Critics painted me as a defender of the old guard.\u00a0 Ha!\u00a0 The only things I defended in this election cycle were competence, sound management, realistic thinking, and the rule of law.\u00a0 Tragically, these bedrock principles did not win today in the Elbert County Republican Party primary.\u00a0 Well, the principles still exist, and it appears I will have plenty more opportunities to defend them in the future.<\/p>\n
Come November, commissioner choices will be between agenda driven liberals and, um, agenda driven liberals.\u00a0 I’m sure this prospect has the New-Plains democrats, populists, and leftists, dancing in their switch grass patches tonight, however, consequences for the county will be grim.<\/p>\n
We’ll see ubiquitous zoning and higher taxes.\u00a0 We’ll see environmentalism and its basket of unfounded mythologies unleashed in a flurry of ersatz relevancy as they consume the public discourse.\u00a0 We’ll experience these mythologies fail in an expensive protracted drama full of denial and blame.\u00a0 We’ll see none of these agenda progenitors take responsibility when their no-growth, anti-industrial, country-in-county ideas further impoverish Elbert County.\u00a0 We’ll see the few of us who use their 1st Am. right to dissent from these prevailing insanities called more names<\/a>, if that’s even possible at this point.<\/p>\n I never wrote for the sake of the old guard.\u00a0 I wrote for the sake of limited sound government.\u00a0 A voting minority of Elbert County<\/a> voted for bigger more intrusive government.\u00a0 They made a big mistake, and the county government they’ve chosen for all of us will make us pay dearly for it.\u00a0 That’s what unbridled government does to people and these people are all about the unbridling of government power.<\/p>\n