When it comes to electing a candidate to the US House of Representatives, do qualifications matter?
Democrats of North Carolina. I wanted to speak with you today about the process of choosing a Congressional Representative. While many Americans use many different methods of selecting a candidate when they vote, one overriding and fundamental question one should ask one’s self is....”Is the candidate I have decided to vote for qualified to hold this position”?
Friends, whatever the process you use to determine which candidate to vote for your personal business, and I don’t presume to tell you how to vote or how to select who to vote for. What I will ask you to do is to consider this. Do Qualifications Matter? I submit to you they do...especially in the Primary Elections of 2014.
Electing a candidate to serve as your representative in Washington DC in the United States House of Representatives is not a decision anyone should not take lightly, nor is the decision to run for that office. When Democrats have an opportunity to choose their champion to oppose a sitting Representative, we should, without question, send our most qualified individual. We should also send the person that best represents the Democratic Party’s platform, policies, principles and philosophies.
While a candidate’s military record is important, to solely base such a decision, in my opinion is not prudent. I think that while we as Americans appreciate our candidate’s military service, we should also look at the contributions these candidates have made to our party, and their devotion to the party’s principles and platform. Longevity with the party is one reassuring factor of determining the purity a candidate’s beliefs. Lifelong party candidates, in my opinion, are a known commodity, while newly acquired party members, especially those that have changed parties, are simply not.
Given an ample amount of time within the party, to understand what the Democratic Party stands for and a chance to prove themselves as loyal party members, these newly acquired party members may one day achieve the trust of the party to
represent the party as a candidate for office. To allow an unknown and unproven party member(s) to represent the Democratic Party in such a critical time in our political history may not be productive for the party’s political future.
It saddens me to say that the political process is being influenced by outside interests that are committed to winning at any cost. The money they are spending to buy and influence the elections is absurd and the winning at all costs has gone to the extreme. Please do not underestimate the lengths in which these Tea Party supporters will go to disrupt the Democratic Party. One merely needs to look at Senator Kay Hagan race to understand what is going on in North Carolina.