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My cousin was chatting with me on Facebook the other day. He is contemplating running for Congress. The first question he asked me, like I know anything about running for Congress, was if he should run as a Republican, independent, or 3rd party. As I thought that over, it just brought many more questions to mind. We went back and forth asking questions, putting out thoughts, and perhaps dreaming a bit. Is it possible for someone to get elected who just wants to go and do the right thing rather than play all of the political games? I told him he had to spend a lot of money to get his name out there. He doesn’t want to do that because his whole stance is that he is a common man who wants to go represent the common man. While I understand his desires and have had some of the same thoughts myself, is it possible to get elected that way? After discussing it for a bit, he told me I could be his campaign manager – never mind the fact that I’m in Louisiana and he is in Iowa and I have no clue about any of it. I guess it will be another unpaid job for me. So, if you happen to live in Iowa and see this guy running for office, vote for him because he would do what’s right.
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The past ten days have been filled with many firsts for me, which I’ll be writing about when I can get some pictures uploaded. Today was another first for me – I voted for a third party candidate for president. Boy did it feel good to do it too! I can’t say it was something that I ever thought I would do – I used to be in the camp that would consider it a wasted vote. This election’s candidates made me feel like I had no other choice. Perhaps if I lived in a different state, my choice might have been different. I tell you, it’s rather liberating to vote for someone that you actually agree with on the issues rather than voting the lesser of two evils. I know that the candidate I voted for doesn’t have a chance at winning, but it was the best way for me to make my voice heard in this election. I just wish more people would do the same and maybe this country could get back to the principles this country was founded on.
I was talking to a close homeschooling friend the other day. I mentioned that I thought I was going to vote for a particular candidate in a congressional race because (among other things) he explicitly states that he supports parents’ rights to educate their children. She asked me why it mattered to me. I told her it probably mattered less on a national level than state, but I don’t want any new laws restricting homeschooling. She actually said she would be for a law that requires standardized testing. I was shocked. Her reasoning behind this was that she knows a family that is considering homeschooling their highschool age kids but the mother doesn’t even have a high school diploma herself. She’s afraid those kids would not get a good enough education and fall through the cracks. Basically, she didn’t think standardized testing would affect her because she does a great job teaching her kids and they always do great on tests. The conversation kept going back and forth – where does it stop? What if they decided that testing wasn’t sufficient and wanted to come into your house and see what you were using and even had to approve it? What if they made you use the books that the schools use? What if they had to take each test that the kids in school had to take? Before you know it, your kids are getting the same education they would get from going to school, nothing better. She saw no problem with this! I suggested that perhaps she should just go ahead and send her kids to school then. But then again, she does use a lot of school text books in their homeschool. I prefer to teach my kids, not have the government tell me how to. I don’t want to start down that road and don’t know any other homeschoolers who would.
Then there was a post on TWTM message boards about Obama and his stance on the 2nd Amendment. Someone posted “Since when is it unreasonable to make sure we keep guns (especially things like assault weapons) out of the hands of criminal? These are just common sense positions any right minded person should support.” And I saw the whole parallelism to the homeschooling conversation I had a few days before with my friend. One could say that it is not unreasonable to keep homeschooling rights out of the hands of the incapable. Some common sense positions any right minded person (who doesn’t homeshool) might support could include things like standardized testing, requiring using a particular curriculum, overseeing the work done in the home, etc. Where does it end? Anyone who doesn’t want to go down one slippery slope should not support going down another slippery slope just because it doesn’t affect them. It does.
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Or whatever they are called. I usually dread these phone calls because they are asking for money. This time, I had a lot of fun with it. She asked me on a scale of 1 to 5, how important is it to me to keep the democrats out of power. I chose 4 and she was really happy – surely I would give them some money to help get Republicans into office. She asked me for $100. I said I couldn’t give them any money that would go towards John McCain’s campaign. This baffled her and she tried to stress how we can’t let the Democrats win the presidency. I responded with the following: John McCain is a republican in name only. He tends to vote with liberals including Kennedy. He’s tried to limit our 1st amendment rights. He’s tried to limit our 2nd amendment rights. She was totally shocked when I added that I will vote for an independent or third part candidate before I would vote for McCain. This was followed by some more stuttering as she grasped for something to say in response to my reaction. Finally she just told me thank you and hung up. I enjoyed it. There is something satisfying about getting someone who called you asking for money to give up and hang up without even coming close to making you feel bad about not giving them money.
And with that said, I had mentioned this to my dad who responded to me in e-mail with this. He just cracks me up and when he added at the end of it that maybe I was thinking about pasting it into my blog, I couldn’t not put it on here.
On your other topic of Creepublicans seeking bribes, I too, have had fun with their phone calls. I tried extremely hard to get them to hang up on me, not me hang up on them. That was pre-RINO (Republican In Name Only) McCain having so much influence. I used the example-horribulus of Jorge Busch. It is not some foreign power taking away freedom of the American people, It is our own elected traitors.
It is incongruent how Jorge has talked of democracy as if he does not realize that we are a republic. Well, we used to be before Jorge became a demoncrat and created perpetual war. (Shades of 1984). Just like the “war on drugs”, “war on terrorism has no identified enemy, nor any possible ending. Apparently, all of those taking down our twin towers were Saudis. Obviously, “homeland dispense” has failed to recognize that.
If Iraq might be about oil, what was Afghanistan about? We left all of the drug facilities and networks in place. Now, again, and still; drugs are the main export of Afghanistan. Jorge SENIOR was head of the CIA. Jorge junior claims the CIA needs to have torture in their toolbox of terrorism. Who really is running this calamity?
If you would donate to the Creepublicans, is that supporting a terrorist organization?
Have the Demoncrats and Creepublicans combined into the “Incumbent Party”? Wasn’t it RINO McPain that supported the McCain/Feingold Act? But what is in a name? If I recall correctly, that act was to unconstitutionally restrict citizenry from saying anything against an incumbent for about 60 days before an election. It really is hard to say any thing good about McPain.
