On Sunday, The American Thinker posted an article about the upcoming primary elections. The author of the article makes a very good point–until the Republicans take the primary elections more seriously, they will not be able to elect candidates who will fight the Washington swamp.
The article reports:
What’s been even more disheartening than the Democrats’ destructive combination of viciousness and ineptitude has been that Republican congresspeople are supine. Most of them crumble when anyone says “racist” or “January 6.” Worse still are those Republicans who have chosen to ally with the Democrats regarding everything from January 6 to the radical LGBTQ+ agenda. The only way to change this is through the primaries. South Carolina is illustrative.
Too many Republicans began paying attention to South Carolina’s House of Representatives race for the 1st District in October 2020, when it was Joe Cunningham, the Democrat incumbent, versus Nancy Mace, the Republican. Mace won, but what a disappointment she has been.
Mace is barely even a RINO, so left are her positions. “I strongly support LGBTQ rights and equality,” she stated, and she means it. She supports Roe v. Wade and wants to make marijuana legal, which Colorado’s experiment argues against. Mace is a Liz Cheney–supporter. Only reluctantly did she vote to remove Cheney as chair of the House Republican conference, but then only because Cheney was “divisive.” And of course, Mace is on board with the Democrats’ January 6 narrative.
Had more voters paid attention during the primaries, they might have averted Mace’s candidacy and put a real conservative in Congress.
The article concludes with an example of why primary elections are important:
When it comes to her values, Centurion ( Ingrid Centurion, who is challenging Mace to be the Republican candidate for South Carolina’s 1st District) is a true conservative. She stands for free speech and the Second Amendment. She opposes Critical Race Theory, COVID mandates, the extreme LGBTQ agenda, open borders, abortion, and the Democrats’ continued push to enshrine voter fraud. I liked her and will keep an eye on her as we go into the primaries.
My point, though, isn’t to endorse Centurion. It’s bigger than that: you must understand that, by November, it’s too late to get politically involved. If we’re to have a Congress that will stand up to Biden, investigate corruption, and reverse creeping socialism, we must have conservatives on the ballot, rather than whatever RINOs the GOP selects. The battle ends in November, but it begins with the primaries.
Until we elect people in the primary elections who will fight the Washington swamp, the Washington swamp will remain.