Conservative Republicans will fight on

It continues to be very disappointing for many Iowans that Bob Vander Plaats is not the Republican candidate on the ballot. Not to be deterred, Bob’s supporters have worked hard on campaigns for other candidates and for the Iowa for Freedom effort to promote voting NO on the 3 Iowa Supreme Court Justices.

Many times in the past two years it would have been easy to give up, stay home, and heaven forbid, pout.  Participating in politics is not an easy thing to do. From my own experience, elections and Republican outcomes don’t always go the way my conservative heart wishes they would go. To assist me in the effort to keep on keeping on, I have two quotes by my computer to encourage me when the going gets tough.

“You be the somebody, you do the something”. Mike Huckabee

“Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.”  Baron Manfred von Richthofen

Chocolate helps, too.

With this post I want to give a shout out and thank you to my friends in Iowa Defense Alliance. We are a small but committed group of Conservative Republicans who blog what we think and feel. In recent posts for candidates such as Brenna Findley, Kent Sorenson, Tim Gartin, Chad Steenhoek, Karin Sevde, Rick Sanders, Tom Shaw, Renee Twedt, Brad Zaun, Stephen Howell, Jane Hodoly, and Kim Pearson we have attempted to get the word out about terrific candidates. It is my hope that we will join many of these candidates in happy celebrations!

I am also thankful to the new friends and patriots that I have come to know in my life involved in politics. These people are All-American kind of citizens with a common passion for standing up for the Constitution and conservative values. Our networking and commitment have been valuable leading up to this election night and we are more than ready and prepared for what tomorrow brings.