My Plan for the Rise of Republicanism

There are a lot of career politicians, a lot of people "in the know" and tied to the process who think they have THE plan to return the Republicans to power.

Well, I am here to tell you that I've been talking the talk for the better part of the last year. Thanks to Newt Gingrich for getting on board. Mr. Gingrich, welcome to the party!

For any of you who listened to Newt's speech at the big fundraiser last night, much of what he talked about are things I have been saying since I began blogging at this time last year.

So Mr. Smart Guy (me) what's your big plan?

In short, my plan is built around a principle I learned as a young boy - KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid.

1) We are a nation under God. Yes, our history is in the Judeo-Christian tradition, but we are not one nation under Jesus....in fact we are one nation under God. This means we are a nation of Faith - Faith in God, Faith in ourselves and our individual ability to do better for ourselves than any government can do for us.

2) The ideals and core values that bind us together and make us Americans are far stronger and more numerous than are those things that we disagree on. It is time that we include people in the Republican Party because of what each person DOES believe in, not to exclude people because of what they do not believe in. What does that mean? It means that if the most important issues of the day are, as we almost all agree, lowering taxes, shrinking government and restoring and preserving and upholding the liberty and freedom granted to us by the Constitution.

Lincoln made the Republican Party THE ORIGINAL party of inclusion, fighting for equality and individuals for those who were wrongly enslaved. Reagan re-energized the Republican Party and included and welcomed to the party Republicans, as well as Independents and Democrats who wanted a better way, a better life, a better America!

The Democrat Party, under the false pretense of helping the poor and caring for the oppressed, have in fact, only furthered the oppression of the the poor in America. The War on Poverty and throwing money at welfare programs has been, and always will be, a complete abject failure. Why is welfare a failure? Because welfare is absolutely and profoundly ANTI-AMERICAN! It is self-reliance and the fact that left to our own devices, Americans will always do better for and by themselves than government can EVER do for us. It is just fact.

3) As a people, we are in agreement in our desire to:
- Have lower taxes, and allow our citizens the opportunity to keep more of what each of us earns;
- Have small government, reduce wasteful spending, and drive governing decisions to the most local level possible, as often as possible, and so as to increase the level and amount of accountability that we can impose upon ALL politicians, regardless of their party;
- Remove the government from interfering in the daily and private lives of citizens and businesses. EVERYTHING government touches it does poorly. Why would we want more government? WE DON'T!!!!! That's the point!;
- We want our country to be safe from terror attacks and we want our streets free from crime;
- We want the quality of education our children receive to improve so that our kids and grandchildren can get better jobs;
- We want REAL immigration reform. Did you know that over 80% of American citizens who are Latino want illegal aliens deported. People who worked hard, followed the rules, and came to America to make America better are sick and tired of people coming here illegally. Further, almost 60% of Americans of Latino descent want ENGLISH to be the ONLY National language of America!!!
- We want REAL welfare reform. Fact is, some 90% of Americans want welfare reform, and over 80% of the people ON welfare want it reformed. People do NOT want to be dependent on the government. People WANT to be self-sufficient and self-reliant. To think otherwise is to think that there are people who intentionally WANT to be failures....that is simply ridiculous. We ARE better than that as a country!

So, the plan for Republicans to return to power and fix America is to understand ALL that is in what I have written above and to campaign on those points. To get out into the community and talk to ALL citizens. To talk WITH and NOT AT people. To listen and include people......because we, as Americans, overwhelmingly agree on everything I have written in this piece.

Keep it simple. Keep it American. And work harder and harder and harder to reject and destroy the LIES that the Democrat Party and the Liberal Media spew every day.

We CAN win....the future of our country....the future of our kids and grandkids depends on our party, THE party of inclusion, to win this fall and next and in 2012.