October 7, 2008
TO ALL CONCERNED VOTERS:
We live in troubled times. The stock market is plunging because of liberal home lending policies. Wars against terrorism rage in Iraq and Afghanistan. Because this is a presidential year, Democrats are twisting all this into political charges in order to generate fear that they hope will pull people to the polls for their candidates, those same tax-and-spend liberals who got us into this mess, and who want to tell terrorists we won’t fight on to victory.
Our fathers and mothers lived through much worse. The Great Depression saw the stock market plunge and unemployment rise to twenty-five percent. A recent study shows that FDR’s socialistic policies actually prolonged the depression by making people reliant on government programs, and it wasn’t until World War II boosted the economy into overdrive that people were weaned off them. Indeed, World War II began when Great Britain’s Neville Chamberlain failed to stand up to Adolph Hitler’a aggression who promptly rolled his tanks into Chekoslavakia and Poland.
Sound familiar?
Socialism and appeasement don’t work. History has proven that over and over, yet Biden, Obama and Pelosi are peddling these policies dressed up in the Emperor’s new clothes.
Our free enterprise system rebounds to economic challenges on its own. It is cyclical and it works itself free of encumbrances based upon the motive of profit. Government regulation only slows and hampers its working.
Ronald Reagan tore down the Berlin wall by standing strongly for democracy, not by turning away into an isolationist cocoon.
John McCain and Sarah Palin are the only choices for national office to fight the war against terrorism and the war against recession. Sandy Treadwell and Jim Buhrmaster are the only choices for Congressional offices who will solve the problems we now face. Given that this same thinking now pervades Albany, Roy McDonald deserves your vote to keep the State Senate Republican, and Tony Jordan and Steve McLaughlin must be elected to the Assembly.
Please tell your friends and neighbors to make their vote count this year. We must roll up our sleeves and get to work, not blame and complain and retreat the way the Democrats want us to do. Now is the time we must stand and be counted because our candidates are counting on us so we in turn can count on them to help us solve our problems.
JACK CASEY
Chairman, Rensselaer County Republican Committee
Monuments memorialize Robert Ross and Bat Shea, two Troy men who lost their lives to politics in the 1890s. "This dual tragedy which reverberated nationwide should remind us everyday what bigotry and negative campaigning will cause," Chairman Casey said. "We strive to achieve the highest principles of accountability and professionalism in our Rensselaer County Republican Committee, and I believe our results speak for themselves — honest, dedicated officials who do the people's work quietly, efficiently and well."