I have been watching politics off and on pretty much for 35 years. There is no doubt this year will be a watershed moment in our country’s history. Emotions and excitement are building up like never before. A friend of mine, who I served with, Trevor Drown, is running for the US Senate in Arkansas. For those that don’t know he is the Green Beret and Afghan War Vet who has chosen to run as an independent.

What is fascinating to me is some of the anger and vitriol which is coming from the right in Arkansas and across the nation, especially from self-professed conservatives or tea-party members. Splitting the vote is the common theme even when the general election was 14 months out. Now with 10 months or so until the election occurs, it is a stale and tired argument, especially in Arkansas.

This populist state which many consider conservative doesn’t trust the state republican party. They haven’t for years. Case in point; only 3 percent of all registered voters are republicans, while 92 percent choose to be independents. Only one republican has become a US Senator from Arkansas in 132 years. Only five in Arkansas’ history and none have ever been reelected. That is a dismal track record. When you factor in over the years all the seats at the State and Federal level that republicans have not even run one single candidate, you have to wonder how they even exist. It is a well known mantra, in Arkansas we vote the person, not the man!

We are all entitled to free speech; goodness knows I swore an oath at 17 as do so many others to secure your right to do that. As I said splitting the vote seems to be the stale thought which is presented over and over. Now it is my turn for free speech. For those of you in the Republican Party or the ones that have infiltrated the leadership of some of the Tea Parties in Arkansas, your view is very much like the Fascists of the NAZI party in Germany, the Communists of the Soviet Union and the Klan of your own state 60 years ago.

Your efforts to insist and demand a veteran of this country needs to join a political party; smacks of all three of those combined. You would try and force someone who swore an oath and tell him he has to join a party otherwise he would split the vote and get Blanche Lincoln elected. What happens if he doesn’t? Dirty tricks? Wait those have already happened. Threats? Yep, those too. Violence? Not yet, but your kind of people burn crosses on the lawn, put people in camps, try and limit their speech, and much worse.

It is very telling ten months out, the state GOP has nine and could be as many as eleven people running for Blanche Lincoln’s seat. However, Trevor Drown, a common man who has done uncommon things who the people of Arkansas asked to run for US Senate is the one which has you worried enough to exercise your right of free speech. Do you honestly, think replacing Senator Lincoln, will solve all the problems in Arkansas? Take a moment and look at your party, its lack of leadership, corruption, incompetence and lack of cohesion. Trevor Drown is not your problem; he and others like him are our solution.

Now go to the mirror and look at yourself, read the constitution, go to your house of worship, talk to your pastor and see if your actions are worthy of an American. Is this what I served my country for? Did you really deserve the selfless service and sacrifice which so many have given for this country? You should be begging for more people like Trevor to step up and take the mantle of leadership. We need more leaders who will put the people of Arkansas above any political party, special interest group or corporation.

Here is my nonpolitically correct answer to your comments that Trevor Drown should run as a republican.

Pound Sand!

Patrick Henry said:
“They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?”

Drew you’re so stupid. You know how people can tell when you come to your own defense under an assumed name?
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Your so wrong. I know who Cloudy Skies is and it ain’t him. Its an SF support kinda guy.

Trevor Drown (I) For US Senate Arkansas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22vQ_63TqM

The same with Trevor Drown, many of his detractors have never served, want to tear someone down because he stepped up when asked and they are scared. They are very scared. Baker’s own internal polls show in a three way race Baker getting more votes than Lincoln but losing to Drown. Each one they have run in the last two months show the same thing. It is pretty bad when a UPS worker/Green Beret and Afghan War Vet has greater name recognition than a sitting Arkansas State Senator. Drown is Baker’s target, the other republicans are not important. That is why the leadership of some of these Tea Parties keep pushing the split the vote issue five months out from the primary. A few of them have hijacked the tea-party and are pushing Baker’s agenda. Since only three percent of all registered voters in Arkansas are Republicans and a third of them are running for US Senate, how can you split something which doesn’t exist? It is comical to see the rest of the party sinking, while Lincoln is the target. Replacing her doesn’t fix the problme of a sinking ship.

Hang in there Drew! Ten more months to go.

If “trev” wants to win he need to join either the Rep or Dem primary races.
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Joe

Some people just don’t trust “the people” I see. You sound like a spokesperson for the mafia issuing an ultimatum. ( not that you are – but consider what you just stated in the United States of America at that. )

You are speaking to a life long republican who left after the RNC/GOP shoved a looser down our throats in tha last presidential elections. That was a good Ole Boy choice, period. ( see eaglesnest2(dot)ning(dot)com also see Green Beret Ted Sampley’s site usvetdsp(dot)com Ted recently died – he was co-founder or Rolling Thunder and a staunch supporter of our Military, Vets and PoW/MIA. ) I have seen them pull the same/same in local elections. I always wonder if there was a payoff. BTW: The info at that site is provided by a personal friend Col. Ted Guy, one of the mostly highly decorated vets from all era’s. He was also McCains SRO at the plantation pw camp. If he didn’t die in 1999 he was going to stump after McCain and call him on the carpet when ever/where ever he could. He started ( despite all the spin other wise ) the Just Say NO To John McCain move just before he passed away.

In fine, despite Trev is facing two “Goliaths’” who think they own who is elected, the peoples sling shot has more power to do what may be considered an out side the norm confirmation ( as after all it’s the peoples seat ) via the polls than many want to admit, and in the end thats what scares the begeebers out of both parties.

Forward, inch by ince till Trev’s elected by the PEOPLE not by a party like the most recent sellout in Massachusett. Here he is spitting in the people face as he pushes socialized health-care no matter how much he tries to water it down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Y2sAdDw98

Get one REAL step closer to reclaiming our nation VOTE Trevor Drown trevordrown(dot)ning(dot)com

I applauded him for his service to our country but that doesn’t make him qualified to be a US senator.
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Hello Mr. blackberry,

May I ask qualified according to “whom”? A party? Thank God our founding fathers who fought from the heart and not the head alone, needed no one to “qualify” them to hold an office when our nation was formed.

The Framers of the Constitution created a bicameral Congress primarily as a compromise between those who felt that each state, since it was sovereign, should be equally represented, and those who felt the Legislature must directly represent the People, as did the House of Commons in Britain.

Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution sets three qualifications for senators:

1) each senator must be at least 30 years old,
2) must have been a citizen of the United States for at least the past nine years, and
3) must be (at the time of the election) an inhabitant of the state he or she seeks to represent.

The age and citizenship qualifications for senators are more stringent than those for representatives. In Federalist No. 62, James Madison justified this arrangement by arguing that the “senatorial trust” called for a “greater extent of information and stability of character.”

The Senate (not the judiciary) is the sole judge of a senator’s qualifications. During its early years, however, the Senate did not closely scrutinize the qualifications of members. As a result, three senators who failed to meet the age qualification were nevertheless admitted to the Senate: Henry Clay (aged 29 in 1806), and Armistead Thomson Mason (aged 28 in 1816) and John Eaton (aged 28 in 1818). Such an occurrence, however, has not been repeated since.

It sounds to me like Trev meets and in some cases exceeds qualification. The seat, though proclaimed recently in MA it’s still worth repeating, is not Democrat, not Republican, Independent, Green or other, it’s “the peoples seat” and their decision on election day.

Prior to and originally, senators were selected by the state legislatures, not by popular elections. By the early years of the 20th century, the legislatures of as many as 29 states had provided for popular election of senators by means of referendums. Popular election to the Senate was standardized nationally in 1913 by the ratification of the 17th Amendment.

I, Trevor Drown, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God

God Bless Trev and his heart felt desire to serve yet once again.

For Those Serving – Walking Their Walk for Freedom
http://soft-vision.com/warriors