Romney, Walker Deserve Our Support

Both United States, East Baton Rouge Are at Crossroads, Need Leadership

by Woody Jenkins, editor

CENTRAL — Nov. 6 can’t come soon enough for me.  I’m ready to vote now.  There’s only been one election when I’ve felt like this before.  That was in 1980 when President Carter was running for reelection, and the nation united behind Ronald Reagan.

In the case of Carter, I felt as though our nation would be doomed if he got reelected.  I think that was a correct assessment.

We are still paying for Carter’s incompetent, left-wing rule more than 30 years later.  It was, after all, Carter who allowed Iran to fall into the hands of the ayatollahs.  During his reign, we lost Afghanistan, Nicaragua, and Angola to the Soviets.  Afghanistan continues to be a serious problem today.  The Sandinistas in Nicaragua have spread their leftist idiology all over Latin America.  And the oil of Angola continues to feed a dictatorial state in Africa.  We got rid of Carter, praise God, and got instead Ronald Reagan whose policies ultimately resulted in the fall of the Soviet Union, the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, and the end of the Cold War.

But Obama is infinitely more dangerous than Carter, simply because Obama does not share many of our basic American values.  We all know his economic policies have been an unmitigated disaster.

But there are much deeper problems with Obama that should disturb every thinking person.  He has a very sinister side that is downright frightening.

That sinister side is epitomized by two high profile disasters — Fast and Furious Scandal and Benghazi.  In Fast and Furious, Obama’s administration supplied thousands of automatic weapons to Mexican drug lords.  In Benghazi, he failed to take action to save American lives at our consulate and he intentionally lied to the American people about the terrorist attack.

Gov. Mitt Romney is an honest, capable leader who can put our nation back on the right track, and it is a blessing that he is on the ballot.

Here in East Baton Rouge, we have perhaps the highest murder rate in the nation and a parish that is disintegrating before our eyes.

Fortunately, we have a capable leader in Mike Walker to carry our banner into the race for Mayor-President.  I am eager to vote for Romney and Walker — perhaps more eager to vote than at any time in my life!