Maybe the party isn’t Republican enough!

Things have been a blur the last couple of weeks.   That is nothing compared to this week, or the coming 3 months.  Monday I filed for congress, Tuesday I started fielding calls, and today I had several interviews.

I came home to find the television guy changed his focus after interviewing me.  Go figure.  The heart of the story after editing, focused on the legality of my candidacy.  The focus when he talked to me was “why do you want to be congressman.”

The contention has been made somewhere, that I am not a republican.  I object.  I strongly object.

I started identifying with the Republican Party when Richard Nixon was in office.  This is far earlier than most people I know, as Richard Nixon left office when I was 6.  I am not trying to contend that I understood politics, or even partisanship, but most of my family were Democrats.

I pulled for Gerald Ford, but couldn’t vote for him.  Like many other Republicans I suffered the long 4 years of the Carter administration.  I watched as we signed over the strategic Panama Canal (Chinese shipping companies tied to the Chinese military have a large presence there now), had our citizens taken hostage in Tehran, and the economy tanked.

I was desperately pulling for Ronald Reagan even though my sister said he would take us into nuclear war.  Reagan brought conservatism to my understanding of politics, and I was excited to think about a smaller government.

George H.W. Bush was next, and along came Newt Gingrich, Mark Souder, and the Republican revolution.  Now we were surely going to cut the government down to size.

Bill Clinton came along, and called Republican ideas his own. they were arguably his only successes.

George W. Bush came along and the fiasco of the 2000 election.  This is when the partisan politics really got ugly.

 As far as my activity locally:  I used to run a restaurant here in town.  One day the GOP chair asked if they could have their breakfasts there.  I readily agreed even though our restaurant was not open for breakfast.  I drug my wife, who didn’t even work there at the time, in to help me cook one Saturday a month.

I became active in the party, helped with events, and attended functions locally and at the state level.  Later I organized and cooked for rallies, won a seat on the county council, served as precinct committee chairman, and had my wife volunteer to be vice-chair(the incoming chair asked for her because 2 males, him and I, could not serve as chair and vice-chair).

In 2006, nearly 5 years after 9/11, our government still refused to secure our borders.  We were at war, and our government had no interest in securing our border?  How could that be?

There was a big illegal immigration debate brewing in Washington leading up to the Indiana primary in 2006.  Republican voters around the country were screaming, and their screams fell on deaf ears.

I decided the country was more important than the party I identified with most of my life, and that someone had to bring some sanity to Washington D.C.

I convinced the Indiana Libertarian party to let me run on their vacant ticket.  There was a requirement for them to file a 10 day notice of intent to fill a vacancy, which they faxed on time, but faxing was not an acceptable method of filing that notice.  The Secretary of State denied my candidacy.

I toyed with running as something other than a Republican, but I feel a duty to try to change the party.  The only Democrat I ever remember voting for is Mike Schrader.  He was a good Sheriff, and from working with him on County Council I felt he would make a good County Commissioner.

I meet the criteria to run, and don’t think there is any way I can be kept off the GOP primary ballot.

Put America First

Let the voters decide if I am Republican enough.

 

How Did We Get Here? Socialism alive and well in America

Socialism has been on the march since McCarthy left Washington.  That thought occurred to me over the holidays.  I took a break from this blog, because I felt like I started repeating myself.  It was New Years Eve, and the thought hit me like the ball falling on my head.

The idea is logical, and after reading the communist goals from the “Naked Communist” that Albert Herlong read into the congressional record in 1963,  While the capitalists went out into the business world, and made their way, the communists went to work on their agenda.

Their agenda was to put their people into positions in education, media, and even government.  Once in place they went to work recruiting like minded people, persuading others, and implementing their socialist agenda.  The results are striking.  We didn’t even know it happened, however looking back the change is obvious and stifling.

One need only read the communist goals to realize how much they have accomplished.  Many of our social ills can be traced to the changes this agenda has caused our society.  Many “useful idiots” have been enlisted.  The agenda has been disguised as compassion, the opposite of selfishness, and even progressiveness.  Where we have ended up is a lesson on why one should avoid allowing emotions to play a role in government or law.

Fundamentally the problem with thinking the government is best suited to solve our individual problems is two fold.  First, it is very hard to think of something the government does well, and even more difficult to think of something the government does efficiently.  Second, it flys in the face of the ideals this country was founded on.

Everything the government does is filled with waste, corruption, and politics.  More importantly this country was founded on the idea that we are free people.  Individual responsibility, freedom, and liberty are what brought people from all over the world to become Americans.

Now in America, nobody is responsible for themselves or their actions, the government tells you how to raise your kids, what to do with your property, and even if you can allow smokers in your business.  If you don’t obey, they will take your liberty.

Meanwhile our elected officials conduct foreign and domestic policy to suit their corporate financiers.  The corporations themselves have become socialist in their organization, and the people are left fearful and paralyzed.

That’s how we got here….now, where the heck are we and how do we get back?