[Redbob]

Attend your local senate district GOP conventions: they're waist-deep in home-schoolers.
Then get yourself named to the state convention delegation (it's not hard) go to San Antonio this year and make your voice heard.

That's how you influence politicians, not by whining on some blog or another that no politician in THIS state reads!

[Alkhin]

Thank you Redbob - I appreciate your advice - only thing is I am much too busy homeschooling to do so - plus our local GOP branch has not recommended itself to me very well...I tried a number of years ago to get involved with the local Womens chapter of the Rep party and discovered I had fallen in among a bunch of little old ladies who were more interested in bragging about their rich grandchildren "and what subdivision do you live in again?!" - there were a couple of other womens chapters, but one was solely run by women who were in the workforce, and the other met at a time that was impossible for me to attend.

I view Free Republic as more of a way to "spread the word" than a place to sit and bitch and moan. I think you will find if you look up my username in FR that my postings are sporadic and varied at best, rather than a continual feed of something or another. If I do get the urge to rant, its on my OWN blog, and usually about stuff NO ONE else is talking about...which is one reason why its not well known. Free Republic however is a great Community Posting Board that I know is occupied by active people who DO have the time to get involved in the GOP convention and are much more adept and well known than I am. If God had wnted me to get into politics, I would have been able to sweet talk those little old biddies into stuff I wanted to do. As it was, they treated me like a red-headed step-child.

sorry for THIS rant, but I am doing what God has placed in my hands...just because I *DONT* do those things you recommend, doesnt mean I should just shut up and deal.