PEA RIDGE — Tired of the Party

I vowed after the last Presidential election to never again have to hold my nose when I voted. But the Republican party has stuck it to us again folks! I’ve observed how party politics operates and it stinks.

The “Party” picks their favorites from their own “elite club,” and if anyone threatened to topple them, they go around and enlist a lot of unknowns to come intothe race and dilute the votes away from the threat. Did anyone wonder why there were so many candidates in this last primary? Party politics, that’s why. Now we have the three Republican candidates. All have been around for sometime so they have name recognition, two are hard-core party players.

They don’t care about the people but will do whatever the party tells them to do.

The third is nothing buta pure “Rhino” (impostor).

How anyone can be fooled by him is hard for me to understand. Now the party has its candidates and they tell us we must vote for them.

My question is: WHY? So the same shenanigans will happen again and again.

People wake up! We are the losers here! We will have the same old status quo.

I, for one, am looking quite seriously at the Independent running in the Senatorial race. John Boozman betrayed the people of the 3rd district as a congressman. Maybe the party thing that is all right, but I am not so forgiving. I personally hope there are a lot of like-minded people who will join with me in November to send the Republican Party a message. Either work with the Conservatives or get out of the way because we are not going to take this anymore!

SUE COTTINGHAM Pea Ridge

Opinion, Pages 4 on 06/09/2010