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"I don't have to convince you of anything other than to respect my choices, as I respect yours."

Mr. Gonzalez, I really enjoy reading your thoughts and experiences. What I admire most about you can be summed up in the sentence above.

Don't be too tough on my friend Redrock as he, like many of us others, got tired of fighting the good fight and took the path that led to us giving up on the GOP as the party that represents even the ideology you have.

God Bless you Luis. I which I could share in your optimism. I really do but I have become cynical in my old age. I am past bitterness, but I, as others here really do believe, the GOP at the national level, stands for nothing. They, as our advisaries on the left, will say anything to acquire votes, but once in office they as the left are concerned with but one thing. KEEPING POWER!!! History has proved time and again what a corrupting force "power" can be and is.

While I do admire, respect and agree totally with the "principles" you have time and again stated, I think the republic is beyond the brink.

Those of us who even understand, much less read the constitution, are in a vastly great minority. We are but a remnant of what this country was built upon.

Again, God less you Luis, and keep on ... keepin' on!

I am a weird sort. Call me a pragmatic idealist, I know what I want, and I know what I can get.

I've always argued that once Castro falls, there will be quite a problem in Cuba. The people who left there (years or even decades ago) and their offspring, will return to claim their land and property, they will also take credit for the fall of Castroism.

They will face resentful, angry native Cubans, the ones who didn't leave, the ones who stood their ground and resisted in the face of overwhelming odds...the one's that worked from within to affect change.

I'm staying with my Grand Old Party Bill, I am throwing in my hat with Ronnie's Party. And I, standing side-by-side with the rest of the pragmatic idealists, will turn the Party around from within and build that shinning city on a hill...and you can bet the house on that.

This is my cause, and this is the way that I, along with all those other pragmatic idealists, will fight for our country and win. And we'll be just as resentful, and angry, when the day comes that the Party is fully restored, and all those "true conservatives" who walked of the battle field, return with a clamor of heraldic trumpets, claiming that their absence was the catalyst that brought about THEIR victory.

Luis