Trump Tells Ricketts Familty to Stop Spending Against Him .. Or Else

Disagreeing only with your assessment of Cruz and TRUMP!!!, I agree with the rest of that post. Rubio has been something of a disappointment and I should not have been disappointed since I knew of his support of and membership in "The Gang of Eight" and worse still, telling one story to Anglo voters and another to Telemundo and Spanish language media. The hour is late. The situation is dire. We can afford no more GOP-E poseurs. We cannot afford Her Royal Thighness or Comrade Bernie either.

While I may cynically express the opinion that America was a nice country while it lasted, I also believe that the American experiment will not be over so long as it lives in the hearts and minds of those dedicated to it.

I moved from urban Connecticut and have lived in the vicinity of Rockford, Illinois for mare than 15 years. Our lives as Americans are harder than they used to be and unnecessarily so but a price is always collected for our errors. My factory working parents could send their only child to good Catholic schools whose academic standards were two years ahead of the gummint skewels although the nuns had no education of their own past high school (with one exception). We diagrammed sentences in our sleep, used SRA reading lessons, and had a rigorous education whether we came from families in housing projects or in the executive class areas. Joe Lieberman's house is in the neighborhood.

When we moved to Rockford, we joined other Catholic parents in creating our own private academy which is now K-12. Latin starts in fifth grade. The high school American history text is The Oxford History of the American People by the late Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard history professor and was written for Harvard undergrads. Morison was also the official historian of the US Navy for World War II and produced FIFTY volumes in that capacity. He died in the 1970s. We supplement his text for years after 1960 or so with FReeper Larry Schweikart's text A Patriot's History of the United States.

Saxon Math. The European history text was authored by recent Yale Dean of Undergraduate Studies Donald Kagan and two associates and is again a college text. Dean Kagan is now retired but he and his associates are willing and available by phone to my wife as to any questions she or her students may have. My wife teaches there. The students also study theology, philosophy, sciences, music, Latin (using old Catholic Jesuit Prep School texts that I studied fifty years ago by Fr. Robert Henle). There is no football team, no junior year abroad in Europe, no unnecessary frills and fancy stuff just a rigorous and well-disciplined and moral education. Tuition is half that at Church run parochial schools which have now come under the influence of that National Education Association types and Common Core. Poor kids who earn their grades are subsidized by contributors who want this sort of education to persist. Someone will have to lead the next generation. We provide one school where those leaders will learn. As the Christophers used to say: If everyone lit just one little candle, what a bright world it would be!

Individual students get a lot of intensive attention. Some classes are as small as three but most are larger and none too large. Parents hear from teachers verrry regularly as to junior's progress and deficiencies.

It has been observed that Common Core is designed to see to it that today's kids can competently fill out their welfare applications in the future. Rather than waste our time baying at the moon of government and now parochial school Common Core education, these parents will run our own school. We welcome non-Catholic kids so long as they are respectful of Catholicism and the school and well-behaved as is also required of all the Catholic kids. This area has a number of quality Reformed Christian schools as well, Lutheran, and Evangelical Christian. Homeschoolers are also numerous and effective.

That's how, in one respect, we chose to "right the ship" now and in the future. We do it rather than just talk about it. So do many other CONSERVATIVES across the nation as our formerly trusted institutions fail. There are other respects as well: Guns, Babies, Marriage, Political Consciousness and participation, active in our Church, Knights of Columbus, St. Vincent de Paul Society, encouraging personal rather than government charity wherever possible and much more. Getting to know our "neighbors" including blacks and Hispanics and Asians as people, parents and as folks who are allied with us in striving for common goals.

I am too old and my health too compromised (diabetes, coronary artery blockage, kidney failure, to do the sorts of things I did 30 and 40 years ago. I can still, one on one rather than in a classroom, teach and encourage young people to appreciate what my generation learned to appreciate: von Mises and von Hayek and Friedman and Sowell, Cicero and Vergil and Caesar's Gallic War, great literature, actual history by serious historians rather than by shameless "politically correct" poseurs. I can be on the internet from home and engage others in flame wars or engage in conversations always with an eye toward exposing folks here to things that I know that they might find useful. I tend to be as reactive as Trump only with better manners.

We wanted more for our kids and we got more for them a whole lot more. We did not ask the local public edumakashun system for anything. We bought one of their obsolete buildings. Education is determined by teachers and students and texts and not by fancy digs and "That's Entertainment!" posing as education.

Satan Never Sleeps was a movie about the fall of China. The title rings true. When people are ready for it, they should also study the two books by Saul Alinsky Reveille for Radicals and Rules for Radicals, one or both dedicated by Alinsky to "Lucifer the original revolutionary." Alinsky was an evil genius, personally mentoring Her Royal Thighness and, second hand, influencing Obozo. To defeat your enemy, you must KNOW your enemy. We have been brutalized by masters of the art.

Finally, there was a United States Senator from Idaho, Steve Symms, who defeated Frank Church in 1980 and served two terms. He was apparently an apple farmer when he ran for and was elected to a seat in the House. He had commercials in that first race that urged constituents to remember that there are three boxes to which aggrieved Americans may resort. First is the ballot box. Then comes the jury box and then comes the ammunition box. Take a Bite out of Government (Symms biting an apple) and Elect Steve Symms. They did.

No sensible person wants to unnecessarily rely on the ammunition box or even the jury box. We are conservatives. We are not Robespierre or Madame Le Farge. We ought to attempt to dispose of the Louis XVIs and the Marie Antoinettes without the guillotine lest we wind up with Bonaparte aj Talleyrand instead.

We can agree on much, you and I. As a person raised K-12 in a private, Christian school (although my grandmother taught me to read at age 4, before I entered school), I realize the importance of training our children properly, outside the regular channels. Although we were able to home school our kids, and then send them to private, Christian schooling for a few years, there was a point later on when we had to send them into the public skrewel system. I found that the early exposure to home schooling and private school, combined with a constant @ home training system whilst they attended the public system went a long way in actually preparing them to be good citizens.

My kids watched their mother & father, who started a family way too young, fight to put food on the table, each of us working 2 and sometimes 3 jobs, while tending to our family, and each of us going to school to earn degrees. My wife and I worked as a team, one of us with the kids at just about all points (although we were thankful for grandparents who would take them for weekends and such, so we could sleep). They watched us struggle, but more importantly, they learned by example, that no matter the odds, you do what is right and you do not back down, no matter what. Today, both my kids have grown to be productive members of society. Moreover, they have garnered in their peers a high level of respect due to their own ability to think, think quickly and provide the strongest results in a given situation.

You can imagine I have been proud to see them both become leaders in their work lives, as well as their social circles. My children are both half white (my side) and half Native (their Mother's side). Now that they have grown, they have chosen to live and work on their reservation. One of the reasons this is so is because I raised them with the notion that Tribal governments today need GOOD, STRONG leadership. If you are at all familiar with Tribal government & "leadership", the first things you come to learn are that the power transfers from one family to the other, each fighting the other during their respective terms, and nothing gets done. You also learn quickly that leading the Tribe is oft placed on the back burner, and the focus is ALWAYS how to screw the white man by getting the most FedGov $$$.

One of the things I have taught my own children about are the strings that come with those FedGov $$$, and how those $$$ keep the Tribes under the thumb of FedGov. They have come to understand that,ultimately, those FedGov $$$'s destroy Tribal Sovereignty. They've also come to know how this compares with the current welfare system and the need to fight socialism because, ultimately, it destroys an individual's sovereignty.

Despite being raised in a single parent home, I count myself lucky to have had uncles and grandparents who went out of their way to fill in where needed. In the case of my Grandfather, he was the father I never had, and someone who I have always held in high regard.

It was my Grandfather who brought me into the world of politics. My first memory of a presidential election was 1980. Out of all the nights of my short life, this was one night I was allowed - encouraged, even - to stay up late, and stay up I did. I remember the TV sitting on a stand in the living room (at the time, my grandparents didn't believe in watching TV so much - it was used only for watching special church videos and such). My Grandmother had prepared a spread worthy of any Super Bowl. There were bags of chips and dip and finger sandwiches and soup and soda pop on party plates spread out across a table that had been placed in the parsonage living room for just this occasion. The whole family was there - my aunts & uncles, my cousins - all gathered @ grandma & grandpa's place to watch the returns coming in. Of course, Reagan won in a landslide that year, so there was plenty of reason for the family to be together celebrating.

When I was 8 years old, I remember my Grandfather announcing from the pulpit of his church (the one I was in every Sunday morning, Sunday evening & Wednesday night, as well as Wednesdays during chapel time @ school)that he would be running for a spot in the California Assembly. I soon found myself knocking on doors with him, handing out campaign materials and asking folks to vote for him. Several months into the campaign, my gramps said that God had told him his place was in the church, and so he stepped back from the campaign trail, turning it over to a personal friend of his who would go on to win the seat. I campaigned for him as well, and many other judges, assemblymen and other public officials over the coming years, walking the neighborhoods with my Grandfather, knocking on doors, talking to people (the older I got, the better my pitch became) and gaining insight into the world of politics, while having that supplemented by a strong foundation in American History during my schooling.

As I got closer to voting age, I remember my excitement when I learned I could register to vote at 17, since the next major election wouldn't occur until I had turned 18. I registered Republican as soon as I found this out.

Between 18-25, I held various positions with the Young Republicans organizations, from general Member to Secretary Treasurer to Vice Chair. At 25, at the urging of the more Tea Party minded faction of the state GOP (the Tea Party wouldn't come into being for another 10 years, but these folks were the anti-establishment at the time), I entered the race for State Representative in New Mexico.

At the time, the ultimate goal was to unseat the Dummycrat House Speaker. We had tried and tried a # of times, but could never seem to oust him. What we found was that, while we always put up opposition to him, his colleagues in the surrounding districts never had competition, and would funnel their campaign cash & campaigning time to his efforts. Once this was learned, we decided that, while we would run a good, strong candidate against the House Speaker, we would also launch an effort to be sure that his colleagues ALSO had competition. My own candidacy was against one of those colleagues.

The guy I was running against had been in office for 26 years, and hadn't had any competition in 24. He was a big name dummycrat, and the District was in his favor. Shortly after I filed my campaign docs, the State GOP Chairman asked for a meeting. He politely told me that, because I could not win my district, and wouldn't get more than 5% of the vote, the actual State GOP would not be supporting my campaign financially. I told him of the plan, and suggested that the State party should be happy we had managed to pull this coalition in the area and were ready to take down the House Speaker. He laughed, stating that was no way to get the win in the House Speaker's district. I politely disagreed with him and walked out, more determined than ever.

Over the next few months of the campaign, I learned more than I had in 4 years of college. I spent a day with Rep. Bob Barr, who eventually endorsed my campaign at a local grassroots rally. I campaigned for W and organized rallies, spending many consecutive Saturdays after the election standing in the cold protesting the recounts. I appeared time & again on the local news for those rallies, and for my efforts fighting the anti-gun extremists in New Mexico.

No, I didn't win my House race, but we succeeded in our original goal of ousting the House Speaker, so it wasn't a horrible loss. Add to the fact that the State GOP Chairman had to eat crow, because despite losing my race, I had managed to garner 31% of the vote. Not horrible considering I was a total outsider who spent $5,000 to my opponent's $20,000.

After the election, I used what momentum I had to launch a pro-gun organization in the area. While most activists were just learning how to use the Internet, I was putting it to use with maximum effect, pulling in over 800 members statewide in just a few short months. Before long, we were launching fax attacks to the local, as well as National pols in support of gun rights in New Mexico, but also across America. One of the results of my efforts there was the fact that, quite quickly, the local media quit contacting the NRA Rep and instead, contacted me for various interviews and such.

One of those efforts was being the only one to counter-protest the Million Mom March in Santa Fe. Against a crowd of perhaps 4-500 militant lesbian...er, I'm sorry, "Mom's" screaming for gun control, myself, my wife and our two children were the only ones standing against the nonsense and, believe me, it wasn't easy or fun. Nonetheless, we stood until the "Moms" rally ended. Another good experience & lesson for my kids.

From 2000 - 2006, the GOP held the House, the Senate AND the White House. I watched as our freedoms were NOT expanded, but continued to be limited, under the auspices of the so-called "Patriot" Act. I watched the GOP, despite having the majority across all houses, bend over and submit to dummycrat demands, simply because, "bipartisanship". I watched the beginning of "too big to fail"/bailout policies under W, and soon began to doubt that the GOP was actually "on our side".

Over the years, it has only grown worse. The GOP pols say one thing to get elected, and then turn their backs on the electorate, over & over again. Most recently, I watched as fresman Senator from Colorado Corey Gardner began rising in popularity in Tea Party circles. He was elected against all odds, based on his "Conservative" rhetoric. On the night he was elected, he used his victory speech to let the voters know that Impeaching Obama and shutting down the government were off the table. So much for his grand campaign promises.

The problem with Cruz isn't necessarily his Conservative creds. His issue is simple: he is a polished politician. While he has stood for some Conservative values, his votes on many issues, from TPP and others, have been questionable. Ultimately, however, he is a politician, and he will ultimately conduct himself as a politician. Why? Because he knows who butters his bread, and that's not little America - it's special interests. In the end, he will work for them. Sure, he'll throw a few bones to the electorate, but in the end, he won't take the massive, dramatic, drastic steps that are going to be necessary to right the ship after 8 years of obunghole.

At this time in America, we're far past bringing her back by small measures. It's going to take a grandiose man with grandiose schemes to pull us back from the brink. I believe that man is Donald Trump. I don't entirely trust him either. Quite frankly, after what I have seen and experienced, I don't trust ANY politician, whatsoever. But in this, I'm trusting that Trump will hold to his word and take the drastic steps we need to bring America back from the socialist muzzie hell obunghole has dragged us into.

As I mentioned before, if he doesn't, it will tear this Country apart, and I am prepared for that eventuality as well, and will do my part when the time comes.

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