An Open Letter to the Republican Party

To the Republican Party, Republican Political Pundits and especially my Senator, the Honorable John Cornyn.  You need to read this carefully, because it is important.

We Conservatives, we followers of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan have for many years been bound to your party of milquetoast "moderates" and the other mushy northeast "Country Club" Republicans who think us rubes.  These people don't see any problems with growing the size of government so long as the "old money" interests are protected.  They detest the nouveau riche of people who actually EARNED their money instead of inherited it.

Only three times in the last 50 years have we Conservatives gained full control of our party.

The first, in 1964, we put Barry Goldwater on top of the ticket.  Typically, you picked a "moderate" Republican from New York to "balance" the ticket and then ran for cover and voted for Johnson.  We Conservatives were betrayed by our own party.  When the smoke cleared, you claimed you "knew" that Goldwater was too radical and used that to bash us as "out of the mainstream.  You gave us Richard Nixon in 1968.

In 1980, we rose again and unfurled the banner of Conservatism behind Ronald Reagan.  Again, you paraded out the old saw about him being "too conservative", but Americans saw through you and the Democrats.  They heard the message of freedom from government control, the free market and the promise of a return to prosperity for our battered economy.  This resulted in the largest electoral landslide in American History.  After enacting the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, began the longest economic expansion this country has ever known.

In 1988, even though we were not sure of his Conservative bona fides, we accepted George H.W. Bush as the party nominee.  We read his lips: "No new taxes".  We worked hard and helped to elect him.  We were rewarded in 1990 when, unwilling to man-up and actually force the Democrats to cut spending, he was rolled by them and taxes were increased.  Once again we were betrayed.

In 1994, led by Newt Gingrich we rose again.  We forced the weak kneed moderates to stand up and be counted.  We led our party into dominance over the Democrats and their President.  We set this country on the road to fiscal responsibility and in 2001, for the first time in over 40 years, produced a budget surplus.  Unfortunately, that surplus was short lived as the War on Terror, in Iraq and Afghanistan gave cover for increases in spending across the board.  Again, Conservative principles were sacrificed for political expediency and the Republican Party jumped on the spending gravy train once again.

Now it is 2010.  Since the election of Barack Obama, the piglets sucking at the Federal Teats have increased and the budget deficit, already unacceptable under the Bush administration has swelled to over 1.3 Trillion dollars.

Let's put that into context: $1,300,000,000,000.00 equals $422,077.92 of debt for every man, woman and child in the United States.  That was just for the fiscal year ending this month.

The current federal debt has exploded from $9,985,800,000,000.00 to $13,442,100,000,000.00.  In just two years we have added almost 3 Trillion dollars to our national debt.

Republicans are just as much to blame as the Democrats.  In the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 2009, an act that contained over 8,500 "earmarks" in the amount of $7.7 billion dollars.  Only 39 of the 178 Republican House members refused to ask for "earmarks".  The other 139 had their hands out, in line with Democrats, to get their "fair share".

Now, we Conservatives are speaking out again.  We organized the TEA Parties to let our representatives know that we have been Taxed Enough Already.

We spoke out against more spending and more debt.

We put candidates in the Republican Primaries who carried our message.

We ELECTED them, defeating the choices of your party.

You need to understand that we, who have supported you for decades, even after being repeatedly betrayed and ridiculed by you; we are once again taking power.

If you fail to support us; if you abandon us again; if you fail to work for our candidates as we have always worked for yours; if you fail to follow through on your promises to roll back the liberal wave of over regulation and overtaxing; we will remember.  Rest assured we will remember.

To paraphrase one of your candidates, you won't have Conservatives to "kick around" anymore come 2012.

You know, that Jefferson guy was pretty smart!

As most of you know, I am a student of Politics and a lover of History.  When you combine the two, I can reach stages of joy only known by the truly devout of any known religion.

Today, a friend of mine sent me a forward (you know, the ones you usually delete) entitled "How did Jefferson Know?"  Although it sounded a little too much like the whole "What would Jesus Do?" bit, I dutifully scrolled down the page to find quotations from our third President, Thomas Jefferson.  As I read through them, I was astonished at how much prescience he had of what we are facing in our country today.

I will admit that I have always considered Jefferson a bit too much of a "small D" democrat for my tastes.  His support for the excesses of the French Revolution and his call for the spilling of the "blood of patriots and tyrants" from time to time to refresh "the tree of Liberty" was a bit too much for me to really admire him like some other Presidents.  Of course, some of his personal peccadilloes were over the top.  Some were said to have even made Franklin blush.  That must have taken a lot!

I do give him credit for the Louisiana Purchase where he went way beyond the powers of the President but in turn set our country on the path of greatness, and as the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and a major contributor to the Constitution, he deserves the adulation as one of America's greatest presidents.

So, that being said, let us look at some of these Nostradamus like quotes:

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

How many generations of people have we empowered, through government largesse to collect their various welfare payments instead of seeking employment.

Just recently, our Congress extended unemployment benefits to 99 weeks, just 5 weeks short of TWO YEARS, thereby removing the necessity to take a job of "lesser" pay or importance from the one they were released from.  Part of the reason that we have to import labor for the more menial jobs in this country is because even the meanest and poorest of our citizens will do better collecting welfare than actually working for a days pay.

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."


Just in the last two years, not including so called "stimulus" packages and "bail outs" of various industries, unions and states, the base federal budget has INCREASED by nearly 38 percent.  Thousands of new pages of regulations are being written every day to cover everything from egg research to what kind of light bulb you can use.

According to www.regulations.gov, in the first 14 days of this month, 198 new rules have been submitted.  Since January 1st of this year, that number is 4,118.  That my friends is an average of 16 new rules EVERY DAY.  A government that makes that many rules has grown way beyond what our founding fathers envisioned.

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."


The nanny government that is trying to take care of us looks at us as children who don't know any better.  We were told that the more we got to know about the Health Care Reform Act of 2009, the more we would like it.  We were told that we didn't understand properly that borrowing a trillion dollars to spend on make work programs and political and union payoffs would stimulate our economy and create millions of jobs.  Just trust us they said, we'll take care of everything.

You know what?  I was born at night, but not LAST night.

I DON'T trust the government to take care of me, and anyone who does is a fool.

You want to find out who the really smart Presidents are?  Then I encourage you to READ (yes read) Washington, Jefferson, Adams and most of all Reagan.

Inform yourself.  Put on the "whole armor" of truth, knowledge and understanding.  No one can stand against you.

The Rules

In the beginning there were the rules, and the rules were good.

WE learned the rules.

WE were taught to respect our elders.  WE were taught to respect authority.  WE said "Yes Sir" and "No Ma'am".  WE called our friends parents "Mr. Jones" and "Mrs. Smith".  WE said "Please" and "Thank You".  The Policeman was our friend and WE loved and respected our Teachers.

WE played sports and learned that even games had rules.  WE were coached by the parents of our friends and WE were taught about teamwork and sportsmanship.  WE learned that sometimes WE had to "take one for the team" and put our personal achievements behind that of the team.  WE learned that when WE lost, WE should be gracious and congratulate the winners and even when WE won WE should be humble and thank the losers for playing a good game.

WE learned rules from Scouting to "Do your best" and "Be Prepared".  WE were taught to be honest and loyal amongst other things, but always to do the right thing and be honorable and live up to what WE said WE would do.

WE learned rules from Church to "Do unto others" as WE wanted done to us.  WE learned to respect that there was a power greater than ourselves.

Even when WE played with other kids, WE set our rules before WE began.  WE made it clear where "home base" was and what was "out of bounds".  WE knew the difference between playing "two below" and tackle.  WE enforced the rules and followed them.

When WE got to be teens, WE tested the rules.  WE stretched them as far as WE could and yes, even broke a few.  WE got a little wild, but WE always knew the rules were there, and if necessary, WE paid the price for breaking them.

One thing that WE were taught, that WE always believed, even if sometimes WE said WE didn't:

If WE played by the rules and worked hard, WE would succeed.

So eventually WE settled down and played by the rules of the adult.  WE worked hard.  WE minded our own business.  WE took care of our families and expected others to do the same.  WE thought that everything was fine with the world.

But then, small groups of people began to challenge the rules.  They said that this rule wasn't "fair" because everyone couldn't play the game as well as others.  They said that this other rule was "discriminatory" because it kept less able people from playing the game.  They said that some other rule was "racist" because it kept a certain minority from succeeding in the game.  Others said that some rule was "hateful" because failure was cruel and indiscriminate.

WE didn't want to be unfair or bigots or racists or hateful, so WE allowed the people to be exempted from the rules that WE had played by all of our lives.

One morning, WE woke up and realized that WE were the only people playing by the rules anymore.  WE were working hard and contributing our taxes to a government that not only allowed people to avoid the rules, but actually encouraged them to do so.  WE found ourselves being responsible for other peoples mistakes.

WE began to wonder why.

The final straw came, after years of making exceptions for all of the people who for one reason or another, couldn't or wouldn't pay by the rules, WE began to question whether WE could continue to pay more and more of the money that WE earned to take care of a larger and larger class of dependent people.  WE expressed concern that, as a nation, WE could no long continue to borrow money to pay for all of the things that those people wanted

WE were called ignorant, stupid, close-minded, backward. provincial, uninformed, hateful, bigoted, homophobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, and worst of all: racist.  Not just by the people who WE had been so understanding and tolerant with over the years, but by the political leaders that WE elected to office.

Now, WE have finally had enough.

In November, WE THE PEOPLE will have our say, and WE will begin the process of putting the rules back in place.