08/28/2026
Suck It Up & Unite
Democrats are really good at sticking together.
I bet it’s a personality trait that comes with socialistic tendencies and the need to fit in and sound virtuous.
Whatever it is, it has worked for them for many years.
Republicans, on the other hand, are independent, freedom-seeking people who could care less about uniting and cling to standards, even if it means losing.
I admire that, but at some point you’ve got to ask yourself, “How’s that working for you?”
It’s not.
Oregon hasn’t had a Republican governor for over 40 years.
Party members get stuck on minutiae and lose debates and elections, tripping over principles they hold to dearly, but strangle them at the finish line.
Principles are important, but what good are they if you don’t have enough power to put them in place?
You don’t hear a liberal say “Joe Blow is not liberal enough.”
How often, though, do you hear a conservative critique another right-wing thinker as a RINO or not a true conservative?
I’ll answer that for you: a lot.
Rather than judging and picking at the flesh of your fellow conservative, how about opening your tent, understanding people can have principles but they don’t have to line up with yours 100%
Republicans and Democrats have picked their candidate for governor.
A lot of Oregon Democrats will plug their noses and vote for Tina Kotek even though they know she’s destroyed the state.
I think it’s crazy, but that’s how they have managed to create a supermajority left-wing Oregon.
The secret: They stick together.
Conservatives are too busy focusing on things like ending mail-in elections and how conservative their fellow party members are; they fail to show up at the polls actually to vote.
Ending mail-in elections matters, but until that happens, you can’t expect to win if you sit on the sidelines and refuse to show up on Election Day.
This is war.
This is a fight for Oregon.
Perhaps rather than complaining about your candidate for governor, Christine Drazan, those of you who don’t like her should plug your nose and vote for her anyway.
What choice do you have?
You either play the game or sit on the sidelines and watch Oregon become what it has: a disaster, as you once again hand the election to the other side.
