The presidential election has been the obsession of the news media and most pundits for the last couple of years, but we also have elections for Senate and the House of Representatives. A third of the Senate’s seats, including one of Virginia’s senators, and all House seats are up for election. It’s important to think about who will occupy those seats.
The folks we elect to Congress must be committed to strong national defense. We must be able to defend ourselves against a foreign aggressor and, right now, China and Russia are the two most serious foreign problems we could have. We also need to be strong enough to be able to stand alongside allies if they are threatened. Allies are important and one of our foreign policy strengths is that we have a lot of allies.
A strong national defense means that we must have a Navy, Army and Air Force strong enough to defeat the most powerful foe we potentially have to face. Strong enough means enough numbers, the best technology available and people with top rate training to use these weapons. This is not cheap and we must be able to invest the money, or have a foreign power dictate to us, or get a lot of people killed by sending them out with bargain basement equipment.
We need fair trade. Congress must not approve trade treaties that allow corporate executives, who have no national loyalty, to send American jobs to countries where workers have very low wages, few labor laws to protect them and businesses with few environmental laws to deal with. Corporate executives will send our jobs to places like this if we let them, so Congress needs to avoid doing things that will open the door for them.
Abortion on demand is not a women’s right. It is murder. Murder is the premeditated, unjustified taking of a human life and that is exactly what abortion on demand does. We need to elect people who believe that life begins at conception and are willing to defend those most vulnerable among us.
We need to elect people to Congress who will preserve our right to keep and bear arms, enshrined in the 2nd Amendment. Don’t look to the courts to defend your rights because there is no guarantee that they will do it. Make sure that whoever you vote for is committed to preserve you rights.
We need better immigration policies and more effective border enforcement. President Donald Trump wanted to build a border wall, but Congress fought him on it. Maybe his idea would have worked, maybe it wouldn’t, but we need to do better and protecting our border so that immigrants come here legally. We need to control our borders so we know who is coming in — allowing the good folks in and keeping the criminals out.
Some changes in our immigration laws are probably in order. Our Congress needs to have a rational debate on what’s best without it becoming a vehicle for partisan bickering. We need to elect people who are willing to have this rational debate. The Indians didn’t have a good immigration policy and look at what happened to them!
As a conservative, I want to see people elected who have conservative values. Last year, liberals took control of both houses of the Virginia General Assembly. Not only have we seen some extreme legislation come out of Richmond but we have also seen the liberals procedurally turn the House of Delegates into a three-ring circus with the clowns in charge. The same result will happen to Congress, and it’s already close to happening, if we fail to vote more conservatives into office. Virginia’s mess will be the harbinger of a national mess.
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September 26, 2020 at 06:18AM
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