Thinking back to the American Revolution and the weeks leading up to the crafting of the Declaration of Independence, no patriot was more responsible for creation of the document than John Adams. He was solidly focused on American Independence. He was insistent on it. He was adamant about it. He would not accept "no" for an answer. He was abrasive about it and he tested everyone's patience with his tenacity. He would accept no compromise that would leave the Colonies under the British flag. In the end, he won out and after arguing over all of the wording, the Declaration was passed and signed. John Adams possessed a vision for this country that he was able to sell as a potential reality.
Today, many of the truths contained in the Declaration are in question. Who has the right to life? What is liberty? Whose happiness can be pursued and whose can't? Are all men created equal, or do some by virtue of their connection to government have special rights? Are our rights endowed to us by our creator, or allowed to us by government?
This is a time when we must reassert our rights and put our federal government back in its proper role. We need strong leaders who are ready for sudden relentless reform. We need Sarah Palin.
What if John Adams had been barred from the game of creating a new country? He was generally disliked and was an irritating fellow. Ben Franklin would have made some witticisms about the opposition, but is it likely that a Thomas Jefferson would have been pressured by anyone else to craft our founding document? These were great men but Adams brought perseverance and tenacity that were a requisite to getting the job done.
I'm sure that the patriots were disheartened when their original complaints were met with military force. They held together. They knew what they needed and they insisted on it and risked everything for it. A leader like Adams set the vision.
Maybe we don't know what we want? Maybe we think that a particular party winning an election is our goal? Our goal is much more than that. We must reverse the course away from a European style socialist democracy and back to the intention of the founders. In the process we must reduce the federal government's role in our lives, return power to the states and to local governments. We will have only one opportunity to do that, the election of 2012. If we elect the wrong person who gives us socialism lite, Republicans will not win another election.
Our choices are few. Michelle Bachmann, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, and Rick Santorum do not possess a background in government leadership that would allow them to be an effective President. Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney would prefer maintaining the course rather than reversing it. I reject those candidates out of hand. Rick Perry is a case study in crony capitalism which should put him out of consideration (or is it his wife that's running?) Newt Gingrich is the ultimate Washington establishment insider, a paid lobbyist for Freddie Mac at a time when Freddy and Fanny were buying Washington influence and destroying our housing market. In a contest between Obama and Gingrich, Obama comes off as the outsider. Beyond the pro forma unsuitability of these candidates, none of them relate well with people. They have no ability to draw voters to the polls. Beyond even that, none of them have both the desire and the skill set needed to create sudden relentless reform. In other words, if we go with one of these candidates, we will have lost the war even if we win the current battle.
So if what we want is a reversal of course and sudden relentless reform, we must elect Sarah Palin and we must be tenacious, maintain our vision, and focus on showing Gov. Palin that it is her vision we are espousing, and that her leadership is required to effect that vision. With or without her cooperation, we must press on to try to get her into the process in primaries by write-in and in caucuses by voting for her. She may have a strategy at work and we must listen carefully and aid in any way we can. This is not about Sarah Palin. It's about our continued viability as a country.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
A Letter to Sarah Palin from a Famous American
Dearest Sarah;
I've been following your career with great interest and I think you have followed mine. When I listen to your speeches I hear familiar themes and long to be back on the campaign trail again.
It's all about making government smaller and more local where people make a real difference. You haven't spent much time in Washington yet, but you understand that Washington can't solve local problems, can't educate our children, can't develop our natural resources, and can't help our families. Why can't the candidates who are running for President understand that? They seem to think that they will be elected and when they get to Washington, they will wave a magic wand and solve all the problems and they'll do it without making any enemies. Let me tell you, it doesn't work that way.
In order to resolve issues, you have to fight great battles. I won some of those battles and lost others. Even in my own family, I lost some battles. If a person doesn't have the fight in him, he can't be successful in Washington. I sense in you the fortitude to put up a great fight. You believe that a war is won or lost before the first battle is waged by virtue of the planning and strategy developed. Others develop their strategy by holding up a finger or asking someone who thinks he's smarter than they are. You know those folks, they are called intellectuals. Beware of them.
The intellectuals told me that a divorced man would never be elected President and that my previous career would not help me get elected. They were wrong, as usual. They said that I was too conservative and would scare voters. Because I was conservative, they said I was stupid. I didn't accept a whole lot of the left's conventional wisdom. Then they used their polls to try to convince voters that I was going to lose by a landslide and not win a single state. The establishment Republicans were so afraid I would upset their apple cart that they ran a liberal Republican as a third party candidate believing that his candidacy would assure that the Democrat incumbent would be reelected. Of course, I won but the overall result was unclear as long as I lived. I thought I had made a difference, but it took many years to see the result.
Yes, Sarah, many of the issues that you are concerned with now are the same ones that plagued us thirty years ago. You could say that those same issues will be there to tackle in four or eight more years. The problem is that the population has been educated that socialism is the solution for our ills. Four more years of continued indoctrination in our schools and our media may swing the country away from our free market into a socialist hell. Look at what your current President has accomplished in three short years, government run health care, government ownership of banks and large corporations, and a continued recession bordering on a second great depression. Your problems are more severe than what I faced and they are immediate. Yes, we did have that business about an evil empire, but you are also facing the reestablishment of the Caliphate. You don't have four years to waste on a liberal Republican or an inexperienced one.
Sarah, you've read my books, you've ridden on my beautiful Rancho del Cielo which I loved as much as you love your great state of Alaska. What I would have given to have spent those eight years with my Nancy on the ranch. But I couldn't do that. The people had decided that I should serve them as their President. I didn't decide to seek the Presidency, the base of the Republican Party needed to be represented, the core principles of conservatism needed to be asserted, the President needed to be unseated. Looking back now, had I stayed on the Ranch, some fences would have been built and some good times would have been had but you would still have a Soviet Union to deal with and Ghaddafy would have long ago used his nuclear weapons to achieve regional domination.
Sarah, it's time we saddle up and go for a long ride, across the hills and the tundra, and the amber waves of grain. I'll be by your side for I'm always with you as God shed his grace on thee. I'll enjoy every moment as He crowned thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.
With my best wishes,
Ronaldus Magnus
I've been following your career with great interest and I think you have followed mine. When I listen to your speeches I hear familiar themes and long to be back on the campaign trail again.
It's all about making government smaller and more local where people make a real difference. You haven't spent much time in Washington yet, but you understand that Washington can't solve local problems, can't educate our children, can't develop our natural resources, and can't help our families. Why can't the candidates who are running for President understand that? They seem to think that they will be elected and when they get to Washington, they will wave a magic wand and solve all the problems and they'll do it without making any enemies. Let me tell you, it doesn't work that way.
In order to resolve issues, you have to fight great battles. I won some of those battles and lost others. Even in my own family, I lost some battles. If a person doesn't have the fight in him, he can't be successful in Washington. I sense in you the fortitude to put up a great fight. You believe that a war is won or lost before the first battle is waged by virtue of the planning and strategy developed. Others develop their strategy by holding up a finger or asking someone who thinks he's smarter than they are. You know those folks, they are called intellectuals. Beware of them.
The intellectuals told me that a divorced man would never be elected President and that my previous career would not help me get elected. They were wrong, as usual. They said that I was too conservative and would scare voters. Because I was conservative, they said I was stupid. I didn't accept a whole lot of the left's conventional wisdom. Then they used their polls to try to convince voters that I was going to lose by a landslide and not win a single state. The establishment Republicans were so afraid I would upset their apple cart that they ran a liberal Republican as a third party candidate believing that his candidacy would assure that the Democrat incumbent would be reelected. Of course, I won but the overall result was unclear as long as I lived. I thought I had made a difference, but it took many years to see the result.
Yes, Sarah, many of the issues that you are concerned with now are the same ones that plagued us thirty years ago. You could say that those same issues will be there to tackle in four or eight more years. The problem is that the population has been educated that socialism is the solution for our ills. Four more years of continued indoctrination in our schools and our media may swing the country away from our free market into a socialist hell. Look at what your current President has accomplished in three short years, government run health care, government ownership of banks and large corporations, and a continued recession bordering on a second great depression. Your problems are more severe than what I faced and they are immediate. Yes, we did have that business about an evil empire, but you are also facing the reestablishment of the Caliphate. You don't have four years to waste on a liberal Republican or an inexperienced one.
Sarah, you've read my books, you've ridden on my beautiful Rancho del Cielo which I loved as much as you love your great state of Alaska. What I would have given to have spent those eight years with my Nancy on the ranch. But I couldn't do that. The people had decided that I should serve them as their President. I didn't decide to seek the Presidency, the base of the Republican Party needed to be represented, the core principles of conservatism needed to be asserted, the President needed to be unseated. Looking back now, had I stayed on the Ranch, some fences would have been built and some good times would have been had but you would still have a Soviet Union to deal with and Ghaddafy would have long ago used his nuclear weapons to achieve regional domination.
Sarah, it's time we saddle up and go for a long ride, across the hills and the tundra, and the amber waves of grain. I'll be by your side for I'm always with you as God shed his grace on thee. I'll enjoy every moment as He crowned thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.
With my best wishes,
Ronaldus Magnus
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