Funny funny!

I'm voting in the Texas Primary (absentee). As McCain is a foregone conclusion I may vote for Alan Keyes.

PS I love the graphic of the candidates at the bottom of your paper!

very funny Moose!

Capt O - I'd definately vote for Alan Keyes ! He's a real Constitutionalist and a Declarationalist as well. It stinks that we have these poor choices.

Here's another "current event" (God help us!): Joe Biden rushed through the "Global Poverty Act" & it passed yesterday. It commits the US to spending .7% of our gross national product on Foreign Aid - $854 Billion over and above what we spend now. It hooks us into the "United Nations Millenium Summit" and among other things - it commits us to ban small arms & weapons and ratify the Kyoto Protocol. The key word here is "Global". There is no committment to helping our nation's poor. Be afraid, be VERY afraid whenever you hear "Global".

mary ann

I sent in my vote for Alan today!

If I understand it right, the Global Poverty Act was O'Bamas' gift to the world. Since he refuses to wear our flag on his lapel maybe a UN flag would befit him. I used to love politics.

Chris

Me-- I am going with the EX POW,combat fighter pilot. Rocky

I'm with you Rocky. I like the tough pilot /vet side of McCaain but he carries alot of baggage from the Senate. What has gone wrong with America when our only choice for president is between 3 Senators??? This gives new meaning to the phrase "lesser of two evils".

Chris

ROGER--ROGER--CHRIS ROCKY

I HAVE BEEN FORCED TO VOTE FOR THE LESSOR EVIL SINCE REGAN. WHAT A PITY WE HAVE COME TO THIS.

I HEAR YOU ON "GLOBAL" . IT SHOULD SCARE ANYONE WITH HALF A BRAIN.

PARKER

Chris, Rocky, and Parker,

I'll vote for"Mac", but not with a great deal of enthusiasm. God in heaven help us (and I mean that LITERALLY) if Obama wins. It's terrifying that so many people seem to be taken in by all his empty rhetoric, hiding his liberal leftist beliefs. The whole "rock star" garbage, with people swooning at his campaign appearances scares the "bleep" out of me. If our country has dumbed down to such a point that we vote for someone just because he tells us nice sounding lies and the media propagandists sing his praises - we are in DEEP trouble!

mary ann

I'll vote for"Mac", but not with a great deal of enthusiasm.

Me too. I would just assume to have President Regan for an 8th term but that's seems unlikely to happen. I've never been able to vote for someone I have been 100% happy with as I couldn't vote until June of 1990. As far as the wisdom of the American voting electorate, I lost hope when Clinton was elected to a second term. I figured the first time was just people being sucked in by the snake oil salesman but the second?

I find it interesting that a group of people that educate themselves about the cataclysmic events of WWII would be predominantly conservative. (Or perhaps the not-so-conservative among us are just silent on political matters.) I figure one who understands that some leaders throughout the world only respond to the overwhelming use of force (as we learned too late with the Axis powers) would be one who wouldn't vote for someone who would "talk to our enemies."

I am scared for this November.

Capt O, I was extremely stupid when I was a teenager in the '60s, but fortunately smartened up by the time I could vote. In my parent's house, you'd better vote or else not come home (I think this was the rule of the majority of 1st generation irish-american parents).

We'd discuss issues and candidates, but wouldn't reveal who we voted for till later. I'll never forget the 1980 election, coming home & asking my father who he'd voted for (he'd always voted democrat) and hearing his answer: "Ronald Reagan". Turned out that we ALL voted

for Ronnie. It was the "sea change" that created "Reagan Democrats". Ronnie knew that you cannot "talk to" or reason with your enemies.

In his 1/11/1989 farewell address he wrote: "an informed patriotism is what we want. And are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world? Those of us who are over 35 years of age grew up in a different America. We were taught, very directly, what it means to be an American. And we absorbed, almost in the air, a love of country and an appreciation of it's institutions. If you didn't get these things from your family, you got them from your neighborhood, from the father down the street who fought in Korea or the family who lost someone at Anzio. Or you could get a sense of patriotism from school. And if all else failed, you could get a sense of patriotism from popular culture. The movies celebrated democratic values and implicitly reinforced the idea that America was special. TV was like that too, through the mid 60's.

But now,we are about to enter the 90's and some things have changed. Younger parents aren't sure that an unambivalent appreciation is the right thing to teach modern children. And as for those who create the popular culture, well grounded patriotism is no longer the style. Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom - freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs protection."

That to me is the perfect synopsis of what we needed to do and where we've failed.

Ronnie was right and we allowed our schools to be taken over by teachers unions with a leftist agenda, we have a "popular culture" dedicated to tearing down America values and - instead of showing that America IS special, that America is BAD (we should be GLOBAL).

Ronnie was so right "freedom is special & rare, It's fragile: it needs protection". I'd add that it needs that protection from within as well as from without. You guys are doing a fabulous job Capt o - in protecting us from our enemies without, but I think we've been doing a pretty crappy job protecting ourselves from within.

Mary Ann

AMEN MARY ANN

PARKER

+1

Chris

Thanks for your kind words, Mary Ann. I work with a hellova lot of great men and women.

Speaking of Ronaldus Maximus, check out the Heritage Foundation site deidicated to him. Be sure to check out the Regan Resources.