Posted on 05/17/2014 7:45:19 AM PDT by Baynative
Saira Blair, who just unseated an incumbent West Virginia state legislator, isn’t thinking about her plans for the summer. She’s thinking about how to defeat Democrat Layne Diehl come November. Because if Saira wins, it will make her the youngest legislator in West Virginia’s history- she’s just 17 years old.
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This is what we need. Representatives of people. It is what the original Tea Party was about.
That sounds very good on my first read. But our founding fathers started us as a republic, a nation of laws where we are all equal before the law. Republic does not mean representatives of people and our first thoughts go to that in todays society.
We are a divided people, not united. Until we are united with a clear understanding of the Constitution. This representing the local people sounds good and sells good but is it just more division, where we just want to get more from the fed govt. It still leaves the power with the govt.
A politician saying we need to go back to the constitution just doesn’t sell well as representing the people.
I also wish churches were united and “of one mind.”
agreed
Just been reading an interesting book called ‘The Cousins Wars’ by Kevin Phillips.
Basically, the characterisation of the American War of Independence as one between the Americans and the British was one that was mostly applied in hindsight. At the time, it was seen quite rightly as a British civil war (one that was fought along many of the same social, religious, and even ethnic lines as the English Civil War and the Jacobite Rebellions). The American Colonists took up arms to defend what they saw as their birthright to Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights (1689), and saw themselves every bit as British (and perhaps more so) than the Hanoverian King who was fighting against them. The Samuel Whittemore you talk about was born in England, already well into middle-aged when he first arrived in the colonies, and may well have been more British than the ‘British’ soldiers (a disproportionate number of whom were Irish or German) who he ambushed.
I agree.
The Revolutionary War was fought for two years before declaring our independence from the crown.
Another interesting thing I read is that the British Army struggled to find recruits in England to fight in this war, so unpopular was the it amongst the English, who saw their colonial bretheren as fellow Englishmen (as many of the colonials themselves also did), so they recruited heavily amongst the Catholic Irish and Scottish Highlands, where Jacobite sentiment had been strongest, and to a lesser extent, Lancashire and the West Midlands, where Jacobite sympathies had gained more traction than anywhere else in England.
In London, they were circulating collections for the widows and orphans of continental militiamen who had been as they put it ‘murdered by the King’s troops at or near Lexington’, and many officers categorically refused to fight in the Americas. Even the ones that did get sent, Cornwallis, Howe, Clinton, Burgoyne etc where quite Whiggish in their sympathies were fairly unenthusiastic about their task and seemed more sympathetic to the colonists aims and grievances than those of the Government that had sent them there to try and suppress them. Burgoyne even ended up joining the Rockingham Whigs and became opposed to the war.
Saira just received $25 from Wyoming! (-:
That's a bowl of BS.
Every level of govenrment is filled with well educated college graduates, the well connected, lawyers etc,...Yet government at all levels is corrupt and driven by reckless, overspending policies, both foreign and domestic.
Saw an ad for her at a website I go to.
As for this college talk, I believe Scot Walker did not go to college or at least get a degree as well. Something to read up on.
She’s already scheduled to start at WVU in the fall. Obviously, she and her parents think college is the way to go, too.
Every level of govenrment is filled with well educated college graduates, the well connected, lawyers etc,...Yet government at all levels is corrupt and driven by reckless, overspending policies, both foreign and domestic.
She’s already scheduled to start at WVU in the fall.
That has nothing to do with what you said. You're being deceptive and evasive in your response.
You suggested she needed a college education before she did anything, "Then go for it".
She already unseated the incumbent without any college education. In fact getting the most votes are the biggest things on politicians agendas and they pay smart people big money to try to ensure that.
One not need be a college educated person to run or be a politician. It is not rocket science.
In fact you've already been told most all the "College educated" politicians have severely corrupted and screwed up government beyond description.
Thanks for compiling his list into mentioning the more relevant members (suggesting Andrew Jackson had anything to do with the Revolutionary War at the age of 9 is quite silly, though).
That being said, 18 year olds today are almost as dumb as a Bill Maher sketch. It’s true that the blame largely falls on the public school system, video games, and rap music, but even 18 year olds who manage to avoid those things still haven’t had the chance to own private property.
Owning private property is a useful test for anyone who wishes to hold public office or vote for public office candidates, as property owners are the only people who make the economy function. This girl may have her heart in the right place, but she needs to live in the real world before she becomes a politician. We also have good reason to suspect that as an 18 year old, she idolizes some strumpet from Hollywood more than she does a successful businessman.
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