Lots of headlines this morning all saying pretty much the same thing; that the political eyes of the nation are on Georgia. At stake in the January run-off election in Georgia is the control of the Senate. I had long ago decided to and in fact did vote against Trump in the Presidential election, but also decided that I would vote Republican in the senatorial elections to keep control of the Senate to preserve conservative principals. I am still of that mind but am wavering. I don't trust Kelly Loeffler or David Perdue. Every time I see a political advertisement for either of them, I have the impression of plastic people, trying to be everything to everybody but saying nothing. But it's not just an impression about those two that bothers me. For one there is the congressional investigation in which both were investigated for corruption. An article from Wikipedia explains:
"On January 24, 2020, the Senate Committees on Health and Foreign Relations held a closed meeting with only Senators present to brief them about the COVID-19 outbreak and how it would affect the United States. Following the meeting Senator Kelly Loeffler and her husband Jeffrey Sprecher, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, made twenty-seven transactions to sell stocks worth between $1,275,000 and $3,100,000 and two transactions to buy stock in Citrix Systems which saw an increase following the stock market crash.[2] Senator David Perdue made a series of 112 transactions with stocks sold for around $825,000 and bought stocks worth $1.8 million. Perdue started buying around $185,000 in stock in DuPont, a company that makes personal protective equipment, on the same day as the Senate briefing up to March 2. On May 26, the Justice Department announced that it had ended its investigation into Feinstein, Inhofe, and Loeffler. "
The investigating committee found no wrongdoing violating either lawful or ethical standards. Loeffler says that third party financial advisers did the trading, unknown to her. Yeah...the financial advisors just happened to do that shortly after a confidential senator briefing, and made all the right choices on what stocks to buy and sell. The same goes for Perdue. I recall that old chestnut that says "If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and quakes like a duck, it's probably a duck."
Another thing that bothers me is their fawning over Trump; acting like puppies trying to impress their master. That includes parroting his nonsense and lies and dismissing contrary information as "fake news." And like Trump they downplayed the coronavirus. What I find really interesting is that in their earlier advertisements each of them played heavily on their relationships with Trump, but now that Trump is on his way out he has virtually disappeared from their paper and television advertisements. That's probably a smart political ploy but doesn't say much about friendship or loyalty.
The options are Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, who in my opinion are way too far left, both spouting the same old tired liberal rhetoric. I don't want them and the rest of the liberals controlling the Senate. I am in favor of climate control, but not at the cost of immediate destruction of industry. I am in favor of equality, but not preferential treatment for every minority group who feels they've been ill treated. I especially don't want to see reparations paid for slavery that occurred 200 years ago, or illegals with voting rights. I don't even want to see illegals period.
Once upon a time there was an American culture. Remnants of it still exist but it is slowly and perhaps irretrievably disappearing. Conservative principles and values are the best hope to preserve what remains. It is my hope that the Republican Party can regroup and once again focus on supporting and defending American ideals rather than an individual, especially one who seems hell-bent on destroying democracy. But I'm not sure that Loeffler or Perdue have the character to defend American ideals. I don't know who does at this point but I am sure it's not Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.
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