Romney/Clinton (Lessons Learned)

There has already been much analysis and spin after the January 3rd Iowa Caucuss. All campaings, winning and losing, have already offered their take and point of view as to why they won or lost. Through all of it though, I think there is one important thread ( as far as the top tier candidates goes) that ties all of the winners together and all of the losers together. I think it's simple...honesty and/or credibility.



Both Romney and Clinton have changed their positions on everything from Abortion to Imigration.



Romney I think may have always been pro-life, I will give him that, but when he ran against Kennedy for Senate he said he was pro-choice. Because he knew he needed to get that vote if he was going to beat Kennedy. He also was in favor of gays serving in the military at that time.



Clinton moved to center of the isle on abortion a few years back as a prequill to her presidential bid. I forget the exact stance, but she basically said while it was still a womans write to choose, abortion was a "horrible choice to have to make". She also refused to directly answer the question regarding drivers licenses to illigal immigrants in her state. In fact rarley does she answer any question matter of factly.



That is why they both lost in Iowa, and no ammount of money could buy them victory.



The American People are waking up. One-by-one they are starting to realize that they have been had. That politicians have been kissing up to them in Public, but behind the scenes have been laughing at us and how stupid we are for falling for "the spin". But we can see it now...all for free...and all on YouTube. Every moment from the Romney/Kennedy election, every gaff that Hillary makes on the campaign trail when she gets a question that her handlers did not prep her for...it's all on the world-wide-web for us to see. And just in case we are not avid web surfers we have "viral e-mails" sent to us with the same content. They cannot hide anymore. They cannot hide anymore and right now..at this moment...there is a new generation of voters coming out. You know...that 18 to 35 age group that never votes? We are voting now...and we are pretty pissed off. Sure...we wasted a few years sitting aorund with out beer bongs and and video game consuls largely ignoring the world around us. But one-by-one we have started to take notice of the world around us and just how messed up it really is.



We see our fathers getting laid off from factory jobs that they had worked at for the last 30 years. We see the pensions, a lifetime of savings...and "guranteed income" disappearing thanks to a loophole in corporate bankrupcy laws. We see our mothers having to go work at Walmart so they can have enough money to get their medication every week. We hear storyies of how Social Security is in shambles, we see how much of our money gets taken out of our paychecks every week to go feed the third generation highschool dropout mothers of five bleeding every dime they can out of the Wealfare system.



We see these things and it does not take much to get us motivated, and to be truthfull we don't really need to do much to voice our opinions because we are the "wired generation". Before you can blink an eye we can design any type of media you can think of and have it broadcasting to iPods and PDA's worldwide. We are the new counter culture of the 60's only we are smarter because we take less drugs!



I should clarify that we are NOT the generation that is a product of liberal demogaugery. The dumbed down uneducated wealfare dependents. No we are not them, and we need not fear them, because they don't vote. And there is not enough free transportion in this country to get them to the polls. The liberals did succeed in creating a generation of people to be dependent on the government. Their plan was to create them so that they would always vote for them. But they have never been able to really succeed at the latter.



The Ron Paul RloveUTION is the perfect example. You need not agree with his political stance to truly appreciate what he has accomplished. He has energized an entire demographic that historically does not vote, does not give money to campaigns, and up until now made no impact on the politcal system. In turn they are waking up those around them. Ron Paul managed to raise almost 20 million dollars this past quarter, outshining even Mitt Romey, and not a dime of it came from a celebrity or a special interst group. Every penny came out of the pocket of an ordinary American seeking change, and a move in a different direction.



So here we are one day of the New Hampshire Primary and ut looks like the polling data says that the American People from both sides of the isle are going to vote for Honesty and Integrity again. Money can buy a lot of things, but at the end of the day the American People have changed, and we are engaged...this makes for exiting times in our history. It reminds me of an excerpt from H.G. Wells:

It seemed to me that all over the world intelligent people were waking up to the indignity and absurdity of being endangered, restrained, and impoverished, by a mere uncritical adhesion to traditional governments, traditional ideas of economic life, and traditional forms of behaviour, and that these awaking intelligent people must constitute first a protest and then a creative resistance to the inertia that was stifling and threatening us. These people I imagined would say first, "We are drifting; we are doing nothing worth while with our lives. Our lives are dull and stupid and not good enough."

Then they would say, "What are we to do with our lives?"


And then, "Let us get together with other people
of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will
enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new
time."

It seemed to me that as, one after another,
we woke up, that is what we would be saying. It amounted to a protest, first
mental and then practical, it amounted to a sort of unpremeditated and
unorganized conspiracy, against the fragmentary and insufficient governments and
the wide-spread greed, appropriation, clumsiness, and waste that are now going
on. But unlike conspiracies in general this widening protest and conspiracy
against established things would, by its very nature, go on in the daylight, and
it would be willing to accept participation and help from every quarter. It
would, in fact, become an "Open Conspiracy," a necessary, naturally evolved
conspiracy, to adjust our dislocated world. ~H.G. Wells

The people of this country are waking up.The silent majority will be silent no more! While we don't agree on everything, I think that most of us who pay attention are realizing that something has got to change. We may not win this time. We may still end up with the Candidate who in the end had the deepest pockets, but they won't get the victory without hearing the message. We are tired, and now more than ever before, no matter who you are, we are going to hold you accountable. There will be no spin spun that will allow you to side-step your failures. We are beyond that now. Conviction means nothing without results. Results mean nothing without true accomplishment. And you won't accomplish anything if you are beholden to corporate greed and special interst groups.

Vote for Change in whatever form you find it.