I wish I could write a manifesto. I wish I could write to raise the rabble, to start a movement. But I cannot. Someone else must.
I am a Libertarian. Some call that a Liberal doctrine, some say it is conservative. Call it what you will. I will accept the conservative label.
America needs a Conservative Party. We need a party that rejects Nativism, that rejects all forms of welfare payments (at least mostly), that embraces the Free Market and rejects those things that distort it.
Conservatives believe in the Cowboy Way. Leave a man alone as much as you possibly can. Mind your own business. Lend a hand when you need to.
We do not think America is a white Christian country. We are not willing to give up spare ribs or bagels and humus.
We (generally) do not care who people kiss or where. We don’t even want to think about it. Unless they are cute.
We are not in favor of big companies, or big government or big farms. We are in favor of money, booze and sex, almost anything to have a good time. We also love families, children and puppy dogs. We think we can have a better time with no government help than with its interference. Leave us alone and let the party begin.
We give blood. We are volunteer EMTs and firemen. We give to the Red Cross. We are keep our ALCU card in our wallets next to the NRA cards and let them fight it out between themselves.
We are anti-abortion, but we certainly do not want to tell a lady what to do.
We are equally embarrassed by George Bush and Jesse Jackson. (What would Ron Reagan and Martin Luther King think of these two?)
We believe in God. Or perhaps we want to believe. Or perhaps we hope there is a God. We do not think he an intergalactic hockey player who punishes sinners or cities in this life. We do not think he speaks to us through people on the TV. He talks to us in person when He wants to.
That is it. Flame me, pit me. Darn shame the Body politic has become what it it.