adminon biblical principles and support Israel.
The long and short of this is he said vote for the Bible.
In simple terms what he was saying to people was they should to vote for candidates not on party lines but on their own merit.
In voting for a candidate who is against homo-sexuality, abortion etc is the same as voting for the Bible according to the preacher man.
For John Hagee these virtues were fundamental than any other policy.
To speak against homo-sexuality as a matter of policy was crucial to get Hagee’s vote. For the preacher man it was not about the republicans or the democrats but about who stood in support of the biblical principles.
In simple terms he was encouraging his congregation to vote for candidates who have an ideology they stand for.
In 2008, during the harmonised elections we had some funny characters being elected as members of Parliament and as councillors.
Thanks to the run-off clause in our constitution we might have ended up with a President of questionable leadership skills and abilities.
The result of that protest vote is what we see today: local government is in shambles because of councillors who lack basic skills and qualifications like Ordinary level certificates. We got airtime vendors being elected councillors.
We have an opportunity to make it right in the coming elections and referendum.
When we go to the polls in the next few months we need to apply some of the words of Pastor John Hagee in our voting.
We need to know the people we are voting for and what they stand for and not just the political party they come from.
Many people especially those in the urban areas, in the 2008 election did not bother to know the candidates they just looked for the party symbol and voted there.
This has back-fired seriously because touts and many good for nothing people were elected especially in councils.
After failing to field candidates in different wards, the MDC-T fielded touts and those that made a lot of noise in the rallies.
The results are there for all to see especially in Harare.
A story is told of a woman who regretted voting unwisely after she was shown the councillor she had voted for.
The man was a drug abuser who spent most of his time on street corners sitting on bridges smoking and verbally abusing women passing.
Today this once good for nothing dude who failed his O’ Levels is a different man.
He moved from drinking “scud” on street corners to drinking expensive wines in hotels.
All because of protest vote.
Most of the councillors never had to campaign, they benefited from the protest vote, situation where a baboon could have won that same election. The error must be corrected in 2013.
The current crop of councillors and some MP’s have proved to be failures and self serving corrupt “leaders”.
The electorate must correct this.
We need people with a track record of leadership to lead our local authorities.
Even a leader in a burial society is better that the loudest person at a rally.
We want leaders with ideologies, who stand for something; who can articulate policy and transform our towns and cities.
A leader who understands that he or she is there to serve the people not to see it as an opportunity for self enrichment.
Most of these guys are absent councillors and missing persons (MPs) in their wards and constituencies.
In ward 15 of Harare most of the electorate can not point their councillor on a picture or know who their MP is.
Worse the senators, they have hardly seen them.
The MP and the councillor have been missing in action since 2008.
The councillor only resurfaced last year when he sponsored a soccer tournament.
He had promised fifteen boreholes at a local school’s function soon after the 2008 election and that was the last the people heard of him.
The constituency development fund came and passed and we still await the developmental projects by the beloved MP.
Most of the electorate in Harare are clueless of how the CDF was used in their constituencies.
The error must be corrected.
Chakatanga ndochakachenjedza now the electorate is wiser and there is no more protest vote.
Who is the leader of a party who consistently spoke against homosexuality?
Does the draft constitution address all our wishes and aspirations as people vote for it?
Does the proposed supreme law defends and consolidate the gains of the liberation struggle?
If it does the people of Zimbabwe will accept it.
Zimbabweans need to reject any leader who is consistently demonising the land reform program, the indigenisation and economic empowerment of our people.
A leader who thinks that the whites or west are the only investors and job creators must be rejected in the polls.
It has ceased to be about a party or personalities but about ideology.
Zimbabwe needs a leader who can lead her into the promised land not back to the colonial era where a handful of whites control the vast tracts of land. It is about what the party stands for vis-a-vis the objectives of the liberation struggle and the aspiration of our people.
Like John Hagee would say vote the Bible, the message today is vote for the land, indigenisation and economic empowerment.
Vote for the consolidation of the gains of the liberation struggle.
We saw it in 2008, people voted even for “baboons,” candidate they have never seen or heard of just because they belong to a certain political party.
A leader who disappeared soon after the 2008 elections does not deserve another vote.
The confirmation exercise that’s is being done by some parties should allow the electorate to confirm that way they will know that some bigwigs are not popular and are going to lose come election time.
A leader who can not account for the CDF and is incompetent, greed and selfish must not be allowed anywhere near the corridors of power.
Some of these MPs are beneficiaries of the bhora musango and the protest vote.
The 2008 election was about the stomach, but not this time around. The electorate must judge these candidates on merit, ideology and future.
The MDC-T has no ideology.
Since 1999 their mantra has been “Mugabe must go” after which they have no vision, ideology or policy.
Over the years they just wait for Zanu PF to pronounce a policy and they only come up with criticism and counter policies.
They are good at opposing for the sake opposing.
They don’t offer the electorate anything.
The inclusive Government has exposed the MDC. The failure to fund agriculture exposed the need for the MDC to make agriculture fail so that they will blame Zanu-PF for the failures.
Thanks to his excellency President R G Mugabe for the inputs support scheme our farmers were able to go back to the fields.
So in these forthcoming elections the electorate must put the MDC in its right position – the rubbish bin of Zimbabwe’s history.
Online Reporter