Thaddeus McCotter did officially announce his candidacy for President – and here is what he believes:
1. Our liberty is from God not the government.
2. Our sovereignty is in our souls not the soil.
3. Our security is from strength not surrender.
4. Our prosperity is from the private sector not the public sector.
5. Our truths are self evident not relative
Don’t know if he’ll be able to rocket up from House to White House, but he’s miles ahead of President Obama, already.
Aside from McCotter, himself, I am noting that a lot of people in 2012 are thinking along these lines – thinking, that is, that we need a return to first principles. We have strayed so far from the Constitutional Republic that our Founders bequeathed to us that in a very real sense we need to re-learn how to be free. Re-learn, that is, how to be Americans. Over the past couple days I had a small Facebook argument with a very nice lady from San Francisco who appeared outraged that I would want to axe the Department of Education…there is a mental conception these days that doing anything requires government approval and aid…for some, there is no way for us to have education unless we have a Department of Education. The Founders would not understand this – and, indeed, I don’t think even my late father’s generation would really understand it, either.
Over the past 30 or 40 years, especially, we have been conditioned to look for government solutions…that someone needs to do something to make it right. Fading away among us is the willingness to dive in and just do it…and complicating things even for those who do is a determination by our massive government that no one shall. Try to set up anything on your own and the government will want it registered, licensed and taxed…and in the end government might not allow it to happen. Our Founders would very much have understood that – and Washington would have called out the militia and re-started the Revolution if he had seen it.
Let us make 2012 our revolution; let us reach back across the chasm of time and rekindle that burning faith in liberty which created the United States and made it the most generous, prosperous and powerful nation in human history.
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