YOUR CAPTAIN SPEAKS

I want to get an early jump on voicing my opinions for the 2012 Presidential campaign. If topics like this bore you, feel free to skip this post.

We really need to get an honest GOP member back into the Oval Office. These last several months since the Democratic Party took the reigns have been absolutely horrendous. So many people were drawn to the false notion that a person can fix an entire country simply because his skin is of a different color. I don’t care what color my President is. Blue, Green, Black, Orange, Pink…I couldn’t care less. I think there are plenty of intelligent individuals of a different color who can step up and accomplish great things for our country. However, Obama just wasn’t the right choice for this time period. I like to compare it to impulse shopping. When you go into a store specifically to purchase something like toilet paper, but happen to walk by a gorgeous $150 watch along the way, sometimes you can’t help yourself in the excitement of the moment. You know you can’t afford it, but you’re drawn to it and you just have to have it, even though it might not be the best option for you. Same thing applies here – Obama wasn’t the best option for us as a nation, however, people were so caught up in the moment and the thought of having a black President, that they did a little impulse shopping of their own and couldn’t resist voting him in. They swore up and down that they were voting him in because of his leadership skills and ability to move the nation in a positive direction, but all the while they were just excited about having a black President.

This being said, if Obama is the face of the Democratic Party and little to nothing has been accomplished yet, I don’t want to see him in office for a second term. He’s shifted all of the blame to the Republicans for the economic mess. The irony in this, is that just about every spending bill passes through Congress before approval. Who controls Congress? Hmmm, it isn’t the Republicans! He pretty much slapped our military in the face by not supporting a ground-based missile defense system in Europe. He caved under the pressure of the Russian leadership to sweep the system under the carpet. We can’t have a President that won’t stand up to foreign leaders in the face of pressure. Last time I checked, we don’t belong under the command of rule of any other country, so we need to base our decisions on what we find is necessary and not what Russia finds is necessary.

I’m starting early and throwing my support behind Mike Huckabee once again. He hasn’t formally announced any plans to run in 2012 as of yet, however, he’s my guy the second he announces it. Phone calls, pamphlets, donations – whatever it takes, I’ll do it to make sure we get an honest man back in office. He represents every aspect of what the USA is and he’ll get the job done.