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Roy Cooper was a budding socialist before socialism was cool. North Carolina does not need that wanker in the Senate. I wish we had a stronger candidate for the GOP, but Michael Whatley will have to do. He is the only game in town now to stop Comrade Cooper.

Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 3:40 pm By: John Steed

Fact:
Trump votes by mail.
Good enough for him, good enough for us.

Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 2:57 pm By: big Bob

Immigration policy is a good example of how Democrats have galloped to the left over the past few years. John F. Kennedy vigorously enforced our immigration laws. So did Jimmy Carter. So, even, for the most part did Barack Obama. It was only when the group that pulled the strings in the Biden regime arrived, that they put their open borders globalist ideology ahead of our immigration laws and went full bore to thwart them and deliberately flood our country with illegal aliens. Now, almost the whole Democrat Party puts even illegal aliens who have committed other crimes in our country ahead of American citizens. It is all about partisan power and their globalist open borders ideology.

Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 9:45 am By: borderhawk

Mail-in voting is an engine of election fraud everywhere. A criminal investigation has been opened in Germany on mail-in vote fraud in an upcoming state election there, and already there is a smoking gun: rmx.news

Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 8:14 am By: Rino Hunter

What has happened over the past 6 or 7 decades is that the political spectrum has galloped to the left. What was a moderate position in the 1960s is now a conservative position. What is a left position today is very far to the left of what one would have been 6 or 7 decades ago. That makes the left today the extremists, and they keep getting even more extreme, as the DSA illustrates.

A good example is a campaign ad from former GOP US Senator Scott Brown (R-Massachusetts) about a decade ago. It showed John Kennedy starting an actual speech JFK gave on issues and Brown finishing it, illustrating that Brown's positions on issues were the same as JFK's had been. Another is a Republican US Senator this year introducing the exact anti-immigration bill that Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) had inteoduced decades ago.

Democrats have move to the hard left to the point that the DSA chairman's comment that their goal is communism does not even phase them. Republicans now occupy the political ground that John F. Kennedy and other Democrats like him once occupied and the left now calls that "fascist".

Will, you need a lot more study of American politics.

Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 7:40 am By: John Steed

Many are extremist. When a pendulum is pushed one way, we understand as men that it will swing back again with the same energy.

Commented: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026 @ 11:56 pm By: Will Simmons

Washingtonian: I will defend the honest politicians I know well, and those that I have the acute knowledge to know from far away.

The problem that remains is we need more of us.

Commented: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026 @ 5:51 pm By: Stan Deatherage

My Kingdom, My Kingdom for one honest politician/bureaucrat, or even an honest attorney.
Socialism is obviously not the change we need, but "the system" is broken...thoroughly.
Show me any part of the local and even state Govt that wants to "serve" WeThePeople! Everyone of them is serving themselves, and anyone who steps up to defend these self serving people mostly likely has money in the game. There is NO reason to praise any politician. Theyare NOT heroes AND they are not any smarter than the ppl here. And guess what...NOTHING said on this platform is going to reform govt. The self-serving nature is too entrenched. WE are NOT SAFE. The city is not safe! BBob if u have a plan, explain it in detail. Talk is cheap.

Commented: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026 @ 4:26 pm By: Washingtonian

Not an excuse, just common sense. If the legislature can do anything about smart meters, the local legislator to contact is conservative State Senator Bob Brinson. He is, like Kidwell, a full spectrum conservative and a real Republican, but is not a lame duck like Kidwell has been since the primary. Smart meters are a horrible idea all the way around, and trying to talk sense into the city council will be tough.

The license plate reading Flock surveillance cameras required state legislation to get off the ground, and Kidwell led the successful fight for years to block that.

Commented: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026 @ 2:31 pm By: John Steed

Any normal principled person puts law and order over criminality. The far left like "Big Bob" does not. That is why he and most Democrats put criminal illegal aliens, those who have already committed crimes in our country over American victims of those crimes, including those murdered, raped, or robbed. Putting criminals over victims is a vicious form of extremism. Yes, it is putting ideology ahead of human beings, the crime victims.

Here is a good rebuke to Democrats like "Big Bob" delivered to a Congressional committee by a black American father whose daughter was severely and permanently injured by an illegal alien who was not supposed to even be in the country: redstate.com Listen to that anguished father denounce the Democrats who let these illegal aliens in.

But those of "Bib Bob's" ilk, the Democrats, also are extreme in giving a preference to those who wantonly defy our immigration laws over those on waiting lists trying to do it the right way. Putting scofflaws ahead of persons trying to do something legally is also a mark of far left extremism that permeates today's Democrat Party.

The Democrats, like "Big Bob" put their open borders ideology ahead of the American victims of illegal alien crime (and indeed some illegal alien victims of illegal alien crime). They also put their open borders ideology ahead of the aspiring immigrants doing it the right way by promoting a system that allows scofflaw illegal aliens to jump in line ahead of them.

Democrat politicians have openly admitted they push that agenda because they think illegal aliens will get a "pathway to citizenship" and vote for them. For Democrats it is ALL about power.

Commented: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026 @ 12:08 pm By: borderhawk

Comments and excuses like yours John Steed, is why things regarding our local govt will never get better around here.

Commented: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026 @ 10:25 am By: Washingtonian

The fact that NRSC funds spendthrift liberals like Cornyn and Cassidy in primaries against conservatives means I would NEVER give a nickel to that organization.

Commented: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026 @ 8:27 am By: Concerned Taxpayer