During a Thursday episode of Mobile radio's FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show," former Alabama Republican Party chairman and GOP candidate for lieutenant governor John Wahl spoke about the need for conservative officials to act with increased intensity and resolve in the face of growing Democratic attacks on American values.
"Across the board, we see this in far too many of our elected officials. There's a complacency," said Wahl. "There's an okay with the status quo. I think this is what we have to understand. Our voting base knows this. They feel it, and we need our elected officials to feel the same thing."
He continued, "We're in a battle for the heart and the soul of this country, and it's a political battle, but it's deeper than that. This is a spiritual battle. This is a struggle for who we are as a nation, and we really need people in these positions who are going to understand that battle and have the heart and the passion to fight for good government and to push back against the radical left who have been forcing their agenda on us for years."
According to Wahl, Republicans should be both encouraged and motivated by the values they are helping to defend.
"We need the same intensity. We need more intensity than the Democrats, not less," he stressed. "We are standing on the values that made America great. We're standing on conviction, we're standing on fairness, we're standing on principle. Those should be the things that excite us, excite our elected officials and excite our base more than the other side."
Wahl added, "At every level of government, we need leaders who are not afraid to be bold, who are not afraid to push and fight for the people of the state and the values that we stand for."
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