Christopher Reed is Ready to Lead

For 24 years Iowa has been represented by Tom Harkin in the US Senate. I will be the first to say that Senator Harkin has done some good in his political career. But that was for the most part early in his political career. As his career has progressed he has grown out of touch with the people of Iowa. He no longer identifies with us, instead he now more closely identifies with the power brokers and far leftist Democrats from around the country. He no longer represents all that Iowa holds dear. He no longer represents Iowa values such as personal responsibility and fiscal responsibility.

Through his actions and his words in recent years Senator Harkin has demonstrated that he has become infested with the partisan politics that most of the population has come to despise. It is not enough for Harkin to disagree with someone else; he must denigrate and destroy those that do not agree with him. He has even gone so far as to reinvent history so that it will favor his worldview. The most well known example of this was in this video. It comes from an interview that WHO Radio personality conducted with Senator John McCain. This video contains an audio clip in which Senator Harkin dismisses true history and fabricates a history that will serve his purposes. He makes the audacious claim that when the US withdrew from Vietnam there were no executions, that there were no massacres. Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of the Vietnam War knows that this statement made by Senator Harkin during their sleepover in the Senate is completely and utterly false.

Then of course there are the repeated calls for timetables for a withdrawal from Iraq. He is either unaware that his comments actually hurt the US effort to quell the violence in Iraq or he simply does not care. Let me state this, I believe that it is okay to oppose a war. I mean we need to keep our government honest. But to openly advocate letting our opponents know what our plans are is ludicrous. Senator Harkin however seems oblivious to this. As many of you know, Harkin was recently called to the carpet for his position in this regard by his opponent Christopher Reed. Some have called Reed’s remarks a negative attack on Senator Harkin. However I believe that it needed to be said. Harkin has received a pass for far to long and it is time to hold him accountable for the things that he has done to harm not just the State of Iowa, but also the actions that he has taken to harm the United States.

I believe that it is time for Tokyo Tom to retire. It is time to let a new generation of Americans take over the reigns and represent the State of Iowa in the US Senate. And I believe that the person to do that is Christopher Reed. He has already shown that he is not afraid to stand up to for what he believes and what a large portion of Iowa believes to be right. He has shown that he will speak out against actions that damage the interests of the US and Iowa.  He is a fresh face that is not saddled with preconceived notions of how the Senate should be run. Reed holds convictions that make up the very core of who he is. Reed is not beholden to special interest groups.

I believe that Christopher Reed is the man that will defend the principles and values that make America great. When Senator Harkin mentions that America needs change I will have to say that I agree with him. However I do believe that he is mistaken when he says he can be that agent of change. A career politician can not embody the change that America needs. It is time to elect new leadership to the US Senate. And I believe that Christopher Reed is ready to lead.