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Vote tomorrow for Fred Smith in North Carolina
If you are a registered Republican in my home state of North Carolina, I am asking you to vote for Fred Smith for Governor in tomorrow's primary election. He is a solid fiscal and social conservative who will bring responsible and common sense convictions to the job of managing this great state. During his time in the State Senate, he has sponsored the Taxpayer Protection Act which would require responsible, efficient use of the money North Carolinians send to Raleigh and co-sponsored the Defense of Marriage Act which would preserve North Carolina's definition of marriage as between one woman and one man.
We here in North Carolina have a chance to elect a tried and true conservative as our governor. Polls are showing rival Republican Pat McCrory's double-digit lead dwindling to a dead heat. A long-shot just a couple weeks ago, Fred Smith now has a real shot at the nomination. With your help, he can win the primary and carry his legitimate conservative message on to the general election. Clear vision, straight talk. Proven conservative leadership. That's what this man offers the people of North Carolina. So, please, get out there tomorrow and cast your vote for Fred Smith.
For those in the know, I rarely write about North Carolina politics. I think about them, but rarely write. It's crunch time here in North Carolina, though, and I want to urge everyone to get out and vote on May 6th, and pick Fred Smith for Governor. He is the best Conservative choice, standing for low taxes, family values, anti-illegal immigration, and, well, you name it, he is Conservative enough. He is the kind of person we need to lead North Carolina out of the corrupt liberal the State government has become.
Other bloggers supporting Fred Smith for Governor include Katy Benningfield (Katy's Conservative Corner), Scott Elliott (Election Projection), John Hawkins (Right Wing News), Bob Owens (Confederate Yankee), Dean Stephens (Inner Banks Eagle) and Sister Toldjah.I decided over the last week that I was going to vote for Fred Smith in the GOP gubernatorial primary. And last night, I had the opportunity to attend a rally held in Greensboro on his behalf, and meet him briefly.
Right now, it appears that the GOP gubernatorial primary is essentially a two-man race. And of those two men, I think Senator Smith is the better candidate to represent conservative Republican ideals.
Smith has a varied list of policy positions on his website, and is a consistent conservative. He is pro-life and pro-family. He wants to hold the line on spending by our state government, and reorder its priorities. He advocates stopping the raid of the state Highway Trust Fund, and promoting charter schools. He champions tort reform and market-driven, consumer-directed health care. He talks about constitutional amendments on eminent domain and the definition of marriage. He espouses traditional conservative Republican approaches to job creation and crime control.
Rob Boyce posted a video from the rally on YouTube.
Last night I went to my first political rally, to support Fred Smith for governor. I met him last fall when I was invited with other bloggers to his home. And since our state primary is approaching in about five weeks (lordy loo, we still haven't gotten anywhere near voting here), Fred Smith is out and about, again with his good friend Lee Greenwood...
... I really like Fred Smith's stuff, and I hope he makes it all the way to the top. Most of my friends are internet-based, but if any of you reading this live and vote in the same state as I do, please consider reading about Fred Smith and voting for him in May.
So I got all pumped up on patriotism again last night, my drug of choice. Of course Lee Greenwood sang "God Bless the USA" again, which brings the house down. And I can't get enough of the song he wrote for Fred Smith's campaign...
But honestly, the thing that touched me the most last night was something so small, so unnoticed. The stage in the auditorium had two flags on it, the US flag and the state flag. And before the rally got started, I noticed some men from Fred Smith's staff fussing around the US flag. They left and came back with a cinder block and lifted the flag stand up onto the block. A lady sitting behind me asked her husband why they were bothering with that silly brick.The American flag was bigger than the state flag and was too big for its stand. It was dragging on the ground, and these men had set to work getting that flag off the floor.
My heart grew three sizes.
That's a heck of a campaign staff. No Che flags in this bunch.
Smith presented an attractive package to conservative primary voters. He stressed that government spending is out of control and that he would not hesitate to veto spending increases that exceeded population growth and inflation. Smith recognized that the heavy hand of Raleigh bureaucracy torments our teachers everyday, preventing them from doing their best to educate. He called for exploding the cap on charter schools and overall focusing less on process -- the wormhole the education status quo fixates on -- and more on results.
Plus -- and this cannot be oversold -- as a business owner Smith completely understands the economics of health care from a consumer perspective. Smith related cases of folks actually shopping for medical care on price, the lost element of far too many discussion of health care policy.
