We Volunteered...

We stood watch while you slept, but we volunteered.

We were the line between civilized people and the savages, but we volunteered.

We lost precious friends, blood brothers, treasured sisters as you went about your lives, but we volunteered.

We safeguarded your freedoms, even as you threw them away, but we volunteered.

We threw myself into the fray, fended off the wolves, so you could rest easy, but we volunteered.

Do not grieve for us, for we have completed our work here. We have left this battle for the peace of God's love.

Instead, celebrate that we lived.

Remember us all the days of your lives. Remember our brothers and sisters who still fight, and die, for you.

Remember our mothers, fathers, wives, husbands, sons and daughters we left behind.

So go to your barbecues, your parties, your fireworks. We don't mind, for had our check not been cashed, we'd likely do the same.

All we ask is that you teach your children what this day is really about. Teach them to love America, despite her faults and foibles.

Instruct them in the ways of freedom, so that they realize the sacrifices that were made so they could be free.

We now stand with our brothers and sisters in an unbroken line that stretches back to the founding of this great nation. We stand with mighty company.

We pray that the day comes when no more need join us, but until that day, know that we would do it again if it was asked of us.

We volunteered, so you didn't have to. ~ Hunter

Memorial Day 2016

I Choose Principles Over Party

Isn't it funny how the people who were warned repeatedly that if they selected a nominee who didn't represent conservatism we conservatives wouldn't vote for him are now saying if we don't vote for him, we're either liberals or pro-Hillary - often both - and we should be "ashamed of" ourselves?

We were also told that the GOP house needed to be "burned down" and that they would get The Fraud of Fifth Avenue elected without our help.

Well, you've accomplished your goal of burning down the house, so to speak. You've driven away the base of the party - the true conservatives. Now is your chance to accomplish the other part of your goal - getting The Fraud elected without our help. Good luck with that because it's not gonna happen.

You were warned.

You didn't listen.

Now you expect - no, demand - that we vote for someone who not only does not represent conservatism in any way, shape, manner, or form but is Hillary's ideological twin. Not happening.

You made this bed - sleep in it.

I will no longer play the "good little Republican" for you or to get the party the "win" when it's not the party I joined in 1988.  It certainly no longer holds but the barest shred of conservative principles.

You wanted a fascist, banana republic dictator as your nominee (not my nominee), so go get it done - ALL BY YOURSELVES. I, as well as millions of other conservatives with principles won't have an active part in the murder of the United States. Even if Hillary wins, I'll sleep with a clear conscience because I'll have done the right and moral thing.

Good luck explaining to your grandchildren why you did not. ~ Hunter

What The Results In Indiana REALLY Mean - The End Of The United States

What is one supposed to do, to think, when the party you've belonged to no longer even pretends to represent you? I'm not just talking about the Republican Party apparatus - I'm talking about the so-called "rank-and-file" voters, my neighbors, my FRIENDS.
When I say I will never vote for The Fraud of Fifth Avenue, I actually mean it. I can no longer justify voting for the "lesser of two evils." Progressivism has so weakened the moral fiber of this nation and her people that many are voting just for sheer vengeance.
It doesn't matter to them that the Republican frontrunner supported Obama and Clinton. They no longer care about their supposedly conservative principles of smaller government, lower taxes, less regulation. They've proved it by voting for a small-minded "man" with a god-complex who stands for everything they stood against just a single year ago.
Have we fallen that far? Is it possible that patriotism has given way to hatefulness as a virtue? How could conservatism become so bastardized that we fail to see the progressive nature of a candidate who's ostensibly on "our" side? What has become of our party, our country, our fellow citizens?
I've lost several friends over this election cycle because I will not be silent about what I see, nor will I tolerate the trash coming from supposedly informed people. I don't have a problem with that in the slightest. I can only give people information; I can't make them think critically about it.
It shames me to know that the life of the United States of America hangs literally by a thread and I can do nothing about it. it terrifies me that my grandchildren will never know the type of freedom I enjoyed and I can't stop it from happening. It chills me to the bone that the party that once stood for freedom and equality for ALL stands poised to nominate a dictator-in-waiting and I can do NOTHING TO PREVENT IT.
Do freedom and liberty mean so little to Americans anymore that we have to elect another big government leftist, but one who poses as a capitalist? Are we so selfish that we would doom for all time our children and grandchildren? I pray that we're not, yet fear that we are. Too many are far more concerned with the here and now that they fail to consider the future and mark my words - that future will NOT be a bright or pretty one.
If there's a silver lining to all this - and I know I'm really stretching for this one - it's that I've come to realize that the rampant stupidity and blind "cult of personality" mindset is not limited solely to the demoKKKrats and liberals. It fully infects the Right as well.
A vote for anyone other than the only candidate who knows the Constitution - what it says, what it means, and how we need to get back on the path the Founders set out for us - is a conscious effort to drive a knife into the heart of America. I won't do it. I CAN'T do it, If that drives a wedge between us as friends, neighbors, countrymen - so be it. That's a cross I can I can bear.
I will not be party to the rape and murder of that which I hold most dear - the United States of America. I hope to God Himself that I'm wrong and I will be the first to admit it if it turns out to be so but after a lifetime of watching and following all things political, I seriously doubt that I am.
I no longer have a party, not because I have changed so much that I no longer fit in but because the party has changed so much that I no longer recognize it as my home. ~ Hunter
"I didn't leave my party. My party left me."