And It Hits The Fan, I, too, think we need to organize a third party of the moderates. I think it can be done. Look how fast we organized the grass roots organization last year. We are talking about a very large majority of the voting population. I’m really banking on the upcoming Continental Congress of 2009 to get some things accomplished. Maybe they will set up a new party.

Several Republican people I know have expressly told the RNC they will not get one thin dime of money until they start fielding candidates that stand by the Constitution, are fiscally conservative, and operate from principle. I’ll believe it when I see it.

There are only two Representatives I have seen that have any hope in my opinion. One is Louie Gohmert from TX. God bless him… he has taken some pretty courageous stands on spending, healthcare, etc. He has been at the forefront of promoting private solutions to healthcare, including HSAs. The other is Michelle Bachmann from MN (of all places). I think she is the second most hated woman by liberals behind Sarah Palin. She is just an ordinary Mom who, for love of country, got into politics. But, boy, does she nail it on the head almost every time.

There is not a single Senator… not one… that I would trust with a potato peeler, much less anything to do with our government.

So many times we have a tendency to rail against the bad apples. But, we also need to praise and encourage the ones that are doing the right things in the face of overwhelming opposition. There are precious few of them.

Like you, I take great offense to anyone calling me a Republican. To me it’s a worse insult than calling me a racist. But these political opportunists like Armey will use anything, any political shift in the wind, to bamboozle the electorate just like you know who.

I am sick of both of the two major political parties. Both have ideologies which I embrace and as equally both have ideologies that are abhorrent to me. It’s like the political middle doesn’t exist any longer, everything is the extreme.

I believe now, as I have for some time, that the only way to defeat these bastards is to work on a third party. A party of moderates. I honestly can’t see any other path that makes any sense. Otherwise we are going to spend most our time fighting them from the right and the left. And that is a self-defeating, extremely time consuming tactic that leaves us without any political clout. Not that I have any concrete suggestions at the moment, just a strong feeling, more like an overwhelming passion, that we have to unite and find someway to cut through all this bullshit and get something done in this country that the vast majority of the citizens would support.

A good analogy of American politics is a bipolar person. Always one extreme or the other. Perhaps the time is right for a large dose of political lithium.