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Honolulu is 2,393 miles offshore from San Francisco. But that doesn’t stop Hawaii Democrats from trying to up the ante on every perverse policy coming out of the Bay Area. Geographically at 21° North Latitude and 158° West Longitude, in the tropical Pacific Basin, yet politically drifting ever farther away from the American heartland.
When I worked in our nation’s capital three decades ago, I once suggested that a subject matter expert well versed in a crucial and essential program be brought in from Hawaii. The reaction was that Virginia and Maryland are right next door, New York is just a short distance and even Miami is still on the eastern seaboard. No matter how good he or she might be, we ain’t never gonna bring somebody in from Hawaii for this.
Every four years on presidential election day, results are usually pretty much determined by the time Hawaii polls close at 6 p.m. local time which is 11 p.m. back east. Major news outlets usually call national and local races in Hawaii for the Democrat before waiting for the actual results. It’s a given supposition that a Democrat always wins here. No suspense. By the time a third printout comes out by 11 p.m. or so Hawaii time, the early bird media on the East Coast has already written their stories.
So, what’s it like living in a Democrat-controlled one-party state? How could the people of Hawaii elect a hateful person like Mazie Hirono to the U.S. Senate? What is the Republican Party doing and why don’t conservatives stand up and be counted?
These are all excellent questions and very pertinent. During the election campaign, Hawaii’s Junior Senator was running for re-election at the same time she was creating a national spectacle by insulting a respected jurist in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mazie looks with contempt on conservatives, Christians and males. Her condescension is obvious and her conduct in U.S. Senate hearings and on the floor of that august body reveals her litmus test that anyone who believes in the sanctity of preborn babies in the womb will never receive her vote for confirmation to any judgeship. That is her way of predetermining the outcome of future cases to transform America into her own distorted version which is far afield from that established by this nation’s Founders.
Many of us got questions in social media asking how could the 50th state possibly keep sending this misanthropic person to Congress. All we could do is say honestly that in a state with seven to eight times as many registered Democrats as Republicans, conservatives are severely limited in getting their message to the voters.
While this caught the attention of the public during the confirmation hearing, it’s a situation that we here in Hawaii have faced for many years in a state that is totally ensconced on the Democrat Plantation. One conservative candidate was told quite sincerely by a potential supporter that she had read his platform and very much agreed with it, and that she wished she could vote for him, but that she simply could not because he was a Republican. True story.
This is not a unique scenario. She was just more candid and forthright than most people who always vote a straight Democrat ticket regardless of whose name appears with a [D] after it.
Let’s continue to use Mazie as our negative example because her name is better known nationwide ~ or more correctly her televised antics are more notorious nationwide ~ and also because there are so many easy to remember instances of her hyper-partisanship and lack of objectivity.
In her first campaign for U.S. Senate against Republican Linda Lingle who had somehow previously defeated her to become Hawaii’s only Republican Governor of this century, during the Senatorial debate, Mazie consistently looked right at Linda and referred to her as “my REPUBLICAN opponent”. The word “Republican” was enunciated with a disdain in Mazie’s voice that made it sound like a real pejorative.
Unfortunately, Mazie is not the only one who uses this tactic. She’s just more crude and more blatant and more skilled in doing so. Hawaii has an all-Democrat DC delegation and a Democrat Governor. In varying degrees, their partisanship is apparent to one and all, both their supporters and those who dare speak out in opposition. Each of those running for reelection in 2018 won easily in the general election.
I’ll save more about the other Hawaii Democrat officials for a later time. The real problem here in the islands is a very anemic minority party. The political death knell of Hawaii GOP has been proclaimed many times in many places in many ways by many liberal entities. Unfortunately, conservatives have to concur that we have been disenfranchised.
After the national Republican Party stabbed us in the back at the Convention in Cleveland in 2016, nobody in the local party stood up for us either. They are too busy infighting and vying among themselves for power and prestige and kissing up to the guy in the Oval Office who bears the stamp of their organization ~ at least at the moment, he does.
There are few if any prominent names that come to mind as potential rising stars in the Republican Party which barely exists in Hawaii or the conservative movement which does in name only. The truth is that there are many people in the State of Hawaii on all islands who maintain traditional family values, conservative fiscal practices, high morals and patriotism towards both State and Nation.
Somehow the Democrat Party has successfully branded the Republican Party as a throwback to the days of businessmen and missionaries from the U.S. mainland who sailed here during the Hawaiian Monarchy and exploited the indigenous people of Hawaii. The territorial days which ended upon statehood in 1959 have come to be relegated to the prehistoric past. Since then Democrats have controlled virtually all facets of life in Hawaii.
But this is not 1959. 2019 will be the 60th anniversary of the State of Hawaii. Today, Hawaii’s economy is not doing well. This is a very anti-business climate with over-taxation and over-regulation. Homelessness grew by 12% in 2018 and was already bad before that. Both locals and kamaaina alike are fleeing the high cost of living in Hawaii for a more affordable lifestyle in other states. The rail to nowhere is becoming a national disgrace and enormous financial burden.
It’s time for the good-hearted people of Hawaii to realize that it is a secret ballot they cast at the polling place and that they are accountable to their families, their children, their children’s children and not to the Hawaii Democrat Party! To succeed in Hawaii, we must reach the sensibilities of registered Democrats. There are simply not enough registered Republicans to change the misdirection.
We must simultaneously also work to rebrand the Republican Party as the one which truly cares about and represents ALL the people of Hawaii, not just special interest groups as do the Democrats. It won’t hurt if we will also choose Republican Party officials who will get off their okole and help recruit better candidates, help spread the conservative message and actually put candidates into office for a change. No more also-rans. No more token candidates. The Democrat monopoly must be broken up.
Even if I be a minority of one ~ which I am not ~ but actually am one of a very small minority who publicly stand for conservative principles ~ abandoning ship is simply not an option. Being a constructive critic of both political parties is the most reasonable path to take.
Common Sense Must Prevail Against All Odds!
Hawaii print media, broadcast media and online media are all very much in the pocket of the Democrat one-party machine. That’s why for us here in the 50th state, NOQ Report is an objective source whose time has come!
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You could exchange the word Hawaii with the word California and all the political descriptions would still be accurate.
Until hate driven people like Hirono, Kamila Harris and others are thrown out of our Legislative Bodies For Cause, that being their Anti-Constitutional attitudes, and I would emphasize that their attitudes run completely against the Constitutional Principles that they swore an oath to uphold, our Republic will remain in peril, as will every Constitution Supporting Citizen.