Guest commentary: Open letter to the NC GOP | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This article originally appeared in the Beaufort Observer.

    It is hard to imagine any candidate for US Senate surviving the May Republican Primary who could be a worse choice for America than our current US Senator, Obama-supporting Democrat Kay Hagan.

    Stopping her liberal policies is our highest political priority, in my humble opinion (second only to stopping the Democrat-likeness within the GOP that keeps GOP and unaffiliated voters sitting at home instead of voting). Like any true patriot fully aware of the tyrannical dangers enveloping our Republic, I will throw my support behind whoever wins the Republican Primary in May. However, to not take note that this US Senate election in November is a rare opportunity for North Carolina to put a principled, true conservative game-changer into that important seat is unconscionable.

    It takes money. Many of us grassroots candidates proved in 2010 and 2012 that passionate boots-on-the-ground can do quite well  -  in many cases overcoming - against the well-funded, big government Democrat machine. Nevertheless, it is a fact that fundraising can be the key to winning.

    Many donors are putting their hard-earned money directly behind their candidates instead of passing it up the chain to the Party to disburse. Why?

    The Republican platform is a document we can be proud of. The lack of enforcement of the points of the platform within our legislative process that ensures our principles result in legislation leading to law is a sore point for the [probably naïve] idealist members of the entire Party [like me]. Additionally, the lack of incorporation of Resolutions carefully crafted in good faith by our Republican Delegates into legislation leading to law is another sore point.

    The revenue stream into the Party would surely surge if the connection between our worthy Republican ideals and the disbursement of funds to our candidates was transparently correlated.

    Republicans have a super majority in this state. What an opportunity!!!!!!!! This is the year to show the rest of the struggling country that there is hope, there is leadership and there is the faith of our convictions alive and well in this red state capable of winning back for NC citizens the freedoms being stolen from us by the federal government. Yes, I am talking about "we the people" using Constitutionally mandated nullification (invoking the steps taken in Colorado and other states to legalize marijuana and in South Carolina to stop Obamacare) to stop the enforcement of patently unconstitutional laws and regulations. 2014 is the year North Carolina regains our unalienable rights.

    Republican candidates need to show us donors and us voters that they are either with us in this epic battle to regain our liberty or they are in collusion to seal our collective doom.