A Disturbing Conversation at Breakfast:

I had breakfast this morning sitting at a lunch counter next to a kindly senior citizen who obviously wanted to engage in conversation. He is apparently retired on a union pension. As political subjects came up in our conversation, he began to make it clear that he will not support any Republican.

I tried to engage him in discussion about a return to our founders vision for the constitution, but he was having none of it. He was not concerned about the growth of the size of government, he said we are not taxed enough, he had no idea where jobs come from, thought there was no limit to how much taxes rich people should pay. There seemed to be no substantive issue which drove him to his decision to support democrats, he just repeated every dogmatic tag line he had ever heard. He had no ability to defend any of those with reason, and just changed to the next tag line if challenged.

My breakfast companion finally made some comment in passing about the "best" president of his lifetime being Jimmy Carter! (Gasp!) After catching my breath, I asked what made him admire Jimmy Carter and he said "Oh, he was a great president! That man sent me a $1000 dollar check and an autographed picture."

ARRRGGGHHHHH!!!

I have to say the conversation just ruined an otherwise wonderful breakfast. I am so tired of the level of economic and political illiteracy among large numbers of the electorate. People who have benefitted their entire lives from the liberties that others fought hard to win for them, and who have lived in relative ease and comfort from the capitalist economy that made our nation wealthy and strong, and who have not the slightest clue where it all came from, or the great threat it faces today.

There are several things we MUST do NOW:

1) We MUST win majorities in this 2010 election cycle to hold the line against the progressive onslaught.

2) We MUST win the presidency in the next election cycle and hold on to the legislative gains.

3) But for the long term, we MUST eliminate the government stranglehold on education in this country. We MUST have a free market of education choice in primary and secondary schools! I believe this is the ONLY way we can ever hope to make and sustain long term progress back to the founding principles of this country. This republic cannot stand in the face of more generations of voters dumbed-down by government-controlled "progressive" indoctrination passing as "education."

Our higher education system is considered among the best in the world, and it operates as a free market. It would become even better if the quality of entering freshman was better, as they would be with better primary and secondary schools. There are a lot of leftist professors in our universities that would not be tolerated if more of our young people came equipped with the tools to take them on. A competitive market for primary and secondary education would create a more competitive marketplace for higher education.

Fight for School Choice for all our citizens, not just the wealthy elites who already have choices!