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The 2012 Presidential election is going to be a huge turning point for our country. We are in an economic recession. Nearly 10% of the population is out of work. Many, many new programs have been initiated and old ones discarded in hopes of changing things. Nothing so far has worked; if anything, it has been made worse.
The thing that will determine our new direction or lack of one after that election is going to be the person who is elected– whether that person is our current president or the GOP candidate. All of the current GOP candidates are claiming to have their own plans to restore and rebuild America. They say that they know exactly what we need to do in order to return to our full potential. In the end, only one of them can win the Republican Party’s nomination. That person will square off with President Obama in the general election.
I’m sure you already knew all that. Here is something you might not know: There are people out there right now who want to brainwash your thinking concerning this election. Brainwash you into voting for who they think should be our president in 2012. These people are the media. Not all of the media wants to do this; but a good number of them do. Many news stations today are very biased to one political party over the other. Some of them openly admit it, but more of them do not. They present their opinions to you as fact. Some examples of this biased attitude are CNN and MSNBC. Both of these stations are known as liberal stations. They try to say their positive opinions toward the Democratic candidate for president, which in this case will be President Obama, are the only true facts and therefore you should believe them. FOX News is a more Conservative-leaning station. In some cases I notice both of them trying to define the line between opinion and fact. The daytime shows are, for the most part, straight facts with an opinion only thrown in here and there. The nighttime shows are more opinion-based.
The biased attitude is not always a bad thing. People are entitled to their own opinions, even news anchors. The unacceptable thing is that they try to tell you that their opinions are the only things that are true. People should be able to go to the media for accurate news that they can use to form their own opinions. They should not be so influenced by biased opinions passed off as fact that they have no choice but to agree with it. This goes right along with my previous post on freedom of the press.
News shows are not the only way that the media can try to shape peoples’ opinions. In fact, they do not even have to be actual “media” to influence people. Normal people such as bloggers or online journalists can have just as much impact, especially if they operate a frequently visited website. There are many blogs out there that are giving positive coverage to some candidates and are giving too much negative coverage to others. People are allowed to campaign for their favorite candidate, but if they want to call themselves a real “news” website and not mostly an opinion website, they need to remain unbiased in their writings. It is simply not right to try to turn peoples’ minds against one candidate just because the candidate they support is threatened by that person. While we should try to support who we feel is most qualified for the job of President, we should also be careful not to give lies as truth about these people just because they may take some of your candidate’s support.
The person we elect as President in 2012 should be the person who is best qualified for the job. It should not be the person who can give the best speeches, or has the best fundraising abilities. It may not even be the most well-liked person in the race. It needs to be the person with the best track-record who will know how to lead America back to its full potential. The media needs to give the American people the chance to figure their opinion on that out for themselves. The American people will also need to have the common sense to be able to discern what is truth and what is a lie.
Our military is always under attack. Last week, they came under an attack and thirty servicemen were killed. Most of them were from the elite SEAL Team Six, the group whose members carried out the mission that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden. The bodies of these soldiers have been brought home and buried. At some of these funerals, though, people were there to protest.
This is not right. Our military men and women deserve our full, unending, unwavering support. They are the reason that America is free. Why anyone would even want to protest at a military funeral, I don’t know.
Our military men and women are a fearless bunch of individuals. When duty calls, they jump to answer it. They do not flinch in the face of danger or even death. They face it head on, come what may. They are serving their country, and they know the potential sacrifice. Still they do not run. Why would we protest at the funeral for one of these people? They are the reason that, when you lay your head on your pillow every night, you do it in a free America. You do it without the fear of a bomb falling on your home while you’re sleeping. Some people really do go to sleep with that fear.
For those of us not in the military, it is our duty, and even more so our privilege, to have the job of encouraging these men and women in uniform. It does not matter whether we support the wars they are fighting in or not. What matters is that the men and women who are fighting receive our support. They may not agree with the war either; yet they still go to protect our country. Those soldiers fighting overseas should feel so loved and appreciated by the rest of America the entire time they are there. They should never go a day without some kind of note of encouragement or kind word from an American citizen at home.
Not only should we support the active members of the military, but the veterans that are here at home as well. They are just as important and deserving as the active members. Many of them probably fought in WWII or the Vietnam War. While we are supporting and helping them, we would receive a blessing, too. You would know that you are helping a veteran, yes, but many of these men and women probably have amazing stories to tell about their war-time experiences. We can learn so much from these veterans, and all we have to do is show them gratefulness for their service.
America’s military is the only one in the world with a reputation such as they have. When trouble is on the horizon, the American servicemen and women are the first ones on the scene to stop it. When genocide takes place, they go in to stop it. When we are attacked here at home, our military is out on the field within days to bring justice to our enemies.
With all of that said, why do our military men and women not receive more of our support?
If anyone reading this right now is or has served in the U.S. military, I want to say thank you with all my heart. You ARE the reason America is what it is today. You are the reason I was born in a free country. You are the ones who have given us freedom of speech, religion, and everything else we have. Without you and your dedicated service, America would be nothing different than the rest of the world. It is because of your sacrifice that we are the leaders of the free world in so many areas. Philippians 2:3 says, “Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.“ That is what you have done– thought of your fellow citizens and freedom for future generations above yourselves. You have given your life for the freedom we have in America. Thank you!
Today in America we find ourselves in a very similar situation to the one we were in right before the election of 1980. Our country is in an economic recession. And, like then, a Democratic president is the incumbent running for reelection.
What America needs right now is another Ronald Reagan. The difference that America went through during the transition from the Carter presidency to the Reagan presidency was incredible.
It was during the Carter presidency that Americans were taken hostage in Iran and held there for more than 400 days. President Carter could do nothing about this. Yet just over a week after President Reagan was inaugurated, those hostages were on a plane back to America. Why? Because the Iranians, along with the rest of the world, knew that President Reagan was not in office to play around. He meant business. He was not afraid to do what was right, no matter who disapproved. And he certainly did not apologize for America to our enemies and snub our most trusted allies.
Our country was also in an economic recession when President Reagan took office. The jobless rate for the latter end of President Carter’s term was around 6%; not nearly what it is today, but still high enough to be considered a recession. Ten years later it was at 5%. Not much lower, but it was an improvement. Americans had hope again. Today, our jobless rate is at nearly 10% and still rising.
Aside from all this was the fact that President Reagan just had a very energetic, strong aura about him. When people heard him speak they knew he had a commanding air about him that our allies trusted and our enemies feared.
This goes along with my post earlier about having strong leaders. President Reagan was a strong leader. That is what we need in the White House in 2012. A strong leader who will not apologize for America and will do whatever is possible to get rid of this recession.
On October 27th, 1964, Ronald Reagan said these powerful words:
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
I truly believe that this is the generation that President Reagan was talking about. This is the generation where we truly have to fight to keep our freedom. Our military men and women are doing their parts, without question. There is nothing more we could ask of them. I mean that we at home need to do our parts as well. If we do not keep our government accountable, our freedom will be lost. That would be the worst thing in the history of our world as we know it. America is the last really “free” place in the world. This is where people come to achieve their dreams.
The entire world would be in an indescribable state of horror if the United States were no longer free. We need to work together to keep freedom for the next generation and many more to come.
If we could clone Ronald Reagan we’d be all set 
We had to endure 4 years of Carter to get to Reagan…let’s see if the same thing is true in 2012.
A majority of analysts are saying that the 2012 elections are going to come down to the economy. It is going to come down to who has the best plan to rebuild America. Looking at the current crop of candidates, I think there is one that stands out.
Rick Perry has been the governor of Texas for nearly 11 years. Out of all the people running for president, he has the best job-producing record. Mitt Romney has a good one, too, but Gov. Perry’s is much more advanced.
Here are some facts to show you that:
•From 2000 to 2010, Texas produced 40% of the total jobs that were created. This is coming from a state that includes 10% of the total American population.
•From 2009 to the present, Texas has produced 40% of the net new jobs.
•In the first quarter of this year, Texas produced more new jobs than the entire rest of the country combined.
Those are just some of the facts. But I think it is enough to show that Rick Perry has the best economic record out of all the current candidates.
His economic record is not the only reason I like Gov. Perry– rather, it is just an addition to the reason I do. I absolutely love the way he stands up for his faith in Jesus Christ. Our country needs more people to do that right now. Unlike some of the other candidates, he is not afraid to share what he believes. But his economic record is just one more thing to show that he is the man for the job 2012.
As we probably all know by now, Texas governor Rick Perry threw his cowboy hat into the presidential ring on Saturday. At this point, the three top candidates are Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, and Gov. Perry.
None of the candidates already in the race have had anything negative to say about Gov. Perry thus far. But as you can imagine, Romney and Bachmann will be doing all they can to dim the excitement of Gov. Perry’s entrance from the national spotlight. Many people are very excited about his entry. Apparently last week, Mrs. Bachmann saw a chance to do that.
Rick Perry was invited to the Black Hawk County Republican Dinner in Waterloo, Iowa, as a speaker. Mrs. Bachmann was born in Waterloo, and when she heard this, she contacted the organizers to say that she would like to speak as well.
Gov. Perry arrived 90 minutes before the dinner began and walked around the room shaking hands and speaking with the nearly 300 people attending the event. When Mrs. Bachmann gave her speech, Gov. Perry was sitting in the audience. When he got up to deliver his speech, however, Mrs. Bachmann waited in her campaign bus outside. One of her advisors was reportedly texting someone inside to see when he had finished, then she reentered the building.
Mrs. Bachmann afterward denied that she was intentionally snubbing Gov. Perry. But this doesn’t make sense. Why would she do that? She mentioned the Abraham Lincoln impersonator that had spoken, but failed to remember Gov. Perry.
This feels like politics as usual coming from someone who as of yet had not played them. I had not seen Mrs. Bachmann as a “normal politician”, but now I am starting to. Between her attacks on Tim Pawlenty and her snubbing of Rick Perry, I am starting to feel like Mrs. Bachmann is a little too concerned with her own advancement, not with the restoring of America. Does she feel too threatened by Gov. Perry since he came in with so much buzz among top Republicans? We don’t know. What we do know is, that if Mrs. Bachmann wishes to keep herself in the high standing many people have of her, she needs to make sure she does not begin to play politics.
Since the 2012 elections are going to be here before we know it, many people are beginning to look at the candidates and figure out what it is they want in the person they elect in 2012.
For many people, I think it will be the same answer: Americans want a fresh, energetic face to bring America out of this recession. Out with all the typical politicians, they say. Americans want a strong leader who isn’t like all the other Washington tax-takers.
We do not know yet who this face will be. It could be Barack Obama, or it could be someone new. Either way, that person will have a lot on their plate. Over the next fifteen months Americans will scour and dig through every candidate’s record and even personal life. Every inch of it will be investigated by common Americans.
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty dropped out of the race early this morning. The reason, he said, was because he did not connect with the American people as well as he had hoped to. As well as he needed to in order to keep his campaign alive.
This is just the first of probably many occasions where Americans are going to tell what they want loud and clear. When people finally know what they want, they voice it loudly and are not afraid to say it. All the politicians running for president right now are trying to connect with Americans to make sure that when that person makes up their mind about the type of person they want in 2012, they fit that mold. Many politicians will find that mold that people are going to use to fit them. They will then shape themselves into that mold.
This is not what we want. We do not want a typical Washington politician who knows exactly what to say. We want a fresh, energetic face who is not afraid to stand up for America. Who is not afraid to do whatever it takes to fix America.
We need a fresh, energetic face!
We are only a few short months into the nearly two year presidential campaign season, and already a Republican candidate has dropped out of the race.
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty announced this morning that he is ending his bid for president. The reason, he says, is because he did not get enough support out of the Iowa Straw Poll yesterday that he had hoped for.
“We weren’t going to have the fuel to keep the car going down the road,” he said. While Tim Pawlenty was never my favorite candidate, I liked him better than some of the other candidates. His ideas were solid. He had a plan for rebuilding America. To me, though, it looks like Michele Bachmann stole a bit of his thunder.
She swooped in with new ideas and a fresh, energetic face that people took to much better than to Pawlenty’s. I think both of them are just politicians. Pawlenty also has a better record than Bachmann does. He has a record of results of getting things done, while she only has a record of fighting against something that always comes about anyway.
“What I brought forward, I thought, was a rational, established, credible, strong record of results, based on experience governing — a two-term governor of a blue state. But I think the audience, so to speak, was looking for something different,” Pawlenty said. It’s true. Americans are not looking for a “Tim Pawlenty”. I always thought that he was a little too sleepy. Americans are right now looking for another Barack Obama.
Not necessarily someone just like him; they want new, different ideas, because Obama’s are clearly not working. What I mean by that is that Americans want another new, fresh face that can bring them the hope they were promised in 2008 but never got. They got their change, all right. It just didn’t exactly come the way they wanted it to.
The presidential election is fifteen months away. I am almost certain that in that time span more candidates will drop out. This field is so big right now that it will have to be brought down to size. There are many people in right now that I don’t believe can go anywhere. There are some who could go far.
But either way– we’ve gone from ten to nine candidates overnight. Imagine what will happen in fifteen months.
The results from the Iowa Straw Poll today are in and, frankly, are not any different than I was expecting.
First place went to Michele Bachmann, with 4,823 votes. Coming in a narrow second place was Congressman Ron Paul, who received 4,671 votes. Here is the list of all candidates who participated in the poll:
#1: Michele Bachmann- 4,823 votes.
#2: Ron Paul- 4,671 votes.
#3: Tim Pawlenty- 2,293 votes.
#4: Rick Santorum- 1,657 votes.
#5: Herman Cain- 1,456 votes.
#6: Rick Perry- 718 votes.
#7: Mitt Romney- 567 votes.
#8: Newt Gingrich- 385 votes.
#9: Jon Huntsman- 69 votes.
#10: Thaddeus McCotter- 35 votes.
I think this clearly takes away Mitt Romney’s frontrunner status. If he was the frontrunner, even if he was not officially on the ballot in the poll, his name should have been written in as the peoples’ candidate. It was not. People are not resonating with Mitt Romney as they should if he is the frontrunner for the nomination. Not that I think Michele Bachmann is now the frontrunner since she won the Straw Poll; she is definitely not the frontrunner by any means. I think that, at this moment, we do not have a frontrunner.
Here is an interesting fact, though. Neither Mitt Romney or Rick Perry were officially on the ballot in Iowa today. Mitt Romney has been campaigning for months and has been given the name of frontrunner by many analysts. Rick Perry ann0unced his candidacy today, while the voting was going on 1,200 miles away. Yet Perry received 151 more votes than Mitt Romney did. I’d say this means that Rick Perry is going to make a very strong showing wherever he goes to campaign and has a good chance at the nomination and even the presidency.
Texas governor Rick Perry announced today that he is running for president of the United States.
I truly think that if anyone in the Republican party has a chance at beating President Obama in 2012, this is our man.
I also think that if there is any one person who really knows how to turn our economy around, it is Rick Perry.
Rick Perry has been the governor of Texas for almost eleven years and is the longest free-standing governor in the state’s history. He was the lieutenant governor under President George W. Bush and since becoming governor after President Bush left, has been reelected to three full terms on his own accord.
What kind of record does this guy have, you ask? Well, let me give you some of the stats.
Perry became the governor of Texas in early 2001 when President Bush left the office of governor. From 2000 to 2010, Texas produced 90,000 jobs. That is 40% of the total jobs created in America, coming from a state with less than 10% of the entire population. The only way that is possible is with very strong leadership. During the first quarter of this year, Texas produced more jobs than the entire rest of the country combined.
Texas has the best economy in the nation. During the ten and a half years Perry has been governor, he has cut taxes while keeping the jobs coming.
Another thing, and what I believe is one of the best attributes that Gov. Perry has, is his strong faith in Jesus Christ. Last Saturday he hosted a national day of prayer and fasting in Texas which many of the nation’s governors, political leaders, and religious leaders attended. It was a day of pleading for God to help America out of its problems. Gov. Perry is also not ashamed to speak of his faith, as some other candidates in the race, namely Mitt Romney, seem to be.
Rick Perry was raised by two tenant farmers and entered the United States Air Force, becoming a fighter pilot. He has held elective office for the last twenty seven years.
The Texas governor has officially thrown his cowboy hat into the presidential ring. Already it stands out from among the rest of the “normal” politicians in the race. Finally, here is a politician who doesn’t act like one. This is someone that people can actually get excited about, not feel like they’re settling for the best of the bunch that is already there.
