The Next Step

I have been nominated to serve as an officer on the local Republican party's board, the Greater New Orleans Republicans, as the VP of programming. One of my missions will be to canvass the entire metro NOLA area to get as many people involved in our party as possible. This includes reaching out to all people regardless of religion, race, background, prior political involvement, or prior political persuasion. While I believe that the Republican party needs to return to our core values, at the same time we have a big tent that can accomodate Americans from ALL backgrounds. Fundamental Republican principles have sustained this country for centuries - individual freedoms, rights and responsibilites - and those values are what has placed America in the leadership position it now holds. However, there are many in DC, both Democrat and Republican, who do not believe that we need to hold fast to these principles. They believe we need to instead "fundamentally transform" America. I do not. America was based on principles such as the right to free speech which means the government may not inhibit the free expression of ideas or religion; the right to bear arms against enemies at home and abroad; the right to private property which includes a prohibition on the government taking our property and redistributing it to someone else (i.e., taxing, spending and buying votes). We're dangerously close to losing many of these fundamental rights and I hope that the American political apathy that has developed since the 70s will soon be a thing of the past. We must stand up and fight against those in DC who wish to strip of us those most precious rights found in the Bill of Rights. Come with me on this journey along with millions of others who will work tirelessly to take back Congress in '10 and the White House in '12!!