Ben Edtl

Unity is a great buzzword. I want unity with all Republicans--but that's a fantasy. Partly because we have a bunch of people in our party who are just Democrats corrupting our party, and partly because no group of people that large will agree on everything. I won't be emotionally blackmailed into silence by a call for "unity" that's only purpose is to keep me from pointing out corruption, misinformation, or out right lying. We need to take back our party from RINO's and Uniparty con artists that lie to us and say that compromising basically everything that makes us Republican is the only way we can win, that's simply not true. Many Democrats abandoned the left, and they are welcome to join us if they want, but we are not the Democrate-lite party, we are REPUBLICANS. We belive in small government, ALL the rights afforded to us by the constitution, and we love our country. We support our soldiers, and we defend those who can't defend themselves. Yes, there are things we argue about, but not core principles. Securing our elections is one of our core beliefs--and the uniparty hates it. During a time when the national Republican Party is pushing hard against fraud and ending vote by mail,ORP pushed to remove election integrity from our listed core principles? Why? To appeal more to Democrat and moderate votes. But the truth is, the more they shift us towards Democrats, they less Republicans support them! Politics 101: never abandon your core/base voters. ORP and most of our current elected officials abandoned us to try and get more Democrat votes. It's a losing strategy because for ever 1 Democrat vote you win, you lose 2 Republican votes. Here's how you determine RINO'S: 1) They don't believe election fraud exists and constantly repeat things like "voting is safe and secure" or "theres not enough fraud to matter." There is no way a person who has done reasonable amounts of research on their own could possibly believe this--they are pushing Democrat and Uniparty lies. 2) They VOTE with Democrats, get "tricked" by Democrats, and do not stand united against Democrats with their fellow party members. Even 1 vote with Democrats and against Republicans is proof of a problem. They always have an excuse that sounds so good! But the end result is always the same, they don't get anything done and the help Democrats continue to abuse us. 3) They won't call out fraud or corruption in the Republican party and defend that stance under "unity" and other garbage arguments. Real Republicans want you to call out ANY FRAUD OR CORRUPTION even in Republicans! So if you aren't doing it, you are party of the corruption! It's time to clean house Oregon Republicans, and we need to get the RINO'S out of all positions of power so they can't keep slowly converting us to Democrat-lite and blaming us when nothing changes. Once they are out, our BASE (which has long slumbered because our elected officials do not represent them) will be energized and we will see an explosion in voting and support like we haven't seen in 30 years. Because when you ACTUALLY represent your constituents, they support you. When you do nothing but make deals with Democrats, refuse to support anything that might cost you votes (even core Republican principles), and just work to enrich your own power and money--people know, and they stop supporting you. This is what has happened in Oregon. Right now, our elected officials are almost all just giving us lip service. The proof is in their voting records. Every fancy excuse means nothing if when they vote, they sell us out. LETS GO OREGON!!!