I Used To Be Like You, Until….
I was like many of you most of these last thirty-six years. Born into a Republican household, with my very earliest and fondest childhood memories being a strong and relatable Ronald Reagan as President, I spent about thirty-four years of my life thinking an “R” was the sign of good and moral people. Never really paid attention to what politicians did, except maybe to feel all warm and fuzzy after a good inspirational speech, or skeptical when someone with a “D” tried to sound like an “R”. I knew enough… or so I thought. It was simple: Republicans must all be like Reagan. Everything they do Must be Constitutional, because these were good, for the most part Christian, people that would never do otherwise. The “R” meant pro-Life, and Freedom, and lower taxes for everyone. The “R” meant I would keep more of my money, not watch it go to some failed government program. The “R” meant a strong and well-funded military that would never back down from evils in the world.
And then of course, there were the Democrats…
These were the ones that wanted to gut the military, raise taxes, spend a lot, and most of them were pro-abortion. The “D” meant that we couldn’t drill for oil in our country, but we’d invest money in South America so they could. The “D” stood for people like Jimmy Carter, and Ted Kennedy, and Barak Obama. More welfare for people who didn’t need it, more regulations on businesses, and of course Al Gore’s baby- “man-made global warming”.
Lastly, there were the non-“R”&”D” people, the Independents. These were folks like Ralph Nader who somehow seemed to reappear every four years and take a percent of the vote, or maybe Ross Perot, who seemed to be just a whacky old man trying to be a trouble-maker and ruin everything.
All of these perceptions, speckled with little bits of truth and perfectly packaged in red, white, and blue, was my reality, and I didn’t really think I needed to know much more than that, until…
November 2010. I grew weary of watching people who, at the time, I thought were good, principled men, lose to those evil democrats. Didn’t anyone get it? Republicans were the good guys, and everyone else just wants to tax us to death and kill babies. Little did I know, though my assessment of liberals was not far off, I would later learn that the principles I thought all of these Republicans stood for, were often times just a façade of status quo rhetoric. With an overwhelming sense of patriotic duty and call of the Holy Spirit, I decided, even in the midst of financial hardship and with no notoriety to speak of, I was going to make a run for the Presidency. I was going to stand up for secure borders and fiscal responsibility, and tax reform, and of course Life. Don’t all Republicans stand against abortion? I thought so. That was the start of a journey that would cause me to seek the truth on all of the major issues, and lead me to learn what my possible opponents actually stood for.
I certainly didn’t have it all figured out. I had spent my life believing the judicial supremacy myth, that if the Supreme Court says it, that’s the end of it, and all we can do is pray for more conservative justices. I thought anyone and anything that says “pro-Life” must be fully committed to protecting all human babies, not just the late term ones, or the ones not conceived in rape. Yah, I was comparable to a newly saved Christian who misquotes scripture and has all of the doctrine wrong, but so on fire for Christ it doesn’t matter- other people get saved anyway. I was going to take this nation by storm with my candidacy and do it with a big fat “R” on my chest, until….
A woman named Maureen invited me to learn about America’s Party, at the time- America’s Independent Party. By then I had begun to hear some not so pleasant things about the other Republicans that I would most likely face if, God-willing, my campaign made it into the mainstream public forum, but never before had I heard about just how compromised these other men really were until I got schooled by America’s Party. What do you mean there’s “Pro-Life” legislation that explicitly says which babies can be killed? Other republicans actually approve of these things? What do you mean that guy is pro-choice? He’s a republican I voted for! Equal branches of government means they’re really equal? You mean we Don’t have to wait for more conservative justices to finally do something about abortion? The more I learned, the more I realized how much more there was to learn, or re-learn all over again. Between America’s Party and my own campaign research, I began to find things out just a little quicker than most of the media wanted to report. Ron Paul: pro-choice for States. Yes, I had pro-Life friends that were very disappointed to learn that truth. Rick Perry: “OK with gay ‘marriage’” and giving in-state tuition to illegals. Mitt Romney undermines efforts to stop same-sex “marriage” in Massachusetts, being backed by the Log Cabin Republicans. Mitt Romney, having appeared at a Planned Parenthood fundraiser, now still supports abortion for babies conceived in rape.
Who were these people? Where did the Republican Party go? This was the Party of Reagan, and Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr.
For a while, I was still determined to make it to the end wearing the precious “R”, but knew that to stay in the fight I would have to change my affiliation to Independent before the primary, so I did. You see, I was on the other side of naivety now. I knew better then to just support the most popular “R”. To do it anyway would be intentional ignorance of the facts, and a soul-staining compromise.
I used to be like you, putting all of my hope in the best Republican orator of the day and casting aside all else in fear of defeat. I used to think that the “the lesser of two evils” having really good odds of winning was something to celebrate, and as close as we were going to get to doing the right thing.
I used to be like you, thinking there was “more pro-life” and “less pro-Life”, before the realization that one is either pro-Life for ALL innocent babies, or they are “Pro-abortion with exceptions”.
I can’t go back there. I know too much now. Like something out of The Matrix. Take one pill and never look at politics the same, never compromise on Life or Constitutionality… or take the other pill, close your eyes, and keep telling yourself “now’s not a convenient time to get all moral”, drowning out all of the evil truths about who you or what are about to vote for.
I’m trusting in God that, win or lose, He will honor an uncompromising stand for what is good and right. I am trusting God that, if it comes down to it, He’ll get me through another four years of socialist liberalism if the alternative is a willful and deliberate act of compromise that endorses the death sentence of thousands of innocent babies at the hands of a man with a dark record on life, marriage, and government mandates.
That’s why, despite the fear-filled rhetoric and pseudo-conservative excuses being hurled at me on a daily basis, when my journey is officially over in the days ahead, I will officially endorse a Personhood (100%) Pro-Life Christian Constitutional Conservative.
~To be brought out of naivety, only to then embrace ignorance is worse than having never known the truth.
I was like many of you most of these last thirty-six years. Born into a Republican household, with my very earliest and fondest childhood memories being a strong and relatable Ronald Reagan as President, I spent about thirty-four years of my life thinking an “R” was the sign of good and moral people. Never really paid attention to what politicians did, except maybe to feel all warm and fuzzy after a good inspirational speech, or skeptical when someone with a “D” tried to sound like an “R”. I knew enough… or so I thought. It was simple: Republicans must all be like Reagan. Everything they do Must be Constitutional, because these were good, for the most part Christian, people that would never do otherwise. The “R” meant pro-Life, and Freedom, and lower taxes for everyone. The “R” meant I would keep more of my money, not watch it go to some failed government program. The “R” meant a strong and well-funded military that would never back down from evils in the world.
And then of course, there were the Democrats…
These were the ones that wanted to gut the military, raise taxes, spend a lot, and most of them were pro-abortion. The “D” meant that we couldn’t drill for oil in our country, but we’d invest money in South America so they could. The “D” stood for people like Jimmy Carter, and Ted Kennedy, and Barak Obama. More welfare for people who didn’t need it, more regulations on businesses, and of course Al Gore’s baby- “man-made global warming”.
Lastly, there were the non-“R”&”D” people, the Independents. These were folks like Ralph Nader who somehow seemed to reappear every four years and take a percent of the vote, or maybe Ross Perot, who seemed to be just a whacky old man trying to be a trouble-maker and ruin everything.
All of these perceptions, speckled with little bits of truth and perfectly packaged in red, white, and blue, was my reality, and I didn’t really think I needed to know much more than that, until…
November 2010. I grew weary of watching people who, at the time, I thought were good, principled men, lose to those evil democrats. Didn’t anyone get it? Republicans were the good guys, and everyone else just wants to tax us to death and kill babies. Little did I know, though my assessment of liberals was not far off, I would later learn that the principles I thought all of these Republicans stood for, were often times just a façade of status quo rhetoric. With an overwhelming sense of patriotic duty and call of the Holy Spirit, I decided, even in the midst of financial hardship and with no notoriety to speak of, I was going to make a run for the Presidency. I was going to stand up for secure borders and fiscal responsibility, and tax reform, and of course Life. Don’t all Republicans stand against abortion? I thought so. That was the start of a journey that would cause me to seek the truth on all of the major issues, and lead me to learn what my possible opponents actually stood for.
I certainly didn’t have it all figured out. I had spent my life believing the judicial supremacy myth, that if the Supreme Court says it, that’s the end of it, and all we can do is pray for more conservative justices. I thought anyone and anything that says “pro-Life” must be fully committed to protecting all human babies, not just the late term ones, or the ones not conceived in rape. Yah, I was comparable to a newly saved Christian who misquotes scripture and has all of the doctrine wrong, but so on fire for Christ it doesn’t matter- other people get saved anyway. I was going to take this nation by storm with my candidacy and do it with a big fat “R” on my chest, until….
A woman named Maureen invited me to learn about America’s Party, at the time- America’s Independent Party. By then I had begun to hear some not so pleasant things about the other Republicans that I would most likely face if, God-willing, my campaign made it into the mainstream public forum, but never before had I heard about just how compromised these other men really were until I got schooled by America’s Party. What do you mean there’s “Pro-Life” legislation that explicitly says which babies can be killed? Other republicans actually approve of these things? What do you mean that guy is pro-choice? He’s a republican I voted for! Equal branches of government means they’re really equal? You mean we Don’t have to wait for more conservative justices to finally do something about abortion? The more I learned, the more I realized how much more there was to learn, or re-learn all over again. Between America’s Party and my own campaign research, I began to find things out just a little quicker than most of the media wanted to report. Ron Paul: pro-choice for States. Yes, I had pro-Life friends that were very disappointed to learn that truth. Rick Perry: “OK with gay ‘marriage’” and giving in-state tuition to illegals. Mitt Romney undermines efforts to stop same-sex “marriage” in Massachusetts, being backed by the Log Cabin Republicans. Mitt Romney, having appeared at a Planned Parenthood fundraiser, now still supports abortion for babies conceived in rape.
Who were these people? Where did the Republican Party go? This was the Party of Reagan, and Lincoln, and Martin Luther King Jr.
For a while, I was still determined to make it to the end wearing the precious “R”, but knew that to stay in the fight I would have to change my affiliation to Independent before the primary, so I did. You see, I was on the other side of naivety now. I knew better then to just support the most popular “R”. To do it anyway would be intentional ignorance of the facts, and a soul-staining compromise.
I used to be like you, putting all of my hope in the best Republican orator of the day and casting aside all else in fear of defeat. I used to think that the “the lesser of two evils” having really good odds of winning was something to celebrate, and as close as we were going to get to doing the right thing.
I used to be like you, thinking there was “more pro-life” and “less pro-Life”, before the realization that one is either pro-Life for ALL innocent babies, or they are “Pro-abortion with exceptions”.
I can’t go back there. I know too much now. Like something out of The Matrix. Take one pill and never look at politics the same, never compromise on Life or Constitutionality… or take the other pill, close your eyes, and keep telling yourself “now’s not a convenient time to get all moral”, drowning out all of the evil truths about who you or what are about to vote for.
I’m trusting in God that, win or lose, He will honor an uncompromising stand for what is good and right. I am trusting God that, if it comes down to it, He’ll get me through another four years of socialist liberalism if the alternative is a willful and deliberate act of compromise that endorses the death sentence of thousands of innocent babies at the hands of a man with a dark record on life, marriage, and government mandates.
That’s why, despite the fear-filled rhetoric and pseudo-conservative excuses being hurled at me on a daily basis, when my journey is officially over in the days ahead, I will officially endorse a Personhood (100%) Pro-Life Christian Constitutional Conservative.
~To be brought out of naivety, only to then embrace ignorance is worse than having never known the truth.