Response to 'Mourdock compares economic woes to Nazi Germany'

To the Editor:

As one of Putnam County's 12 delegates to the State Republican Convention, I believe it is my duty to write in response to the AP article regarding Richard Mourdock's convention speech, which was published in the June 9 edition of the paper.

When I read the account of Mourdock's speech, it sounded very little like what I witnessed and experienced while at the convention. The article says, "Republican delegates who heard Mourdock's speech expressed dismay at his remarks."

To tell you the truth, where I was sitting there was nothing but cheering and clapping and tears at the end of the speech. I never heard a single delegate speak against it throughout the entire convention and in fact, people continued to praise the speech throughout the convention. I suppose there were some delegates who did not like Mourdock or his message but from where I was sitting, they were clearly in the minority.

The author of the article clearly has a bias against Treasurer Mourdock or he would not have included the scandal regarding what Mourdock said about children conceived in rape. That particular matter is clearly in the past and has no relevance to the truth of Mourdock's convention speech.

There was nothing that Mourdock said which was not historically true. Germany was bankrupt and they did elect Adolph Hitler and his Nazi party out of desperation. They heard the empty promises and were so desperate for a solution to their nation's problems that they took hold of those promises and believed them even if there was little hope that they would be fulfilled. How could he not make the connection to that great tragedy and our current situation?

"If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance." How many people have been taken off guard by the broken promises which came with Obamacare? While Mourdock did not directly compare President Obama with Hitler or the Democratic Party with the Nazi Party, he was warning us as a nation that we must be careful when politicians start making outlandish promises that they cannot hope to keep.

We must keep a realistic point of view. If we grasp at every promise and entitlement that is offered to us by those who seek our vote, we may find in the end that we have believed a lie and we have set a series of events in motion which cannot easily be undone.

If you do not believe it, just ask the boys who fought on the beaches of Normandy if they think the free German elections of 1936 were important. We'd better be careful of how we vote now, so we do not have to fight another D-Day later.

Jess L. Norton

Putnam County delegate

2014 State Republican

Convention