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GOTV: The Top Ten Reasons You Should Be Working On Getting Out the Vote

Four weeks from today.  That’s all.  Four. Weeks.

On November 2nd, there will be an electoral showdown with the forces of freedom on one side, and the forces of statism on the other.  If this past weekend’s Marxist March on the Mall didn’t help draw a line in the sand for you, perhaps these other items* might:

  1. Our nation is nearly $13.6 trillion in debt.
  2. You, your significant other, your children, your grandchildren owe nearly $44,000 each to the debt (for taxpayers alone, nearly $122,000 each)—right now.
  3. Unions have taken over two branches of the federal government, the Legislative and Executive branches—including the West Wing of the White House.
  4. Unions and union-bought Democrats are trying to take away your right to vote on unionization, your freedom to contract, and even your right to work.
  5. Union-bought Democrats have nationalized your healthcare
  6. Union-bought Democrats are trying to limit First Amendment Rights
  7. Union-backed Democrats have “reformed Wall St.” by giving unions the keys to the board rooms
  8. You have bailed out banks, car companies and unions (see number #1 above)
  9. You are being asked to bail out union pensions
  10. They have completely unmasked themselves, and trashed a national park in protest

And, they’re not finished yet

Now, if none of those were reasons enough to start working on Getting Out the Vote (GOTV), here’s another for you: GOTV for the Gipper…

So, if you’ve got the fortitude and the desire, here are some easy ways you can work to GOTV:

  • Recruit your friends and family.
  • Use the Power of Five to build a voting bloc.
  • Volunteer for a campaign.  Candidates will welcome your help in:
    • Walking a precinct
    • Making telephone calls
    • Helping to distribute yard signs
  • Start coordinating your activities (person to person, group to group)
  • Above all, start now

Unions and their Marxist allies have been working and coordinating their GOTV efforts for months.  They are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to “transform America” to this:

They’ve shown you their vision.

Now, its up to you to make sure they don’t win.

Get up, and Get Out the Vote.

There is one month left.

[* The above list is by no means a comprehensive list.]

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COMMENTS

  • JadedByPolitics

    persona BUT, please, please, please sign up to poll watch for a couple of hours on November 2nd to ensure your vote! Do NOT let anyone steal your vote on election day and allow some disgusting socialist Democrat to keep his/her seat!

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    By now you’ve been inundated with mail from your candidates. Please call their campaign offices and volunteer. They’ll put you to work. They are in the best position to know how you can help, obviously.

    If, in the unlikely event, your local candidates don’t need your help, then please get in touch with one of the key House candidates around the country and help by making phone calls from afar. It’s easy.

    Please go here:

    www.40seats.com

    www.takebackthe20.com

    Are you going to let a bunch of leftist post-modernists take our freedoms away at the ballot box? I hope not. And please try to wake up some of your friends and family members to take that first step in “getting involved.”

    We can all sleep a bit after Nov. 2.

    For Liberty,
    ColdWarrior, PC (that

    • JadedByPolitics

    • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

      Nothing against Concord but please reduce your signature size.

      Thank you!

  • coldair

    You left out the Number-One Reason for winning in November:

    Union-bought Thug Democrats are out to steal property from everyone they think has more than they do, and turn it over to them. (Granted, it’s not really “stealing” – it’s just socialist “spreading the wealth around”.)

    • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

      ;)

  • Death_of_the_Donkey

    While the gist of the post is spot on and GOTV is the #1 priority for November (well before for all of us voting early), I do take some issue with points 1, 2, and 7. First, while I agree that 1+2 are a problem, they are a problem that owes a lot of its creation to Republicans, and I still have yet to see anything tangible that shows me anything will be different this time. As for 7, I have no problem with any major shareholders voting their shares as they see fit and I am not sure that union appointees to boards are really going to be much worse than the current setup of “best buds of the CEO” in the quid pro quo board environment we have today.

    • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

      with your whine.

    • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

      …then you are either naive, or not paying attention.

      Here is Trumka from two weeks ago:

    • http://www.800cart.com Ron Robinson

      …that each of us could live, individually, under exactly the types of policies we do or don’t vote for.

      If you are OK with being saddled with $44,000 in your individual share of the national debt because you’re mad that the Republicans’ would have saddled you with $22,000 then you deserve what you vote for.

      If you are not a precinct committeeman in your local party, then you have no basis on which to criticize.

      If you refuse to get involved until the Republican party is ‘perfect’ for your own purposes, then you are going to end up… paying union dues… attending union ‘soviet’ meetings. Owing your job to some local political hack that you had to kiss up to (and probably bribe) to get you into the union so you could work at all…

      …and protesting all the above will be illegal.

      You can take all the sanctity you desire into slavery with you.

      How’s them apples?

    • http://seekingliberty.wordpress.com fmaidment

      …Board cronies are a problem, they are a problem of the owner’s (shareholders) own choosing; or a problem of the shareholders’ own laziness.

      Forcibly appointing union leaders to a corporate boardroom violates the rights of the owners of those corporations far more than the crony-ism inherent in the business world. At least, in the past, the shareholders are given an opportunity to vote their slate. That won’t be the case if unions are automatically given a seat.

      Perhaps we should also give the unions a vote in the Senate? Why not a vote in every state legislature? And let’s also give special voting seats to other special interest groups! Minorities employees can have their own board member; and by that same logic we can add a Senator from every state just for the minorities! And women! And fishermen! And dog lovers!

      No, it’s not a slippery slope argument. I’m simply taking this view that somehow the unions “deserve” their own seat on the Board to it’s ultimate logical conclusion.

      Coroprate boards are supposed to represent one group and one group only: The shareholders. This idea that they somehow must represent all “stakeholders” is a lie. Corporations that include all such stakeholders in their decisions do so not due to some right or duty, but to make those stakeholders feel more included and more likely to accept the decisions of the corporation.

      If that’s not what the owners want, if they don’t want to include the other stakeholders, well… Then too bad for the other stakeholders. They can just as easily vote with their feet.

  • Oz

    I’m not asking this to be snarky, I just know that some of my Dem friends on facebook are going to ask so I want to know the answer.

    • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

      And with respect to Bush and fiscal issues, he was terrible. His foreign policy instincts were great, his “compassionate” side was an anathema to everything that “conservative” stands for.

      He was light years better than either of his two opponents – or any of the 2000 primary contenders for that matter – but he was a lousy President overall. But, 10,000 times better than TheWon™…

    • Death_of_the_Donkey

      That is gross federal debt (and it is only through Q3 2008 since the gross federal debt is only reported once a year at the end of Q3). For reference, when Bush took office the debt stood at roughly $5.6 trillion.

    • Uma Richie

      http://lmgtfy.com/?q=national+debt+January+2009

    • JSobieski

      http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_deficit_chart.html

      It now stands at 10.64% of GDP.

      Unlike a human being who at some point will stop earning money via death, illness, retirement, a government can essentially rollover debt on a continuous ongoing basis so long as the annual deficits are small. People can disagree as to what is “small” however it is a number that certainly does not exceed 4%.

      The $800B Obama stimulus was passed in early 2009.

      • Death_of_the_Donkey

        That site doesn’t count the actual increases in total debt, it only uses “budgeted spending” to come up with its totals. If you use the raw data from the St. Louis Fed (http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/) you see that the (Q3 to Q3, since the gross federal debt is reported annually at the end of Q3 each year) we get deficits of:
        2002 (ie from Q3 2001 to Q3 2002) – -3.7%
        2003 – -4.67%
        2004 – -4.8%
        2005 – -4.3%
        2006 – -4.1%
        2007 – -3.7%
        2008 – -8%

        While not as bad as we are looking at today, this was done during a period of increasing tax revenue and 4%+ deficits are still not very good.

    • Tbone

      http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2009/03/21/GR2009032100104.html

      It will shut them up real quick.

      • JSobieski

        “Unlike a human being who at some point will stop earning money via death, illness, retirement, a government can essentially rollover debt on a continuous ongoing basis so long as the annual deficits are small. People can disagree as to what is

    • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

      We have gone from crony capitalism to an outright European socialist model

      One is a bad flu, but addressable.

      The other is rectal cancer that will eat you from the inside out.

      Is that a straight enough for your friends on Facebook?

      If so, please share it with them..

      These people do NOT like America, it s heritage, or capitalism. They want it to end, period.

      Your Democrat friends (as you call them) are either blind, ignorant, or in bed with them . If they’d made their choice, then so be it.

      When the looters tax them out into oblivion, take their property, or cause them to lose their jobs, they’ll still be blaming Bush…