum. Repeat 17 trillion times and spice with vile, hate and disdain.

The Massachusetts presidential primary is March 6. You can follow the mainstream pied piper's tune of doom and gloom. Out of fear you can cast your vote for the mainstream darling. Or you can vote for the target of their vile, hate and disdain.

Let's face it, we have followed the mainstream lead for decades. There has been no relief, for we the people who have been listening to the mainstreamers.

I urge, beg and grovel before you: Vote out of the mainstream box in this primary. What do you have to lose? Massachusetts is a lost cause for any Republican. But we can send a loud and clear message to the rest of the country's mainstreamers. Let's give the targets of their vile, hate and disdain a few delegates to leverage at the upcoming convention.

As government increases, freedom decreases. If freedom is to increase, government must decrease. Voting for the Republican or Democratic party standard-bearers will just fuel the $17 trillion, supersized government spending machine. If we do not change our voting habits, we will be living the warning of Benjamin Franklin, who famously declared, "Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security."

If you think your freedom is secure with the current Republican and Democratic standard-bearers, you are in for a rude awakening.

Better yet, don't vote till you see the black ink on their budgets. Cut a few bloated bureaucracies, cut a few ghost employees, cut a few expenses. Aw, cut it out, you're making me laugh.

James V. Morose

Danvers

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