Sunday, March 25, 2012

What Door to Choose

What criteria should one use in evaluating the Republican candidates? Let's start by not repeating the mistake made in 1988, 2000 and 2008 which gave us the Bush family and John McCain. I’m not enthusiastic about any of the current crop and have performed surgery to arrive at the anatomically correct candidate.
-Newt's brain, quick wit and knowledge of History.
- Ron Paul's Plan to eliminate specific Government Agencies.
- Rick Santorum’s public statements on Family Values
- Parts of Rick Perry's Tax plan
- Michelle Bachman's Cojones.
- Herman Cain's Practical Business Experience
- Mitt's Hair

On a more serious note,

Visualize a football field with a large sign in each end zone. The far left one reads Obama the Central Planner and the opposite end zone reads Founding Fathers - Maximum Individual Liberty. Now imagine all the candidates on the field. Do not compare them to each other or to Obama. Compare each one to the Founding Fathers. Comparisons to the likes of Dukakis, Gore, Kerry, Clinton and Obama will always give one the false security that your choice will lead to Constitutional conservatism.

The reason the United States is in this current mess is not because of far left socialist democrats that have been breeding since Woodrow Wilson, but due to Republicans masquerading as conservatives in all three branches of government.

Before you pencil in Ron Paul, let’s visualize another Football field. Everything is the same except the far right end zone reads only this—“Winston Churchill”. Which candidate most resembles the man who clearly understood the foreign and domestic evil that was destroying his beloved island? Who has the persistence, endurance, confidence and courage to do what Reagan said in 1964—“preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness.” You may find that your choice from the first football field is different from the second.

Over the last several months, I’ve heard comments from fellow conservatives at Tea party functions regarding the Republican candidates like:

But he said this in 1998
She is a little weird for me
He supports legalization of drugs
He took a picture with so and so
He supported this policy six years ago.

If you are consumed with specific “sins” of the candidates, then please consider the big picture. The current president is purposely destroying Capitalism, Individual Freedom and American Sovereignty (please insert fundamental transformation if you’re still clueless). Wake up!!! This election is our Yorktown, Gettysburg and Normandy. Find the candidate who has the desire and talent to expose Obama and win the election.

Jim Dooley
Lee 912 Fort Myers
12/14/2011