More of the Same!

I just got an email notice from the Duval County GOP informing me that there will be a caravan next Tuesday for the book signing of Sarah Palin. I intend on attending the book signing...but have a question to ask. Is there a little BiaS being shown here? Mitt Romney was the key note speaker for Duval County's Lincoln day dinner AFTER we failed to retain The Architect Karl Rove (maybe because of his endorsement of Mike Huckabee as the best Presidential hope we have for 2012.) Romney finished 3rd in the 2008 primary but is still being courted by the same GOP leadership and pundits who lead us into this debacle. Romney has not won a single poll in regards to our hope for 2012.
The same people who supported Romney are the same people pulling for Charlie Crist. This is the elite establishment of the Republican party who wish to give us more of the same having failed to learn from 2008.
Which brings me to my point. Governor Huckabee was in town for a book signing and yet there was not even a mention in any email let alone a CARAVAN.Yet Sarah Palin is coming to town and The REC is up and at em to have a full fledged parade for a vice presidential pick? What is going on here? Are we looking forward or backward?
I give kudos to Sarah Palin for stepping up to run with the McCain/Palin debacle but our Country is being take straight to the porta potty and the Republican Party thinks that Romney and Crist are the answer? Palin is popular but having resigned from her Governorship of Alaska, one may ask, "What does she view her role as in the GOP in the coming years?"
We need to be asking ourselves,"Why are we in this handbasket and where is the GOP taking us?"

The Sun Has Set

Today marks a new era...how cliche.
However, I do believe that the perception of the America envisioned by our Founding Fathers is no longer the vision being pursued by our leadership in this Late Great America. Now before you contradict me and go into some diatribe equating our current president with the likes of men such as Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln; Please allow me the privilege of knowing the most current book on American history you have read, high school textbooks being exempt.
My position in writing this essay is not to determine which vision is better, rather to state that they are different. Very different. I will not take the time to elaborate on the particular details at this time, instead I will endeavor to challenge you to reflect on the totality of the 2 Very Different Visions.
Therefore you will gain an understanding in what is meant by "The Sun Has Set." I was enjoying a great discussion with several friends the other day regarding our current political situation facing this Nation and while we were challenging one another and strengthening our comraderie, one of our friends had to adjust his seating due to the fact that he was being blinded by The Setting Sun. I mused how appropriate it was that we enjoy this Vision on the eve of this inauguration.
As a student of history, I am able to appreciate the Rise and Fall of Nations and the cycles that ebb and flow. History does not lie and God is not mocked. We may argue about our views and clamour for our version of "The Truth." But that which has happened has happened and that which God promisede will happen. This one thing I am sure of.
In 1787 at a Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was waiting to sign a document that would hold the fate and destiny of our nation. As he stood, his eyes fell upon a carving on the back of George Washington's chair, a carving of half a sun. He stared thoughtfully at it for a minute, then proclaimed words that would be remembered forever, "I have often looked at that picture behind the president without being able to tell whether it was a rising or setting sun. Now at length I have the happiness to know that it is indeed a rising, not a setting sun."
200 years later, if Mr. Franklin was asked about this chair, would he reply, that the sun is rising or would he ackowledge that the sun is setting? I believe this answer can be found in several revealing statements made shortly thereafter.
1. Outside Independence Hall when
the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended,
Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin,
"Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"
With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded,
"A republic, if you can keep it."
2. "When the people find they can vote themselves money,
that will herald the end of the republic."

What say you?

Where do we go from here?

This is what I am talking about! Let's roll!