nice repeating of history.. however until the issue of the absurd birth certificate is resolved none of what you have written for a NEW REP party will ever come to be.. the door that mst be opened is the eligibilty of the current POTUS and until you come out and demnand a resolution of this none of the proposed from your recent e mail is to be taken seriously... so .. its your call ...

The liberal democrats have no intention what-so-ever of relinquishing power from their new regime. Their corrupt supporters such as a.c.o.r.n. & redrawing of voting distrcits, along with the muscle~intimidation like the new black panthers at voting places will ensure their continued reign. They will push their socialist agenda to the brink of armed~conflict, (civil war)in this country. WHY do you think they are so hell-bent on taking guns from the law-abiding citizens and NOT punishing the criminals and gang-bangers for gun crimes?? My advice: "BUY AMMO" ---lots of it. It'll be your defense and barter in the very near future. >>>A mighty storm is brewing>>>>>>>

Mark, now THAT was one heck of an Essay!! I have read your posts for maybe a full year now, and they're always good - always. But once in awhile you really hit the ball out of the park and get me to cheering in my own office!! This essay should be cast in bronze and become mandatory reading for every U.S. citizen.

I really mean it, John House

"...it was a referendum on the ability of a majority of Americans voters to discern between one candidate who possessed the character and integrity of a statesman, and one who did not."

Problem was, in my opinion, that neither candidate "possesed the character and integrity of a statesman".

It was old guy, semi-socialist statist vs young guy full blown socialist statist. Not much of a choice, certainly no good reason from any voter to stray over party lines and plenty of reason not to vote at all.

Mark Alexander is right. The Time Has Come. We cannot, we must not, bow to tyranny in the form of a central government. Our Founders stood against a central government. We must stand, shoulder to shoulder, hand in hand, to fight what our government has become.....a group of individuals who do not represent but govern only. The Time Has Come. Let us fight the good fight...the fight for individual liberty.

There was a candidate with the "character and integrity of a statesman"? From the two major parties one was a liberal with no respect for the Constitution, and the other was a Marxist from Chicago.

I dream that some day the Republican party will give me someone to vote *for* so I won't have to just vote *against* the Dem.

Obama, Pelosi and Reid are creating a huge vacuum. Where is the Republican to fill it?

Excellent post today! I have been thinking lately how every cloud has a silver lining, and your comments reinforced that. Perhaps four years from now we will be thankful that Barack 0bama was elected president, since hopefully that travesty will be the impetus behind a complete, permanent conservative takeover. It's difficult to see that right now, but I really believe true hope and change is coming...not the hoax and chains we have now.

It may well be the time, but unfortunately I don't trust the GOP either!

The GOP isn't upholding and defending The Constitution any more than the Democrats.

The time has come for a third party!

You always put things into such clear perspective. Because of the Patriot Post I've been gaining an appreciation for President Reagan I never had before. We need him now. You present the voice of reason in everything you write. I wish many of my friends and relatives would open their minds to the truths and principles you espouse. I believe the day is fast coming that they will begin to understand and listen. Thank you so very much for the service you bring to us through this medium. I support The Patriot Post in every way.

This has to be the best read i have received since BO began the destruction of our Country... I will do my VERY BEST to see that everyone i know gets a copy of this... Thank u

I would agree Mark that the Primary season was an indicator of the voters ability to discern between potential Statesmen and otherwise. McCain and Obama are two peas in a pod. McCain will be voting FOR Obamacare, Amnesty for illegals. Those of us in Arizona Knew once the Republican Primary ended we were left with no Real Reagan Choice. Let's not repeat that mistake if there is a next time.

If the health reform must be completed now, as said by many, as we hear everyday. Why does it not take effect until 2011 and 2013?

My calculator does not compute this math, should I call Chavez, Castro or the computer shop in downtown Tehran, hey maybe N Korea?

Enough about McCain's character and integrity already. He dumps his wheelchair-bound wife then spends years in Congress spawning the lobbyists he pontificates about during the campaign. Enough about Ronald Reagan already - he's dead. He certainly served our country well; but his time has passed. Enough blather about how social conservative lapdogs are supposed to go to work again to help rebuild the Republican party. If a supermajority fully capable of understanding the truth was given the right information they'd tell the Republican party to go to the same place as the Democrats.

NO THIRD PARTY!

Much easier to take back and correct the existing party. Start at the bottom in your precinct! Personally run for the precinct chair and find all nearby precinct chairs and start working together.

It can be as easy as filling out a form and taking it into your county GOP HQ.

I was shocked to find out that my precinct did not have an active chair, had voted 51% for Obama and I did NOTHING proactive. I simply voted on Election day. That is NOT ENOUGH!

As Reagan said in the speech mentioned above: "Conservatism is the antithesis of the kind of ideological fanaticism that has brought so much horror and destruction to the world. The common sense and common decency of ordinary men and women, working out their own lives in their own way -- this is the heart of American conservatism today."

PLEASE TAKE ONE HOUR AND GET INVOLVED IN YOUR PRECINCT TODAY.

Look to California and what they are doing; they have outlawed catalog ordering of ammunition and registering all ammo purchases. If they can't get the guns, they will go after the ammo, so get all the ammo you can until these clowns are voted out. In the next two election cycles, every politician, of any party, who has violated his or her oath of office to support and defend the Constitution through an affirmative vote for unconstitutional legislation must be removed from office. All readers of the Patriot Post should forward it to everyone they know! I am proud to support the Patriot with donations and word of mouth. Merry Christmas to all.

Excellent article. We the people must always endeavor to defend our Republic. This video explains why we must do so to prevent the transition to a tyrannical oligarchy.

In our nation today, where the Democratic Party is on the far left, and the Republican Party is now on the near left, I support the Constitution Party (www.constitutionparty.com), the only party now left in America that is truly conservative. It's also the fastest-growing third party in America for the present.

I am convinced that action has become necessary. I am also convinced that the answer to today's political problems is NOT the GOP. Had it not been for the corruption of the GOP over the last 20 years, the vote against BHO would not have even been close. I cannot name one member of the Republican Party that I would trust to be Commander in Chief. I refuse to vote for a Republican because, "a Republican is better than a Democrat," especially when in my eyes they are virtually identical. I believe that if there were a political party that actually said what they mean and did the right thing by the people it would be unstoppable. Right now, either party looks the same and so hope takes a holiday.

I seldom if ever disagree with your editorials Mr. Alexander, but your one today; "...between one candidate who possessed the character and integrity of a statesman, and one who did not." will forever be one I strongly disagree with.

Neither of the potential electable candidates, possessed the character and integrity of a statesman. Shame on you for demeaning all our previous great presidents by comparing John McCain to someone with character and integrity, he has none, and is a plain dumb tool to boot.

Regan also said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party it left him.

I didn't leave the Republican Party if left me.

Mr. Alexander,

As a new patriot subscriber this year, I have been enlightened. Obama was not my choice for president and although he made his ideas sound good, the end results haven't helped us "little folks" a bit. As a matter of fact, my family is facing worse financial problems now than we did this same time last year, I haven't seen any economic stimulus in my household, have you? We are at the same lower-middle class level and caught in the middle, we make too much for any kind of assistance but not enough to make ends meet, and forget luxury. My husband and I haven't been able to afford a babysitter and a night out for 3 years now. When I see senators or congressman stand up during their sessions, angry about issues before them, and publicly denounce the president and his ideas, that is a big indication that something is definitely wrong and people can see that, whether they are educated in the workings of the whitehouse or not. Generally people do not stand up and argue with the boss unless there is a major problem or difference in opinion. If there is that kind of tension in the whitehouse, what kind of feeling does that leave with the American public that these people represent. Our Senators, Representatives, and other members that are trying to prevent our country from getting into a bigger mess by running up more debts are up against a wall. We need a Christmas Miracle.

I wonder who "Wayne" would "nominate " as a "Statesman"? I wonder how he would survive an assault, such as Sem. McCain did? He can hardly lift his arms above his waiste! YET he defends and upholds the beliefs and oppinions of all others, and even shushed one conplainer at a Q & A meeting, concerning our Elected CiC.! NO ONE ELSE WOULD, Dem. or Rep.!

Mr. Alexander,

Fantastic article sir.

Great article today - not that all of them aren't, but today's was stellar!

I was also wondering if you could send me a larger file of that eagle over the flag - I'd love to put it on as my screen background.

Thanks for all you do,

Monte

I think Ken Kraus is more right than any of us wish to believe. Will it go so far as a revolution that requires us to take up arms? I hope not. I fear it may. I have studied some history of our country and others. When people became fed up a revolution ensued. Many times it was a bloody revolution. Our country is young compared to many European countries. We have already seen two. Will there be a third? or more? Change needs to come. Less government control, more representation.

Well Wayne, how's this "Hope" and "Change" crap workin' out for ya? I'm sure you're just happy as a bug in the rug with the new taxes and inflation you're going to get from misguided loyalty to the Demcrats. Got enough money to pay for your health insurance? If not, they're gonna fine ya and if you don't pay the fine, it's off to jail there you irresponsible soul. Now, if you don't have a job, since there's no "public option" I guess you just go wait in the emergency like the illegals. Oh Yeah, they'll be full fledged citizens soon so you'll have to fight for a place in of lines at places like the employment office, welfare office, all the entitlement program offices. But be patient, they'll get around to you sooner or later.

According to the National Black Republican Association, MLK Was A Republican. There is the billboard they put up in Denver during the Democrat National Convention in 2008 stating the same.

"Thanks to all of our supporters who helped to rain on Obama's parade and expose the fallacy of Obama's comparing himself to MLK!

The Democrats showed up in Denver for their convention to anoint Obama as the "Messiah" and were greeted by our MLK billboards. The Democrats were not happy campers!

An indication of the success of our MKL billboard campaign came from an unlikely source. One liberal pundit, Jeffrey Toobin, lamented on CNN that "Barack Obama will not assume the mantle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." YES!

Our MLK billboard campaign worked and stopped Obama dead in his tracks. Obama was poised to give his political acceptance speech on the 45th anniversary of MLK's inspirational "I Have a Dream" civil rights speech. Obama is no MLK. Obama is a far left-wing radical Democrat who does not share our values. MLK was a minister and a Republican who embraced our traditional values. "

On September 11, 2001, our country rallied to unify itself after the hidious attack on New York. Now, after the 2008 attack on the White House, our country, for the most part, has rallied again to stop the madness. More people realize that voting for the most eliquent speaker in the election was a wrong thing to do, ignoring the warning signs of his shady past, only to move forward into the abyss of his agenda, socialism, wanting only anything but GWB, and getting anything but GWB.

We must unite as a people and turn back to our Constitutional values that our countries fathers instilled in our past generations, or face the rath of the 'Isms'. I pray for our leaders guidence and the peoples ability to remove the rose colored glasses that they have put on, and return our country to the glory that it once had. We may not be perfect, but, the future looks grim if we fail.

I, too, disagree with the statement that "The 2008 presidential election was...a referendum on the ability of a majority of Americans voters to discern between one candidate who possessed the character and integrity of a statesman, and one who did not." McCain didn't possess the integrity and character of a statesman either, and that's one reason he lost. I voted for Chuck Baldwin (Constitution party) and feel proud that I voted for someone with Constitutional integrity. I favor reforming the Republican party because trying to go with a third party will split the vote and allow liberals permanent power, but when Republicans do not offer us a good choice we must not just go with someone bad to prevent someone worse from winning. If we view voting as voting against someone rather than for someone, then practically anyone, no matter how bad, becomes acceptable if only he or she is better than the other guy. We'll never take back our nation that way.

Obama is not alone. He has Nancy and Harry to join him in sucking us all down into the pit. The realization of how we got here is a good lesson in history; we can't legislate morality, but we can admire and follow leaders who practice it. Keep the faith, my fellow Americans; we will prevail!

Brilliant essay!

There were some excellent comments on Townhall prior to the November 2008 presidential elections that said it would be far better, in the long run, for Obama to win rather than McCain because with Obama Americans would finally get a full-blown, unadulterated dose of pure socialism, while with McCain, this nation would've continued to creep into socialism (ala the frog in the boiling pot). While I voted for McCain (as a defense mechanism), I vehemently opposed the three infamous bills with his signature.

I believe that it is a "blessing in disguise" that Obama resides in the White House. Sometimes only a good, hard dose of reality will awaken a sleeping giant!

Awake Americans, fight and let's restore our country to "one nation under God" with a LIMITED government.

Good essay overall, but I disagree that John McCain has the character or integrity of a statesman. In many respects, the difference between him and Obama was negligible. Remember McCain-Feingold? McCain blasted his Republican colleagues who opposed the stimulus bill last year, even though it was nearly as pork laden and earmarked as anything he criticizes now. He has gone on record about trying to see how much of the health care bill we can "give" to Obama. Compromise, compromise, compromise. And McCain has repeatedly shown Democrat-like disdain for the private sector, little surprise since he appears never to have had a job outside government. Until the Republican Party an dthe RNC in particular rediscover real conservative principles, I fear we will continue to get a McCain-like menu of Democrat lite.

This was certainly an accurate description of our current state of affairs. Unfortunately, the GOP has for too long done much of the same, abeit at a much less intrusive level. As an Independent, I am very reluctant to once agin trust the GOP elites anymore than the Dem variety.

12/17/09

When I was a boy 10 or 11,My Mom & I were grocery

shopping.She parked our car in the stores parking

area.When we get to the car & leave she finds a note between the wiper & the windshield.The mans

name,address & phone # who backed into the fender.

After WW2 the atitude above is no more.Except there

are a FEW Mark Alexanders still around.I'm very

PROUD of YOU & YOUR STAFF!!!

If you think Civil Service is so great quit and go to work for the government. Outside of the fact that a large number of civil service employees are older and in the upper step levels for their grades the figure of $71K is as phoney as the Global Warming temps. Excluding locality pay (so it does not show up in retirement) a GS 1 starts at $17K & step 9 is $4K more per year. GS 4s start at $24K and end at $30K and a GS9 $41K to $51K It takes 25-30 years to go from step 1 to step 10 and there are a lot of federal employees that retire at GS 4 or 5. After I left active duty and finished grad school, I started in civil service, GS scale for 20 years. I got out w/o jets, 2nd & 3rd homes and the rest of the benefits you laud.

I want to take this opportunity to thank Mark Alexander and all other Patriot Post personnel for the job they do for the rest of us conservative patriots keeping us informed and providing us with a perspective of current events and their relationship to our liberty and the constitution of our country. I want you to know that there are many of us patriots out here that realize the situation that we are in today and the potential loss of our liberty. We will not allow this to happen and shall fight this battle even if a revolution is required until we have a decisive win, whatever it takes we shall prevail.

Keep up the significant conservative work that you do. It is sincerely appreciated.

Semper Fi !!!

Bruce

Time to act!! New Republican Party!! I spew these from my mouth!! It is time for the Republican Party to drag out their old we have learned our lesson and we are going back to our roots speaches. There is no difference between a Republican and a Democrat. When will the masses learn that. It is all a wrestling match, both sides practice to put on a good show for the people, sometimes the good guys wins and sometimes the bad guys win but when it is all said and done they are both the same.

Both for large government, both for controlling the schools, both for controlling the people, both for gun control, both for higher taxes, both for one world government, both for special interest, both for growing their own power and staying in control.

When the Republicans were in power for 8 long years did they stop abortion? Did they shrink Government, Did they do anything to halt the raping of our economy? Did they do anything to abolish the Federal Reserve and put us back on a solid Money system? I think not.

I am sick of them and both parties need to be turned out in 2010. Dont elect a one of them back into office.

Save the Republic!!

While President Obama is showing his Marxist/socialist beiiefs, I believe he should more correctly be described as a Fascist. His desire to control industries (health care, automotive, banking & finance) more closely relates to the old German National Socialist Party -- better known as the Nazi Party -- run by Adolph Hitler. The latter controlled his arms industries (like Krupp for examply) -- but he did not encourage government to own them. With the pssible exception of his GM actions, Obama is acting more like Hitler than Lenin.

Of course, both were disasters for their countries.

Roland Wetzel, St. Charles, MO

Patroits...Please start to mention the radical Islam-ization of Europe and the dangers that are inherent. We are also seeing it here in the US. You are correct. It IS TIME TO FIGHT. Help make people aware of this very real danger to our freedoms that I spent 34 yrs. of my life defending. Keep up the good work and stay safe....Len Grummell,USAF(ret)

Many are ready to "fight", but most are asking "HOW"? Telephone, emails, faxes, tea parties have had no apparent effect - our "representatives" are not listening. When does the battle begin?

The time has come for...what? Upon what do we take our stand? The founders took their stand upon the Bible. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that we are endowed BY OUR CREATOR...". By so doing they asserted that a denial of those rights, since they were God given, was an affront to God Himself. That is the ground of our complaint. That these liberals are denying to us rights to which we are entitled since they have been given to us by God. Therefore, we should be praying to God for deliverance. We should be committing our cause to God. Should He be pleased to help us and guide us in our struggle we will succeed. If not we will not.

I don't think voters have ANY excuse whatsoever that they had no idea who Obama was. They still don't know who he is in terms of his past, but he told us, time and time again, that he will fundamentally change this country. Furthermore, his wife, Michelle, repeated that Barack will not allow us to go back to our former lives, he will change our history, our traditions, and our country. How much clearer than that could it have been said? Did he or she need to spell out the exact details of life under a dictatorship? Did you even wonder why we have to change our history and our traditions? I happen to like our history and our traditions because I am an American patriot.

He also told us that there will be a civilian force, better prepared and better armed than the military. Did the voters wonder why we would need such a force when we already have a powerful military and a National Guard? I did and it sent shivers up my spine. It still does. I have nightmares about it.

Was McCain a good alternative? Not really, he was a liberal in Republican clothing, an appeaser, who used to be a patriot in his youth but turned into another corrupt politician. Yes, he was an officer and a gentleman in his younger days and as a prisoner of war. I respect that.

His campaign threw his running mate, Sarah Palin, under the bus and he said precious little.

He had plenty of opportunities to confront Obama and win the election but he kept shooting himself in the foot every time he was ahead. The pattern was so blantant, it made me wonder whether he was a Manchurian candidate.

I guess in the land of the blind, he was the one-eyed king.

"If the Republicans want to regain majority status".

Were that to happen, given the current leadership and those currently in office, would, in my opinion, be the greatest impediment to restoring constitutional government. I base that on the widespread disregard shown for that document by those people. I believe the time has come to redirectany and all financial support from the Republican side of the current oligarchy to individuals who have shown a dedication to the Nation's Founding principles. Unless we educate ourselves as to who these people are, instead of taking the word of the mainstream media, we are doomed to "more of the same", only worse.

The answer to end the delima we are in is here.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/politics&id=7147938

Why is it so hard to get to the truth about Obama's

birth. Why is it being withheld?????????????

Would Obama lie?????????????

With growing distress men and women of integrity continue to support the GOP.

I've blackened "McCain" off my '08 ball cap, leaving "Palin".

I tell people we can't say whether a McCain administration wouldn't have left us doubly damned. And that though I voted for Elmer Fudd I can't regret his loss.

There were many who romanticised the First Civil War, through the lens of the cause of abolition, as a divine trampling of the grapes of wrath and a letting of blood to purge the land of the sins of slavery.

Though it never was the greater aim of that struggle, Abolition was achieved.

Maybe future generations will view the coming Second Civil War as tribulation for the crime of 50 million abortions. And all the other failures that are leading up to it as secondary.

God so loved His beloved and chosen people that He hammered them with endless trials, generation after generation, as "a stiff-necked and rebellious people", till He brought their Messiah, His Son up from among them.

I don't have a clue what's coming.

Can this nation repent and pray? Can we keep this incredible gift of freedom with which God has so blessed us? Is there a point beyond which we are simply not worthy of it? Not capable of holding freedom in our grasp?

Patriots, we have a great opportunity before us, and once again the time has come to fight for it. With those words, and your certain foreknowledge, you've painted a big target on yourselves. With the ominous recent talk of government restrictions on the internet, is the day near at hand when we will no longer have the Patriot Post to inform, encourage, and cheer us on? Who might be next? Surely not us?

many eloquently well spoken comments .. but sadly it is that few will get involved ... few will become engaged for we are too comfy in all our luxurious details to go out and inconvenience oneself to ask why the holder of the most high office in the land has not a birth form to show his serene dutiful compliant public... we are done ... no brilliant essay will awaken one..

Oh, come on, Mr. Alexander, McCain is _NOT_ a Conservative! Not even close. McCain was just the lesser of two evils, and it was very close. McCain has not been a Conservative for many years, if ever!

We need to do what I doubt most will do, and that is get rid of them _ALL_! I don't know anything at all about these folks, but assuming they are legit, then what are we waiting for. Let's stop kidding ourselves with positions on people that are malarkey. We need real Conservatives, and not imitations like McCain! http://kickthemallout.com/

Thank you.

I saw the election as between Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin. I originally was backing Ron Paul until McRINO got the nomination. I ended up voting for Barr. Many forgot that the lesser of two evils is still EVIL. The God Owful Party is going the way of the Whigs. The only way the republicans will ever amount to anything is by throwing out the RINO's and the Council on Foreign Relations members. There are two races we can make a difference in. The first is Kentucky where Ron Paul's son is running for the senate. Of course the republican leadership (still an oxymoron) is backing the political hack. Similar situation in Florida where the is backing the RINO.

"The 2008 presidential election was a referendum on the ability of American voters to discern between one candidate who possessed the character and integrity of a statesman, and one who did not."

You must be referring to Chuck Baldwin, Constitution Party candidate, because clearly neither McCain nor Obama could ever be described as statesmanlike in integrity or character! With that sentence, you lost a lot of credibility. I can get "Republican = good; Democrat = bad" blather from any number of sources. I choose to read the Patriot Post because I expect better than that; I expect defense of true constitutional principles!

Under McCain, the race toward socialism would have continued at the same steady pace we experienced under Bush rather than the sprint we are currently being subjected to, but please don't try to pacify me with that weak argument. I want liberty!

It's not about who was the lesser of two evils any more but who should be next, and it should be a true independent some one totaly outside the D.C. cyrcle. Any other Dem, or Gop will fall to the will of there party and we will just end up with the same crap we are suffering now. As we have seen it's all about the money, with out our money they cant operate, so I say it's time we stop paying the fed income tax.

I would love to contribute a little but wonder if it's proper. I'm Canadian (a member of the Conservative Party of Canada) but a great admirer of America and her constitution. I wouldn't want it thought foreign powers were involved in your domestic political affairs. I think I'll have to stick to the strongest utterance of moral support I can express. Long live Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine (one of the good Englishmen) and Thomas Jefferson.

I enjoy your posts immensely and do what I can to move a considerably more centralized government up north toward greater liberty. Our horrific "Charter of Rights and Freedoms," whose purpose is to transfer British Common Law to statute law and give the state all power, is a perverse imitation of your Bill of Rights. It makes me shudder... not to mention an arrogant unelected Judiciary, dictating what Parliament must do and by what time no less!

Keep heart, Americans. You have more friends than you know. And in a sense, we depend on you and your example. You are the inspiration for uncounted millions.

I love the Patriot Post and all it stands for!

Been waiting for that call to action from the Patriot for 10 years. In order to remain relevant, we have to take a few on the chin: former President GW Bush opened the floodgate even further than Clinton, presenting the statists an opportunity on a silver platter for this takeover of the free market - in fact, he jump started it. Other rights of reasonable privacy were gone long before President Obama came along. So what you mentioned about the RNC is on point, but we have to give it an accurate name for statists to stay engaged in a conversation for more than an epilepsy-inspiring flash of light. And they will listen, as long as conservatives cede the point that Republicans are "just as bad," and we can agree, along with the facts (that they will NOT have beyond what they heard in passing from the news).

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we military types will keep taking it to the enemy - so keep up the good work on the homefront!

Our local newspaper ran an article on two of West Virginia's "statesmen" (Rockefeller and Mollohan) and how wealthy they are. I don't recall either of them ever having any other job than politics. John D. carpetbagged here from N. York to save us uncouth hillbillies. But I digress. I truly believe these people are so guilty of their wealth they feel they have to "give something back" to the less fortunate. Thus, we get healthcare that we don't want or need. It is the same with all liberals, they are so consumed with guilt that they just have to do something for. If they truly want to do something for me, try leaving me alone. I can do without your "help."

i just have one question? why do we know that all this is happening and we just talk? we need to revolt on the ones that are doing their best to destroy our great country! thanks for all that yall are doing to get the message out.

Third paragraph is not quite right. A year ago our countrymen were given a choice between charlatans with dubious credentials. With either candidate we get 1. Amnesty 2. Gov Health Care 3. expanded NAFTA

(Obama was against it, 30 days later, for it) What's the difference between a RINO and a European Socialist? One leads the way, the other enables?

As for the reader comment to leave this country in God's hands, and pray about it, I happen to notice in the real world around me that God doesn't do things for us that we should be doing ourselves. The Founding Fathers would have found that position ludicrous. People need two simple things in this process: less laziness and self-responsibility for their well-being and education. Once educated, and with a firm grasp of historic attempts for and against society, economics, political systems, etc., then they should step up and help others obtain the resources they need to educate themselves. Those who have all this going for them have a decision to make - what is the right action to take, and how to take that action in such a way as to get results? For instance - how many people could accurately debate a mixed capitalist system vs. pure capitalism? What would people do if there was a movement to separate economics and state, just as there is currently a separation of church and state? Could we articulate this, even if it were desirable? The independent voters may vote on emotion, but reason always has more of an appeal than a crowd whose sloganeering and frothing at the mouth makes them the same as their opponents. And without a grasp of the details, that's all we're good for - more sloganeering reminiscent of talk-show infotainment. So, the Patriot has it right - education: who's going to take it to the next level, past praying and hoping?

"referendum on the ability of a majority of Americans voters to discern between one candidate who possessed the character and integrity of a statesman, and one who did not."????? Mark which candidate would that be exactly? Maybe its a good thing Obama got elected. With McCain, most of America would still be sleeping.

This Presidency has yet to complete its first year,but I don't think that it will make it through it's second. I have never seen the populace so angered by anyone like Obama. Of course you have to consider his Chicago co-horts, when it comes to disdain for this Administration.

I had never thought that the possibility of picking up arms against our government existed,but here I am 71 years old and I see it as a real possibility.

We know that we can't count on the FBI,or the BATF.to honor their vows to support the Constitution. They mistakenly think that they are in control of their future. Obama and his thugs think differently.

I hope and pray that this great country will not go to war within,but I'm afraid,very afraid

I could not have said it better myself. This is a work our Founders would agree with, it is also growing. Obama is also aware of it and preparing a plan for battle against the Am. people as aired on the BBC. Through the Amendatory Act signed in 1933 anyone disagreeing with the Gov. is considered an enemy to the state, this act was not repealed. Check out George Washington's Prophesy, google it and see that one more war is coming to Am. soil, Am. founded on biblial principles, the "other" nation that is spoken of in Matt. to recieve God's truth and would execute it will conquer and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. This is solid truth.

amen...amen...amen....where do i sign up to join the battle. we once again live in a time when, as jeferson said, the tree of liberty must be fed by the blood of patriots...and tyrants. no one wishes that this time should come, but come it will, and woe to the man who does not rise up to do his part, yes, his duty to preserve the foundations of this coungtry. any one not sure of the coming conflictshould watch BRAVEHEART, the mel gibson movie. FREEDOM!!!!

God Bless You All!! You articulate so beautifully my thoughts and emotions. Being a Virginian I am very aware of the wisdom of our Founders and I long to see more Statesmen in DC. I pray for those few who are holding the line. Your Patriot Post must encourage them greatly, as it does me. There are a lot of us Patriots in Virginia still and we will stand, rally,phone, email and do whatever it takes to restore the Constitution to it's lawful place.

Good call, Chris.

Please re-title the Subject: of the emails from "Alexander:". If your content is important, describe that. Reference to Alexander are gratuitous egoism and divert the reader from the substance of your ideas.Mark Alexander does not rise to the level of oracle or founding father yet.

This diminishes your effectiveness and message.

In Liberty

Time to act!! New Republican Party!! I spew these from my mouth!! It is time for the Republican Party to drag out their old we have learned our lesson and we are going back to our roots speaches. There is no difference between a Republican and a Democrat. When will the masses learn that. It is all a wrestling match, both sides practice to put on a good show for the people, sometimes the good guys wins and sometimes the bad guys win but when it is all said and done they are both the same.

Both for large government, both for controlling the schools, both for controlling the people, both for gun control, both for higher taxes, both for one world government, both for special interest, both for growing their own power and staying in control.

When the Republicans were in power for 8 long years did they stop abortion? Did they shrink Government, Did they do anything to halt the raping of our economy? Did they do anything to abolish the Federal Reserve and put us back on a solid Money system? I think not.

I am sick of them and both parties need to be turned out in 2010. Dont elect a one of them back into office.

Save the Republic!!

i'm pushing a campaign to call obimbo and his ilk anti-freedom, anti-liberty, anti-constitutionalists to identify them for what they are. in my opinion calling them socialists or communists or fascists or nazis, which they are all that, doesn't resonate enough with the average american. but calling them anti-constitutional makes them sound exactly like what they are, anti-american. it is specific and definitive enough to make it stick. it is also distinctly american. will you support me in this and help it go viral? and i'd like to have everyone wear white shirts on thursdays to show support for the constitution.

Excellent essay Mark although that comparison about Mccain raised the hair on my neck too. Perhaps you can blame it on gremlins.

On to my comments. I hope everyone read that very eye-popping and vindicating paragraph, about 20 paragraphs up from the end, beginning with, "Would it surprise you...". My wife and I were talking about this very thing a couple weeks ago but I didn't have Mark's statistics to back up my gut feeling. Read it. This truly supports the notion that there has been a paradigm shift in America. Government workers are no longer doing public service. They are serving themselves and protecting themselves by jacking their salaries up. It's an inside job with no supervision. How else can you explain that the average government worker now makes $30875 more per year than the average private sector worker? And we all know that government has done nothing but grow since its inception.

Mr. Alexander,

I beg to differ with your statement that "A year ago, a majority of our countrymen were hoodwinked into electing a charlatan with dubious credentials to the highest constitutional office in the land". If you will reevaluate the exact numbers of votes instead of going by the electoral college votes I believe you will find that many more people voted for Mr. McCain than voted for Mr. Obama. That is why, in this age of technology, I cannot understand why we are still using this long outdated method of counting votes. As I said, if you count exact votes, McCain won, hands down.

Thank you so much for this article. It is so articulate in describing America's circumstances as well as describing a path of action. Since "judgment must first come to the house of God", it behooves us to afflict ourselves as God prescribes in 2 Chronicles 7:14 that we might not only rescue ourselves and our countrymen from tyrannists, but the enemy of our soul as well.

For those who believe that buying ammo and individual resistance will stop the socialist tyranny, you are mistaken. The socialist desire to have individual resistance. Individuals can be rounded up and shipped off easily. Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Tito, and etc. all removed those who opposed them one at a time. The only true way this will be stopped is State Secession. When the pansies we elect to the State Houses decide to grow a back bone and say "no more!" then we will be free of this Tumor called the Federal Govt'.

This is more question than comment: Where can I verify the average salary statistics you cite for federal employees? I know that it used to be said that GS-13's went for the office coffee in Washington, same as colonels do at the Pentagon. And I have no idea of the current salary tables of the GS employees or other schedules. But there must have been a lot of pay raises for employees that retired federal employees have not gotten since I retired in the early 1990's. Thanks.

State Secession is the only answer, I agree wholeheartedly. There is NO WAY we will ever drag 300+ million people along with us, they will never all agree...most hate what we believe actually. Democracy will not work in a nation of fools and largesse-seekers. Think about this; When 2 wolves and a sheep get together to vote on what is for dinner, guess what they eat?

We must give people a clear and permanent choice...say "we are going to go over here and do this, you stay here and do what you want"...and I guarantee they will be begging to get in to our area for a job in a few years!

Who better than a professor of constitutional law to lead the assault on the bedrock of our liberties?

I recommend this post over at RedState.com, by Morton Blackwell, a long-time stalwart of the conservative movement. He also has some excellent advice along the same lines: Conservative Republican Participation

< http://www.redstate.com/morton_c_blackwell/2009/12/17/conservative-republican-participation/ >

Excellent essay, but it may be much worse than general socialism. The health care bill includes such conditions as written about in the Wall Street Journal yesterday by Tom Coburn--that the government can decide whether a doctor will provide health services for a condition. Other provisions include killing the unborn, and "end of life care" for the elderly. The Holocaust didn't begin with Hitler--it began with the elimination of the incurabley sick, and mentally deficient patients. based on the writing in 1920, by Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche, titled "The Release of the Destriction of Life Devoid of Value." 13 years later, Hitler was able to key on that. As Wikipedia points out, 6 million Jews together with another 10 million Poles, Soviet citizens, people with disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and other political and religious opponents were victims of the Holocaust. Alexander is right--we need to get back to the principles of our Founding Fathers.

If President Obama and the Democrat Party are destroying our country, why isn't the Patriot Post advocating regularly for the proof of B. H. Obama's U. S. Citizenship? Was he really born in Kenya? Did he have a foreign-born scholarship to Occidental College? Where is his "real birth certificate" not his phony one posted from Hawaii? Where are his college records including his Law school records at Harvard? The Patriot must keep these questions before the citizens of our country.

This is the best issue of The Patriot Post yet! I'm going to send it to many of my friends. Conservatives have to control our Federal government, cut down on the size of government and increase our freedom and opportunities. People do have good sense and are able to make decisions about how to spend their money and take care of themselves. We don't need inefficient and ineffective government to try to do it for us.

I like to imagine what it would have been like if Ronald Reagan's New Republican Party hadn't run a socialist for its 2008 presidential candidate. Maybe we wouldn't be where we are right now.

Just suppose that Barack is not a citizen as is

alleged. The fact that he has refused to furnish

proof kindles my suspicion. Would'nt that cast some

heavy stuff onto those who first nominated him to be

guest speaker at the democratic convention. (John

Kerry and Ted Kennedy) I do no view Barack as a single person problem. I see it as a hugh democratic

mistake and that was just the beginning, since, what has been done right?

Ladies and Gentlemen, let us be clear and put away the pretentiousness. No more games and double-talk. We are talking about taking back our country by force of arms. We are talking about Civil War and/or Revolution. However, we whisper about it with words that have double-meaning. We don't speak openly of it because we are afraid of being arrested and cited for Treason or Rebellion. I say if we have to be afraid of that, we are already living under Tyranny. We are clearly talking about a domestic enemy that has insidiously taken over the positions of power in the government, the schools and the media. I am a soldier that has served this country in the capacity of an enlisted man. I took an oath to Protect and Defend this country from all enemies, foreign and domestic. This is about as domestic as it gets. Having said that, and assuming that I speak for many ex-military men who are past their prime, I am still willing to give the last full measure in defense of that Constitution. However, I won't throw my life away. And until a strong enough leader comes along that people can rally behind, all I can do is to defend my own couple of acres of land. In reality, I will more than likely end up giving the last full measure in defense of the 2nd Amendment as they come for my Liberty Teeth. For it is there that I have mentally drawn the line that shall not be crossed. In the end, that will be a shame because that will more than likely be the scenario throughout the United States. They will come house to house over a period of many months. Dividing and conquering until there is no more resistance. The longer we are "polite", the more likelihood that we will lose this great country without firing a shot. I am no leader, but I would be willing to give my life for that one leader that I believe in. I wonder who will have that spirit of Washington that we can rally behind? I wonder if he will show up before it is too late. Until then, I wait patiently.

I was also surprised that Mr. Alexander spoke of John McCain as possessing "the character and integrity of a statesman". Many of us were left scratching our head on that one.

Perhaps there is something that I and many others are missing here. Maybe a future article could expand on why you believe the way you do. I think you owe that to your readers.

Otherwise, the article was top drawer. They always are.

Correct about Obama, but not completely. Without a similarly socialistic-minded congress to implement his agenda, he would get very far with it.

Out ELECTED, trash-heap thieves in the legislative branch are just as complicit in taking down America as is the White (bleak...or black) House.

Alan Keys, is an American conservative , author and former diplomat, and candidate for public office.[ran for President of the United States in 2008. Unfortunately the RNC did not select Mr. Keys who is also of African descent and would have completely diffused the race issue and probable given the Republican party a victory. I sincerely hope that the weak leadership of the RNC is replaced with strong Tea Party leadership that will stand up for the strong pro-live, traditional Republican, and constitutional positions and stop buying into the false idea that mediocre candidates can win.

The Republican party is and always has been the party of big business, corporate interests, and very little interest in the Constitution. I would not vote for any Republican, even dog catcher. Taking away freedoms?? Bush certainly did that.

Congress of the United States

Please vote against current health care bills. They increase costs for patients and doctors while decreasing reimbursement for doctors.

Routine health care is the only life essential that Americans have come to expect a public or private insurer to pay for. This expectation is both costly and unnecessary except for major medical events. Rarely if ever are claims filed for insurance other than health care. Almost every visit to a doctor generates an insurance claim, each of which carries with it additional overhead costs. Another reason for excessive cost of health care is defensive medicine, prescription of additional procedures employed to guard against frivolous malpractice claims.

Major reasons for excessive cost of health care insurance include:

DEFENSIVE MEDICINE

Tort reform is effective in several states and needs to be adopted widely.

OVERUTILIZATION of the health care system:

Many primary care physicians claim that approximately thirty percent of their patient visits do not require professional attention. This degree of overutilization occurs largely because it is being reimbursed by insurance. High deductibles would reduce the level of overutilization because patients would be using their own funds for fees within the deductible amount.

SMALL DOLLAR SIZE OF CLAIMS:

The cost of processing a claim is relatively independent of the size of the claim. High deductibles would reduce the number of small claims.

FRAUD:

Fraud detection and its penalties require costly efforts at protection. Fraud is most likely to occur when there is a third party payer. Fraud is unlikely when a transaction involves only a physician and a patient.

OVERHEAD:

Overhead incurred by the physician is increased when a third party payer is involved and must be reflected in the fee schedule. The overhead and profit of the third party payer must be added to this.

MORAL HAZARD:

When a third party payer assumes the risk of a need for health care, incentive is lacking for the insured to remain healthy and avoid the need for care.

Consumer driven health care avoids or minimizes all of these reasons for high cost of health care and health insurance. This approach has proved to be effective, and is being adopted by growing numbers of individuals, families, and businesses that offer health care benefits. It is popular because it is economical, and avoids insurer intervention in medical decisions by doctor and patient, including denial of claims.

Consumer driven health care enjoys advantages of:

Reduction in number of insurance claims,

Use of pretax funding as authorized by Health Savings Accounts

Low insurance premiums resulting from high deductibles,

No need for new legislation or costly new bureaucracy,

No increase in national debt or federal deficit,

No loss of personal freedom,

Reduced cost of health care.

Medicare beneficiaries could enjoy reduced Medicare premiums as a result of cost savings in areas described above if given the option to select one of several levels of deductible. The higher the deductible, the greater would be the reduction of Medicare premium. This would achieve savings for both beneficiaries and for the Medicare program. The Congress should authorize this option.

look, i have no money. i am trying to survive cancer and only have a dwindling disability check trying to support two young teenagers. but i do have time and i can work for the gop in any capacity i would be allowed to serve. please let me work for our country

Here Here!!! Good job commentor Francis Kendrick! (see above). It is an excellent idea for all readers of these comments to read through all Francis' ideas for health care solutions. I will do that but it's not necessary for me to make a glaring point. Here, one person has presented all these ideas when nearly all our "leaders" can come up with is to shove everyone out of the sandbox so they can be king of the hill. It's a disgrace.

Yes, over the years, there have been complaints about the high cost of medicine and prescription drugs; and the issue about pre-existing conditions. BUT, there HAS NOT been a preponderance of Americans clamoring for a government take-over of our health care system, and everyone knows that that is the liberal Democrats' end game.

Numerous opinion poles show that roughly a two-thirds majority of Americans are against Obamacare, yet the administration and liberal legislators continue to press for it. Does this look like the desires of the majority are being addressed? Are we being adequately represented or are we being neglected, or are we being abused? It seems to me that this is more of an imposition; that our government is not doing something for us that we have requested, rather that they are doing something to us that we don't want. Maybe this is akin to rape.

Francis Kendrick, I commend you on all your health care ideas; and I would like to see you as part of a team of people with brains who genuinely want to find solutions. But my friend I think you're so close to the nuts and bolts of healthcare problems that perhaps you don't realize that there is a bucket of vipers precariously balanced at the top of America's front door just waiting for one of our government socialists to kick it over.

What do you think are the chances that regardless of the health care outcome, and after the dust settles, that our government will seek to protect us once again, this time from the high cost of lawyers?!

I, too, heard this call in March of last year when three candidate had pre-filed for the 1st District Congressional Race in WV. Without prior political experience, I began attending meeting of a small group of patriots near my home. Over the next six months, I studied the issues closely, more closely than ever before. I began speaking out about them at local rallies and before too long I was approached by a number of people about running for that seat. It is only through the efforts of "fresh blood" in the seats of Congress that this fight can be won. It is up to the T.E.A. Party groups (now more popular than either party) to take over the Republican Party from within and take it back to those principles that once made it great. I encourage those who might have considered running but thought they could not do it to re-consider. I an now facing six opponents, some with money, some without a message, but it will not be easy. Nothing worth having is easy, though, and liberty is one of those things worth having. For the cause, www.tstark2010.com

Very profound essay and so very true. We must keep up our guard.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Thomas Jefferson

I am at a loss. I cannot find any reference to a time frame as to when the Republican Party of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt morphed into the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan.

John A. Jeskevicius

Except for one paragraph, I considered the entire article great. The paragraph that left me scratching my head was this one:

"The 2008 presidential election was much more than a referendum on the two candidates; it was a referendum on the ability of a majority of Americans voters to discern between one candidate who possessed the character and integrity of a statesman, and one who did not."

What candidate "possessed the character and integrity of a statesman"? Surely you don't mean the Republican candidate. If the Republican party doesn't nominate far better candidates, we need a party that will. To that end, conservatives MUST get highly involved in the nomination process. If they don't, the RINOs will again pick someone the liberals can defeat.

Francis Kendrick has sound ideas regarding health care but I question who should address those ideas. Surely not the Congress of the United States. I find no provision in the U.S. Constitution for the federal government to regulate health care. Thus it should be left to the people or states.

It is so hard for many to see, that what they are supporting, is taking away from their own freedom...and inhibiting their own true potential.

One day...they will come to that realization.

So true, are the words of this essay. Lead on.

And to those who are choosing, to subject the men and women of this country, to such an abominable task......I say..."NUTS!".

Thank you for standing up and stating very clearly those thoughts and feelings so many of us have.

There is truly an awakening taking place all over the country. Americans are hungry for the truth. People are listening. SO KEEP US INFORMED!!

Thank you!

A very good and thought provoking piece.

I have to disagree with you on one point however. President Obama is not a Marxist. He is something much more insidious, he is a Fascist.

By definition, a Marxist would advocate total government ownership of all means of production, housing medical etc. Marxism is the extreme left end of Socialism.

Fascism is far more sinister. While still a left wing Socialist idea (remember that the acronym for Nazi translates loosely to National Socialist Party) the primary emphasis is for government control but leaving the the majority of ownership in private hands to reward (pay off) wealthy supporters and allow leaders to become wealthy themselves in a society where wealth still means something. In the example of health care, a Marxist system would be where the government owns all the hospitals & clinics and practitioners are civil servants like the English system. A single payer system with independently owned hospitals & clinics operated hopefully at a profit would be the extreme end of a fascist system. Prominent Democrats. including the President, have admitted in the past that this is their goal (while denying it now to get the law passed).

I realize the Holocaust makes people leery of of using the fascist label. I do not believe President Obama plans to exterminate me or my Jewish brethren. Then there is the misconception propagated in our schools and media that fascism is a right wing philosophy, when it is not.

However, until we use the correct terminology we give the left cover when they deny being Marxist. That is because they can honestly deny the charge.

What we as conservatives need to do is educate our fellow citizens and expose the current Democratic party for what it is.

Thank you for your time.

Ted Lucas

I am never quite sure whether to rage or weep at the unwillingness of my associates to discuss matters of true import. Not movies or the latest televised distraction; not sports or the transient indignities of local matters.

I am talking about the active refusal to rationally debate politics.

Most refuse to do so because they are unwilling to be proven wrong; they also do nothing to educate themselves regarding the truth, relying on their own preconceptions which they also devalue by not testing them.

Others refuse because they consider such debate insensitive and inflammatory - potentially hurtful to those who might be proven wrong.

Only the dead are to be silent always. Only the dead accept every indignity.

Only the dead.

It's time, indeed. It's time to rise up, stand together, and fight against a common enemy. But where can I find anyone to join me? I have tried locally, but all I find is apathy. No one is willing to fight for their freedom. Our Founding Fathers must be rolling over in their graves. I'm a 74 year old MARINE that wants to leave a Republic form of government (incl. our Constitution) to his kids and grandkids. Is there anyone out there who wants to join me? No skinheads, neo-nazis, or KKK'ers need respond.

Its not about democrat or republican. "Are you conservative or communist?" "Will you ride the mule

into hell or will you walk the long journey with the

elephant?"

Don't ask a politician to do you a favor - they will

always ask for more than you can give back.

In the past this country has had to survive only on patriots. Too bad it may have to be done again . . .

We need a Revolution.

We need to purge the Congress from all Senators who were bought such Ben Nelson from Nebraska, JOe Libermann, Marie landrieux ect....

an we need Term Limits!

Anne Marie gressani

Revolution ? Really ? I think all we need is to break down the walls of self preservation that Congress has built.

Term limits will remove the old guard in Washington that is ruining the country in the interest of their own financial gain.

Until term limits for Congress are put in place, and we can kick the bums out, no well meaning politician of any party or ideology will ever be able to restore faith in Congress and the US government.

Can't find where to contact you.

I have been getting the Patriot Post until here lately.

I was wondering if The Patriot Depot is taking the place of the Patriot Post?

Please let me know

Remember, in the 1700's, only a little less than 30% of the people were in favor of the War for Independence. Almost an equal number were AGAINST it, and the majority were too busy to care....much like today. The tree of liberty is watered by the blood of its patriots, I believe, precisely because MOST people aren't willing to fight the fight for it. So be it.

Those of us reading the Patriot Post and other excellent internet sources (like ToThePointNews, EjectEjectEject, PJTV, etc.) are part of that 30% who will bear the brunt of the coming revolution. Accept that and start looking for ways to revolt NOW, without guns. Our guns should be a last resort, not a first choice. Their primary purpose for Americans, of course, has always been for defense.

Here's an article by Jack Wheeler spelling out two things we can actually DO to fight back...one is an action we can push our representatives to do, the other is something that WE can do, alone or in groups...Defund and Disobey http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/3897/2/

Don't waste your time or energy railing at the 60% who won't do anything to preserve their own liberty, or at the other 30% who are actively working against it. Turn your energies toward encouraging those who WILL, and working to bring down the INFRASTRUCTURE of the machine that the libs have built to give themselves power over us: the courts (and their judicial activists), the IRS, the EPA...

Disobey, folks, disobey. There is no moral legitimacy to this unconstitutional presidency, panel of czars, government takeover, secretive Congress...the list is very long. Without moral legitimacy, there is no moral authority behind their fascist laws. God said to render unto Caesar (the gov't) the things that are Caesar's - He didn't say to give Caesar whatever Caesar demands. Go read Wheeler's article - and disobey. Let's get this revolution started!

A simple thank you, sir, for a fine essay, a heart felt reminder of what We The People need to do.

God Bless the United States, The Constitution and our free Republic.

About five years ago, I came to the stark realization that Democrats make up the 'far left' politically, and Republicans make up the 'near left' politically. Today, the Constitution Party is the ONLY political party on the right.

When I came to this understanding, I left the Republican Party and joined the Constitution Party (www.constitutionparty.com). Their values as outlined in their platform were much closer to my values as a Christian. Now I can sleep nights while I watch the CP continue to grow.

My most sincere suggestion as a Christian is to investigate the Constitution Party (www.constitutionparty.com).

About five years ago, I came to the stark realization that Democrats make up the 'far left' politically, and Republicans make up the 'near left' politically. Today, the Constitution Party is the ONLY political party on the right.

When I came to this understanding, I left the Republican Party and joined the Constitution Party (www.constitutionparty.com). Their values as outlined in their platform were much closer to my values as a Christian. Now I can sleep nights while I watch the CP continue to grow.

My most sincere suggestion as a Christian is to investigate the Constitution Party (www.constitutionparty.com).

I agree and appeciate your essay but remember this GOD is still in control and we will see a change only when the people of this country turn back to GOD and the Chritian way of life.

Thanks for your many comments and for keeping us informed.

GOD Bless America...

Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan Incarnate!!! God Bless the USA...let's take our country back!