“Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country,” goes the famous typing drill, (not anticipating that women might some day vote, much less that they might run for office or sit on the Supreme Court).\u00a0 <\/p>\n
It’s as true today as it was two centuries ago.\u00a0 The primary difference is that 240 years ago, Americans were in the midst of the birth pangs of a nation, and survival of that grand experiment was very much in question.\u00a0 Today, it would appear, Americans are in the midst of the death throes of that same nation, now past its prime, now falling prey to the cycle of nations, disintegrating as we “slouch towards Gomorrah,” as Judge Robert Bork termed it.1<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n Romulus and Remus were the legendary founders of what became Rome, and then an empire, while the age of Cicero was there to preside over its collapse.\u00a0 The parallels of the USA to Rome are legion (no pun intended), their “Bread and Circuses” being deficient only in technology to our “Welfare and Sports” today.<\/p>\n If you have a burning desire to run for political office, you are probably not what our country needs.\u00a0 We need selfless men and women who are willing to take up the cross of sacrifice \u2013 to give of their time and energy and thought for one single reason \u2013 to make sure that our children and grandchildren live in a nation of more<\/em> freedom and maximum opportunity<\/u> to succeed in life.\u00a0 Such a candidate must resist the siren call to use government to improve the lot of any individual or any class of citizens.\u00a0 If you want to help one class, at the expense of another class, you are an enemy of freedom, you are a Statist, and you are the antithesis of what this country needs.\u00a0 <\/p>\n Equal Opportunity for All<\/strong> means the freedom to fail is just as important as the freedom to succeed.\u00a0 It means that taxpayers will not be required to support those who cannot succeed on their own.<\/p>\n When you are sworn into office, you are required to take an Oath of Allegiance.\u00a0 To what?\u00a0 It’s not to a flag.\u00a0 It’s not to a monarch, nor to a president.\u00a0 It’s not to “prosperity” or “equality” or “the brotherhood of man”.\u00a0 No, you take an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.<\/p>\n I have heard candidates criticize their competition for this concept, calling them “Constitution thumpers”.\u00a0 What an astonishing claim!\u00a0 These so-called “conservative Republicans” were offended that one of the candidates in their race called upon a return to the Constitution, when (a) they were hoping to win a race that would have required them to take that oath, and (b) they clearly had never spent enough time studying it to know what it is all about.<\/p>\n If someone goes into a marriage complaining about their partner insisting on being faithful to the wedding vows, wouldn’t you think that might bode poorly for the chances of a good marriage?\u00a0 So it is with those who deride Americans who still believe the Constitution should be followed strictly.<\/p>\n Those candidates not willing to stand up in public and assert their determination to return all levels of government to their constitutional limitations are not fit to serve in public office.<\/p>\n “Those candidates not willing to stand up in public and commit to returning all levels of government to their constitutional limitations are not fit to serve in public office.”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n Many people claim that they are running in order to “help the poor”, which means every time that they are running to “soak the rich” and to use the power of the State to redistribute the income of those who have wealth, giving it to those who don’t.\u00a0 While Lyndon Johnson made the phrase popular, most Americans have yet to figure out that LBJ was a communist, for he was stating the economic philosophy of Karl Marx!\u00a0 <\/p>\n If you don’t have a copy of the Constitution, then you need to get one.\u00a0 They are on-line, for free.\u00a0 You need to not only read it, but to study it, before you run for office.\u00a0 You need to understand how many powers are expressly granted (by The People and The States) to the Federal Government, and that “all powers not expressly granted” in that document are “expressly reserved to the People, and to the States.”\u00a0 If you can’t grasp, and endorse that concept, don’t bother applying for the job.<\/p>\n Prepare to serve one or two terms.\u00a0 That’s enough.\u00a0 But bringing your department or your sphere to a smaller budget, sun-setting as many laws, taxes and agencies as possible which are not constitutional, and ending your time in office with a smaller government, means that you have been faithful in service to the Constitution, and to the freedom for our posterity.<\/p>\n Reluctant to serve?\u00a0 You may be just the one we need.\u00a0 Please give it prayerful consideration.\u00a0 <\/p>\n If you are already a Team Leader, it’s time to canvass your entire team, one at a time, and ask them if they will consider running for any one of the following:<\/p>\n The solution to our problems will not come from the politicians and bureaucrats who created them.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s time to clean house, and return to the Constitution!<\/p>\n Daniel New, Founder Endnotes:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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