A Well Run Dry: Why the GOP is Doomed in 2012.

As the days go by and we inch closer and closer to 2012, I can’t help but begin to feel the fear growing within me.

The situation is growing deeper and more dire. I don’t think people realize the quagmire the Republican Party faces in 2012. This isn’t your normal political climate. There’s a two front war, a health care revolution, a debate about the end of a recession, a record federal debt, and a world growing less and less influenced by the United State.

All of that alone is enough to be a daunting task to unseat a president. In 2004, the argument was made that because we were in a war, Bush would not be deposed by Kerry because he had war experience. Well, is it too far out of spectrum to suggest that, because Obama has been weathering this storm, he would not be unseated for the same ‘experience’ standard.

As laughable as putting experience and Obama together might be, for once, it might not be too off point.

But its more than that. Obama is not just president. He’s not just a man. He’s a movement. That’s where this political climate begin to get scary. Men are defeatable. Presidents are fallible. But a full fledged movement? Well, thats a whole different beast. Obama represents all the “change” democrats wanted to see. He overcame the odds, beat the system by wearing Hillary out before crushing McCain. He has changed the old guard in Washington- younger people are getting their chance to big things in the White House. He’s doing the one thing no other POTUS has ever done before- humanizing the White House. In previous presidencies, the White House was seemingly built on a pedestal. You didn’t hear about the underlings. The president was the focus and everybody else just happened to be the fuzzy background in his grand picture. But now, its different. Obama has done a masterful job of making his White House appeal to the every day person. His staffers have posed for Maxim, his speechwriter Jon Favreau made both the 100 Most Influential and 100 Best Looking lists in the same year. The White House has become approachable. Its no longer the shining house on the Hill, but just another place of business that happens to be a million times cooler and more important than any place you’ve ever works.

Thats what scares me. As many missteps as he has made, the movement keeps picking up steam. Regular people are willing to forgive quickly because...”he’s just a regular guy”. The president has always had this air of regality in the past. They’ve all had normal tendencies, but at the end of the day, they always stood above the chaff because they had to. Not him. He’s addicted to his Blackberry, like us. He had a problem with smoking, like so many of us. He enjoys filling out March Madness brackets, like us.

Forget health care blunders. Forget the rising defecit. Forget Government Motors. He’s one of us.

That is what gives me nightmares at night. 2012 is becoming more and more of a pipedream for the GOP and conservatives as a whole. We will probably split the power and regain a ton of seats in Congress. Boehner says there should be as many as 100 seats in play and I fully believe that’s truth. We will probably regain majority within Congress or at least pick up enough seats to ruin the liberal agenda.

But thats recoverable. In the scope of national politics, Congress is a bunch of nameless, faceless ranks that take the brunt of the blame for whatever bad happens. With the exception of a few people who rise above the facelessness- Pelosi, Reid, McCain, and now Scott Brown, you couldn’t name half the people there. They are all just people, just ordinary people, defeatable as any other politician. 2012 will be a Congressional dogfight, one that would make Michael Vick salivate, for sure.

But the prizefight may be over before it even begins.

The GOP currently has no superstars. They have not groomed anyone to enter the fight and stand a reasonable chance. Its going to be like Pacquiao v Clottey from a few weeks ago, where Clottey got talked up, then stood around and did nothing and was made to look a fool for entering the ring.

To defeat a movement, you need a countermovement. What does the GOP currently have? The Tea Party. Now, don’t get me wrong, the Tea Party is, without a doubt, a countermovement.

But of a different breed.

The Tea Party gives everyday people a chance to stand up, to exercise their rights to free speech against politicians. But who has risen from the Tea Party ranks to challenge Obama in a manner that could translate into a presidential race?

Sarah Palin? No way. Her resigning from gubernatorial duties in Alaska was the worst move she could ever make. So not only is she the crazy veep candidate that kept McCain’s boat barely afloat, but she’s a quitter. Probably to collect those fat paychecks from books, pundit appearances, etc. If Sarah Palin runs, it will divide America worse than Obama did. Which is what we can’t afford right now.

Glenn Beck? He’s a TV pundit. Presidencies built upon talking heads are the stuff of poorly written movies.

Newt Gingrich. His time was ten years ago.

There are names in the race already or names from 2008, but none of them evoke any real emotions.

Romney- Mormonism is a strong thing to overcome. Governing a liberal state is another. He is far too establishment to get over.

Bobby Jindal- Years away. The young governor from Louisiana could be a contender, but there has been NOTHING done to pump him up. No opportunities to turn him into a brand name.

McCain- He didn’t even really want to run in 2008. He’s done. He is a great man. One of the best America has. Just not suited for the presidency. Its not that he would do a bad job.....its just that he wouldn’t do a great job either.

Huckabee- Made the transition to television. Paycheck is too good on TV. I don’t think he has a reasonable shot.

Giuliani- Disinterested. He was the strong favorite in 2008 and I think he had the best chance to unseat Obama. He was on the verge of ‘movement’ status with the America’s Mayor moniker, but nobody harnessed it properly. His brain trust screwed him with their ‘place now, work later’ focus on dismissing the early primaries/caucases and using Florida as their launch pad. Iowa and New Hampshire are NEVER overlookable. In 2000, McCain stood a chance at beating Bush because of New Hampshire. 1992, Clinton did the same thing in NH. Iowa is a coinflip- it built the fire that legitimized Obama and it created the flareout that became Huckabee’s campaign.

Tim Pawlenty- He’s been my personal pick since McCain won the nomination in 2008. It was obvious McCain wasn’t going to win, but his vetting of T-Paw made a lot of sense as a VP candidate. He’s got the best credentials. He’s probably the best choice. But he’s just a man. A very bland man at that. The self styled “Wal-Mart Conservative” hasn’t branded himself, hasn’t stepped out into the spotlight to create any aura around him. Its obvious he wants the presidency, but finishing 4th in CPAC voting because nobody knows you is a horrible way to come out of the gate.

The GOP needs a movement. They need to rally behind a non-polarizing figure that understands what the people want. That can speak well, that isn’t your normal dehumanized politician.

You know who stands that chance?

Scott Brown.

It makes sense. He’s a firebrand. His grassroots campaign appealed to the entire US. He pulled the world into Massachusetts for that race. He created a mini-movement behind him. He became larger than life. Scott Brown became more than just a man, Scott Brown became a rallying cry for conservatives across the US who were already tired of the direction Obama had been taken us.

Our hopes in 2012 may rest upon a former Cosmo model who captured America’s hearts and minds with one of the most surprising and oddly played campaigns in Congressional history.

Are you worried yet?

Tea Anyone?

Last April 15th, I was downtown Cleveland for a meeting. I had heard a few days prior that there would be a "Tea Party" rally that day near the courthouse so I decided that since I was already in the area I would check it out. The weather that day was absolutely awful. It was about 45 degrees and overcast with a brisk wind coming right off the only recently melted lake. I thought to myself that it was not exactly a conducive recipe for a big turnout. I was also skeptical because never in my lifetime had I really seen conservative minded people protest in large numbers. I had watched countless numbers of liberals protest the war and other issues during the Bush years, but I had always been told that Republicans did not protest because they had jobs to go to. I guess desperate times call for desperate measure then because I was pleasantly surprised to see so many patriotic Americans brave the elements last tax day waving flags and signs to voice their opposition to a government they believed was becoming too big and spending way too much money.

We are now a year removed from the initial Tea Party experiment and we can now put into perspective how this little movement has exploded into a political juggernaut. Not since the rise of the New Left during the early 1960's has a true grassroots political movement risen to such prowess in such a small amount of time. While it is true that the organizers of the Tea Parties have done a magnificent job in creating this political force, the real credit must be given to the current administration and their accessories in the Congress. This government has become to large and grotesque while simultaneously spending our country into bankruptcy that we the people now know that it is up to us, not our inept representatives in Congress to do what our Constitution says and organize to voice our opposition. Regardless of what our complacent media says, the Tea Party is a movement made up of regular, hardworking Americans who realize the severity of our current situation. Most of the people who make up this movement have never been politically active before, but their love for this great yet diminished land has forced them to be silent no longer.

The aforementioned American media have done their best over the past year to ridicule and silence the Tea Party. The liberals who run the networks, newspapers and magazines have become so desperate that they have had to resort to their trusted and predictable nuclear option -- racism. The left has always used the race card against conservatives to try to marginalize our politics but this time it is different. A black man is now the president and according to the media, all we care about is the color of his skin...not his policies. MSNBC in particular is on a daily basis trying as hard as they can to make a connection between the Tea Parties and racism. Comedian Janine Garofalo said last year on that network that we are nothing but a bunch of "Teabagging rednecks". How nice. CNN, by the way, has also used the word "Teabaggers" to demean this movement. Op-ed's have run in prominent newspapers like the New York Times and Washington post equating the Tea Parties with the Ku Klux Klan and George Wallace supporters. The media ignores the broader movement when reporting and scourers the crowd to magnify the few nuts in order to paint us all with the same brush. It is funny because I do not remember this type of scrutiny of the anti-war protest that called for the murder of George W. Bush. In fact, I remember an instance when our local news rag of record, "The Plain Dealer" actually printed a map and directions to an anti-war rally so that the participants could find the easiest route. I am sure the five people that showed up were overcome with appreciation.

Despite their pathetic attempts, the American people thus far have had and still hold a positive view of the Tea Party. Level headed and free thinking Americans know that we have absolutely no issue with the president because of his ethnicity, we care about the fact that we have accumulated a $13 trillion dollar debt that is growing with every passing day. We care that a government that was created of the people, by the people and for the people is now perishing as a result of government growth and intervention. We care that only 50 years ago President John Kennedy told us to ask not what our country can do for us but what we can do for our country, but now it has become the exact opposite. We care that everything that has made this country so successful and powerful over the past 235 years is unraveling into an unsustainable and unamerican welfare state akin Western Europe and other socialized nations. We want to get back to a country that rewards success and ingenuity, but that will never hesitate to help the helpless, just not the clueless. We want to be a nation that again relies on the individual to be responsible for himself not one that provides a safety net for anyone who is simply unwilling to try.

The Tea Party stands for all of these things, as do I think most Americans. Regardless of what the media or the administration tell you, they are listening to us. They know the significance of this movement, if it was not such a threat to their power they would not waste the time in trying so hard to marginalize it. That is why we can not stop being boisterous. We mustn't stop until our country is once again on the right track and we can take the first step in that direction this November. Remember, the last revolution also started with a Tea Party.

BMN

The Fall of the Last Great Empire- It's a Big F*****' Deal

We spent a lot of time focused on health care, and deservedly so. Its a big deal. It continues to unfold over the coming weeks, but there are many, many other things in the world that need to be talked about. While we’re at home, worried about the effects health care will have, watching the rest of the pork be pulled out and explained and shoved down our throats as to why its good for us....things continue to get worse.

The horrible thing is, President Obama hasn’t done much to make things better. The President of the United States is supposed to be a man of honor who goes out of his way to ensure everyone has a voice....to uphold the First Amendment. What has he been doing since health care passed? Why, wouldn’t you know it, he’s out bandstanding throughout America, mocking conservatives for their stance against health care, telling them to ‘bring it’ and being overly derisive against a massive portion of America. Oh yeah, he’s also capitalizing by selling shirts that say “Health Reform is a BFD (Big F----- Deal) [you can view those and his other PR ideas at http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fbtshirtpoll ]

I sit back and try to rationalize these actions, but I can’t. I really, really can’t. Wasn’t this the SAME constituency who, years ago, DEMANDED Governor Schwarzenegger’s head on a pike for calling them ‘girlie men’? These are the same people who become outraged and cry absolute bloody murder when something a little off color is said in public. These are the same people who cried foul when, at Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday, Trent Lott spoke up and said things would be better if he had been elected president. Yeah, I get it. Thurmond ran on the Dixiecrat ticket, which was largely racist. Take into context what he said and where- he made a comment speaking well of this man, the longest tenured Senator in US history, on his birthday. Looking into beyond that is so absurd, but thats what they did. They shamed him out of his leadership position and eventually out of Congress altogether because they had their panties in such a bunch.

Grow some thicker skin. Obama is out trashing conservatives left and right these days. He’s making t-shirts about it. Throwing everything in our face. Yeah, change and bipartisanship. That’s exactly what he’s doing. Its sickening. This man speaks out of one side of his mouth then goes out and does something else. He makes cries that bipartisanship needs to happen, yet he impedes the process by mocking conservatives for their ideas.

You know what? I’m glad health care passed. Its going to ruin him. Its going to ruin Democrats. Its the death knell. You know why? “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”-George Santayana There’s an elephant in the room nobody has addressed yet. Why has nobody brought up what happened to countries who turn to socialized health care?

It’s because those countries lose power. They become less viable. They lose military strongholds. They cut funding across the board. The great thing about America has always been our ability to act alone- the pioneer spirit. We do things together as a people. We overcome amazing obstacles because of our individuality. We fight for everything we accomplish and recieve.

Health care ruins all of that. Gone will be that pioneer spirit. You get free health care. Why try and better it? Look at Canada. Canada had the 4th largest Navy in the world. What happened when socialized health care came into effect? Well.....Canada is laughable as a military power.

Same with Great Britain.

Same with most of Europe as a whole.

Well, you say, that doesn’t matter. We don’t need a big military anymore. We can cut costs and shrink the military to pay for this needed reform.

Can we? Can America afford it? Can the world afford it?

Like it or not, America is a world stabilizer. We keep things in check. Our military power protects those states, I’m looking at you Canada and Britain, that don’t have strong militaries to pay for their health care. What happens when we shrink our hard power to pay for health care?

I’ll tell you what happens- we lose. If you pay attention to the news at all, you’ll see Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin paid a visit to President Hugo Chavez and his country of Venezuela, to bolster support.

Now, if you know anything about politics, you know what a horrible person Chavez is, how poorly his country is run, and how much he hates America. With Obama in office, you see what is happening? Countries that wouldn’t have paid him the time of day out of fear are talking to him, seeing what he needs.

Russia has promised to help them develop nuclear power and a space program. China and Iran stand behind Venezuela.

Who are America’s three biggest threats with nuclear capabilities.

China.

Russia.

Iran.

If you remember, during the Bush Administration, Putin was a strong ally of the United States. This would have never happened.

Today? Russia scoffs at us and Obama’s insistence on ignoring Russia and what they bring to the table.

It’s a scary thing to look at. As we push toward this new health care program (I know I said I wouldn’t talk about it, but I guess it tied in. Oh well.....), the rest of the world prepares to step in when we, same as our allies, fall into the same military weakness that prevents us from having a strong presence in the world.

If things don’t change....if this isn’t repealed...if we don’t figure this out...we could very well be saying goodbye to the last Superpower.

If you’ve ever taken a history class, you have learned about the rise and fall of the great empires- Rome, Egypt, Mongols, British....

Welcome to the accelerated decline of the last great empire.

Health Care Reform: Sure its historic, but is it a good historic?

(Written by New Breed contributor and resident law adviser Kathryn)

It is troubling to be living in America in at time that the government is truly not listening to the American public, and passing legislation that is both unpopular and quite possibly unconstitutional. The Heath Care Reform was signed into law with all the media attention on the highly scripted moment on Tuesday, with a high amount of backlash.

Perhaps I should take a moment to introduce myself, and the perspective that I am coming from. I am currently a law student with a healthy skepticism of the government as a whole. I identify myself as a conservative, but am open to ideas from both sides of the isle. I am further along then just my first year, so I am just educated enough to be really dangerous in the legal field. I also come from a medical family who has never had to deal with medical malpractice as a defendant, but nonetheless have instilled in me a healthy respect for the field as a whole. Which is why I feel that that this Health Care Act is more of a detriment then the cure for the illness of the lack of insured in this country.

Sure the American people need to have heath care that would be affordable and available to all, but is this really the best our government could do? In many ways I feel that this particular round in the political arena was geared toward showing that the party in control of the government could get something done, rather then crafting legislation that might actually accomplish the goals put forth. A thousand page piece of legislation with so many loopholes and throwbacks to contributing states is not what this country needs. The fact that half of those voting did not even bother to read the document should tell you how well this piece of legislation is crafted.

The legislation takes way from people the right to choose. This is a fundamental issue in the American society. WE are a free nation. WE are able to choose if we want to drive and have to purchase car insurance, or if we want to take the bus and save the expense. We are free to choose our own destiny and path in the world, not one that is predetermined by the government. WE THE PEOPLE have the right to be free from government tyranny and forced fines for not purchasing insurance. What ever happened to “no taxation without representation” for the American public? If the current administration thinks that they are representing the will of the American people maybe they should look at the polls showing that the public is against this act by a +10.5 spread on average.

Even if we give the current administration the benefit of the doubt and say that they were truly trying to help the people and not just push their own political agenda, there is still the constitutional issue. The Tenth Amendment, which I hope the people in power are familiar with, says that the powers that are not expressly given in the constitution are reserved for the states. This is why there have already been 12 state Attorney Generals who filed suit a mere two minutes after the law was signed, alleging the law is unconstitutional based on the Tenth Amendment. I have not read this complaint yet, but if I were the one writing it I would have included the overreaching aspects of the new law that controls state actions. The states have always been in control of insurance practices. They are the ones who have been in the real trenches with insurance issues; maybe they should be the ones who are on the forefront of change.

On the topic of what could have been done instead of the current Act, how about tort reform? I know, I know it is not the sexiest topic to overhaul the tort system, or even the most popular among attorneys, but it would be effective in getting insurance under control. It seems that most people assume that the insurance companies have a huge pool of money that they can draw from to pay out massive settlements to everyone who suffers from a hangnail well under a doctor’s care, but this is not true. Attorneys that get into medical malpractice (and I am not saying all are this way, after all there are many in my profession that are very moral and ethnical people who really are looking to do the best for their clients) tend to get into the field looking for a big pay out that they can retire on. But the money that is paid out in the court cases comes from the pockets of all who pay into insurance. Think about it. If the total profit margin on the insurance business is only $5 million and there is a $10 million pay out that they have to deal with, where do you think that the extra money comes from? Answer: you and me. If you impose a cap on the amount of money that can be given out then the premiums could go down and insurers maybe more willing to take on “high risk” people who, let’s face it, they are afraid to take not only because of the health cost, but the risk of lawsuits later down the line. It stands to reason that the more issues a person has the greater risk there is in having some type of slipup and resulting law suit.

Oh, but I am not paying the insurance company that pays out for malpractice suits of doctors you may say, but the cost is still being passed on to you. Once again, think about it, where are the costs going to come from? If you sue a doctor they are going to be covered by malpractice insurance. The money is not coming out of the doctor’s pocket, but the insurer who covers them. When a jury gives a huge payout for malpractice, the insurer covers the cost and the cost for all of the doctors insurance goes up. When the cost goes up, doctors have to charge more, thus the higher cost of health care. If the government took control of that aspect then there would be no need to do this “Overhaul of Health Care.”

How about also regulating the cost of prescription drugs? This current law does nothing to help the rising cost of drugs. Maybe, the government should be giving incentives to make affordable drugs and encourage the making of generic drugs after the patent expires, not expanding the rights of drug companies and prevent the making of generic drugs. But this would mean that the politicians would have to stop listening to the lobbyists flying them of private plains to tropical islands of “conferences” and actually take a stand.

Fix those two elements and this past year of legislation would not have needed to take place.

It is not as if there was not government control over the health care system in the first place. Currently insurance agencies set their payouts to doctors based on the Medicare standard. That is were they pass on the cost to those that they cover. The insurers will pay out the same as the government to the physician not any more, because if it is good enough for the government it is good enough for them. The problem is that the doctors still need to be paid. They have large insurance policies to pay for after all, so the extra cost is once again passed on to you and me.

Another way to fix the problem is to work on increasing jobs in this country. If people are employed they will generally be given benefits, or at very least have the ability to pay for insurance if they want it. That’s it, give incentives to actually grow small business and that could help much more then just the health care aspect of the current state of the country.

The cost of this program is so stunning in a deficit of a few trillion dollars that it almost is not worth mentioning. Almost. The fact that health care cost is the largest growing cost for the federal government should have been taken into account. Any extra funds going to government heath care is just he wrong way to go. The best part of the suggestions above? They have little to no cost.

Maybe if Washington thought about more then the need to push forward a law that so many were against and make sure that a “historical” event happened during this administration, we would have gotten the change that was actually needed. But for now we are stuck with a law that is more then likely unconstitutional and all those who are against it are racist and small-minded. If the law actually did make a difference then I would be all for it, but as it stands now this law is only going to make things worse.

I could go on with the counter arguments, but I feel that this post I already long enough.

Sins of the Father, Debts of the Children

(Written by New Breed contributor Mark Balzano)

Even now as I write, the liberal wing of the Democratic party is ringing drums and patting each other on the back for the health care reform they have been seeking for the last 100 years. The bill they say will insure the poorest of the poor and drive down the national debt for all by taking care of our weakest will just drive up the national debt and put an increasing strain on the producers of our society. I, for one, am actually one of the poor that will benefit from this bill since I am below the poverty line; but I’m against this bill for what it means for us Americans as a whole.
For those who love the fact that no longer will Americans be excluded from health insurance, let me ask this question…do you deserve to pay the same car insurance as those who have had two accidents in the last year? If this bill was applied to car insurance we should all pay the same rates. It doesn’t matter if you have had three or four tickets or multiple accidents…you get to pay the same and not be denied coverage as if you’re a perfect driver. If you apply basic economics, the equation you get is something like this: if the insurance company can’t make its money back off the highest of risks, it needs to make money off all risks it invests in; meaning the responsible drivers pay more for those who aren’t responsible at all.
If you let emotions take hold in the argument, you can easily say ‘well driving a car is no where near the same as your health insurance’…and I just need to ask…why? This new bill allows a 30 year old smoker to insure the day they learn they have cancer, as much as it allows a healthy 30 year old to insure on day one. Once again I ask, where will the money to pay for the smoker come from? If you can’t refuse the smoker insurance then you need to make your bottom line up from the healthy young person who never did anything to affect their health except live.
The government has been raiding the cookie jar of Social Security and Medicare to pay for bloated government since they were both created. Each is showing signs of instability which will lead to higher retirement ages and increased cost and zero debt savings. The United States is already horribly in debt due to rampant spending on social welfare programs. The question I leave you with is- are you willing to pass a horribly written and corrupted compromised bill today, so that your grandchildren can pay for it tomorrow?

A New Breed Is Rising (An Introduction)

I suppose, though we started with a bit of a bang when it comes to content, we must take a moment to slow down and explain things a bit. Consider this a mixture of an About Us, Q&A, whatever you want to call it..

When I came up with the idea of a blog group comprised of young conservatives, the goal was simple: to be groundbreaking and do something different. I mean absolutely no offense to the myriad blogs out in the internet right now focusing on conservatism, but everywhere I visit, every blog I read, nobody even makes weak attempts to catch the attention of the conservative youth. Its sad.

It is my opinion that the reason liberals are in power right now, regardless of the gaffes made by previous Republican regimes, is because of the groundswell of the youth movement. Conservatives across the country are just now waking up to the fact that utilizing and mobilizing a youth movement is necessary for survival in today’s world. But they have no idea how to go about it. The GOP is so antiquated in thought, both the politicians and constituents over 35, that mobilizing a youth movement would be near impossible for them to do. They don’t capture our minds, they don’t engage us intellectually, they barely pay us attention.

It makes sense, though, if you analyze it. The current Republican Party stakes its beliefs and actions behind the thoughts of fiscal conservatism. In the eyes of a fiscal conservative, spending money to utilize the youth of America would prove to be a losing investment because the youth have no money to contribute, no power to wield, no capital to lend to the party. So, in the eyes of the fiscal conservative, its a losing bet.

We know that isn’t the case. Look what happened with Obama. Its proof positive just how strong the youth movement can be. We don’t have money, but we have power, we have voices, we have the ability to work. Its not going to be older generations out there making phone calls, raising money, engaging in conversation in debates, or rallying the public. Its the youth who makes the difference. It is us who can sway today’s politics.

This is a new power. In the past, yes, youth movements were not the most successful, but the advent of technology have given us a power few have yet to understand or properly utilize. We don’t even fully understand it.

Its with that in mind that I am putting together the New Breed. Its a want to create a youth movement in the conservative realm that transcends party power, beltway politics, money, etc. I don’t want it to matter who you are, where you come from, how educated you are- if you have an opinion, if you have a voice and you want to share it this should be your avenue. We cannot sit idly by anymore and hope the GOP power structure will eventually wake up and reach out to us, we need to stand up and make them recognize the power we have and the help that we can provide.

I know it sounds a bit idealistic, and I completely agree that it is. Its a big and lofty goal. But all great things start at a simple dream. This is my dream. For a youth movement to rise within the GOP and combat the power the Democratic Party and liberals throughout the US have a monopoly over. There are a lot of us out there and we have the power to make a change. Its up to us to open up though, to make our stance known, and to be proud of what we believe in.

My hope is, that over the coming days and weeks, we begin to develop a small list of writers from different backgrounds who can contribute to our writings. I want to develop a group who speak for many different people. A group that people can stand behind. We will write about things that matter to us. Don’t expect your usual conservative fare. Don’t expect pretentiousness. We will be real. We will be opinionated. We will be completely open. Some of us share different beliefs, but at the core are conservatives.

Backgrounds don’t matter. Education doesn’t matter. Networking doesn’t matter. This is new and fresh. Share your beliefs, share your opinions, share your opportunities. Create a movement that people have to notice. We are all Americans and we can come together behind that uniting force and do great things.

I hope you join us as we attempt to begin something great...

-M

Why I am a Conservative

Welcome to the New Breed! I share Mickey’s excitement in starting this blogging adventure, and hope that we can welcome new writers as our blog expands. I thought I would start by giving just a simple introduction to why I am a conservative.
Everything I have learned, I have learned from my family. Growing up, I saw how hard my grandparents and parents worked for what they have. My siblings and I saw from an early age how hard work pays off. If we couldn’t afford it, we didn’t get it and even if we did have the money, we were still cautious about how we spent it. It was important to save, because you never know when something necessary might need fixed – like a car, the water heater, the dishwasher. I wish the federal government could learn to operate like that.
My political opinions have the tendency to anger people. I’m not afraid to speak my mind, and welcome educated debate on any issue. Everyone has a right to their opinion (thank you, first amendment) but if you are going to engage in a political debate, I hope you have facts and evidence to back up your opinion and do not just sprout empty, mindless rhetoric like our current President.
The greatest love I have I have for my country. I live in Washington, DC and never tire of seeing Capitol Hill, the White House, and the memorials that line the National Mall. Every time I see a flag, I pause to remember the millions of veterans who made it possible for me to live in a free, exceptional country that is unlike any other country in the world. My love for American History runs rampant, and it will probably be obvious in my blogs about Constitutional issues and the direction our country is headed.
Mickey is absolutely correct – young conservatives represent a growing number of voters (over half of CPAC attendees this year were students!). These young conservatives need a place to speak their mind, gather support, and gain encouragement to go out and effect REAL change. I hope this blog provides that for some of you, and I hope that you don’t back down but rather continue to stand up for conservative principles.

Scratching the Surface..

 Taken from my personal blog on March 22, 2010.

Its the day after, and I don’t feel any better about what transpired last night. If anything, I feel worse. The hope that we overturn seems less and less, all we can really hope for now is that we can get in there and do some successful surgery and remove the horrible pork added to this bill.

To read some of the stuff attached to the bill is like running through a wishlist of states needs. Its clear the political manuevering Pelosi, Reid, and Obama ran through to get this thing voted into action is enormous. I give them credit for pulling every trick out of the book, but for such a lackluster plan....come on. Shame on you. I understand its important to pass and may define your presidency and terms, but take a step back and look at the big picture....is your office legacy as important as the positive change you create within the US? They go hand in hand- if you do good things, history will reward you.

But, for the sake of education, here’s just a few of the additions to the bill added over the past couple months....

State money- Nebraska, Louisiana, Vermont, and Massachussetts. This is ridiculous. Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson managed to get the government to pay 100% of a statewide expansion of Medicaid. Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu pulled an extra $100million in 2011 for the state of LA.
AARP- Given an extra $1bil.

Generic Drug Makers- Forced by a 12 year protection plan for the major drug corps to hold off on production of any new biomed drugs, which will decrease competition and allow major drug corps to run up the cost and lower production with their 12 year window of basically a no-compete clause.

Doctor benefits- Doctors in the states of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming will get paid more than any other states under the new Health Care Bill.

Tanning Salons- 10% tax increase on all indoor tanning services.

Taxpayers making over $250k a year- Hit with a .9% tax increase for Medicaid, making the total tax 2.35% for incomes or family gross over 250k.

Thats just some of the major hits you’re going to see with the new Health Care bill. It really covers a lot of different facets.

Taxpayers who make under $88,000.00 a year will be FORCED to purchase a Health Care package. Refusal to do so will cause you to incur tax fines that increase in scale per year by a set amount, or if you make over 88k they can fine you up to 2% of your net income.

I’m so shocked all of this went through...and everything I’ve just rattled out is just scraping the surface. This hasn’t even gotten into the ridiculous Executive Order promise from Obama to Stupak or the fact that Dems snuck in a Student Loan Reform reconciliation on the backend of this bill, which will completely overhaul you student loans and its subsidy...but thats something I need to devote a whole post, too.

I’m really trying to wrap my head around all of this. This thing shoots out in so many different, dizzying directions that its gonna take awhile for everybody to fully grasp this situation.

Ramblings from a crazed wannabe politico..

Taken from my personal blog on March 21st, 2010.

Today is just too heavy a day to keep my mouth shut in some form. I loathe that I can’t be embroiled in this battle. That I’m stuck on the sidelines and unable to roll my sleeves up and work with my brother and sister Americans to work together to create a better future.

This Healthcare fight has such a putrid stink on it after everything that has happened over the past couple months that the fact it could actually be voted into effect today breaks my heart.

As an American, I was willing to give Obama a chance. I am a staunch conservative (thats conservative, NOT Republican. I may vote that slant, but I represent myself by my beliefs, not by party affiliation), but if the American people voted him into office, then it was what the people wanted, regardless of my beliefs. Though I may have been supremely disappointed because I didn’t feel he was the correct candidate, I also realize that that is the base beauty of our system- it doesn’t rely on what ONE person feels, it is solely based upon what the entirety of the people believe. Everyone has a voice and a vote and the choice to use both or neither.

But this healthcare fight has gone too far. It has crossed from a potential reform to help the people into a self serving “accomplishment” for the Democratic party (not liberals, but the party. Again, differences). At its core, the healthcare bill will serve to provide care for most* Americans (but not quite all), remove outrageous insurance premiums, close the “doughnut holes”, increase how long children can be on parents insurance, remove the pre-existing condition clause, regulate care issues and laws through the government, etc. All in all- those aren’t horrible ideas to BEGIN on. But too basic to END on. Too much wiggle room. Too much room for liberties to be taken with the rules and the ideas. Then, politics get in the way. Public options. Abortion options. Further government funding. Favors, codicils, and porkbarrels for certain congressmen/women to ensure their vote (for the uninformed, a porkbarrel is a special addendum to a bill that adds in special consideration for others, such as the pork added for the state of Nebraska)

The bill gets bogged down in politics. It becomes less about enacting healthcare to help people and more about how to pad more pocketbooks and how to make the Democratic party save face in the all the gaffes it has pulled off in the past year. More concerned with Obama’s approval ratings (which sit around 40/50% currently) and the 2010 mid-term elections then about changing something to help the people.

And thats where I get so sick about it. Wake up Democrats! Do you not realize what your elected officials are doing? They are NO LONGER acting in your benefit, they are acting in their own! The people are saying NO to the healthcare plan and that sound is absolutely deafening! But the politicians are saying yes with earplugs in. THEY DON’T CARE.

These people are more concerned about saving their jobs by enacting something they foolishly believe is on the level of Social Security or the Civil Rights Movement. But its NOT. FDRs New Deal and Social Security plans were hailed as social revolutions, because they were. Because the people KNEW what they were getting. Congresspeople didn’t need pork or earmarks or special executive orders to get votes- after reading the bill it was understood that what could be enacted could greatly help the people.

Civil Rights? Please. That was a no-brainer. People were being oppressed by a government meant to reign for the people, by the people. What do you do? You remove that oppression. Easy. Yes, there were ignorant people against it (both D and Rs, nobody is innocent), but look where they are now! In a tiny minority pushed to the fringe. They get their ability to speak freely and have their say, but the people choose to turn them down. Thats where we need to be. I will never begrudge somebody their opinion, no matter how racist, ignorant, sexist, bigoted, etc it may be. Because we live in America and that is their CHOICE to feel that way and speak that way. Will I debate with them the merits of their beliefs compared to mine? Damn straight. Because that is the CHOICE given to me in America, given to us all.

Healthcare? None of the above. It gives us a system that, although it will be cheaper and more affordable for everybody, the quality will be substandard at BEST. People come from all over the world to participate in our current health care system because it is so good. Mind you, not the insurance policies or companies, etc but the system itself- the doctors, the hospitals, the medicine, the research. This bill harms all of that. The progress we make in the colleges, the kids we turn into world class doctors, the hospitals and practitioner offices created.....its all affected negatively. How does that help Americans? Give them healthcare, but KILL the system that we’ve worked so hard to create and make better! That doesn’t help anyone.

Not to mention, what you will quit paying in premiums, you will pay in taxes. Is it really that much cheaper? Stop paying your bills to one set of devils and pay them to a bigger devil. With the insurance companies, at least you had the choice to move to a different company if that one was unsuitable. Now? Well, good luck moving to a different country if you want to continue to have a reasonable choice.

I’m disheartened as an American today, but energized as a conservative. I’m so angry at the Democrats for pushing this substandard bill through just to save face. Yes, I understand your agenda is social healthcare reform. I will meet you in the middle in that reform does need to happen. But this bill is absolutely NOT the answer. It doesn’t help you save face and it doesn’t save the American people. It does nothing but leave a black mark on the US policy system.

You know, when Obama came into office, when he was out stumping, he promised to end political division, to help bring both parties together to work to improve America. Not a bad idea, is it? Nope. Not at all.

But what has he done? Has he done that at all? No. What has he done besides posture himself as doing so? His State of the Union, he constantly chided Republicans for not falling in step behind him, but where was his bipartisan movement to meet in the middle? He came to a Republican Congress meeting and spent the entire time chastising and belittling. Where is the bipartisanship? He used SOTU to reprimand the Supreme Court. Bipartisan? Hardly.

When it comes to meeting those lofty goals he set when he was elected president, he’s done nothing but disappoint and fail. There's a reason his approval ratings are so low. For all his verbosity, his posturing, his finger wagging, his appeal to the “regular” people, he’s done nothing but FAIL at holding up his promises. He is NOT a good president. That has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with his race, his party, his religion, but has everything to do with HIMSELF. He speaks, but he doesn’t act. Has he actually rolled his sleeves up and gotten dirty and helped the people? Has he really done ANYTHING besides divide the country even worse than before? With Bush, at least we all could agree that he wasn’t the smartest dude in the world. Obama is too busy trying to build a legacy instead of focusing on the present and working to help the people who elected him out. How many people came out and voted for the first time to put him in the office? That number is in the millions. How many of those people don’t believe in him anymore because he can’t live up to his campaign promises? I guarantee you that number is in the millions as well.

We need a new healthcare bill. But, more so than that, we need a change over in government. Its our fault, America. We have spent the past ten years so focused on party divisions, on politics, then on what really matters. Officials are elected to represent us. They’re not gods. They’re not absolute. They should NOT vote on what they feel. Again, democracy is great because its a collective voice, not a small group. We elect these people because they should be listening to us. They should be ONE OF US. But the ones in office are not, both D and R. They should know the political system better than us, which is why we elect them to do this job, but they should never transcend that and begin to believe they know us better than we know ourselves. Their job is to create ideas to help the people. It is not to shove things down our throats and tell us its good for us. Which is what healthcare is. A poison pill disguised as a placebo to make us feel better. Make us feel that our government is working to ‘help us’.

Disgusting. I can’t sit on the sidelines much longer. I’ve had a taste of the system and I’m smitten. This just fuels me. I need to find a way back. I want to work alongside the people and build a better future. I want to be involved in campaigns I can believe in, people and issues I can fight for.

How do I get there? I don’t know. But words aren’t enough anymore. I want to work in politics, but I want to be a different breed. I want to speak and act at the same time. I want to be better. I want to create a future we can all be proud in.

I have no idea how to make that happen yet. No idea how to get there. But I have the desire. And thats a start, I suppose.....

An Outdated Manifesto

I wrote this November 5, 2008. This will be updated, but I think its a good starting place. The purpose of this blog, The New Breed, is to develop a new breed of Young Conservatives in America. We YCs don't have any sounding boards today. Liberals have Huffington Post, Dailykos, etc. and we are left with the hard writings of older people who just don't connect to us all that well.

The goal is here is to create a venue to speak your mind, to learn about issues in a manner that suits us the best, and to come together and work for a better future. I encourage those of you who read this to think about what you're reading and how it affects you. If you have good ideas, reply, let us know what you think. Writing for New Breed right now will be two writers- myself and my good friend and fellow co-worker on the Giuliani Campaign Leanne McCullough. But we welcome new writers. If you want to join us, if you want to write with us, just send us samples, let us know what you think and we will definitely give you a chance. The key here is to grow!

With that said.....A Conservative Manifesto (of sorts)

With all of the mudslinging and whatnot and every liberal and their mother posting their beliefs anywhere they can and then going after any conservative who attempts to speak their mind, I figured its time to put mine up. I’m not devoutly religious, nor am I some right wing extremist, but I am prepared to defend my beliefs to the very bitter end, no matter the cost, no matter what lengths I have to go to. Too many conservatives these days choose to keep their voices silenced because liberals choose to be overly harsh and never ending when it comes to their close minded criticisms and hatred to our side. In that regard, I say bring it. Please. I don’t claim to be the smartest or the best or the most righteous person in the world, but I am deeply invested within my convictions and willing to verbally spar with anyone who has the gall to call me out. This will probably be long winded, a bit rant-heavy, but hopefully entertaining to a few of you.

I am a conservative. These days, that word has gotten muddled in problems. With an unpopular war and an economy on the brink of recession, everyone seems ready to write off the word conservative with ‘evil, misguided, ill-informed’ or other various unkind words. That couldn’t be further from the truth.

As the years pass, people will begin to realize just how unfairly George Bush was treated and will gain a new respect for the man as president. George Bush is a man with a love for America that is practically unparalleled these days. However, he gets dumped on by both sides and it goes back to his 2004 re-election speech where he promises to attempt to bring the parties together and asks the liberals to allow him the chance to earn their respect and work together to make America better, to finish the war, and to rebuild the economy. Those liberals never showed up to the bargaining table. Today, so many of them pound their chests with Obama chants and false pretexts of ‘Obama will bring the parties together. He transcends party politics.” Absolute garbage. The moment Bush tried to step across party lines and reach out to Dems, the Republicans began to fight him. The moment Bush tried to follow his conservative beliefs; the Dems chastised and condemned him. That’s how it’s always going to be, no matter the president. Obama is no different. Black, white, green, grey, color is irrelevant. The moment he steps over party lines to embrace the opposite party, things will begin to fall and quickly.

I do not believe John McCain is the best Republicans had to offer America. John McCain is a great man and would make a great president, make no mistake about it. John McCain would restore honor and integrity to an office destroyed by public opinion, but he was not the best Conservative to offer. Nor was Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, or Mitt Romney.

The days of this breed of conservatives running for our most prestigious office must be upended quickly. Though I believe that all of these candidates would make a sufficient President and better than Obama, I do not believe they were the best candidates. Neither was Palin for VP.

No, a new breed of Republican needs to take form. Economic conservatism needs to be at the forefront, with social conservatism in the background. In an economic crisis, gay marriage and abortion rights are a bit less important. First and foremost, there needs to be a clear divisive line between gay marriage and gay civil union rights. Marriage is and will forever be a church institution between two people in front of the eyes of God and other true believers. This cannot be governed by our government. Civil unions, however, are a different tune. I am not for gay marriage as my church does not allow it, but I am all for gay civil unions. People who love each other should be allowed the same constitutional rights that man and woman married couples are allowed. It isn’t about equality, its about economics.

I believe abortion is a woman’s right to choose, but only in certain situations. Rape/molestation/safety of mother’s health are cases in which abortion should be permissible. I am not, however, in favor of how easy it is to secure an abortion in the world today. Abortions are horrible, horrible things. There should be procedures in place to limit the availability of abortions, whether it be abortion case workers or a criteria that women must meet. I also believe that alternative options should be made more prevalent and as easier solutions than abortion. Whether it be funding government programs that pay for at-risk mothers to keep their children and give them up for adoption or a stronger and safer adoption policy, I line up right behind Rudy Giuliani where I believe abortion is abhorrent and should be outlawed in most cases (again, not all), but ONLY when viable alternatives are available.

I believe in equal rights for all people, regardless of sex, skin, or orientation. I am appalled at the constant cries of racism in this election. Just because I am white and voted for McCain does not make me a racist, it makes me a conservative. Just because I do not believe in Obama’s plans does not make me a racist, it makes me a person with an opinion. However, if you voted for McCain because he is white, yes, you have racial issues and are racist. If you voted for Obama because he is black and you are black, you have racial issues and are racist. This is rather cut and dry. If you agree or disagree with either candidate because you have followed the issues and have chosen the person closer to your political orientation, you are simply informed and intelligent, regardless of choice. Race and sex should not matter. Yes, it is historic for Obama to be the first black man in office. However, he is not the first black man to run for office (Allan Keyes), nor is he the first black man in a position of high governmental authority (Condi Rice, Colin Powell). I find it disheartening that black parents and family members have in the past told their kids to try for something else other than president, because it seems too lofty a goal. Martin Luther King Jr would be absolutely ashamed of you. For all your grandstanding about equality, show it. Children should never be sidetracked from their beliefs and dreams, no matter how lofty they are. In fact, when I was a child, I wished I could be as great as Michael Jordan. I even dreamt of changing my middle name to Jordan to be more like Mike. There is nothing wrong with dreaming, and for everything your ancestors fought for and tolerated to get to this point so that Obama could win, to spend years discouraging your children is horrible. Did you learn nothing from MLK? “I Have a Dream’ for christssakes! Its in the name of his most famous speech! He dreamed of this day….and it has arrived, for better or for worse. If you can follow a man based solely on his dreams, how can you discourage your children from theirs? This racism explosion needs to die down, and quickly. Anything McCain and his supporters did in this election was considered racist, and its sad that liberals had to cling to that notion to gain sympathy and give their supporters the fire to continue. He is a man running in a presidential election, which has been known for the increasing ferocity in which the position is fought for in the general election. He’s targeted in negative ads not because he’s black, but because he’s the opponent. That’s the ONLY reason. Race has NOTHING to do with it. Yes, there are racists on both sides, but I assure, there’s probably more racists on the Obama side when it comes to voting for a man because of his color.

I believe the economy is more important than foreign relations. The bailout is and will be seen as a failure, but could have been a beginning solution if applied correctly. Some companies deserve to go under for the way they mistreated the economy and their employees, but not at the risk of hurting the employees themselves. I believe outsourcing needs to be cut off quickly, with some sort of tax benefit created to allow companies to come back to America and operate cheaply enough to stir up employment booms. Foreign countries should be courted as hard as possible to outsource to America, with even greater tax breaks to allow them to do so. Not for the good of the government, but for the good of the public who needs work. I believe the American auto industry should be nationalized for a couple years before being given back to private owners. Not only will this allow for increased employment, sales, and beneficial business practices, but with government money behind the program, it will also fund newer and better green technology and implementation with the American auto market (hydrogen fuel cell, stricter emissions standards, etc)

I believe that, on a nonpermanent basis, the United States should most definitely back out of most foreign affairs and recreate Fortress America. If world opinion is so negative against us, we should give the world the opportunity to work without us and see just how badly they would do. This will also grow our economy, as the US would be relying on purely US products. Then, once the world comes back to us, sorry for its misdeeds, we can respectfully and responsibly roll our influence back out in the world, thus increasing our soft and hard power. This would also help us replenish militarily. Deserting all foreign barracks and having all troops report home would allow us to reorganize, restructure, and reconnect our armed forces. We should be staying in Iraq until everything is finished and the region is stabilized. Same goes for Afghanistan. Iran should most definitely be looked into as a future target if they continue to insist upon nuclear weaponry. Pakistan SHOULD NOT be considered a target until they become hostile toward us. Obama is dead wrong for pointing out Pakistan instead of Iran. Absolutely 100% dead wrong. Gen. Petraeus and CentCom are working well and just recently put in control of Afghanistan and should be allowed to do what they do and stabilize Afghanistan without further interference from Congress or the rest of the Executive Branch.

I believe in smaller government. I believe welfare should be either restructured and handled more strictly or dropped altogether. It has been abused for too long and keeping it around is hurting both the taxpayers and the people currently needing welfare. Need Based Assistance Programs need to be scaled back for the economy to heal itself or be eliminated. Social Security needs to be privatized once the economy has been rebuilt, giving people a better than normal chance to secure good plans for themselves. Before you accuse me of not knowing the situation in terms of Welfare- well, my family was on food stamps. I have been there. My sister, mother, and I lived in a three bedroom house with my aunt, uncle, and two cousins for a number of years. Had it not been for that, we would have been living in the street. This experience humbled me, but at the same time does not make me sympathetic for welfare. The program is broken. It must be fixed or it must be eliminated.

I believe that religion played a large part in the founding of our nation and should do so today. Mentions of God should not be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance. Ten Commandments tablets should not be removed from courthouses. We live in a society where you are supposed to be allowed to profess your faith and your beliefs wherever you want. If you do not like the fact that our founders were religious, nor that we were founded on religion, do not say ‘one nation under God’. Replace it with whatever you wish. But removing it is a slap in the face to our founders. What is so terrible with religion? Most religions preach tolerance, fairness, and the need to be good to everyone around you so that you may live a just life and be rewarded after. This is not some crazy idea, this is what everyone should be doing anyway. Teachers should be given the ability to teach both Creationism and Darwinism and the children can decide which they believe in.

Speaking of teaching, the education system is dying. No Child Left Behind failed. We cannot teach standardized testing in our schools, but we also cannot rate teacher pay based upon performance clauses like Obama plans. If that is the case, inner cities will be without teachers, period. Vouchers are not a bad idea and should be invested in further. If city schools are failing, parents should be allowed the choice to send their kids where better opportunities lay. If a program falls in disrepair, money should not be pumped into it, they should be closed and re-evaluated for reopening, or merged into working programs.

I believe Obama supporters are so extremely hypocritical now that he has won that it makes me want to cry in shame and vomit out of disgust. For the past number of months, you have slandered conservatives as racists and bigots and warmongers and hateful people and now you extend an olive branch of peace? Are you serious? That just goes to show how deceitful and guileless liberals can be. Once you get what you want, anything you said before was merely ‘heat of the moment’ and forgivable? I beg to differ. I, for one, am leaving this election with a horrible taste in my mouth, one that will not go away for quite awhile. Distaste for my liberal brethren is at an all-time high. You ridiculous hypocrites need learn to control yourselves and you might do some good some day. You claim Obama can unite the masses, yet you yourselves sit there and decisively polarize the sides. Conservatives had to tread on thin ice to avoid racist charges at all costs, yet you still found ways to demonize us and cast us down into...well…not hell, because you’re all apparently against religion and freedom of speech….but wherever you go when you die that may not be a good place. When Bush narrowly defeated Kerry, we tried to bridge the gap between both sides, but liberals were too busy hating Bush and feeling sorry for themselves that they couldn’t beat a man they absolutely loathed (how stupid are you if the man you feel is the worst president ever beat you, twice!) and wallowed in self pity and negativity. After 8 years of constant negativity from liberals and absolute refusal to stand with conservatives to attempt to change things, now you want to do so? Hypocritical.

I will not stand behind you. I will stand next to you. I will not wallow in loss or self pity. I will stand like a true American and fight for what I believe in right next to you, whether you deserve the presence of conservatives or not. I will not fight with you, but I will continue to fight for America. I will not fight Obama, but I will do exactly what you used to do, only classier- he will be watched like a hawk. Any slipup and you will hear about it to no end. Any misspelling, mispronunciation (my Muslim faith, anyone?), anything….it will be documented…and just like in 2004 against Bush, every single bit of it will be unloaded at you at the same unimaginable rate you threw it at us. This is the monster YOU created. Deal with it.

I do not believe in Obama, nor the democratic party, only America. Which is why I and my conservative brethren will stick around and watch and see what Obama does. Progression or Regression, whichever comes from Obama, we will be here to see and partake in. Come 2012, you will have the political fight of your life on your hands. I cannot wait for it.

I cannot wait for Bush to be out of office, simply to watch Democrats squirm in the spotlight. 8 years of finger-pointing erased in one day. As I’ve said before, how can you blame The Man when you are The Man? What happens if/when Pelosi and Reid and the rest of the Democratically controlled Congress destroys the aura around Obama and don’t allow him to unite the parties or achieve his agenda because it conflicts with their own personal agenda (its happened before- look at Reagan and his Republican Congress)? What happens when all the air you’ve blown Obama up with begins to deflate? His ideas for education are going to hurt more than they’re going to help. His energy plan is green, but its not plausible yet, especially his plans to decrease our use of coal- coal is our country’s MAIN natural resource. You get rid of coal, you bankrupt Wyoming and West Virginia for a ‘clean coal technology’ we haven’t even fully developed.

Come hell or high water, positivity or negativity, you’re going to get your ‘change’, Democrats. But America doesn’t need change. It needs balance. We’ve changed too often in the past decade or two. Don’t focus on changing America, focus on balancing America.

We don’t need change, we need a positive balance.