As we start the new year we are faced with the enormous challenge of replacing the incumbent president of our nation, with a president who will be more America friendly (and proud), business friendly, fiscally responsible, encouraging individual responsibility and less dependent citizens, and less internationally naïve. We will find these attributes in most of the current Republican presidential candidates and none of them in President Obama. We must also work hard to keep a Republican state senator in Raleigh, replace our Democratic congressman with a Republican one, and maintain or elect conservative judges and other Republican elected officials.

If we want to change the course of our nation we must be willing to work for that change, make sacrifices for that change and encourage others to do the same. Getting out the vote this coming election might very well make the difference between an America we once knew and loved to an America that has been “fundamentally transformed” into something our founders would cry when seeing. So “let’s get ready to rumble” and get the job done!

Chris Murray
Chairmain Macon County Republican Party
(828) 421-2191

The 2012 Republican Congressional Forum will be held on Saturday, March 3rd, at 4:00 p.m  at the Community Building in Franklin.  Finger foods and meet & greet time will be between 4:00 -4:30 p.m.. At 4:30 p.m., after the Presenting of Colors, the Pledge and the Invocation, the candidates will all be allowed to speak for about five minutes each.  This will be the last of three opportunities provided to  members to listen to and evaluate the candidates.  I encourage you to stick around after the close of the forum to ask more questions of the candidates.  You have a responsibility to yourself and those around you to be an informed voter.  This is your opportunity to be that informed voter.  I'm looking forward to seeing you  ALL at the forum!