My last Blog entry was just before the November 2012 election that gave us a second term of Obama.
I really was not prepared for that defeat...besides, can you call it a true defeat if you think it was an election with many instances of voter fraud? It seems as if we the electorate have been deserted like the kid in Home Alone. Are there no adults in the House? Is there no leadership who can muster a challenge to the illegitimacy of this presidency? It has become sickeningly clear that they are all too compromised to act in our behalf. There are some brave souls bucking the system...Rand Paul and Ted Cruz stand out and have literally stood up for hours of filibustering. That has given me hope and as springtime rolls around again so does the hope that we can turn this disaster around or slow it down.
My hope is motivated by my new role as Nana. I had two new grandsons born in 2013 tripling my grandmotherly responsibilities. Mothering made me write passionate letters to the editor about the downward trend in society my kids would live in. As my 3 sons grew I began writing columns that were published mostly in the MetroWest Daily News for almost 10 years when we lived out beyond 495. After they all went off to college and stayed gone my husband and I asked ourselves how we ended up with all this grass to mow with no boys to do it and no one to shovel that long driveway? So we sold our house just as the market was bottoming out in 2007. We moved in closer to Boston where among other things I would get in to Beacon Hill more often to testify for Commonwealth Covenant Keepers. The economy kept getting worse and I had to take a full time job which kept me from the State House.
The Tea Party Revolution of 2010 was an exciting time and it seemed like we would stop this behemoth called Obamacare. Inexplicably we failed in 2012 when conservatives just could not pull the lever for a RINO, so we lost. Things have taken on a surreal quality as every day seems to bring a new affront to our lifestyle. Whether it's the trampling of our religious freedoms, our Constitution, our legal rights, our privacy or the ruination of our educational, medical, economic infrastructure while putting our unborn in debt (should they survive the womb, the most dangerous place in America with 55 million aborted).
This is why I get my "Irish" back up. Not on my watch! Grandma will not stand idly by and let them steal from my grandchildren.
So I will be at the Massachusetts GOP Convention asking questions of any candidate I can buttonhole; Uncomfortable un-PC questions like "How does your faith inform your voting?" or "What is your stand on Israel, the sanctity of life, marriage?" I already know how most will answer but they need to know someone is asking these questions. They are not a forgone conclusion to the thousands, maybe millions I represent,
