AN OPEN LETTER TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
From: Michael W. Dean
Wyoming contact, Republican Liberty Caucus
Dear Republican Party,
In the next presidential election, and in all state and local elections, you need to support candidates who are true Republicans and genuine lovers of liberty. The party will not succeed if it does not run candidates who truly understand and respect the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights.
America was once a constitutionally limited republic, and it needs to be returned to that. In the past 100 years, and especially in the past 20 years, America has been reduced to a so-called “democracy”, where 51% of the people can rob and over-regulate 49% of the people.
A true constitutional republic could last in perpetuity; whereas democracies historically survive for 200 to 300 years. After that, they devolve into socialism or oligarchies, as the people who do not want to work vote into office people who will let them not work, and can pay them to do so by stealing from those who do work.
We are at a tipping point. America is in her 235th year. The next presidential election can determine if we regain our constitutional republic, or slide into a permanent “progressive” majority helmed by a deluded far-left who do not listen to the people, and are chomping at the bit to bankrupt us into a socialist oligarchy. Those folks see Republicans not as a force to work with in a bipartisan capacity, but as an impediment to robbing from the productive so they can “give” to those who have no desire or ability to produce.
If Washington followed the Constitution, it would barely matter who was president. The checks and balances would work. But ours has been co-opted into a popularity contest wherein people vote for the candidate with the slickest tongue and the shortest slogan….especially slogans like “HOPE” and “CHANGE.” As we’ve seen, these basically mean “Get me in, and you’ll find out my actual core beliefs later, when it’s too late.”
If the President and Congress followed the Constitution, DC would not be permitted to arbitrarily dictate most of what a citizen does in a given state. We need candidates who stand up for the Constitution, including the true meaning the Interstate Commerce Clause, and the original intent of all parts of the Bill of Rights, especially the First, Second and Tenth Amendments.
If the Republican Party establishment supports a spend-o-crat RINO (Republican in Name Only) in the next presidential election, you will guarantee a victory for the Democratic Party.
The Democrat Party used to have some principles, but has lately been taken over by a few dozen extreme leftist “progressives” with radical ideas and ties. They think they know what’s best for everyone, consider the Constitution a detriment, and consider Republicans a speed bump to be routed around behind closed doors.
America has woken up to the waste, “legal” stealing and “legal” bribes that can only lead to the destruction of America. The Democrats are largely responsible, but some Republicans have helped along the way. If you run a RINO for president, you will guarantee AINO (America in Name Only) in the near future, and forever.
The American people have finally woken up. Americans who have never been active in politics have taken to the streets by the millions. This is just the beginning.
The Democrats have been exposed for their gross spending of other people’s money at all levels, but in doing so have also shown that the Democrats aren’t the only ones. Some Republicans have contributed to this as well.
If you run a constitutional candidate like Gary Johnson, Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint, or Paul (Ron or Rand, take your pick) in the next presidential election, you’ll have a chance. I’ll vote Republican, and help out. So will millions of libertarians, tea partiers, swing voters, independents and even some of the smarter disgruntled Democrats. All combined, this will be enough to make the difference in the outcome of that election.
But 2012 is likely the very last year where even this will be possible. The leftists are working 24/7 to stack the deck against the possibility of retaining any America in America.
The Republican Party needs to run constitutional candidates, not only because it’s the right thing to do, but because it will keep the party from being perceived as “irrelevant naysayers” without any of their own ideas on how to make the country better. Running constitutional candidates will keep you from becoming a footnote in history. And even that footnote will likely be erased with time when a permanent socialist majority takes control of all media and education.
This road to serfdom can possibly be avoided, but it’s up to the Republican Party. You must run Barry Goldwater candidates, not George W. Bush, John McCain, or Rudy Giuliani candidates. Otherwise you’re going to end up with an America you don’t recognize, while you cling to your “Don’t blame me, I voted Republican” buttons.
Politics has become far too complicated. Lawmakers don’t think they’re doing their jobs if they don’t enact dozens of new laws and endless pork-barrel projects to “bring home the bacon” every day. This leads to honest folks becoming criminals, and the federal government having a stranglehold over every single aspect of our lives. We need candidates who will simplify, not complicate. We need candidates who will leash the beast, not feed the beast.
The Republican Party must run candidates who follow the Constitution and understand natural law… people who believe in their heart of hearts that government does not grant rights, does not restrict rights, but has only one legitimate role: protecting rights.
Our Founders are likely rolling in their graves at what the Democrats are doing now. But the Founders surely wouldn’t be pleased with what some in the Republican Party have done, either.
Why make us pick from the lesser of two evils? Here’s a novel idea: how about running someone who’s NOT evil!
Try it, you’ll like it. And America will be better for it.
–Michael W. Dean
http://www.libertarianpunk.com
Tags: 2010 midterm elections, GOP, libertarian, libertarian party, plan for america, Republican Liberty Caucus, Republican party, Republicans, saving America
I have no faith in the ability of a third party to rise up and save the day.
This is the only means we have to restore our republic.
The Republican Party is completely tarnished and defiled beyond repair. Its “big tent” philosophy and “God Squad” mentality will prevent an Individualist such as myself for supporting it. I would rather see the Republic fail as an experiment, that others might learn from our stupidity, then letting it proceed on its current path of mediocrity for all to pillage and fuck like a simple whore. And saying this, breaks my heart.
So what’s your plan?
MWD
I asked the electorate for their support and was voted by the town to serve on the Planning Board (2009-2011). I next will run for Selectman. Beyond that, I might make it to the State House (rep) but am unelectable beyond.
We need one fucking state to say “NO”. Texas, maybe. NH, Alaska, WY, maybe. Our hope, I believe, is in a statewide quasi-secession action, and not fighting at the Federal level…it’s too far gone. But if one state takes hold, another might follow. Then, you’ve got a real movement on your hands.
The democracy hounds want us to fight at the Federal level because they know that all we can accomplish is a slowing of the process. And those fuckers really chafe my arse.
By the way, I appreciated the thought required to put the “Open Letter to the…” together. You are an excellent writer. And before you go thinking I’m down for some bromance, go fuck yourself.
Aw….shucks, Christopher.
MWD
You are operating under a sort of high school civics class level of reality; your letter takes as an underlying assumption that democracy exists, that the Republic works, and that the political parties represent something akin to the will of the American people.
I do not believe this is true. To me, the posturing of the two parties and their cohorts in the corporate media are just the antics of two-bit actors in a grand political theater. Part of that theater involves actual debate on issues of no economic merit, irrelevant to entrenched elites — gay marriage or flag-burning or what have you.
Other debates have the character of black comedy, as if we’re prison inmates voting on what sort of punishment we shall take: “Rape us with a broken bureaucracy and mandatory insurance!” “No, rape us with sky-high premiums and unaffordable patent drugs!”
But when it comes to real issues that really matter to the ruling class — expanding the police state, unconditional support for Israel, billions of dollars given to bankers, military control of global resources, uncontrolled immigration, destroying civil liberties and legislating the Bill of Rights into oblivion — on those issues, there is no debate. On those issues, the bipartisan tyranny is utterly beholden to entrenched, transnational oligarchies and multinational, corporate interests – the real owners of this country.
So which view is correct? If the political parties matter, if they can be changed, if they are responsive to ‘the people’ and obedient to the Constitution, then how is that we have anomaly after anomaly, crime after crime, scandal after scandal, any single one of which would be considered treasonous, or at least felonious, meriting a full scale investigation under a normal, competitive political system with a vigilant, free press; but they all go essentially unreported, uninvestigated, unremarked upon, and are essentially unknown to most citizens.
I refer to events such as: Jane Harman’s openly reported treasonous phone call with a known Israeli spy; illegal outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame; criminal pass-through of billions of dollars from the Treasury through AIG to Goldman Sachs; the scandalous death of Mike Connell; the mysterious rise of Barack Obama from obscure state senator to U.S. President, and who paid for it; criminal collusion between Republicans and Democrats to suppress third parties; multi-billion dollar no-bid contracts for various war profiteers with direct Establishment ties; continued obsequiousness and support for murderous dictators like the Saudi princes, disgusting misogynistic torturers and financiers of terrorism; falsifying intelligence for the invasion of Iraq; systematic kidnapping and torture of terror suspects; widespread warrant-less wiretapping and spying on the American people; executive assassination squads; the use of white phosphorus and depleted uranium; and so on and so forth, ad nauseam.
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” –Adam Smith
I’m not any fan of the Republican party as it stands and has stood for the past 40 or howevermany years…but if they come to their senses, “go rouge” so to speak and start switching to liberty minded candidates like Paul they might stand a good chance of making some difference. And I know that that’s about as likely as a successful 3rd party….but surely they realize that people are thoroughly sick of the Bush/Reagan/Nixon shit.
They could start by ending this ridiculous “religious right” thing;
From a “how can we get votes” point of view that should appeal the the GOP, fundamentalism isn’t growing, it’s shrinking. Atheism/agnosticism is growing, more and more young people are curious about that, not to mention new age/”paganism” (Wicca, Asatru, Satanism, pick any). If they want to be garunteed votes now and in the future, they’ll quit pandering to the fundies and start paying some attention to this crowd, right now the libs have a monopoly on it. This is the main thing that keeps me from ever voting republican, if they would leave women’s rights and gays the fuck alone I might consider it.
Fundamentalism used to “work”, Back in the day if Pat Robertson said to vote for someone, people would. And look at him now, a sad little man who resorts to insulting whole races of people after a major disaster to get ratings, even most christians now won’t give him the time of day. The bible-belt good-ole boys network ain’t what it used to be…I wish they would realize that.
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