The Judas Goat

In stockyards, a goat finds gainful employment and at least temporary job security by guiding other animals to the slaughter. Republicans in Washington learned a bit about betrayal several years back when Jim Jeffords took Republican party campaign funds, the ready assistance of the state and national Republican party, ran as a Republican, said he was a Republican in his ads and campaign literature, won election to the US Senate as a Republican and then decided to abandon his party and his voters by caucusing with the Democrats. In my home state of Tennessee, we have another politician who has decided to stab his party and the voters of Tennessee in the back. This walking pile of offal is named Kent Williams and he has conspired with Tennessee Democrats to make the ballot meaningless thus depriving us of our most basic freedom and may well be on the way to stealing other rights. Do you think a man who so readily sells out colleagues and constituents would have any problem voting to end right to work in Tennessee, long a dream of pro-labor Democrats and the unions? Do you think a man who turns on his friends can be counted upon to stand up for our gun rights? Do you think Kent Williams will hold firm against homosexual marriage or fight to defend any of the most basic values of his fellow Tennesseans? The Democratic party of Tennessee had already spit in the face of voters in this election cycle by denying Rosalind Kurita the nomination she had fairly won. But the judicial elite so far have not seen fit to give Kurita or her voters a chance in court as evidently the votes cast by citizens don't matter, only what party bosses decide has any standing. Kurita had voted against a Lieutenant Governor who was nearing ninety(90) and no longer seemed fit for his job, angering fellow Democrats. She had the courage not to march in lockstep with her Democratic compatriots and voted in the best interests of her constituents and the state by electing someone as Lieutenant Governor who did not drift off to sleep during state Senate sessions and who still knew what century this is. Do you think a party that is willing to use all sorts of machinations to preserve its perks and power will really go to bat for anything as inconsequential as your rights, anything as trivial as your income, anything so ephemeral as ethics, anything so esoteric as honor? Rosalind Kurita equals honorable politician (too often an oxymoron). Kent Williams equals Judas.