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It's not often that I agree with the Marxist group BLM, but they are right about this. The Democratic Party has already been on shaky ground with their rigged primary system using the superdelegates for quite some time. They've upped the ante this year and showed how fickle and abrupt their king making can be with the recent palace coup. They give lip service to being the party of the people, but they are not even pretending well anymore. Aw shucks. Why even have a primary at all.

Commented: Friday, July 26th, 2024 @ 7:06 am By: Van Zant

We all know how you have your blinders on about the highly UNdemocratic manuevers of the Democrat Party in the presidential race this year, Bobbie, and try to bury your head in the sand to the way they are destroying democracy within their party.

Commented: Friday, July 26th, 2024 @ 6:56 am By: Conservative Voter

If you cant accept defeat, you don't deserve victory.

Commented: Thursday, July 25th, 2024 @ 8:06 pm By: Big Bob

Attacking a country's heritage should not be tolerated. There should be very severe penalties for any attack on a historic monument with very substantial jail time. Whether it is the pro-Hamas rabble that has attacked a number of historic monuments including recently the Liberty Bell, the eco-loons who attack great paintings and other cultural items, or the radicals who attack southern monuments, the way to stop it is to severely punish this behavior.

There should also be a tolerance for use of whatever force is necessary to stop these attacks on historical and culturals treasures. With the Hamas or Silent Sam attacks, high potency riot control gas should have been deployed and the participants rounded up. Anyone not a US citizen should have been immediately deported. All students in the Silent Sam attack should have been immediately expelled. Everyone else should have been criminally charged with every crime possible, and active sentences sought.

WE simply must stop these attacks on our heritage by the loony left.

Commented: Thursday, July 25th, 2024 @ 8:44 pm By: Rino Hunter

The danger to America is from your Maoist crowd which wants to inflict a Maoist style Cultural Revolution on America. Pitch forks and torches from the WOKE mob.

Anyone who tears down monuments to soldiers who fought to defend their homeland from aggression is a despicable scumbag. And so are the Maoist jerks who defend their vandalism.

Commented: Thursday, July 25th, 2024 @ 3:14 pm By: Conservative Voter

IDK VZ - If black people can live with what was done to them, you can live to see the memorial to that tragedy torn down. Have a juice box. Your gonna live.


Pitch forks and torches from the MAGA crowd.
Vote - before it's too late

Commented: Thursday, July 25th, 2024 @ 2:30 pm By: Big Bob

Sorry but I have no idea what a Philly Panda is.

Commented: Thursday, July 25th, 2024 @ 1:51 pm By: Prendiegirl

Having been involved in Republican politics in North Carolina for over half a century, I have seen some nasty personality fights, but few as ugly as the current one in Beaufort County. We had one here back in the late 70s and early 80s between the Wilkinson and Ratcliff factions, but in those days, while we might have a knock down battle over party officers at the county comvention, once that was over with, both sides got back to the business of beating Democrats. Now, we have a few people on both sides of the divide who let personality conflicts obscure the need to achieve our policy goals.

In politics, policy should always trump personality. Accomplishing our policy goals, not battering those we may not personally like, is what is important. This year, when our country faces an existential threat from the far left, that is particularly crucial.

When it comes to the relationship between the policy makers put in place by the voters, and the careerists in government, I had five years of experience with that during my time as a policy-level political appointee in the Jim Martin administration. I found that each careerist I dealt with had to be evaluated individually. You could not put them all in one box. Some were straightforward, objective, and understood they were not the policymakers. They were easy to work with and their opinions carried a lot more weight with those of us who were engaged at the policy level. Others were full of their own importance and wanted to engage in policy making even if it was not their role. These were the ones that those of us at the policy level had to keep a close eye on and could not turn our backs to. Some were somewhere in between.

Unlike state government, where the governor could not be everywhere and had to rely on policy level political appointees, in local government, there is a much clearer distinction, with the elected policymakers in direct contact with the careerists hired to carry out that policy.

In the public education context, I well remember a comment at a local political meeting I attended during my first year in law school from State Senator Dick Deeb (R-Pinellas) when a local education issue was being discussed. senator Deeb observed that "there are too many school board members who seem to think that the superintendant is their boss instead of their employee." As I have heard of school controversies here in North Carolina, I have concluded that is a problem in many school systems.

Concern about the "woke" agenda in our schools has been massive all over the country, with a huge wave of voters defeating school board members aligned with the liberal education establishment and replacing them with conservative education reformers. This wave has reached into higher office and is largely responsible for carrying Virginia Governor Youngkin into office.

Here in North Carolina, our Lt. Governr Mark Robinson, now our nominee for governor, has been heavily and publicly engaged in fighting the liberal education establishment, and he will undoubtedly continue that battle as governor. Our runner up in the primary, State Treasurer Dale Folwell, has also been engaged on that issue, standing with Robinson. It is up to all Republicans to understand where the battlelines are drawn and on which side our party stands.

Personality conflicts do not mean doodly squat. It is the policy issues that are vital. In a poll last year, 71% of North Carolinians expressed concern about the political indoctrination of their children in the public schools. We must stand with those parents against the "woke" agenda.

Commented: Thursday, July 25th, 2024 @ 11:52 am By: Steven P. Rader

Looks like BLM did not get the same talking points that Little Bobbie did, or is smart enough to realize they are garbage. Now our self-styled "centrist" troll is exposed as being far to the left of even far left BLM.

Commented: Thursday, July 25th, 2024 @ 8:15 am By: Rino Hunter

Prendiegirl: I have served with Commissioner Richardson for 22.6 years, and the good Commissioner is the most honest commissioner that I have ever served with, while also being the most attentively diligent commissioner that Beaufort County has ever known.

Pronouncing Commissioner Richardson as "dishonest" could just be your freudian way of projecting outward to what extent your character belies, in turn, equally dishonest as the venerable Commissioner is just the opposite - honest.

Commented: Thursday, July 25th, 2024 @ 2:51 am By: Stan Deatherage

The personal hate within the BC Repub Party outweighs all issues.
I used to think people were joshing around with me, but it's true: The BC Repub Party really is aligned with Big Bob the progressive and really does hate almost 50% of local Republican office holders way, way more than Democrats! No good can come from an organization this toxic.

Commented: Wednesday, July 24th, 2024 @ 9:20 pm By: Van Zant