Comments by Conservative Voter | Eastern NC Now

JV, I consider myself a Reagan Republican, not MAGA. I appreciate a lot of what Trump is doing, but I scratch my head at some things. His US senate endorsements in NC and SC are cases in point.

The Iran problem goes all the way back to Jimmy Carter, but during the Reagan era they were not in a position to be much of a threat to us, partly because of Iran and Iraq being at war during a good part of that time.

Here is the fundamental problem. Iran hates us. Its government has led "Death to America" rallies going back to the Carter days. They call us the "Great Satan" and Israel the "Little Satan". A country that is a theocratic dictatorship, calls us the "Great Satan" and constantly proclaims "Death to America" is not one that any sane American would want to have nuclear weapons. Yet Iran is way too close to developing nuclear weapons. Further, the Muslim clique that runs the country is from a cult that believes the world needs to be engulfed in fire in order to bring about the return of the Mahdi, a Muslim religious figure. How better to engulf the world in fire than with nuclear weapons?

Obama and Biden thought they could buy Iran off with lots and lots of cash, but all that did was give Iran resources to build weapons and advance their nuclear ambitions. Iran getting nuclear weapons is a huge danger to our country and to the world. Only those with their heads buried in the sand cannot comprehend that.

One remembers the great Imperial Austrian chancellor von Metternich, who observed a couple of centuries ago that a balance of power peace only worked between true nation-states but could not apply when dealing with a country that was, in his term, an "armed ideology". In his era that was revolutionary and then Napoleonic France. In todays world the Islamo-fascist regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran is an even better example of an "armed ideology".

It is a heck of a serious problem and not one easy to fix. I do give Trump credit for trying. It is something that is going to bite us in the ass if we don't fix it. The Democrats are just irresponsibly playing politics on this issue.

Commented: Saturday, September 5th, 2026 @ 8:34 pm By: Conservative Voter

It is easy to see the extremism on the left - the DSA, ANTIFA, BLM, etc. On the other hand, it recently came out that the extremists on the right, the KKK, National Socialists, white supremists, etc. all seem to be funded by the far left Southern Poverty Law Center, which is now under indictment for money laundering in that operation.

Bob, you have outed yourself on these boards repeatedly as an extremist but now you try to posture that you are not one? That is really rich.

Mainstream liberalism or mainstream conservatism is NOT extremism. The DSA, on the other hand, according to a respected liberal Democrat US Senator is "deeply anti-American."

Commented: Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 @ 4:01 pm By: Conservative Voter

The left is disingenuous when it talks about "human beings" because in their ideology they always put one set of people ahead of others. That is the essence of DEI, for example. Conservatives believe in merit not the arbitrary ranking of rights based on race, sex, sexual deviency, and other categories.

The left focuses on the "rights" of the gender confused, trying to force the rest of society to accept them in the locker rooms, rest rooms, and sports teams of the other gender. The fact that doing so goose steps all over the rights and privacy of the other gender is of no concern to them. Letting boys into girls sports gives them an unfair advantage and is highly unfair to female athletes.

Yes, putting illegal alien criminals ahead of American crime victims, and illegal aliens over lawfully immigrants, are other good examples.

The left wants to pigeonhole people while the right sees everyone as an individual.

Woke ideology is a very good example of extremism.

Commented: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026 @ 1:15 pm By: Conservative Voter

The only "extremist" I have seen posting on this site goes by the screen name of "Big Bob". To him, if you are to the right of AOC or Bernie Sanders, his little mind tells him you are an "extremist". If Bobby really wants to see an extremist, he just has to look in a mirror.

Commented: Tuesday, September 1st, 2026 @ 1:28 pm By: Conservative Voter

We should remember that it was our own Representative Keith Kidwell who blocked authorization of these license plate readers in the NC House for years. Finally, the RINOs pushing the things took advantage of an excused medical absence of Kidwell to slip the license plate readers as a committee substitute into a bill at the last minute while he was out to get it past him. Kidwell has been a stalwart in protecting our rights and freedoms.

Commented: Saturday, August 29th, 2026 @ 6:37 pm By: Conservative Voter

Former Democrat President Jimmy Carter headed a federal commission to study election integrity. His report at the end of the study identified mail-in voting as the most prone to fraud. Since then, Republicans, who do not like election fraud, have tried to crack down on and reduce mail-in voting, while Democrats who seem just fine with election fraud, have tried to wildly expand election fraud. The big challenge now to protect our elections is to be sure we followed President Carter's advice.

Then there is the loosey-goosey voter registration rules that allow foreign citizens, fake voters, duplicate registrations, etc. Some years we had the ACORN leftwing organization doing massive fraudulent registration all over the country. New Jersey just got exposed for registered thousands of foreign citizens through its DOT. California had a woman register her dog to vote and then voted for the dog, and a Pakistan man who had never even been in America was found to be registered to vote in California and actually voting by mail there.

Commented: Monday, August 24th, 2026 @ 8:22 pm By: Conservative Voter

Bob, deficits ballooned under Biden-Harris. As long as the Senate has the filibuster. 41 Democrats can block any attempt to make meaningful budget cuts. Trying to use the "budget recolliation" process is hamstrung by a partisan Senate Parliamentarian who was appointed by Harry Reid but weak "Republican" Senate leaders McConnell and Thune refused to replace her. She seems to greenlight any "Rconciliation" bills the Democrats want but blocks much of what the GOP wants, If we are going to get meaningrul budget cuts, she needs to go.

Regular Democrats are just as crazy on government spending. That does not explain why socialists are taking them out in primaries. This is a long term development, and what has happened in the schools is a much better explanation.

Commented: Thursday, August 20th, 2026 @ 4:41 pm By: Conservative Voter

Sounds like Bobbie is a socialist, too. What he glosses over is that these are the PRIMARIES, and these way out DSA socialists are beating dyed in the wool liberal Democrats who have just as much TDS as the socialists.

Inflation is mostly caused by deficit spending, which is a Democrat specialty. Increase in health care costs and housing are driven by illegal immigration, another Democrat specialty. Food borne illness comes from imported foods these days, from Mexico and Chile. Illegal immigration is also bringing discease into our country.

Polling shows that younger voters are more to the left, and public education is a likely suspect in that. In contrast, in Europe, where illegal immigration has had more impact, it is the younger voters who are farthest to the right, particularly supporting anti-immigration parties of the populist right. They have seen the harm of illegal immigration while in school with their own eyes.

Commented: Thursday, August 20th, 2026 @ 9:42 am By: Conservative Voter

When far left agitators attacked ICE law enforcement, one with a vehicle and one with a gun, they won their Darwin awards. That is nobody's fault but their own.

Everybody here illegally needs to be deported. We have immigration laws on how people are supposed to apply to immigrate. No one who sneaks in should ever get priority over those on the waiting list trying to do it the right way. If we have extra immigration spots, they should go to those on the waiting list who applied properly, not be given to arrogant border jumpers.

Commented: Tuesday, August 18th, 2026 @ 5:36 pm By: Conservative Voter

A special interest IS a special interest. We do NOT need ANY special interest buying our elected offices, whether it is Big Solar, Big Wind, the gambling lobby, or Big Ag.

Communists are wrong about breaking up Big Ag, but not everything about Big Ag is positive. Their support of illegal immigration is the most glaring, and that is something Big Ag and the DSA have in common. Big Ag going ballistic to protect the out of state chemical compnay that makes Round Up from injured North Carolinians is also pretty outrageous.

Oh, and Communists do have their own version of Big Ag. It is called a collective farm. Communists do not like small farmers, either.

Commented: Tuesday, August 11th, 2026 @ 11:33 am By: Conservative Voter

Open primaries are a dumb, dumb, dumb idea. A good conservative in Tennessee has paid the price for letting non-Republicans vote in primaries. Here is Beaufort County, conservatives lost two races because non-Republicans were able to vote in our primaries. It is past time to close our own primaries, but the state party leadership has been thwarting grassroots efforts to do that.

Commented: Friday, August 7th, 2026 @ 12:23 pm By: Conservative Voter

Nick Fritz was the key conservative figure on the council. That is why he was targeted by the Sadler mafia. It is appalling the way his business and family were targeted to force him out. That was completely unAmerican. It was also designed to discourage solid pro-taxpayer candidates from running in the future. We must smash ALL of this corrupt Sadler mafia in 2027.

Commented: Sunday, August 2nd, 2026 @ 10:15 am By: Conservative Voter

Replacing two conservative board members with two ex-teachers who are members of the liberal teachers union will be a disaster on our Board of Education. They will undoubtedly rubberstamp what the education establishment dictates on curriculum. The most active liberals on our school board are nominal "Republicans", Carolyn Walker and T.W. Allen.

Commented: Friday, July 31st, 2026 @ 9:28 pm By: Conservative Voter

What are they waiting on to shut this money laundering scam called Act Blue down? An election is coming up and their money laundering needs to be stopped. Most of their legal staff has already abandoned them which speaks volumes.

Commented: Monday, July 27th, 2026 @ 6:41 pm By: Conservative Voter

Cameras spying on people everywhere is like something out of a dystopian novel like "1984" or "Brave New World". They are un-American in the extreme. This "Flock" company are Stalinist goons and should be run out of business.

One simply cannot trust these cameras. There was an incident in Germany where a man got a ticket in the mail from a speed camera that said he was doing over 400 MPH on a highway. He wrote back and said that was impossible since he drove an old Toyota, not a jumbo jet. The bureaucrats wrote back and said if the camera said that, then he had to pay the ticket.

Then there was the case of a woman from western NC who got a red light camera ticket in the mail that said she ran in red light in a town in the southeastern part of the state that she had never heard of or been to. She provided documentation that on the day of the alleged ticket, she was in intensive care in a hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada and her car that the ticket was issued for was in the parking garage at that hospital. The town still wanted her to pay the ticket.

I can fully understand why the UK has had a rash of outraged citizens physically destroying these spy cameras. That seems to be starting to happen with these Flock spy cameras, too, and it is well justified as a blow for liberty to disable these spying intrusions.

Commented: Monday, July 20th, 2026 @ 8:34 am By: Conservative Voter

Doing this on the Senate floor the same day of Trump's speech showed what a vicious leftwinger Tillis is. His pushing the Democrat party line will hurt Republicans in North Carolina at the polls. In particular, I feel sorry for Tillis' protege, US Senate nominee Michael Whatley, who is most vulnerable to damage from Tillis' actions. To be fair, there is a major difference between Tillis and Whatley, in that while Tillis is a Trump hater, Whatley has a close relationship with Trump. That means that as long as Trump is in office, and possibly Vance, Whatley is not likely to stray from the party line on issues where the president has taken a position. That is a big improvement over Tillis. However, I am concerned that many average voters will not comprehend this. In his campaign, Whatley needs to put as much daylight as he can between himself and Tillis. If he fails to do that, it may doom his chances

Commented: Friday, July 17th, 2026 @ 10:27 am By: Conservative Voter

The biggest threat to American democracy is out of control Obama and Biden judges who are imposing a Tyranny of the Judiciary. Our founding fathers specifically stated that the judicial branch was supposed to be the weakest branch, but our federal judiciary, after years of usurping legislative authority by legislating from the bench, they are now trying to usurp executive power as well. Judges are political appointees who are unelected and unaccountable.

Who the No Kings crowd ought to be concerned about is the little kings in black robes, who seem to think their robes should be purple and they should have a crown on their head. Judge Sparkle is a cahhicature of the problem. If the SCOTUS cannot rein in this threat to our democracy, then Congress needs to do so.

Commented: Friday, July 10th, 2026 @ 5:28 pm By: Conservative Voter