Alan Nunnele Says Government Isn’t The Answer, So Wants To Join The Government
posted 29th November 2009 in Election 2010, Politics, Republicans by jclifford
Never trust a person who tells you that government is not the answer, then asks for your vote to be elected to a government office in the same breath.
Such a person is Alan Nunnelee, who declares, “I believe that the strength of America lies in its people, neighborhoods, churches and communities, not in the Federal Government.”
So, guess what Nunnelee is doing this year. He’s campaigning to be elected to Congress, begging the people of Mississippi’s 1st congressional district to allow him to become a member of the federal government.
Don’t accept Nunnelee’s anti-government rhetoric at face value. Watch Nunnelee’s actions instead. If Nunnelee truly didn’t think that there was any power in the federal government, he would simply remain in his neighborhood and its churches. Nunnelee is seeking to join the center of power in America, and his statements claiming that the government doesn’t matter are just a pose to try to get voters to believe that he, an insurance company executive, is not playing the game of insider financial elites.
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By this logic, no one should ever vote for antigovernment conservatives but just RINO’s.
QS, who would you identify as a RINO? Really, how many Republican moderates are left – 2, 3, 4? Or, do you believe that every Republican has to be to the right of Mike Huckabee and Michele Bachmann?
People who don’t believe that government is the solution to anything shouldn’t try to join the government. Ethically, it makes most sense for them to go ahead and do the non-governmental work they SAY they believe in so much.
The truth is that people like Alan Nunnelee DO believe that government is powerful and effective, and that’s why they want to join it. They USE the statement that government isn’t an effective channel for solutions in order to justify government non-action on things that don’t serve their selfish interests. That’s the main point of this article – that politicians like Alan Nunnelee are being profoundly dishonest about their attitude toward government and the public interest.
For THAT reason, I don’t think that voters should vote for politicians like Alan Nunnelee, and yes, I do think that anyone who runs for a government position on a platform of being anti-government is either an idiot or a crook.
You’ve perceived the inconsistency too, I can see.