That’s all well and good, but you hope and plan to take as much of my money as the other team. That’s why “we the people” are rapidly building a third option. The best part is none of you crusty old dogs think we are credible. You will have my vote over the other team to be sure, but we are gonna push your platform back into a shape.

I never want to read political statements from either party on this blog. Especially, when it is written with all caps, exclamation marks, and a prose style reminiscent of a unmedicated-schizophrenic’s journal.

EDITOR NOTE–After the defense of Vern when the Repubs wanted him to pull out of the Ada Commish race, we felt at least a little obligation to give them a forum.

Long time reader is correct. I thought the opportunity to respond in the blog format covered things pretty well. If BG wants to comment on an issue (as it did on Vern) I find that reasonable since it’s your site. I assume the Dems will now get to respond to Beck. Then the Tea Partiers to that. Etc., etc., etc.

EDITOR NOTE–We would be happy to hear from one and all either with posts or comments. Nothing happens until we talk about it.

To boisecynic. FYI I sold the 27th street property that I owned since 1998 in July of last year. If it has gone to foreclosure since that time, I’m sorry the current owner has had some financial difficulties. I hope no one tries to make a political issue of the fact they purchased the property from me.

Litmus tests and loyalty oaths of party platforms attempt to make everything a black or white issue. I would argue there are many truths to any given issue.

It is the job our our elected and appointed officials of the National, State and local republic to conduct the “peoples business” in a manner that reflects a “GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE” regardless of party affilitation.

I would put forward the notion elected officials of all stripes are not doing the peoples business in a manner a majority would approve. The result of all this is the “TEA Party folks, fed up with gridlock and featherbedding.

Last thought, never vote anyone into office if it is the best job they have ever had in their life. They work harder at reelection than any other aspect of their elected capacity or function.

Hey Rod! I am still waiting on your answer to the “Vern” question!
Rod? Rod? You out there Rod??

Dear World,

Please note that Rod in SE Boise is NOT Rod Beck.

Rod in SE Boise thinks Sisyphus is right on on this one.

OK..I’ll respond to cyclops on the Vern issue. Sisyphus really deserves no response as it doesn’t matter the response. Anyone who actually compares asking a candidate to articulate positions on issues to the murderous and dictatorial Soviet Union circa 1920 has really lost any semblance of reason.

OK Cyclops..Vern Bisterfeldt is really just a stand in for Team Dave. They recruited him and Roger to expand the influence they hold over the Ada County Commission. It almost worked except that Roger was fatally flawed and couldn’t convince enough Republicans AND Democrats to vote for him in a Republican primary.

Many Republicans knew Bisterfeldt is a fraud and not a Republican even though he has always run as a Republican. He admitted that he didn’t really believe in Republican values. Were it not for the fact TJ Thompson (Obama’s Ada guy) and Dave Bieter actively campaigned to get Democrats to vote in the Republican Primary for Vern & Roger, Vern would have lost as well. Many of the Republicans that voted for Vern didn’t know how he has betrayed the Republican Party in the past and continues to betray the Party today.

I could care less who Vern Bisterfeldt supports for public office as a Boise City Councilman or even a retired Republican County Commissioner. However, when he fraudulently sought and obtained the Republican nomination for Ada County Commission that’s another matter.

We Republicans are working hard right now to raise money and support for Raul Labrador, Mitch Toryanski and all other Republicans while Vern is putting his efforts on electing their Democrat opponents. Why did Vern wait until two days AFTER the Republican Primary to announce that he is on Walt Minnick’s campaign committee?

Now we have the prospect of Vern putting his mug on TV announcing that he is the Republican County Commission Candidate and is proudly supporting Walt Minnick and other Democrats. This is blatant hypocrisy designed to manipulate other Republicans and it is a wrong to use the Party label in such a way. There are those who would like to see both political parties disappear, they just might get their way with this type of behavior.

We have asked Vern, as a matter of honor and integrity to resign the nomination as a Republican County Commission Candidate. For obvious reasons we really don’t expect him to respond.

LOL. I agree, Rod BECK, that my comment when taken in the context you provided does seem rather hyperbolic, almost laughable. Actually quite laughable. But perhaps I thought too much of your education for you to be familiar of the purity purges associated with single party take over of the Russian state, kinda like the state of Idaho. Better red than dead, eh?

I reckon your myopic view of “honor and integrity” is through the lens of your last three electoral losses during a time when your fellow Republican Vern Bisterfeld received re-election and high acclaim as a pragmatist trumping the ideological albatross you seek to throw around his neck. I’m not sure how making the Republican tent smaller is going to vindicate the sting of your repeated lack of success.

And speaking of lunacy, I note that the Republican platform does nothing to address solutions to the serious problems vexing this state. Nothing in it gets students current textbooks, adequate educational facilities, an enthusiastic teacher to guide them to a bright future. Nothing in it guarantees a quality university from which the students would be proud to graduate. Nothing in it provides for a ready, willing and able workforce which might be attractive to a business seeking to relocate here. Nothing in it provides for the 25% uninsured in the state and the burden they place on the taxpayers through the CAT Fund. It fails to provide any solution to Idaho’s failure to administer Medicaid funding in order to prevent a cataclysmic burden on that same fund. Nothing in the Republican platform wrestles with our skyrocketing corrections budget or humanely deals with the mentally ill who overburden that system.

Instead the platform discloses an intellectually bankrupt party obligated to import ideology from a fringe organization which has never enjoyed political success for very good reasons. Moreover they employ tea bagger anachronisms appealing to a perverse mythological perspective of our founding and a overly simplistic view of our Constitutional principles. In short the Idaho Republican Party Platform is a backward looking prospectus in an untenable alliance with a failed ideology which does nothing to provide guidance for practical governance. Indeed it comes across as more schizophrenic than anything.

And for this you demand fealty? Good luck with that.

Now I’m pissed that someone states it is routinely done that the Idaho Education Association routinely sends out questionaires about their views. My husband has taught in Boise for 21 years, and never, not once, seen said questionaire. As to the republican oath, methinks they think alot of themselves. Perhaps fear mongering is really helping them along, and, by the way, where is our dear overly made up Ms. Swindell when we need a good laugh? Doubtfull I’ll see this in print–I’m not a normal favorite.

Sisyphus, I love you kiddo. Too smart for me, but I love ya.