Liberty is the chassis on our American muscle car. Without it, the wheels of our economy fall off. The doors that open our ride to prosperity won’t swing wide. Without liberty, private property doesn’t exist and hope for a better future crashes. The leadership DFL legislators provided over the last seventy years has resulted in our chassis needing a refit.
On April 21, Republican delegates from every county in Congressional District 8 have volunteered to meet in Park Rapids, MN. These delegates will be organizing to retake the wheel of the American speedster...the presidency.
But they’ll be doing a lot more than that. From there, you will hear their battle cry for freedom. On this day, the public will see a united force ready to re-educate people why limited government was created on purpose.
Our founders wrote a document that secured our liberty. DFL legislators took an oath to uphold that law, and then justified ignoring it while the people worked hard to give their government more and more of their earned wealth. You legislated promises that are mathematically impossible to keep. State retirement pensions, schools, and programs to help the poor are all underfunded with only a promise of coming funds to keep them sort of solvent. Those are just some of your failures. Building a manufacturing base in the lakes area, effectively offering a strategic environmental policy that honors property rights, and properly supporting our farmers innovative plans are some more. Unfortunately, I cannot list all of your failures here. But in the coming weeks liberty-minded people will submit more open letters so the public will know exactly the mess we are in, and how you single-handedly brought it to this point.
Your socialist experiment failed. November 6, 2012 liberty is reborn.
Barbara Haney
Brainerd
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calling the liberals out. Great Job!
What a bunch of pompous nonsense, claiming some mythical
high road for Republicans, who continue to drive the middle class high-mileage sedan completely off the cliff. I resent a hypocritical lecture on "liberty" -- repeated like a mindless mantra 5 times in this letter -- from MN Republicans who favor voter suppression and want a constitutional amendment to ensure that some of our fellow Minnesotan citizens have unequal civil rights.
Here's another comparison between "Conservatives and Liberals" from a markedly different perspective. I agree with this author that "Conservatives" not only do not possess a corner on the "liberty" market, they are really quite clueless as to what the concept means for regular Americans.
"Of course, we know that you conservatives out there in the cornfields of Iowa, the oil patches of West Texas, on the fishing boats of Alaska, the maple trees of Vermont, the forests of the Old South, are not like this at all. You really do love America. OK. Not knowing you personally, we will take your word for it. But know this: your conservative leaders are scoundrels of the highest order; always have been and always will be. They are liars and crooks and thieves. It's in their DNA. They don't believe in freedom, they don't believe in equality, they don't believe in opportunity for all, they don't believe in reason, they don't believe in science, they don't believe in the pursuit of happiness. They don't believe in small government. They don't believe in your religion. They believe in money and power. Period. They think you are as dumb as a stump, and they do not have your best interests at heart... nor America's. They've been on the wrong side of every major issue in American history, from 1776 on through to today. Read your history, carefully, and follow the dollars... you will see who these "patriots" really are.
Compare Conservative/Liberal Values:" (Read more, at: http://www.conservativemyths.com/what-is.html).
Hot air
Politics are all hot air.
Hey Bubba...
speaking of "pompous nonsense," didn't you just recently feign outrage and threaten to leave unless the Dispatch did something about Keith Hansen?
I guess I just didn't catch your last day on the forum. What was that again?
Salvation in Park Rapids
For a long time I thought that only the Second Coming could save humanity from its failings. But now I can give thanks for the coming meeting of Republicans, as they are busy, legislating our morality, saving us. Thank you, Barbara Haney.
Rolf
Our morality needs legislating. doesn't it?
Anyway, I was just reading a WP article on natural gas (not the Bubba Yumba variety). How reasonable is it to expect that NG will replace coal?
Thanks.
How can the DFL
turn the state blue when their red faces expose those who are sneaking a breath.
who are you, barb?
Have fun in Park Rapids!
Can we come, too?
I can see you feel strongly about this, Barb.
I can see you feel strongly about this, Barb.
"Legislating our morality"
You mean like the lack of it in Columbia? How are those Secret Service agents doing?
Of course we could talk about Sen. Edward's trial?
Brainerd Dispatch: Thank you for printing
Dear Editorial Board,
Frequently I hear calls of unfair bias from the news media. Presenting both sides of an argument...assuming someone is making an argument as opposed to simply attacking a person...seems very reasonable.
Thank you for printing what I had to say. In the next hours I will be sending a follow up to this piece justifying my position that the Republicans are not to blame for the American cultural shift of the 1930's that ushered in a century of costly entitlements. After FDR, the Republicans had very little hope of stopping the tsunami of government aid promised by the Democrats.
I hope you'll consider printing that one as well. This is a particularly important election year, and I believe a review of history is important before voters make their decision how to move forward.
Best regards,
Barbara Haney
Conservative Voter
Brainerd Dispatch Reader
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Another reason employees should hire women? Men screw their lives up, pardon the pun.
Of course you will Barbara.
Of course you will Barbara. Keep those works of fiction coming.
Yes, we should review history. So we can see who really drove this country into the ground. It's too bad so many of our elections are more about choosing the lesser of two evils and not about electing that bright shining star. When are we going to realize as voters that both parties have failed us and we need to find moderate candidates who think with their brain about what is logical instead of just spewing party line talking points? They need to work together to find solutions, not the "my way or nothing" mentality. Our parties are more interested in stopping "the other side" from getting their way, than they are about finding a plausible way out of this mess. They'll cut off their nose to spite their face, and in case you've missed it....that's not helping anyone.
How about the
morals of a woman that will go with a married man?
When it comes time for you to
take social security.... will you refuse it? Or maybe it will not be there if the conservatives have their way.
Social Security is earned and payed for by deductions from our
paycheck, unlike welfare and Medicaid! And who is robbing who?
Moderate is what we have now
OkeyDokey,
First let me encourage you to be brave and come out from behind your moniker. You know my name. I'd love to know yours.
Second, it is actually the moderate position that has put us in the hole we are in. Republicans had no choice but to compromise with Democrats over the last seventy years as American voters jumped on board this idea that redirection of wealth would be a positive thing. Instead, it has left us with a stalled out economy and near bankruptcy.
In short, government spending escalated with DFL promises...and now we have no money for anything, and a lot to pay back.
If you want to blame someone who called themselves a Republican at the time...well, okay. But real conservatives never said more government spending was a good idea.
I want and am calling for more real conservatives to have their voice heard as we go into this election.
Are you kidding?
The last guy "Fritz" was ripped apart and publicly humiliated in many ways. I would never subject my name to that kind of personal attack from people on this site.
And please be reminded, Social Networks and Media
will have a large voice in this election cycle, not
just Newspapers and their Internet faces...
Those are in general voters age 18 to 30 and will be discussing and voting in large blocks...
Bubba Yumba...
...is a "true believer", a la Eric Hoffer. If he weren't he'd realize the "conservative myth" site is itself a myth. Conservatives come in all stripes, but if anything, when it comes to dealing with people as people rather than straw men, they are miles ahead of the liberals. In fact, Bill Ayers wrote an interesting article recently for the Boston Review about meeting Andrew Breitbart and Tucker Carlson at a dinner Ayers and his wife had donated for a charity event. I don't want to ruin the ending, but Ayers actually seemed to enjoy the spirited discussions he had with these "evil conservatives". I think politics needs more of that face to face interaction and less of the drive-by nonsense.
Tripwire 3 -- point taken; sorry for the confusion (but not the
opinion). I'll bid you adieu when I need to produce my credit card in order to comment on the Brainerd Dispatch site. If anyone elso wants to pay for my Brainerd Dispatch subscription, I'd play!!
Who are the "true believers", really, Meuhlbau? Those who spout "liberty, liberty!" while they deprive me and some of my fellow Americans of mine, come to mind, also? I don't believe I said I bought the "Conservative Myths" website, hook, line and sinker any more than I accepted Ms. Haney's dogma. I presented it as another opinion regarding "liberty". If radicals from both extremes can sometimes bring us to a more moderate middle ground, the result may be far better than either extreme. Ms. Haney prefers to think moderates -- even Republican ones -- are part of the problem.
I'm also happy for Ms. Haney, that she feels she has nothing to lose by being so "brave", telling the world who she is. If only everyone had such understanding employers (if she has one), who wouldn't hold the political opinions of employees against them. There's a long tradition of anonymous speech in our great nation, which, as a student of history, I'm sure she knows.
What does a conservative believe?
I think there is a misconception out here about what a conservative actual believes nowadays. There is some repeated rhetoric in these comments that suggest conservatives want more oppression. That's not me. Quite the contrary.
A conservative, in my opinion, is someone who would have thought Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and others were the bravest and most thought-provoking men ever. I don't want anyone oppressed.
I am a conservative that wants the following:
a) limited government...that really means I want a government that respects our constitution. Our government is completely ignoring it right now, and it is kind of scaring me enough to write about it.
b) whatever happens on your property is your business, assuming you aren't hurting anyone
c) whatever happens on my property is my business, and I shouldn't have to pay ridiculous amounts of money for a permit to get permission to build on my own land.
d) I'm not up for legislating morality. I think government that tries is stepping on what my church is in charge of teaching it's congregation. In fact, government that legislates morality is in fact trying to act like a church. I object to that as it violates my constitutional rights.
I could go on...but those are the highlight worries I've seen in the comments. Do we have more in common than you thought? I hope so.
please help
How do the voters left or right compete with what George Soros is doing to us.
Maybe,
we should throw in the Koch brothers while we're at it.
There might be a strong difference of opinions about what
Conservatives believe, then? Fair enough. Many of your Republican compatriots (even Ron Paul, to a certain degree) don't agree with your small "g" government ideas. They are very happy to restrict voting and civil rights through Constitutional Amendments right here in MN. Your "do as I say, not as I do" prescription for understanding what MN Conservatives believe quite possibly needs to be directed to Republicans, as well?
Momma Yumbo is taking a half-day off for birthday revelry -- lots of good spicy Thai food. And of course, one needs to renew that license to vote(?!?) on one's birthday every four years! Hope to see lots of good conversation on above topics later tonight!
Get real, Bubba...
The only voting rights I want to restrict are the ones that don't exist (i.e., people who are not citizens of this country, felons, dead people, people who vote multiple times, imaginary people, etc.). I can't believe anyone would oppose such a reasonable thing.
muehlbau,
keep drinking that ALEC (Koch bros) koolaid. True believer indeed.
What Kool-Aid, Chey?
I totally support the voting rights of any eligible voter. Sounds like you might be the one drinking the Kool-Aid.
Is this what's got you on a tirade against the Koch brothers?
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2012/04/13/obama-camp-att...
Nicely stated, Barbara!
It's nice to see an honest person standing up for the things some of us still believe in!!