I'm speaking to all the Democratic candidates for this upcoming election. You're going to have to earn my vote. I've been noticing a pattern ever since the 2006 Primaries. You all talked the talked, but most of you aren't walking the walk. You're continuosly caving into Republican demands and your spine is growing weaker and weaker. I had nothing but optimism after we took control of the House and Senate. I was naive to believe that this would bring a real change to our government...but it hasn't. Everything is still the same. Sure, we have a majority in both the House and Senate, but the Republicans are still in control.
A lot of you may get upset with what i'm about to say here, but i'm truely getting fed up with the way things are going. If the Democrats in Congress don't start standing up and fighting back against the Republicans, I may never vote again. I'm losing faith in the system, I really am. You have to prove to me that you are worth my vote, and that you are going to do what is right. You've recently caved to the Republicans on SCHIP, pushing it back to 2009. That's bullshit. You're willing to put off healthcare for children in order to please your Republican counterparts. You're willing to push through a no strings attached spending bill on Iraq, even though you swore in 2006 that "the buck stops here". The buck didn't stop here, the buck just kept on going.
You all know that Bush and Cheney have committed impeachable offenses, and they're doing it in plain sight. But what real oversight are we really getting? None. Absolutely none. You were supposed to cut oil subsidies...what ever happened to that? You caved. You were supposed to investigate Halliburton and Blackwater and all the other defense contractors that are profiting off the Iraq war, but where have we gotten with that? Nowhere.
I could keep going on and on about the Democrats in Congress caving in, but i'll just cut myself off now and make it very simple. If you don't start growing a pair, and standing up for what's right, I will never, and I repeat never, vote again. And I don't think that these are just my thoughts, i'm sure there are a lot of other people thinking the same thing. You can't keep the mentality that the Republicans are going to keep shooting themselves in the foot, because even though they are, you're shooting yourselves in the foot worse by not standing up and fighting back and making things right. Prove to me that you are worth my vote. Prove to me that you can fix what's wrong with our country. Prove to me that we can make America the great country that it was and still is. It's time to bring America back to it's place in the world as being the high ground, not the land of corruption.
Prove to me you're worth my vote, or you may never get it again.