Why am I running for SDGOP Central Committee? Let me tell you a story to answer that question.
Today, my daughter's girl scout troop was walking from one place in town to another. My wife was driving by them and honked her horn. My wife was driving my car which has a Ron Paul For President bumper sticker on it.
My daughter saw the bumper sticker and screamed "Yay Ron Paul!". She's ten years old. She's sweet. She's idealistic. She's optimistic. She's fiercely loyal. She's...ten.
The other girls in her troop started razzing her as only 10-year girls might do. They all started chanting:
"I don't know but it's been told, Romney's gonna win the Gold"
Ten-year old girls are clubby in nature. They use chants to ostracize. I remember liking counrty music when I was ten and the kids in my class liked The Beatles, I was on the receiving end of uncomfortable chants, aimed at me for liking country music.
"I don't know but it's been told, Romney's gonna win the Gold"
Ten year olds aren't mean by nature but they do prefer conformity to the social pecking order. The cool kids set the tone and all the other kids better step in line or risk the collective taunts from the mob. It's a microcosm of society in general. Government, the culture, television, society, and music all set forth an agenda and the mob is supposed to conform. Non-conformists are gently ostracized.
"I don't know but it's been told, Romney's gonna win the Gold"
Let me digress before I get back to my daughter. Cultural forces have promoted statism, cloaked in the more palatable moniker "Progressivism" since the turn of the 20th century. We've turned our back the American ideal of constitutional protection of individual rights and statism has slowly and progressively eaten away at that distinctly American ideal. I dare say that those forces are disintegrating that which made America the greatest social experiment since Mankind started interacting with each other. Forget that I like Ron Paul; I like the ideas he promotes.
"I don't know but it's been told, Romney's gonna win the Gold"
This is the chant the mob chose to use to taunt my daughter. Again, it bears repeating that they aren't mean kids, just kids. They follow that which is repeated to them on television, in their kitchens, and in conversations. Mitt Romney is a good man who will probably with the nomination of our party. In many respects, he represents the establishment which so many Americans are starting to distrust. He is safe. He'll change things a bit, hopefully in the right direction from the course Barack Obama has us on. Romney isn't Ron Paul but I don't really care too much. Ron Paul has already won because he has us talking about the ideas of constitutional fidelity. These ideas will make it down to the next generation...eventually.
"I don't know but it's been told, Romney's gonna win the Gold"
I am a conservative meaning that I wish to conserve our natural rights (Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiniess) which God has given us. I'm better described, when comparing myself the the modern conservative school of thought as a ...constitutionalist.
Like my forebears, I am out-of-the mainstream today. Progressive thought has deteriorated those ideals, which Americans proudly learned in the fifth grade, which are our heritage. I am trying to teach Americanism to my daughter so that she properly inherits those ideals. I'm running for SDGOP Central Committee because I think the only way to save this great American experiment is to hand that heritage to our children. I intend to bring that constitutionalist mindset to an already great organization (The San Diego Republican Party) so that we ALL pass that down to the next generation.
"I don't know but it's been told, Romney's gonna win the Gold"
My daughter told me about this incident today and my heart wept with grief for the consequences of the brushfire I set in her young mind. My idealism caused my darling little girl to be on the receiving end of the taunts to conform. As she relayed this to me, I could hear those taunts pierce her sweet, little heart like daggers.
"I don't know but it's been told, Romney's gonna win the Gold"
I asked her how she handled it, She said she chanted extemporaneously, right back at the mob:
"I don't know but it's been said, Ron Paul's gonna end the Fed."
Stunned, I asked her what happened next. She told me they all asked her "What's the Fed?"
I don't care who we nominate for President. Game over. We win.
Wow..pathetic even for a worthless RonPaulian...So..a 10 year old that has been brainwashed to like a worthless nothing politician from Texas who has never accomplished ANYTHING but introducing "symbolic" bills with no hope of passing is cute and idealistic...but ther others are bullies?
What a worthless little embarrassment to your family you are.
Posted by: Lakawak | 04/11/2012 at 11:54 PM
LOL, that was a great post.
And Lakawak, don't be such a douche-bag, I bet you were edumacated while the Dept of Stupid-cation was ruining our educational system in America from its conception. You want Dumbney or Obombya(again) in office? Go ahead, I hope you'll enjoy your time in gitmo when you're stripped of all of your rights when these insane men scrap the bill of rights completely.
Who's going to be calling who worthless when you're S-O-o-L, sheep?
Posted by: spiruga | 04/12/2012 at 01:33 AM
"What a worthless little embarrassment to your family you are."
I'm pretty adamant, on other forums I host, to moderate against ad hominem fallacies. Since the focus of this site is a campaign for an unpaid partisan position, I've resigned myself to the fact that transparency, even if moderating to the lowest common denominator of intelligence, trumps virtue. Stated differently, I'll let you act like a jackass because I'm on a public ballot.
"don't be such a douche-bag,"
I"m grateful for the defense, Spiruga but we don't need to descend, to the language of NY liberals like Lakawak, to make our points.
Posted by: Brian Brady | 04/12/2012 at 11:00 AM