Chopping Down Our Own
Bill Smith, Editor: Thank goodness someone has finally said it! The following Op-Ed by Jennifer Jacques addresses the "ripping apart" that is occurring within the "Conservative Movement." Anger over the onslaught of progressive programs is understandable. And, it is difficult for many individuals who expect everything to be corrected right away. Battles can take years. Progressives have shifted the dynamics that may take years to correct.
Also, conservatives are not clones. We come in various packages, shades and beliefs. Lately, in some situations and on some topics, it looks like feeding frenzy by piranha feeding on themselves. And this suits the liberal progressives just fine! When we had the first TEA Party events across the nation, we scared the literal hell out of the establishment. Why, because we were focused one one thing in the midst of many other bad things to come.
However, we did not think alike on a myriad of other issues or were even conservative.
Today, every conservative / independent demanding obedience to "there way or the highway," is hurting the Retaking of America being fought on many fronts. And for you chuckle headed progressives, big government liberals and globalists, we may stumble but we are not giving up the fight for our families, rights, neighborhoods, communities, states or Nation. Thank you Jennifer Jacques - our side needed a dose of reality.
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by Jennifer Jacques, Op-Ed: I've long commented on how the left remains united through thick and thin. They bury their failures, ignore when they make ignorant or false statements, turn a blind eye to scandals, affairs and financial misconduct, even gloss over murders, psychiatric disorders and tax evasion. No matter what blunders they bury, they do it together and they do not waiver in their support of their own. They dig a deep hole, throw in their mistakes, make sure it’s covered and filled in tight, then never speak of it again. It’s like it never even happened.
Now take a look at the right. I’m seeing more and more people on our side fighting openly on social media, even hit pieces against our own. How can we fight together for our cause when we’re so busy focusing on who’s fighting next to us? This person had an affair! That person said something contradictory on Facebook! Posting screenshots, gossiping about what they heard, commenting on what they’re opinion of that person is, bringing up old, insignificant bullshit: blah, blah, blah. My eyes glaze over when I read this bologna on our side from our side and it seriously gives me a headache. Why are we taking our own people out at the kneecaps? I have a few theories, but first: some background on me.
I've only been blogging on the national scene for a year now, but I have always been involved in politics and I've always been a writer. I was really sucked into the political world after I met my husband in 2003. As a private detective, he would listen to talk radio while out on surveillance each day, and come home all fired up over what he had heard. I would sit in the office while he edited video and ran reports, listening to him recount all the crazy things learned in his hours of listening to talk radio while on surveillance. When we started our own agency in 2005, I also became a State Licensed Private Detective, then spent my own time in the back of the van; watching my subjects for hours on end while absorbing the news from my favorite radio hosts like Sykes, Belling, Hannity and Savage. In time, I actually surpassed him and by the 2008 elections, knew more about the political landscape, taking my turn at filling him in every night on my news of the day.
It was actually fun! I ate up all the day's political news, found my favorite political pundits to follow, and started to share my own take on things via Facebook and Twitter. It was great; connecting with like minded people and actually being heard. Spreading information to people who may have been checked out of politics. Really being involved and feeling like I was making a change in this country I love so much was amazing. I worked on campaigns, was on TV, radio and even in the newspaper a few times. Being involved felt fantastic.
These days, it’s emotionally exhausting to be in the fight on the right. I constantly feel like I'm stepping through a minefield, never knowing which retweet or ‘like’ I give an article or author will piss someone off. It's very draining to constantly be pushing back against the progressive agenda of the left. However, the fact that I also need to put effort into carefully selecting who I associate with in that fight on the right is completely absurd.
If you guys want to keep writing in your Burn Book like a gaggle of high school Mean Girls, go right ahead – I want no part of it. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting a lot of people I sincerely respect and genuinely like in this business. I’ve also met a few that I simply do not agree with, our personalities clash or with whom I do not wish to be associated with. I simply choose to interact with those I like and ignore those I don’t. Why, you may ask? Well, because like it or not, we don’t exactly have the luxury of choosing who we are in this fight with. If you need evidence of that, then look at the last presidential election. The midterms were great, but did anyone else notice that for a brief moment, we were all focused on the task at hand, not the other people on our side?
I’ll tell you what I tell my kids: It is it what it is. There are good and bad in every party. If you think someone on our side needs to be weeded out, either weed them out quietly or let them wither or thrive on their own. Trust me, I know it happens and I know it’s hard; I had a less than pleasant experience with someone on our side this past year but instead of running around telling everyone what happened or spilling the gory details I knew about what they had done, instead of publishing it and posting screenshots or forwarding emails: I just shut up. Airing someone else’s dirty laundry says more about you than it does about them. Eventually, they will either expose themselves to more people by continuing that behavior, or they get it together and continue to fight for the cause. …and right now, we need every able bodied man, woman, and child we can get to stand with us.
With the main stream media in the tank for the progressives and the united sycophants on the left, we have enough to deal without creating enemies within. I’m not saying we should turn a blind eye to bad behavior either; part of the reason I love the right is that we do hold ourselves to a higher standard, but I think we can all agree that it needs to be done in a way that doesn't give the left the impression that we aren't united in our fight. Keep it civil. Stay united. Fight nice. Let the weeds choke themselves out, I promise they will – just please don’t go all Joan Crawford in the garden at midnight.
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Jennifer Jacques is a conservative blogger and blogs at Guns and Curves.
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Also, conservatives are not clones. We come in various packages, shades and beliefs. Lately, in some situations and on some topics, it looks like feeding frenzy by piranha feeding on themselves. And this suits the liberal progressives just fine! When we had the first TEA Party events across the nation, we scared the literal hell out of the establishment. Why, because we were focused one one thing in the midst of many other bad things to come.
However, we did not think alike on a myriad of other issues or were even conservative.
Today, every conservative / independent demanding obedience to "there way or the highway," is hurting the Retaking of America being fought on many fronts. And for you chuckle headed progressives, big government liberals and globalists, we may stumble but we are not giving up the fight for our families, rights, neighborhoods, communities, states or Nation. Thank you Jennifer Jacques - our side needed a dose of reality.
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 Mommie Dearest Prunning the Garden (1981) |
Now take a look at the right. I’m seeing more and more people on our side fighting openly on social media, even hit pieces against our own. How can we fight together for our cause when we’re so busy focusing on who’s fighting next to us? This person had an affair! That person said something contradictory on Facebook! Posting screenshots, gossiping about what they heard, commenting on what they’re opinion of that person is, bringing up old, insignificant bullshit: blah, blah, blah. My eyes glaze over when I read this bologna on our side from our side and it seriously gives me a headache. Why are we taking our own people out at the kneecaps? I have a few theories, but first: some background on me.
I've only been blogging on the national scene for a year now, but I have always been involved in politics and I've always been a writer. I was really sucked into the political world after I met my husband in 2003. As a private detective, he would listen to talk radio while out on surveillance each day, and come home all fired up over what he had heard. I would sit in the office while he edited video and ran reports, listening to him recount all the crazy things learned in his hours of listening to talk radio while on surveillance. When we started our own agency in 2005, I also became a State Licensed Private Detective, then spent my own time in the back of the van; watching my subjects for hours on end while absorbing the news from my favorite radio hosts like Sykes, Belling, Hannity and Savage. In time, I actually surpassed him and by the 2008 elections, knew more about the political landscape, taking my turn at filling him in every night on my news of the day.
It was actually fun! I ate up all the day's political news, found my favorite political pundits to follow, and started to share my own take on things via Facebook and Twitter. It was great; connecting with like minded people and actually being heard. Spreading information to people who may have been checked out of politics. Really being involved and feeling like I was making a change in this country I love so much was amazing. I worked on campaigns, was on TV, radio and even in the newspaper a few times. Being involved felt fantastic.
These days, it’s emotionally exhausting to be in the fight on the right. I constantly feel like I'm stepping through a minefield, never knowing which retweet or ‘like’ I give an article or author will piss someone off. It's very draining to constantly be pushing back against the progressive agenda of the left. However, the fact that I also need to put effort into carefully selecting who I associate with in that fight on the right is completely absurd.
If you guys want to keep writing in your Burn Book like a gaggle of high school Mean Girls, go right ahead – I want no part of it. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting a lot of people I sincerely respect and genuinely like in this business. I’ve also met a few that I simply do not agree with, our personalities clash or with whom I do not wish to be associated with. I simply choose to interact with those I like and ignore those I don’t. Why, you may ask? Well, because like it or not, we don’t exactly have the luxury of choosing who we are in this fight with. If you need evidence of that, then look at the last presidential election. The midterms were great, but did anyone else notice that for a brief moment, we were all focused on the task at hand, not the other people on our side?
I’ll tell you what I tell my kids: It is it what it is. There are good and bad in every party. If you think someone on our side needs to be weeded out, either weed them out quietly or let them wither or thrive on their own. Trust me, I know it happens and I know it’s hard; I had a less than pleasant experience with someone on our side this past year but instead of running around telling everyone what happened or spilling the gory details I knew about what they had done, instead of publishing it and posting screenshots or forwarding emails: I just shut up. Airing someone else’s dirty laundry says more about you than it does about them. Eventually, they will either expose themselves to more people by continuing that behavior, or they get it together and continue to fight for the cause. …and right now, we need every able bodied man, woman, and child we can get to stand with us.
With the main stream media in the tank for the progressives and the united sycophants on the left, we have enough to deal without creating enemies within. I’m not saying we should turn a blind eye to bad behavior either; part of the reason I love the right is that we do hold ourselves to a higher standard, but I think we can all agree that it needs to be done in a way that doesn't give the left the impression that we aren't united in our fight. Keep it civil. Stay united. Fight nice. Let the weeds choke themselves out, I promise they will – just please don’t go all Joan Crawford in the garden at midnight.
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Jennifer Jacques is a conservative blogger and blogs at Guns and Curves.
Tags: conservatives, chopping down our own, Jennifer Jacques, Guns and Curves To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. and "Like" Facebook Page - Thanks!
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