Retaking the Republican Party
By Friday

Twenty years ago we elected a President who promised conservatives he would not raise taxes. For the last twenty years we have nominated candidates that nobody, including Republicans, were overly excited about. We won for twelve out of the twenty years because despite our candidate's fllaws, he was a whole lot better than theirs and no third party candidate had a chance. Even George W. Bush has signed spending bills that should have been returned to congress with white out and pages missing for correction. I think it is time to retake our party.

Republican/Conservative values are not based on economic manipulation or government control. They are based on the government fulfilling it's constitutional duties and then getting out of the way and letting people prosper with the opportunity afforded by the free market. Hope is good, but it never put food on the table. The Republican party stands for opportunity because opportunity is what allows humans to determine their destiny and to pursue happiness and wealth as far as their pursuits and hard work will take them.

It is time to take back our party. It is time to end the bickering and to refocus on the values that make our party great. It is time to take stock of our values and our goals and to determine how to reach those goals. finally, it is time to elect candidates and put forth candidates who we actually want. It is time to find and elect candidates who hold our values.

I propose the following platform to retake our party:

1. Lower and Simple taxes. There are various options and ways to implement this, but the important thing is that we put forth candidates who understand that what grows our economy and what creates opportunity is putting more money into the hands of Americans, letting them keep more of what they earn and allowing them to invest it, go into business, discover, employ, and build. The government will never be better at spending Americans' money than the American people are. The government will never have the same spending priorities that the people have. And of course we need to make tax filing simpler. A simpler system will decrease the burden on the American people. It will decrease government manipulation of the free market. It will make more Americans compliant in filing.

2. Lower spending. As previously stated, the people will always spend their money better than the government will. Our government has spent billions of dollars on wasteful pork. Our government has spent trillions on unconstitutional entitlement programs that create dependency instead of opportunity. It is time to cut spending to constitutional levels. It is time to put debt principle in the budget and make pork spending illegal. It is time to demand accountability from our politicians with their expense accounts and pay increases. It's time to replace our hundreds of billions in budget deficits with hundreds of billions in spending cuts.

3. We need to secure our borders. This includes enforcing our immigration laws without amnesty. It includes keeping terrorists out of our country. It includes finding and destroying terror cells before they attack our civilians not afterward. This could be costly, but consider the costs if we don't. 9/11 cost us 27 billion dollars in direct costs from the attacks alone. It cost us more than half a trillion dollars over the next two years in economic consequences and close to 400,000 jobs. It is the constitutional duty of the President to keep our nation safe, and the Republican party must be dedicated to legally keeping our nation safe.

4. We need energy independence. It is time to allow American's to drill for American oil and Americans to refine this oil so that Americans can sell this oil both domestically and abroad. This will create millions of jobs, strengthen our dollar, and Americans will complete this process more efficiently and cleaner than any other nation in the world. There are billions to be made in alternative energies. We need to get out of the way and let Americans develop and make this money and then export it to the world. Republicans, there are two entities at work keeping oil and gas prices high. It is the OPEC nations who reduce supply and use the profits to fund terrorism, and it is the Democrat party who reduces supply and forces us to buy from OPEC. It's time to change this.

5. We need to return to our documents and constitution that state that all Americans are created equal and are endowed with certain inalienable rights. It is time to end racial hiring preferences. It is time to end the racial divisions in our nation and to actually treat all men equally. It is time to evaluate what in our nation is preventing people from having opportunity and sofar as we constitutionally can, create opportunity. When we create opportunity we need to get out of the way and let Americans take advantage of that opportunity, but we must not force the results of hard work and good decisions on those who do not work hard and make good decisions.

6. We need to return to a society of values. Our libertarian principles cause us to shy away from this, but the fact is corrupt politicians and the destruction of our nation's moral framework has produced visible, serious results. What I propose is this: We need to act, not just talk, but act on anti-corruption. We need far stricter penalties for politicians who are guilty of crimes but lie and stay in office until the courts kick them out. William Jefferson from Louisiana comes to mind.

7. We need to protect life. Every time one segment of humanity has attempted to devalue or marginalize another segment of humanity we have been dead wrong. From slavery to the holocaust to abortion we have killed billions of humans because we marginalized them. Each time we have been dead wrong. It is time to make the marginalization of any innocent human life 100% illegal.

These are the basic principles upon which our party must be built. These are the pillars which we must fight to implement and protect.

It is time to take back our party. It is time to take back our country.