Introducing Myself

I have been asked to do something that I said I would never do. That is to be a Blogger. So, since I am going to give it a shot, let me first make a few things clear. I am not William F Buckley Jr. Do not expect big words that you need to look up in a dictionary. Do not expect perfect Grammar. At least with spelling, I can do spell check on my computer.

So why did I decide to do this? First, for those of you who know me, I have an opinion on almost every topic, even if I do not know what I am talking about. Just ask my family, they are all liberal Democrats, while I am a Conservative Republican with a touch of Libertarian. It makes for interesting arguments when I visit them or they visit me. Of course, I still love them all.

Seriously though, I believe that there is a need to rebuild the Conservative Movement across our Nation. Unfortunately, there is Confusion by many as to what it means to be a Conservative. Conservatism is not necessarily a political party. It is a set of principals which have represented the core values of what has kept America free over two hundred years. Unfortunately, with the current Congress and President, those Freedoms are threatened today more then at any time in our history. That is why we must do everything we can to keep the Freedoms we have and restore the ones we have lost.

I knew I became a Conservative at age 17. What influenced me? First there was a conservative by the name of M. Stanton Evans who was a commentator on the CBS Radio Network. I would listen to his Commentaries every chance I got, and realized that what he said was true and made sense to me. Little did I know at the time that I would meet him a couple of years later at a Convention of Young Americans for Freedom. I also learned that he had been at the Founding of the Organization and had written its Statement of Principals call the Sharon Statement.

I was also influenced by two books written in the late seventies that I read. The first was “A Time For Truth” by William E. Simon, a former Secretary of the Treasury and “Restoring the American Dream” by Robert J. Ringer. In both books both Authors felt that the growth of government was threatening our Freedoms.

So that is why I decided to proceed to write a blog. President Reagan said it best when he said "The house we hope to build is not for my generation but for yours. It is your future that matters. And I hope that when you are my age, you will be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. We lived lives that were a statement, not an apology."