On Gratitude and the Future of the GOP
My friends pointed out that I did not post anything on my GOPJeff.com website about my recent re-election as Treasurer of the Republican Party of Florida.
I guess I assumed that everyone learned about it on Facebook, but it was pointed out to me that a lot of folks aren’t on Facebook and get their news about Republican events via my website instead. So, therefore…
THANK YOU! To all the members of the State Committee of the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) for unanimously re-electing me to another 2 year term as Treasurer. I am humbled and honored by the standing ovation that occurred at the Annual Meeting of RPOF…I don’t think I’ve ever had a standing ovation for anything, so it was quite an experience. I began volunteering for Republican causes as a teenager some 35 years ago. It’s a gratifying experience and I am still volunteering.
So many times p0litical leaders fail to show gratitude, so I must also say THANK YOU! to the Republican voters of Leon County who back on August 14, 2012 re-elected me as their State Committeeman, which is a prelude to my re-election as Treasurer of the State Party. I posted a THANK YOU! on this website back in August, but I thought another THANK YOU! to my local folks was in order for making all this possible. It is the Leon County Republicans who share a large portion of the credit.
Moving on…..
I hope everyone is resting up from the disappointing results of last November’s elections. The past few months have been a time of reflection for all of us, but if you saw the President’s Inaugural Speech you see what we are dealing with…..an unabashed progressive statist of Orwellian proportions. Tying the progressive liberal agenda to the Founding Fathers and the principles of liberty & equality is purely left wing doublespeak when you consider what he is really advocating is a greater role for government in everyone’s lives.
One day soon, liberty, industriousness, personal responsibility, and free-market democracy capitalism (a la Jack Kemp) will be back by POPULAR DEMAND!
A close friend of mine who is a Conservative, NRA member, and good American contacted me shortly after the election to inform me that he was switching his party registration from Republican to No Party Affiliation (NPA). I found it ironic because he also said he’d continue to support me and my efforts to reform the Republican Party and would “vote mostly Republican in future elections.” So why leave the Republican Party? Why quit?
When there were great injustices Abraham Lincoln did not quit……when Hitler invaded Poland, Winston Churchill didn’t throw in the towel, Eisenhower didn’t cancel D-Day because it was cloudy and overcast……and in the face of the Soviet Empire, Ronald Wilson Reagan didn’t quit the Republican Party. Reagan WON! They LOST!
Don’t quit!
Get Involved!
The pendulum of power swings back and forth as the Founding Fathers intended it to. Obama and the Left always over-reach. Just watch the NRA mobilize….NRA runs circles around the Republican Party in terms of voter mobilization, policy, and political victory. The Republican National Committee could learn a lesson or two from the NRA.
But don’t give up….join your local Republican Party or Club….Donate or volunteer for a Conservative Cause.
REAGAN DIDN’T GIVE UP….NEITHER SHOULD YOU!
