"An Honorable, Common
Sense
Conservative Candidate for
President"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron
Ewart, President
National Association of Rural
Landowners
and
nationally recognized author and speaker on freedom and property rights
issues.
© Copyright Sunday, March
29, 2015 - All Rights Reserved
As published on
Newswithviews, March 25, 2015
This article is also
available on our website at:
"Common sense is in spite of, not the result of,
education." Victor
Hugo
"Government corruption, overly complex
legislation, bureaucratic inefficiency and over-educated academic idiots smother
COMMON SENSE." Ron
Ewart
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Only men with the strongest resolve can resist
and not be corrupted by the influence of importance and position. Thomas Paine,
in his book Common Sense, wrote this:
"Men who look upon themselves
born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of
mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in
differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little
opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the
government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the
dominions."
Without honor in the people and in government,
there can be no freedom. Position, perceived importance and the almost
assured corruption that results there from, always poisons the well of honor if
men are not, by nature, honorable. That brings us to the subject of this
article.
In about one second you are going to think that
the conservative author who has been writing the articles you have been reading
for these last 10 years, has lost his mind. Not hardly!
It is said that anyone can run for president in
America ….. and win. Over the ten years we have been writing articles on
freedom and property rights, we have had several readers suggest we should run
for president and others who said they would vote for us, if we did run, even if
the idea is nothing more than a fantasy. We have resisted the idea for
many reasons, the first being, only a fool would subject him or herself and
their family to the kind of media scrutiny and feeding frenzy that a
presidential candidate must endure, especially a conservative
candidate.
However, with the plethora of candidates now
allegedly running for the conservative ticket and many of those candidates just
a replay of the same old tired political games, we have decided to explore the
possibility of being a serious candidate for President, as improbable as that
might seem.
There must be a thousand reasons why we
shouldn't run, but if you are wondering why we would make such a bold move, all
you need to do is read our last 500 articles describing the down hill slide of
America, directly caused by Progressive policies. We can't stand by and
watch that happen to the country we love without doing something more than just
writing articles.
We have over 40 years of hands-on business
experience as an entrepreneur employing many people; we worked with the federal
and state government as a contractor, we have over 30 years in land use and real
estate investment experience giving us a broad knowledge of the law and how
government works; we wrote a book on real estate fundamentals and how to develop
property; we served on a local government planning commission; we served eight
years with a major city chamber of commerce as a director and vice president; as
a pro se attorney we personally sued a multi-national corporation and won: we
have become a nationally known conservative author; we are well read in most of
the science disciplines; have significant knowledge of American history and
equally important, we have the wisdom of age. Our education came from
graduating from the school of hard knocks and we don't back down from bullies.
We are blessed with good health and boundless drive and energy.
Have we made mistakes, of course, everyone
does. But why would we be any less qualified than a community organizer
from Chicago whose only attributes are that he is arrogant, a narcissist, a
reverse racist, devoid of honor and has a radically distorted view of America
from which he governs?
In a recent NY Post article, they said this
about Obama:
"First he comes for the banks
and health care, uses the IRS to go after critics, politicizes the Justice
Department, spies on journalists, tries to curb religious freedom, slashes the
military, throws open the borders, doubles the debt and nationalizes the
Internet. He lies to the public, ignores the Constitution, inflames race
relations and urges Latinos to punish Republican "enemies." He abandons
our allies, appeases tyrants, coddles adversaries and uses the Crusades as an
excuse for inaction as Islamic terrorists slaughter their way across the
Mideast."
This is how Obama has governed America for six
years and it is tragic if not treasonous. It is obviously not how we would
govern.
Many of our readers will say we haven't a chance
to be nominated as the Republican front-runner to face whomever the Democrats
finally bring to the fore and they might be right. But before the reader
makes up his or her mind, we ask that he or she review the platform we would put
forth under the banner "A Common Sense Conservative Candidate
". The reader may just find that they agree with our platform more
than they disagree. Most of our platform came from the "18 Principles For A Free America" we wrote several years ago that appears on our website. Our
platform could very well be used to compare against the platforms of the current
cadre of conservative presidential candidates.
We lean heavily towards strict constitutionalism
and free enterprise. On the domestic front, the down sizing of government
and the privatization of many government functions would be one of our first
priorities. Elimination of many government bureaucracies would be the
second priority. Shaking up the IRS and the EPA and other out-of-control cabinet
level agencies, repealing and replacing Obama Care and closing the border would
be the third.
On the foreign front we will take very seriously
the constitutional clause and oath that requires the president to protect and
defend the American people from all enemies, foreign or domestic, not forgetting
America has many domestic enemies as well as foreign. Most of the domestic
enemies fall into the flawed ideology of Progressivism that has led us down the
path to financial ruin and the continuing loss of liberty. We guarantee
everyone that we would not back down from, or appease national or international
bullies, no matter how large or small they may be.
Our administration would be one of inclusion and
transparency, to the best of our ability and transparency will not be just a
campaign slogan. We do not intend to follow in the footsteps of the
current president, or the alleged, presumptive Democrat, seriously flawed,
hopelessly corrupt, female front-runner. Re-election to a 2nd term, or
party considerations, will never be factors in making decisions for America and
the American people.
OUR PLATFORM
We have taken the issues one by one that a
president would face while in office. Common sense will be our guide in
almost everything, but still recognizing that common sense is not necessarily
the solution to some complex problems. If you haven't already convinced
yourself that we have no chance at winning the Republican nomination, we
strongly suggest that you review our platform, as laid out in detail on our
website at this link: http://www.narlo.org/
To get our common sense message out to the public,
we will need supporters to set up speech venues for us in every state, obtain
petitions to put us on the ballot in each state and provide the funds for our
expenses. We will also need a pro bono legal firm to make sure we comply
with all political campaign laws. To embark upon this kind of effort, is
not only time consuming, it is expensive. Without the support from
thousands of those of like mind, the effort is futile.
For now, we will be exploring the possibilities of
running for president by using specific web pages on our existing NARLO website,
as we did with our Platform. NARLO is a nationally known organization and
our website receives considerable traffic. Early funding for exploring the
possibility will come from the sale of NARLO
products, memberships,
or donations. Thus, we are asking that you help us with DONATIONS and tell your rural
landowner friends about our powerful, legally intimidating 18" x 24" aluminum
No Trespassing
sign and our unique, one-of-a-kind
Rural Landowner
Handbook that is not available anywhere else.
In addition, we have uploaded 4 years (over
200) of our copyrighted weekly articles to a USB Flash Drive in Microsoft
WORD format. If you have enjoyed our articles and want an in depth glimpse
into our general philosophy and how we would govern, we have made the articles
available at the following link: http://www.narlo.org/
Even if we don't win which is quite possible, it
will give us a large platform and a much larger audience to extol the virtues of
this great county and perhaps change some minds along the way.
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We'd like to know what you think.If you think we should run, click this
link: mailto:info@narlo.org?subject=
If you think we're a fool to run, click this link: mailto:info@narlo.org?subject=
If you would donate to our effort, click this link: mailto:info@narlo.org/?
Then hit SEND after clicking one or more of the links.
We will assess the responses and make our decision. If this
article goes viral, as we hope it will, we might just have a
shot.
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NOTE: The
foregoing article represents the opinion of the author and is not necessarily
shared by the owners, representatives, employees, or agents of the
publisher.
Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues and author of this weekly column,
"In Defense of Rural America", is the president of the National
Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org), an advocate and consultant for
urban and rural landowners and a non-profit corporation headquartered in
Washington State. He can be reached for comment at: info@narlo.org.
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