WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK!

 

 

 

"Our bench strength, out passion, this time around is simply incredible!"

Just returned home from my district's endorsing convention. It was quite a ride. For this day, my Senate District was the epicenter of Minnesota. It was where the action was. Many of the state wide candidates showed up to speak for 5 or 10 minutes. I was simply amazed by the bench strength we have this year.

However, the best part came towards the end when the non-politicians, the delegates spoke. The folks attending the convention who wanted to represent our district going forward. The people who wanted to be considered future delegates could speak for 30 seconds on why they wanted or deserved this honor. They all said something different, but had a common theme. I will paraphrase this a bit. Most all said (with feeling) - WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK! No sugar coating, no "PC" word smith, just plain talk. Everyone was sick of the status quo. The debt, the intrusion by the government, the lies, the undoing of everything good.

It was great to see some old friends, and to make some new ones. Everyone, without exception, was hospitable. Okay, they were just plain nice. Good folks, really good folks. However, as nice as they were, they also had a "prickly side" to them. Not towards each other, but rather towards an intrusive government and those who allowed it to become that way. No sugar coating, sometimes invective. Plain talk from plain folks. The shout went up over and over again - WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK!

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, it is rumored that Admiral Yamamoto said, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve." After over five years of transforming our country from a super power to a debtor nation, we can't take it any longer. The sleeping giant of America, the people who make it work, are waking up with a vengeance. They are waking up, and they are pissed, really, really pissed.

I for one will rally around WHOMEVER our endorsed candidates are. No more shooting our wounded, eating our young. No more circular firing squads. No more third parties that divide the electorate. WE NEED TO WIN ELECTIONS! We have the right people running this year - real and honest change agents. 

So to those on the Left, the Progressives in both parties, hear this. Your time behind the wheel is over. It is time to put the grownups back in charge. We don't have pitchforks and torches, but trust me, they are close by. We only want one thing, and one thing only in November -  WE WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK!