Vote the party? Then look at the party's record

I feel compelled to respond to Bob McClellan’s letter of June 3. Typically I read McClellan’s letters in full, respecting his right to his opinion which I sometimes can understand, infrequently agree with and often have to acknowledge his right to be wrong.

In this article, he casually states that typically he has voted for the individual but this time around he must vote for party, presumably because of its ultimate superiority. He berates the Koch brothers for their support of conservative causes but totally ignores the likes of George Soros, who donates billions to recreate the U.S. constitution or Tom Steyer, the California millionaire who is throwing money everywhere to support like-minded environmentalist candidates.

McClellan states the Democrats are independents who value all opinions but doesn’t mention the totalitarian viewpoints of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, both mouthpieces for the administration. He mentions the Democrats’ sensibilities and social compassion, unless you disagree, then you’re indicted with homophobia, racism, ideologue, sexism, anti-clean water and the list goes on. For being sensitive, they sure show a limited ability to hear all sides and respond to the issues instead of assaulting the messenger. Perhaps that is because they can’t defend what has been happening the past several years.

Vote Democratic, he closes. That’s his plea. Don’t consider the results and outcomes during the past five years. Overlook the pathetic record, the scandals and the bodies littered around ill-thought, ill-executed policy. Forget the people running, just vote for the party.

Well, this is the party that has run the economy into the ground. This is the party that has brought us Fast and Furious, and a deranged and unintelligible immigration policy starting with border security. This is the party of four Benghazi deaths because of benign and incomprehendable foreign policy. This is the party of the Syrian Red Line which dissolved into a yellow, moving target because of the administration’s cowardice.

Lest we forget, this is party of the infamous IRS targeting of conservatives, the criminal VA incompetence and the five-year decision process of the Keystone pipeline, again due to lack of competence and backbone. This is the party that downright lies as in that famous quote, “If you like your plan, you can keep it, PERIOD,” or “What difference does it make” about people killed in Benghazi? And the all-time most insidious and deranged statement ever, “We have to pass the bill to see what’s in it,” referring to the thousand-page Obamacare world-saver.

Folks, if this party represents your morals, your vision of our country and compassion for the Constitution and rule of law, then by all means vote for THE Party. We elected an amateur to run this country, and he hired other academic amateurs who never oversaw a payroll or produced a profit. Only 8 percent of Obama’s primary advisers have ever run anything, the lowest in history of any president, and we wonder what went wrong. Send children to do adult work and we should not be surprised that we then get childish results.

Personally, I’m inclined to vote non-incumbent, regardless of party. Obama is an abysmal failure but Congress has supported him or allowed him to do it. There’s no effective oversight in Congress, there’s no courage to take on a president who revises his own laws, makes new ones or ignores those he doesn’t like. There are few in Congress who will put their reelection on the line for principle. There is much wisdom in Congress, but little courage to use it. Get rid of all of them and start over. It can’t get worse from the top down.

Miller is a resident of Whitefish.