Editor, Gazette-Journal:

Although an off year, this November’s election is crucial to our future as a viable nation. Democrat control of the U.S. Senate for the past four years has enabled President Obama to do pretty much as he pleases, unchecked. The president is at this point a lame duck, answerable to no one for his actions.

It is therefore critical to flip the Senate and maintain Republican control of the House to block Obama’s continuing executive overreach and, more importantly, block his potential Supreme Court nominations. I will be the first to admit that today’s Republican Party is a bit far from what I, as a conservative, would like to see, and the Republicans running for the Senate and the House are not necessarily my first choices.

That said, I absolutely will vote Republican. A vote for anyone other than a Republican is a vote for the Democrat Party. Those of a more conservative ideological mindset may be tempted to back the independent, Libertarian ...