Let's Take Back Our Country and Our State(Click For Full View)

If you had asked me 1 year ago what I would be doing today, I never would have answered “Writing my first blog post.”. That thought would never have even entered my mind.


But time is at once man’s worst enemy and man’s best friend. As each day passed during the last twelve months, I felt increasing fear, despair, and eventually, anger.

I watched each day as our President and Congress spent their way into a multi-trillion dollar deficit. I watched our President and Congress ram a health care bill down our throats promising expanded coverage. I listened as each day we come to learn that the bill will slash Medicare and impose new taxes on medical devices, prescriptions, and procedures many of our own veterans or their spouses need or will need.


I watched our state slide in virtual bankruptcy. I heard the cry for a state tax increase. I heard the threats that teachers and state troopers will begin getting pink slips. I have been around long enough to have seen this same tactic employed each time our leaders want to increase taxes against the will of the people..i.e. scare tactics. I did not hear any similar threats of layoffs concerning the patronage laden state unions.

I felt pain when those in Washington D.C. accused our men of committing acts of torture, war crimes, and even genocide. I heard the comments of one of our own Senators equate our men in service to the Nazis, Soviet gulags, and Pol Pot’s killers. The pain got worse when our Commander in Chief established policy giving our enemy combatants the civilian rights afforded our citizens.

I heard from our brethren serving in Iraq and Afghanistan as they described conditions where they were sent into the battlefields with new “politically correct” constraints and no air or artillery support. At the same time our men were compromised, there was an effort to spend millions of dollars to wrest away the authority to prosecute an enemy combatant in a military tribunal, and instead provide a civilian trial with all rights afforded.

Time, indeed, has been my worst enemy and my best friend. The past year caused me the worst moments of anxiety and despair. But it also brought me to the realization that the country and state I once proudly served bore no resemblance to the country and state I once knew. It also brought me to the realization that I had two choices. Continue to agonize over what was happening, or self deploy into battle against those who ignore and arrogantly seek to diminish the rights and liberties I chose to swear an oath to.

This was not an easy decision. One candidate I know very well. He has always been supportive of our fellow veterans and troops. However, I cannot, in good conscience support his policies that seek tax hikes as a solution to the crisis we face. I have many friends but friendship alone does not mean I want them to hold the highest office in my state. I have to give deference, however difficult, to what is best for all the citizens of our state.

As to the others involved, I prefer not to comment as to any opinion of those who ran on campaigns that made own troops on the ground overseas, many just kids, be characterized as criminals, invaders, imperialists, and made requisite apologies for our acts. I’ll leave it at that as I watch our defense systems and military budget gutted like a fresh caught lake perch. Although I recognize I DO have a Commander in Chief, I am not obligated to divulge my level of respect to someone who essentially backed into an office without the necessary resume or experience.

Time has also allowed me to witness the seeds of revolution to the status quo sprout and take over in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Virginia. Time has taught me that the battle we lost was a battle lost on the ground. It is on the ground that we must once again engage and focus on capturing terrain on bit at a time. First a block, then a precinct, then a township, then a county, then a state, then a nation. This is a war we have fought and won, and can win once again.

This is the only way we can win. There is no heavy artillery, no air strike capability. If each of us just convinces just one other voter to go to the polls in November, imagine the impact. We will win this war by winning individual battles. There is no act too small or insignificant. Each one of us can help by such simple acts as calling our friends, sending a friend-to-friend letter or post card, talking to our neighbors, or putting a sign on your lawn.

As for me, some of you may already know me. I took quite a few trips to Springfield to protest our LAST governor’s pilfering of our earmarked funds to spend in the general budget. That said, I will commit to 2 promises: 1. You will never be asked to contribute anything other than your time, to anyone. 2. I will do whatever needs to be done to insure you have the resources to succeed in you endeavor. I.E. If you commit to sending post cards, you WILL be provided the post cards and postage.

I thank you for your attention and consideration, and hope we can come together as a team and build the foundation for taking our state and country back.

See you in the trenches.