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Actually it's the opposite of "Banana Republic" In a Banana republic a guy like trump would never be held accountable for anything. It's the definition of Banana Republic. Just sayin.

Commented: Friday, March 31st, 2023 @ 9:20 am By: Big Bob

Really? How about taking some personal responsibility. Nobody forces that needle in your arm.

Commented: Friday, March 31st, 2023 @ 9:27 am By: Big Bob

Both the Tara Reade situation with Joe Biden and the Paula Jones situation with Bill Clinton involved much more sexual activity and were not consentual at all in the case of the molestion of Reade by Biden or not completely in the case of Clinton's activities with Jones. Whateven may have happened between Trump and Stormy Daniels seems to be a lot less nvolved and was consentual. There was a massive payoff to Jones which Clinton was personally involved in. There was a likely payoff with taxpayer money to Reade but the fund likely used for that has stonewalled on saying whether it paid anything out or not. The very worst incident was Biden's digital rape of his own staffer, but that has been swept under the rug. Then one can look at Al Gore's multiple sexual assaults on women, none of which has ever been punished. There is a very differnt standard these days in our country for politicians on these matters, depending on which side of the aisle one is on, and Governor deSantis is quite correct that this is un-American to politically prosecute a presidential candidate like this.

Commented: Friday, March 31st, 2023 @ 9:13 am By: Steven P. Rader

The Fentanyl Epidemic is actually just a by-product of the Democratic Socialist mission.

Commented: Thursday, March 30th, 2023 @ 11:51 pm By: Stan Deatherage

The left is trying to groom vulnerable gender confused children, most of whom would naturally grow out of it according to the medical experts, into following a destructive lifestyle. Shameful.

Commented: Thursday, March 30th, 2023 @ 7:50 pm By: John Steed

No response to my questions? Your silence is deafening, Madame Chairman!

Commented: Thursday, March 30th, 2023 @ 6:50 pm By: Rino Hunter

Thank goodness. I want absolutely everyone allowed to get a gun and carry. Do it now. Its the only way to be safe.

Commented: Thursday, March 30th, 2023 @ 3:28 pm By: Big Bob

I don't know if anyone has seen on YouTube Federal Reserve but Vice Chair Brainard has posted on the FedNow which is the new digital currency that is getting ready to go take over.
I will post the link:
youtu.be

Everyone should be very concerned with this move.
Joe Biden got the ball rolling with Executive Order 14067.
Klaus Schwab must be very proud of his best student.
It's coming people THIS YEAR!!!
Watch the video

Commented: Thursday, March 30th, 2023 @ 11:42 am By: PK

The RINO Hunter said it best. The RINO Hunter is extremely accurate and right on target.

We all have a duty to stand up for truth, justice and the American way. Not calling out anyone who shrouds themselves in the mantle of lying is wrong. We do not have to have agressive behavior. We cannot sit on our hands either.

Commented: Thursday, March 30th, 2023 @ 6:42 am By: Hood Richardson

The reality is that the left knows that 85% of gender confused children will naturally grow out of it, and live happier lives as a result. They want to convince them to stay gender confused and to mutilate their bodies so it will be hard to go back. What the left is trying to do to these children is just sick.

Many European countries have hit the brakes and shut down the gender mutilation surgeries and chemical castration that the American left wishes to foist on vulnerable children. The British National Health Service even directs their doctors not to even suggest new names or pronouns for gender confused children.

Commented: Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 @ 7:38 pm By: John Steed

Politics should be about policies and principles, NOT personalities. When politics get driven by personalities, it leads to factionalism and devisiveness. Unfortunately in the last few years we have been seeing the personality demon raise its ugly head, and it has been coming from both directions here in Beaufort County. Neither group is innocent, although only certain individuals in either group are the main sources of discord. If we are going to maximize our Republican vote in the critical 2024 election, we need to unite the party and drive a stake through the heart of the personality monster. That is going to take some work from both sides if it is to succeed.

We have seen people with solid conservative records on both sides falsely denounced by some on the opposing side as "RINOs" (Republicans in Name Only). Granted that there are some liberal Republicans who would seem to fit that definition, but the term has been applied also to some of both sides who clearly do not. There are players on each side that want to completely eliminate the other from county politics. There are some who want to denounce anyone who does not join their own hatred of a major player on the other side and even broadly apply derisive names to them. None of this is healthy for building a united party to beat the Democrats. We need to find a foumula to tone down the fighting and name calling and start working together.

The first Beaufort County Republican convention I attended in 1979 was a good example of how things ought to go. In spite of a rather personal battle between the Wilkinson and Ratclliff factions, after the county officers were elected, all the key players of both groups were welcomed onto the executive committee and the party went forth united to battle the Democrats. That has been the way it has been with most county conventions since that time and the way it should be.

The stakes are incredibly high in 2024. Our base Republican vote in Beaufort County is high enough that the danger of actually losing the county is virtually non-existant, but we must maximize the GOP vote in counties like Beaufort if we are going to carry the much closer state of North Carolina. A divided party is less able to do that.

The first set of GOP conventions, county to state, that I attended in 1973 was a formative experience for me as to the imperative of avoiding factional bloodbaths. That year the new Republican governor, Jim Holshouser, decreed he was entitled to handpick the state GOP chairman, and many in the grassroots cried BS on that. That led to bitter "take no prisoners" winner take all battles in many counties and districts in the state to totally eliminate whichever side ended up in the minority in that particular county.

I had a front row seat to all of that because state GOP chairman Frank Rouse appointed a College Republican to each of the state convention committees and as state CR vice chairman, I drew the Credentials Committee. I heard many hours of credentials challenges and what happened in county after county. Our committee meeting adjourned about 4AM. My own county, Mecklenburg had been relatively peaceful because our county plan of organization was structured so that a total cram down by one side was not possible, so I was shocked and appalled by what I was hearing from so many counties around the state.

I also had a front row seat for the consequences of that intra-party bloodbath that played our in the 1974 election. As the new state chairman of the College Republicans, I had a seat on the state Republican Central Committee for that election. A bitterly divided party could not get its act together to properly support our candidates. We lost 14 of our 15 state senate seats, 27 of our 35 state house seats, 2 of our 4 congressmen, and our one statewide incumbent on the ballot, Attorney General Jim Carson, as well as having our US Senate nominee trounced.

Both sides comprehended that we needed to get things back together, and representatives of both agreed to back Bob Shaw of Greensoro as a unity candidate for state chairman in 1975. At county and district conventions, those who had been kicked out two years before were welcomed back into the fold and the party started to heal and build back.

Having watched that play out in 1973-74, I am not at all pleased with seeing the same demons arise in my own county.

This convention, I stayed out of the chairman's race to concentrate on major issues with the plan of organization I cared deeply about. One was preserving a formula for the at large members of the county executive committee that was crucial to preserving party unity. I had successfully led the fight to stop a similar change at the 2013 county convention that came from a different group. Unfortunately, this time with a more polarized convention, we were not successful. The other involved a provision on party disloyalty that butchered a provision that I had myself written during one of my stints on the state Republican plan of organization committee. Unfortunately, standing up for principle on the Plan of Organization seems to have put a target on my own back.

If we want to maximize our Republican vote from Beaufort County in 2024, it is time to bury the hatchet somewhere other than in the back of the other side. We need to find a formula to get people back together and concentrate on fighting the Democrats.

Commented: Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 @ 4:41 pm By: Steven P. Rader