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First and foremost, it has to be more than a platform, it has to be a campaign. We can't let it happen again, some committee made platform that everyone refers to if questions come up, but the campaign itself rarely mentions a word of it.

The campaign should make it clear: After four years of Democrats spending the nation to bankruptcy and STILL leaving roads in horrible shape, people unemployed, a health care plan no one has a clue how to pay for, medicare about to be devastated by the same budget that is trillions out of whack...

Ending of government ownership of what should be private enterprise. End of Freddy Mac, Fannie Mae. End of ownership of GM. End of bailouts. A roll back of federal insurance for accounts, and a corresponding drop in the fees charged to insure those accounts. Ending most of Wall Street's regulations, ending of salary caps and reopening the market to all investment.

Repudiation of retirement funds for members of congress, a roll back to FY 2000 levels of funding for all congressional budgets, the ending of private airplanes for members of congress. A restoring of the outside ethics investigators and a requirement to have ALL investigations done in an open matter, not just ones referred to by committee.

A 50 state commitment to roll back programs that have had their trials and shown to be utter failures. An ending of federal involvement in state education, retasking those dollars to help save programs that do work.

I could go on and on, but the truth is, none of this is going to come to pass. It'll be ultra liberal against liberal in the general election, with people telling us that we'd best hold our noses and vote for the not as liberal because it's the only way forward.

I honestly think that it'll be in 2014 when the Tea Party movement really comes into stride, as they cast off the yoke of the GOP and openly challenge them in every primary in the midterms, and defeat many. And in 2016, they'll do the same to the Democrats. Because all the GOP is concerned with is identifying numbers. No longer is the worry if they're doing the right thing for the country or even if they'll win an election, they just want people to like them.

Well, tough, sometimes you gotta be the adult who tells the truth to those who don't want to hear it, and put your foot down to take back the reigns of the nation from the idiocy liberalism and quasi-communism has brought.