This is what Unity looks like !

jordan-signs    A Call for Unity

Tonight the 35th District GOP met to discuss, among other things, the formal endorsement of Dave Wilson as our Representative Candidate and how to unify the party within our district.

I am not an ED Chair, but was asked by RD Chair Jordan Warfel to fill in by proxy for one who was not able to be there this evening and was asked if I would consider making the motion to endorse Dave, which I gladly accepted. Once the motion was presented, it was unanimously passed.

While it may seem foreign to some, I was actually happy to make the motion. We had a Primary. I lost. Dave won. Now there are choices to make. And I had committed to my choices, regardless of the outcome, when I announced that I was going to run. While I may have differing opinions on certain matters, once the voters decide who they want, I will respect and support their decision and I will respect and support the Candidate.

What the Republican Party stands for is bigger than any individual. It is a collective consisting of many voices. And while the call is for “Unity”, I feel that the word “Unity” is somewhat inaccurate. I believe it should be a call for “Harmony”. We may sing different notes, but we all need to sing the same song. We may have different ideas on how to get there, but we all need to have the same goal. And while we may not all agree on everything, we must all be agreeable in our disagreements – never losing sight of our common purpose. I believe that in the coming months, we will look back on tonight’s meeting as a turning point towards more communication, cooperation, and common purpose between Republicans in the 35th.

Mother Theresa said it well, “I can do things you cannot. You can do things I cannot. Together we can do great things.” Let’s commit to doing great things together – both in our district and throughout the State. 

 

41 Comments on "This is what Unity looks like !"

  1. Frank Knotts says:

    In Bob’s call for unity, he again shows his narrow minde thinking, that as long as someone is a Republican, then they must be the best choice. His endorsement of Dave Wilson, which I was present for at the 35th meeting, was not that Dave is the best choice, which he is, but that he is a Republican and we must as Republicans, support him. This is fine if all you are interested in is electing Republicans.
    Bob is calling for unity among the GOP, yet never mentions unity among citizens to elect the best person possible. He has doubled down on his attacks against Rep. Wilson for supporting the Democrat in the Register of Wills race.
    This type of call for unity actually only further drive a wedge between people, it does nothing to bring new people to the party.

  2. Linda Creasy says:

    I have to say, Frank, that it looks to me like Bob Mitchell is showing maturity and class in his actions here. Now I admit I was not in attendance at the meeting, and there may have been some undercurrent that doesn’t come through on a post. However, I applaud what Bob says here and his actions as described. I also think he is right on point with a call for harmony vs. unity.

    This sounds more to me like a continuation of your ceaseless attacks on Bob, and that his post works against your obsession with faulting him at every turn. Had he done nothing or said anything differently, you would have attacked him for not being a “good loser”.

    I, too, support Dave Wilson. I think he’s done a great job, and I feel he is the best candidate, party aside. Does that mean that because I say I support Dave, I am also only willing to support Republicans vs. the best qualified? Well, I can tell you that is not so, and even as an elected GOP officer, I can and have made that distinction over my many years of voting. I don’t think that such an assumption of singularity of choice should be made of Bob, either.

    Give it a rest on Bob Mitchell, Frank. It’s over, and there are far more pertinent things for you to write about and sink those bulldog teeth into!

  3. Jordan says:

    Endorsing Dave is easy when you are not filled with hate. Endorsing Dave is easy when you choose not to hold grudges. Endorsing Dave is easy when you are acting on principle and not personal animosity. Endorsing Dave is easy when you see the big picture and where the Democrats are taking our state. I want to thank Bob publicly for being so eager to participate last night. Bravo!

  4. Rinnie Yoder says:

    Frank, as you well know I was at the meeting also but do not recall Bob mentioning Dave’s support of a Democrat candidate. Unless he mentioned it to you in private before I arrived. Furthermore, I fail to see how a Republican leader supporting a Democrat brings unity to the Republican party. I just heard that George Bush the elder has endorsed Hillary for president. Would you say that decision brings unity to the Republican parry? If it does then maybe I need to change my perception of unity.

  5. Jordan says:

    Ronnie, in Frank’s world our endorsement equals an attack. Go figure!! Welcome to Frankie’s world:p

  6. Tara says:

    I love the juxtaposition of unity and harmony. Great work.

  7. mouse says:

    I wonder if Republican will give pause and reflect on why a former elected Republican POTUS and former CIA chief would support Clinton over Trump? Some things are bigger than one’s obsessive tribal proclivities

  8. Rick says:

    … why a former elected Republican POTUS and former CIA chief would support Clinton….

    Maybe because Trump crushed his son in the primary? Maybe because he’s senile?

    Or maybe he never even said it? After all, the NYT article cites a heresay “quote.”

    I like the “harmony” term. There can never be total unanimity on every issue, but minor disagreements can be handled harmoniously.

  9. Frank Knotts says:

    Do you people read what I write. I am pointing out that Republicans are not the end all, and people who refuse to consider any other choice are either blind or lying to themselves.
    Jordan says it’s easy to support Dave for many reasons, yet he failed to support Dave as the chair of the 35th. One has to wonder how vigorously he will support Dave now? Or is it all show.
    Get beyond Republican and look for the best person. Bob said many times he had a problem with Fave supporting the person he felt was better against a Republican, this says, without saying it, that Bob supports party over person. Not my cup of tea anymore sorry. If all you talk about is one party, you are setting yourself up for one party rule. I have seen and had enough of that, thanks.

  10. Frank Knotts says:

    Oh and also, thanks for recognizing that we here at Delaware Right gave Bob a forum both during the primary and for this post and he is welcome to submit other post in the future. But I guess some expect that no challenge or criticism can be offered to a Republican. Thanks for keeping your eyes wide-shut.

  11. Jordan says:

    “He has doubled down on his attacks against Rep. Wilson for supporting the Democrat in the Register of Wills race.” – Frank Knotts

    Yeah Frank, you actually wrote that!!

  12. Jordan says:

    Frank, did you or Steve Grossman put up the picture and the title? Bob didn’t. That’s quite the forum!

  13. Say it Ain't So says:

    Bob Mitchell, thank you for running, thank you for being a class act. I believe your time to serve the voters will come. Please stay active, stay involved.

  14. Rinnie Yoder says:

    Frank, you are free to support anyone you want regardless of party affiliation, but allow me to point out one thing. If you were a ball player with the Baltimore Orioles but supported the Boston Red Sox and rallied to their attempt at winning as many games as possible, would not the other players on your team be right in questioning your team loyalty? Just a thought.

  15. Bob Mitchell says:

    For the record, I did not authorize the picture or the caption, and my repeated requests to have them removed have been acknowledged, but not acted on. That is disappointing at best, and deceitful at worst.
    Once again, I find Frank’s hypocrisy to be blatantly obvious to all but himself. Somehow, he is demanding that he (and others) be able to support a member of another party without any criticism, but challenging and incumbent in a Primary is the unpardonable sin.
    I agreed to write the synopsis of last night’s meeting- and yes, the endorsement and call for unity/harmony was and is genuine.
    If Frank chooses to try to find his identity and self-worth in a failing attempt to be relevant on this blog by tearing others down thinking it builds him up, then I will probably choose not to participate. Sometimes you have to come to the difficult understanding of Matthew 7:6.

  16. Jordan says:

    Bob, you assume the best of people. I like that about you, even if you are too trusting.

  17. mouse says:

    Political parties are for fools too stupid to think beyond some tribal club they belong to.

  18. Bob Mitchell says:

    Mouse –
    While I disagree with you (I believe that political parties lay a foundation of core beliefs that are shared by the group, with the understanding that the degree to which members hold to those core tenets may vary), I have no problem with you having that opinion and I take no issue with it. Where I would have an issue would be if you held that opinion and still went to a private meeting (GOP meeting) where you know that people see it differently than you for the sole purpose of denigrating those who attend the meeting…
    Validation of one’s views does not come by criticizing someone else’s. It comes by providing proof that your views are substantiated.

  19. Jordan says:

    While Mouse may be really rude I agree with his point about tribalism. The local parties are very tribal. They circle the wagons around any member rewarding his or her bad behavior. If you try to confront one member of the group they all take it super personally. Maybe if the GOP were to hold our members accountable we would actually be respected by the voters and win more elections.

  20. Frank Knotts says:

    He has doubled down on his attacks against Rep. Wilson for supporting the Democrat in the Register of Wills race. Yes Jordan, I have actually wrote it again. If all Bob’s endorsement of Dave Wilson contains, is that he is now the Republican candidate running against the Democrat candidate, then yes, Bob has doubled down on his view that Republicans must support only Republicans, which was his reason for running against Dave Wilson, hence the double down.
    Republican Chairman of the 35th, Jordan Warfel asked, “Frank, did you or Steve Grossman put up the picture and the title? Bob didn’t. That’s quite the forum!”
    Why yes Jordan we chose the photo and the title, not an unusual practice. What is the problem with either?
    Are you ashamed that on the night before the primary, on which, you as the Republican Chairman of the 35th, spent putting out signs for the challenger? Even though the unspoken rule is, the party remains neutral until after the primary? Is that your idea of how to build party unity?
    And as for the title, well notice the question mark, I am merely asking, is this what unity looks like from the Greenwood MOB, and is it what we can expect from you as the Republican Chairman of the 35th in the future?
    It seems as though your idea of unity is to primary other Republicans, tell us Jordan, where were you when Matt Opaliski challenged Gary Simpson? Twice.
    Rinnie Yoder, who I think is Ronnie Yoder, your ball team analogy falls short. You see in my view, the parties are the players, and the team is the citizens. The team, i.e. the citizens choose their players based on who can best play the position. Therefore, the players, i.e. the parties should put forth their best effort. A team would not take on a player just because they look a certain way, or have a certain name, i.e. party affiliation. The team wants the best payers.
    Well hello Bob, nice to know the best you can do is what you always do, whine. “For the record, I did not authorize the picture or the caption, and my repeated requests to have them removed have been acknowledged, but not acted on. That is disappointing at best, and deceitful at worst.”
    I’m sorry, I must have misplaced your contract with what you did and did not authorize.
    And please use that super sized brain of yours and tell me exactly what you consider deceitful?
    Were you told before hand what the title would be? Did you submit a photo, which was not used? I am not responsible for your injudiciousness.
    Once again Bob thinks he has found hypocrisy concerning myself. ” Once again, I find Frank’s hypocrisy to be blatantly obvious to all but himself. Somehow, he is demanding that he (and others) be able to support a member of another party without any criticism, but challenging and incumbent in a Primary is the unpardonable sin.”
    Well Bob, please link to anywhere I have stated that I should not be criticized for supporting Greg Fuller. In fact Bob, I come here on a daily basis and take nothing but criticism, and rarely do I edit, or block anyone, including yourself for that criticism. As for my criticism of your so called campaign? The criticism was not because you challenged an incumbent, the criticism was due to your reason for challenging the incumbent, to settle the score for the Greenwood MOB. And because you were and are at this time unfit for office. I have supported primary challengers in the past, I have stated many times in writing, that I believe in the primary system. But if I feel the better person is the incumbent, then that is who I will support, and if the challenger is the better person, that is who I will support. You, in my opinion, and that of 70% of those who voted, were not the better person.
    Ah, now we have brought the Lord into man’s deceit. Matthew 7:6, “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”
    Well pastor Bob, you might want to back up one verse there big boy, Matthew 7:5, “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
    Before you start throwing around Bible verses, you might want to remember, we are all imperfect, and who are you to judge?
    Now Bob says the meeting I attended was a “private” meeting. Really? It was held in a public place, and if it was private, all they had to say was, sorry Frank this is a private meeting, and I would have written about that. And Bob, tell all of the people you wanted to vote for you, why you think GOP meetings should be private. Is there another meeting for the public? Or is the 35th District committee just the latest version of the “lords of the backroom”? Wasn’t your intent to endorse Dave Wilson for public consumption? Were you not given that chance right here? You were given the chance to air it publically first, I have merely commented on what you yourself wrote. I didn’t put your business in the street, you did. You seem to be upset that the public might get a version other than the one you would choose amongst your closed click.
    The so called, call for unity, may seem all fuzzy and warm, and I’m sure is intended to make Bob look like a team player. But one has to wonder, if in two years all the same players will be back once again to stir the pot for revenge.
    Many may not like that I call them as I see them, but at least I am not a phony. I am an authentic asshole, but I am an honest asshole.

  21. Jordan says:

    Since when is it OK to put your picture and title on another person’s guest post without permission, pretending that it is from them?! Why on earth would anyone submit a guest post knowing that you are going to screw with them??? Oh and thanks for throwing Steve Grossman under the bus. Now I know that he also has 0 credibility!

    Frank, I told you that you are a liar to your face and I’ll do it again! Every other thing you write is lies and deceptions. There is nothing honest or authentic about you. I can respect an honest a-hole, but not you.

  22. Frank Knotts says:

    Jordan, please explain what the issue is with the photo? Are you ashamed to have been out in the dark putting up those signs? How is it a bad thing to ask the question is this unity? Your outrage seems to suggest you would rather people not know what you were doing. Please explain for Bob why this photo and title is “screwing” with him.
    And where is the lie you continue to make reference to? Is that not you putting up Mitchell signs on the night before the primary wearing a Cindy Green t-shirt?
    Seems like the photo confirms what I have been saying all along.

  23. Jordan says:

    Frank, stop trying to divert. You put the picture and title up PRETENDING that they were from Bob. I already explained this.

  24. Jordan says:

    Hey Frank, I think I’ve got a diagnosis!!

    “PL is characterized by a long history (maybe lifelong) of frequent and repeated lying for which no apparent psychological motive or external benefit can be discerned. While ordinary lies are goal-directed and are told to obtain external benefit or to avoid punishment, pathological lies often appear purposeless. In some cases, they might be self-incriminating or damaging, which makes the behavior even more incomprehensible.”

    http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/articles/pathological-lying-symptom-or-disease

  25. Jordan says:

    Frank, I’m done with you. I don’t like provoking sick people. For your family’s sake get some help.

  26. Frank Knotts says:

    Hey Jordan, you are the one diverting, since you won’t answer a simple question, what is the problem with the photo? Are you ashamed of it?
    And just because you don’t like the truth, doesn’t make it a lie, no matter how many times you repeat it.
    And how was anything “pretend”? Unless you are talking about how you “pretend” to be a committee chair, or how you “pretend” to support Dave Wilson.
    Bob did not submit a photo or a title. If you notice all the post here have both.
    I hope that all the readers here notice that both you and Bob, have chose to focus on the photo and the title, and me rather than make your case for unity. I guess unity must be way down on your list of priorities.

  27. Rick says:

    Rinnie Yoder, who I think is Ronnie Yoder, your ball team analogy falls short.

    No, your critique falls short. It makes no sense…

    You see in my view, the parties are the players, and the team is the citizens. The team, i.e. the citizens choose their players based on who can best play the position. Therefore, the players, i.e. the parties should put forth their best effort. A team would not take on a player just because they look a certain way, or have a certain name, i.e. party affiliation. The team wants the best payers.

    Whereas Yoder’s comment makes perfect sense..

    .If you were a ball player with the Baltimore Orioles but supported the Boston Red Sox and rallied to their attempt at winning as many games as possible, would not the other players on your team be right in questioning your team loyalty?

    Sussex Republicans are always critical of you because you are a political traitor. You represent the vacillating, cross-the-aisle “moderate” position that has contributed to our incomprehensible $20-trillion debt. By being conciliatory, by “negotiating” with the left, the radical agenda is incrementally instituted. Granted, at the local and state levels your collaboration is less pernicious, but it is the same thing; you are a facilitator of the socialist agenda. What exacerbates the effect of your political naivety is the fact that your blog purports to represent the political “right,” while you at the very least represent the malleable middle, and in many cases, albeit unwittingly, the socialist left. This is manifest by your cozy relationship with the stalwart “liberal” commenters- often the only participants- on this blog.

    Now, maybe “Pandora”- darling of the left and Delaware Liberal- can chime-in about how your “reasonable” attitude is so admirable. I guess it wouldn’t occur to you that your lack of core conservative principles represents a de facto resignation to the “liberal” cause. As was the case with Stalin’s “useful idiots” in the 30’s, Pandora’s feigned praise is merely veiled contempt.

    Frank, you are nearly universally considered a piriyah by Sussex conservatives, and your inane animus toward the conservative movement, redundant, reciprocal back-slapping with the liberals on this blog and blind adherence to politically-correct orthodoxy are emblematic as to why.

  28. Frank Knotts says:

    Thank you Rick. If people of your mind set feel I am somehow out of touch, then I am where I want to be. Away from the fringe like yourself and the Bob Mitchells and Jordan Warfels and Cindy Greens.
    Strict adherence to anything demonstrates lack of intelligence and thought and reasoning.
    Haven’t you criticized the left for just such lockstep thinking?

  29. Bob Mitchell says:

    Wow, Frank, you sure do like to hear yourself talk (or read your own typIng as the case may be)…
    I was asked to write what happened on Monday night and I did. I had no idea that what I wrote would be hijacked to try to twist what occurred to fit your demented agenda. I’m not disappointed in you – I know who/what you are – I identified it clearly in my reference and then you confirmed what everyone already knows by your own description (although you were very generous with the adjective “honest”… that’s laughable).
    I am disappointed in Steve.
    “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…”
    There won’t be a twice…
    You keep up your endless searching for relevance and attention, Frank. Just another keyboard coward who is a legend in his own twisted mind.

  30. mouse says:

    I’m not rude. That was awfully rude to call me rude. You’ve hurt my feelings

  31. Frank Knotts says:

    So Jordan has decided to act the child, call someone names and then run away like a little child. By the way Jordan, still waiting for you to tell us what the problem is with the photo? Are you ashamed you put so much effort as the Republican Chair of the 35th District into a candidate to challenge the incumbent, who only got 30% of the vote? Doesn’t say much for your political mojo now does it?
    Now to Big Brain Bob.
    Bob, I will ask you the same question, though I know you won’t answer it, because you are not man enough to. What is the problem with the photo? Are you ashamed you got taken in by Jordan Warfel? That after getting you into a bad race, he couldn’t muster more than 30% of the vote?
    Bob commented above, “I had no idea that what I wrote would be hijacked to try to twist what occurred to fit your demented agenda.”
    Ah, poor little Bob, the big bad mean old blogger dared to ask a question. Bob, what’s the matter, can’t defend what you wrote? You gave your take of what happened, then I came in as a commenter and gave my opinion of what happened, since I too was present. I guess your complaint is that you don’t get to just post up your version with no challenges. I thought you liked challenges?
    Your post was not hijacked, do you notice that when I write a post I allow people to come here and give their opinions? It’s called a conversation not a monologue.
    If you can’t defend what you write, then don’t write on a blog. By the way Bob, do you lift your skirt when you cross the mud puddles?
    I will say to you what I said to your handler Jordan, just because you don’t like the truth, doesn’t make it a lie, and calling it a lie over and over doesn’t make it a lie. It just makes you too small to deal with honest criticism. The photo proves I was right all along, your so called 30% campaign was orchestrated by Jordan Warfel and Cindy Green. The photo shows Jordan Warfel, Republican Chair of the 35th, on the night before the primary putting out signs for you wearing a Cindy Green T-Shirt. He was also putting out signs for another primary race for Sam Wilson. Do you ever ask yourself Bob, were you used to pull votes for Sam? Oh, you were used Bob, you’re just too stubborn and proud to see it.
    Now finally Bob and Jordan. Please go back and read your own comments on this thread. And then read mine. Notice I have mentioned Dave Wilson more times than you, because except for the original post, you have not mentioned his name once. Is that what unity means to you? Is that how important the endorsement was to you? You didn’t endorse Dave because you think he is the best person for the job, you didn’t even do it because he is a Republican, you did it to make yourself look like the bigger man. Well a phony endorsement only makes you a phony.

  32. mouse says:

    I’m so confused. Could someone flow chart this all out for me?

  33. Rick says:

    Thank you Rick. If people of your mind set feel I am somehow out of touch, then I am where I want to be.

    And you’re where conservatives want you to be. Out of the picture.

    Why do you call this site Delaware “Right?” If by “right,” you mean “correct,” then okay. You have the right to believe that you are correct. And it is your blog. But if by “right” you are intimating an alignment with the political right, you are delusional. Ideologically, you are not even remotely aligned with the conservative, political right. On the contrary, you are a vacillating “moderate” if not an outright liberal. You are sand in the gas tank.

    Your most ardent sympathizers on this blog- mouse, delacrat, and so on- are hardly conservatives. And neither are you.

  34. Bob Mitchell says:

    Frank – you are an idiot.
    You say that I “didn’t endorse Dave because (I) think he is the best person for the job…”
    No fake, really?? If I thought he was the “best man for the job”, I would not have run against him, now would I? It amazes me that you even know how to turn on a computer…
    I endorse(d) Dave because he is the best “Candidate” for the job. A majority of voters believed that Dave is the best man for the job. I am not a sore loser so,unlike you, I move forward to help ensure that the best “Candidate” gets elected.
    Do I think Trump was the best candidate in the beginning of the Republican Primary Campaign? No, I don’t. But do I now think he is the best Candidate in the Presidential Election? Yes, like Dr. Carson, I do. It is possible to run against someone, have voters choose your opponent over you, and then back the person who you once ran against in order to do what you can to ensure that the best Candidate wins. I know that’s a hard concept for you to grasp since you prefer to just type your negative nonsense using as many “words of the day” that you can find to make yourself appear smart, but the simplicity of your ignorance is quite clear to all.

  35. mouse says:

    I’ll have you know that I am a conservative liberal

  36. Frank Knotts says:

    Rick, I am sorry, I missed the memo that informed us you had been placed in charge of defining conservatism. If your version of conservatism is the definitive definition, then maybe I don’t want that label.
    Why thank you Big Brain Bob for your flattery. Once again you attempt to make something so simply by repeating it as many times as you can.
    Fine I’m an idiot, and you are smarter than me. But I believe in our first conversation about your misguided run, that Dave would receive around 70% of the vote. I’ll wait and let that sink in. Of course you will call me a liar because that is your only defense against the truth.
    I too will work to see that Dave Wilson wins, because he is not just the best candidate, he is the best person for the job, and if you can’t understand the difference, then you ignorance is monumental.
    As for what is clear to people? Well the fact that you have spent your opportunity here to further endorse Dave Wilson, you chose to attack me, that was until I pointed it out.
    And, you have not answered the question, what is your problem with the photo?
    You know if I ask Dave Wilson a question, I may not like the answer, but I at least get one. So I guess it’s back to Chicken Bob. Photo at eleven.

  37. Rick says:

    Rick, I am sorry, I missed the memo that informed us you had been placed in charge of defining conservatism.

    Then read Kirk or Buckley. They’ll tell you the same thing.

  38. Frank Knotts says:

    So has conservatism become a religion, and these its prophets? If so, is strict adherence required, lest you be burned at the stake? Sounds a lot like ISIS.

  39. Frank Knotts says:

    Oh, I forgot. Hey Chicken Bob, still waiting for an answer. What is the problem with the photo of your handler, Republican Chair of the 35th Jordan Warfel, the night before the primary putting out your signs?
    The people of the 35th are ever so lucky to have Dave Wilson as their Representative, and not an arrogant, stubborn person such as yourself, who refuses to answer direct questions about issues they created.
    Bob, what you need to understand, is that after the primary, and during your endorsement of Dave Wilson, you have said you will stay involved and active. What you don’t understand is that you lost. This means that the majority of the voters did not agree with you, and the people who put you up to this run.
    As long as you continue to be supported by the likes of Republican Chair of the 35th, Jordan Warfel, and Cindy Green, who have been nothing but a disruption to the Republican Party both within the 35th and Sussex County, you are guilty by association. That is your choice, maybe even your true beliefs. But you are in the minority, as proven by the results on Tuesday.
    The loser does not get to mold the direction moving forward simply because they endorse the winner.
    If you wish to be involved, you might want to consider changing your losing rhetoric, and maybe putting a great deal of distance between yourself and the greenwood MOB.
    Now, just like you ignored my advice, and that of many others, at the beginning of your campaign, I don’t really expect you to see the truth in what I say. You will either continue to be arrogant and stubborn, or you could show that you can actually learn from mistakes. Which will it be Bob?
    You could start by answering the question about the photo.

  40. mouse says:

    Terms like conservative and liberal obscure substantive issues that desperately need to be addressed

  41. mouse says:

    Is that guy in the picture stealing signs a conservative or liberal lol

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