Addendum to the Reagan Post

Please read the post below.  Travis Gearheart with a thoughtful history lesson.  Honestly, Nelson Rockefeller was as viable a candidate as Reagan in 1964.   I was a schoolkid with a certainty that a buffoonish Lyndon Baines Johnson would prolong the war in Vietnam and frankly I didn't have being drafted in my go-to-college-and-kick-world-butt lifeplan.  AUH2O was my bumper sticker (on my bike!)  Me and Arthur Diamond went door-to-door passing out Goldwater literature. America disagreed. 

So LBJ was a buffoon and an idiot who was often led around by the nose by his advisors.   Then Nixon came along and his arrogance killed his presidency.  During this time the lunatics began running the asylum.  Woodstock.  Black Panthers.  Summer of Love.  Days of Rage.  The whole world is watching.  Watergate.  Vietnam abandoned as helicopters flee Saigon. 

My generation?  I hope I die before I get old.  Four dead in Ohio.  Love the one you're with.  Let's get it on.  Hair.   Now things have come full circle.   I mean, I was driving into my subdivision with the homeowner's association and all new or nearly new homes and parked one of my four vehicles in the driveway and the thought hit me.  I am the Man.   THE MAN.  My generation is the majority of the CEO and government crowd.  

But I am not stuck in the 1960's.   I don't think everyone should tune in turn on and drop out.  I don't think the medium is the message.  Speaking truth to power is what we used to call "whining,"   My generation is the Man but have they ever grown up?   I wonder...

You watch animals, you don't see many lazy ones.   Animals work to get food, make their nests, feed their young.   Really I don't usually lazy animals because the ones who are not industrious get dead fast.   Man has to be the stupidest animal on the planet.   When did we ever decide that the ants had to pay to support all the grasshoppers?  How many indigent or crooked people are getting money from the government or are on the payroll of the government?  

Animal Farm comes to mind, but the Obama Administration is looking to far surpass Animal Farm in terms of arrogant elitism.  They intend to kill off capitalism and businesss and frankly they don't care who gets hurt.   If they can just pay off enough lazy and ignorant dupes to vote them into office and leave them in office they can do anything.

Exhibit A is Peter Visclosky.  Visclosky has apparently shuttle 97% of the funding he has voted for to places outside of his district but for the interests of those who give him campaign funds.  If he gets a million bucks in campaign funds, you think maybe he gets money in other ways?   Oh it could very well be.   We hoped he would be indicted and convicted earlier this year but so far no indictments. 

The Federal government is twice the size it should be and probably more.   It is deeply involved in things that should be Constitutionally left to the states.  No matter what FDR did or Eisenhower did or JFK did or Carter or Bush or Clinton, it is not too late for us to wake up and realize this is not just a matter of voting for the right person it is about information.   We have to wake up the comatose average voter who doesn't research and casts votes often for all the wrong reasons.  Just being involved is not enough.

Look, I was just 12 years old and foresaw that an LBJ Presidency could mean I get drafted even though I was on the honors program and would take the college prep honors diploma track in school.  If I was right at 12, I am way more right at 57.   This 2010 election has no room for third party candidates and moderate Democrat DINO types.   This must be a straight ticked Republican vote to get as many of the Obama sycophants as possible and then the Primaries of 2012 must be where we find and vote in the great candidates who were not ready for prime time this time.  

Ronald Reagan was one man but he was a conservative from head to toe, a man of prinicple who saved us from disaster AT THE TIME.    It is disaster time again.  We have a President who wants to cut military pay and apologize to Communist China for our human rights problems (Arizona?  OMG!) while ignoring the millions who have been slaughtered for opposing the communist regime.   Shameful!   I still don't know if Obama is really that stupid or he is so brainwashed that thinking never has to begin?

Taxes?  Cut them.
Money supply?  No more new money.
Fannie and Freddie?  Dump them and send the bill to Barney Frank, Chris Dodds and the rest of the Dem leadership who would not shut down the mortgage craze that killed the econoimy in the first place.
Illegal Immigrants?  Toss them out.
Those who hire and house Illegals? Fine them large amounts.
Birthright citizenship?  End it.
Unions?  Secret ballots and no forced government unions.
Schools?  No Federal involvement anymore, give it to the states.
Federal Agencies?  Cut as many as possible.   Dump the Department of Education and the EPA and every other agency that hinders the economy. 
IRS?  Fair tax instead. 
Obama?  MSM should demand proof of birth and SSN now and get the whole stupid thing over with.
UN?  Ask them politely to find somewhere else to meet and kindly go away.   Resign.
Form a Western UN.  Grab countries like UK and Canada and Australia and NZ and any other capitalist free nation and let the bribe factory known as the United Nations to die on the vine.

That's a start.  We need candidates that are concerned about these things.  Or make me King of the United States for awhile,  Until I get shot I will begin fixing things but that may not be legal, so let us at least make sure that Obama doesn't get a crown.