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The reason that more people made from the same mold as Ronald Reagan and the Founders, and there are still countless numbers of them in our population, haven't come forward to seek public office are because of two modern deterrents: the intense background review and public exposure of any transgressions that would prove embarrassing to the candidate or his family if publicly exposed and the certainty that they will be exposed at the point in their career when it will be the most embarrassing and the most damaging. Every conservative knows this is an inescapable reality that must simply be accepted. By the same token, they know the media will do their utmost to suppress, gloss over, or justify the embarrassing act in whatever way is possible for their Democratic opponents. At lease we now have the alternative media (talk radio and the Internet) that can offer some support and damage control for conservatives that has not existed in the past. It is my opinion that there are many Founder-like Statesmen who would come forward to seek office in spite of the risk of exposure of their youthful indiscretions were it not for the far more important deterrent of campaign fund raising.

Campaign Fund Raising is the almost insurmountable deterrent that keeps almost every independent conservative from seeking public office. Asking for money is degrading and humiliating. Promising something, even promising to consider or to think about something in order to get money is degrading. Career politicians have no problem turning themselves into prostitutes, ("Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I’ve come to realize there is a very close resemblance to the first,”) but for conservatives this is an insurmountable challenge to their own principles and character.

The single most important facet of this plan is that it makes campaign fund raising unnecessary and a non-issue for the Reagan Wing Republicans. The beauty is that Rush will be able to provide the $600 million to our Founder-like candidates without any fund raising at all. Rush won't be raising money for himself; Rush's role in this is that he can effortlessly raise and provide it to our Reagan Wing candidates. He will be raising it for them. Rush, and maybe only Rush, can painlessly tap the two separate and independent sources of income that make this possible.

Call it fate, but through a long complicated series of events lasting almost five years, I discovered an idea that has a greater than 90% probability of being true, but it is an idea that might not be possible to protect by patents. Warren Buffet likes businesses that have what he calls "sustainable competitive advantages". Patents offer genuine sustainable competitive advantages. Coke is the model for some other forms of sustainable competitive advantages. The Coca Cola formula was never patented; in the early years of the company it was protected as a "trade secret", another form of sustainable competitive advantage. No one has ever marketed as much or as successfully as the Coca Cola company. Over the years, "Coke" has spent more than 100 billion dollars establishing their "brand name". Brand name is yet another form of sustainable competitive advantage. How does all this relate to Rush?

Scientifically, based on my medical knowledge and training of how the brain and body work together to swing the golf club, there is a greater than 90 percent probability that I know how to build a better golf club than anybody has ever been able to build, but it may not be possible to patent either my theory or their resulting designs. Brand name protection is my best bet for achieving a certain sustainable competitive advantage for my designs. The problem is that I am a nobody with no realistic possibility of branding in my own right. Rush Limbaugh is a wonderful brand name as Excellence in Golf would be. In my hands, my ideas are virtually worthless. In Rush's hands, they form the foundation of a billion dollar business capable of generating more than $100 million dollars of free cash flow each and every year. Rush could use that free cash flow to fund the campaigns of our Reagan Wing candidates. Rush could also turn the company into a publicly traded corporation using the billion or more dollars raised from the IPO to fund campaigns for our Reagan Wing candidates.

But there is an even larger more reliable source of funding that Rush can tap, and only Rush can tap this one with certainty. In an average week, there are 22 million Americans, mostly conservatives, who tune in to listen to Rush. How many of those 22 million would be willing to send Rush a ten dollar bill every year to fund our Reagan Wing candidates? How often or how many times during his three hours of broadcasting every weekday would he have to ask? Admittedly, he has never done anything like this before and clearly his thinking has opposed any asking for contributions except for his annual leukemia fund raising effort. New information and new ideas change the way intelligent people think.

No one in the last seventy years, not even Ronald Reagan, has believed that the Constitution can be completely restored and socialism in the United States ended completely. The Reagan Wing of the Republican Party offers this potential. The Democratic Party belongs on the ash-heap of history right beside their socialistic brethren in the Soviet Union. Ever since Plutarch warned the Greeks, Bastiat, Von Mises, and the Founders have warned the world that unless it is abandoned completely, socialism will bring about the fall of civilization itself.

From the words of Ronald Reagan, "We have come to a time for choosing; we will preserve for our children this the last best hope for man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness." It is socialism that has undermined the ability of Americans to save. It is socialism that has prevented the compounding of those savings that would have allowed Americans to invest in themselves in order to maintain our productive advantage. Now without the benefits of those invested and compounded savings, American jobs are being outsourced to cheap labor in China, India and elsewhere. Socialism and capitalism are incompatible. Socialism consumes the capital base fostering dependency and a disincentive to both investment and to production. Socialism is a failed and doomed economic model that will inevitably fail every time it is tried. Socialism can only exist as long as there is saved capital to consume and income from entrepreneurs to confiscate.

Gokhale and Smetters have provided substantial evidence that the US is nearing the end of its ability to support the current level of existing socialism, and that it is a mathematical certainty that it will not be able to meet the socialistic obligations of the boomers. History is unambiguous; all democracies end in bankruptcy or hyperinflation whenever the public learns to vote itself benefits. Gokhale and Smetters tell us that we could be as little as a decade from that point and probably no more than two. If you believe that President Reagan was right, "We have come to a time for choosing; we will preserve for our children this the last best hope for man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness," then Rush Limbaugh and the Reagan Wing are the last best hope for the United States.

And if Rush thinks he is having more fun now than a human being should be allowed to have, wait until he is building the best golf clubs in the history of the world and using his evil "PROFITS" to build the Reagan Wing that will restore the Constitution by sending the Democrats and other socialists to the ash-heap of history where they belong.