Can you select a bad Republican president as your favorite? The US President most admired by Republican US House Representative Leonard Lance is Dwight Eisenhower. He has two principle reasons:  One a balanced budget and two getting the US out of Korea. Ronald Reagan, on the other hand, Lance thinks is faulty as a first choice for not providing a balanced budget.

Lance: Eisenhower Bad Choice For Favorite President

Eisenhower: Key Military Leader But Destructive President
Eisenhower’s key achievement is in the military. All Americans are grateful of the World War II  leadership of Dwight Eisenhower as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in planning and carrying the invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45. This underscores his contributions and earns him respect. Military leaders of WWII were provided with the power to win and we did win. Republicans should embrace our historical policy of military engagement to win decisively and run from abysmal Presidential records inflicting damage on America. This describes Eisenhower and a really bad choice for Leonard Lance as a President to laud as he runs for reelection. It marks the moderate appeaser stance that has gotten Republicans out of power and will keep us there.

Eisenhower: Fostering the Growth of Communism
Dwight Eisenhower is noted as having a do nothing Presidency. The do nothing tag is a faulty interpretation of history! He did serious damage to America. He took many actions that fostered the regrowth of Communism in our schools, government, society and the world. Americans before him discovered this trend and elected him to clean it up. Long after Eisenhower’s terms in office Ezra Taft Benson, Eisenhower’s Secretary of Agriculture, sums up the Eisenhower diversion of our effort to purge communism from government and the world:

Ezra Taft Benson Summarizes Eisenhower’s Fostering Of Communism

This video is keyed to start at time point 3:53 but is also worth watching from the beginning.

Cleaning up communism in government was a key item that he used in winning election in 1952.

“… Eisenhower had a formula for victory — K1C2. The stalemated war in Korea, corruption in the Truman administration, and Communist subversion were the issues that Republicans emphasized throughout the campaign. Eisenhower held a clear lead over Stevenson in the polls, as voters looked to Eisenhower to clean up what even Stevenson had called ‘the mess in Washington.’ — Miller Center of Public Affairs University of Virginia

The phrase “the mess in Washington” underscores how the Democrats had a hard time saying communism and here is how Stevenson, the Democrat candidate against Eisenhower, thought about the sentiments of Americans at the time.

“Stevenson’s Nature of Patriotism speech. ‘The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to the freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-communism.’” Wikipedia

Eisenhower won the election on the fight against communism in government and then proceeded to implement destructive actions that were duplicated in subsequent Presidents and Congresses bringing us to the precipice Vladimir Lenin predicted in 1924.

“First we take eastern Europe, then the masses of Asia, then we will encircle the United States which will be the last Bastian of capitalism. We will not have to attack. It will fall like an overripe fruit into our hands.” – Lenin

We are now in 2010 tipped to that ominous fall with no rope to climb back up.

Reagan: Fostering the Destruction of Communism
Ronald Reagan did the most of any President to fight back the corruption caused by communistic actions. He started with the “Screen Actors Guild”.

Reagan On Screen Actors Guild Time Point 1:43

He understood it. For example his warning about socialized medicine is about the slip into the abyss of Communism.

He failed more with the Democratic Congress on this issue of as well as the issue of balanced budgets than anywhere. He had control on the world scene and little in Congress. The momentum against communism put into place by Reagan’s Presidency quickly faded. Communism continued its  march forward to what you  see today even in our own leaders!

Balanced Budget with 91% Taxes
As well Eisenhower financed his “balance budget” on the backs of taxpayers where he presided over 8 years of the second highest top Federal marginal tax rate. The rate was 91% second only to 2 years at the end of World War II where it reached 94%. It took until Ronald Regan to fix this theft of property by Government. Still we see an increase tax trend continued not only with the ostentatious “federal tax” but to a greater extent in imperceptible taxes here and there on this and that and now much larger taxes such as we see in the current hideous health legislation. Leonard Lance must realize Reagan was against big government and big spending. However Reagan focused on the bigger threat of communism and corruption and in budgeting dealt with a spend thrift Democrat Congress; a more difficult opponent that even the USSR. This is what Leonard Lance needs to say about the Reagan era and not that Reagan did not balance the budget.

Republicans Search for a Favorite President: Its Reagan
Republicans who are running from the record of Ronald Reagan and saying the era of Reagan is over then need to select another President; hopefully Republican. So lets start the search.  They have trouble with Bush II because of their own failure to rein in the spending and squeamish support on winning a war versus unheroic  support they give it. Heroic support would be risking their political careers on winning.  They failed and thus helped Bush II fail and usher in Obama. They cannot select Bush I because he was scooted out of office for failing to deal with the economic issues in same way Reagan did. He apparently learned nothing from being Reagan’s Vice President. You have to  skip over Richard Nixon because he was forced into resignation. Soon we are heading on a fast track back to Abe Lincoln. Not a bad choice just not current. The winner then is Reagan because he was keen on doing what you will learn Eisenhower promised and did not do.

A RINO Pick for Favorite President: Eisenhower
When Eisenhower’s Presidential actions are revisited you can see the modern day RINO (Republican in Name Only) tag fits him.  Many of his policies were liberal. He had some good intentions but they were carried out in liberal fashion. Thus moderates find him a safe choice: good intentions but liberal solutions.

2010 Elections
Republicans running from conservatism are doing so because they still believe they need to be in the middle somehow. The middle is conservative. Get used to it and learn from the past so we do not repeat it as we, conservatives, take back control entrusted to us.

Series on Eisenhower and Communism
This is a series on Eisenhower and the growth of communism in American and in the World. No disrespect to a honored military leader and American, however honored military leaders do not necessarily translate into great political leaders and Eisenhower was a prime example. You will learn in this series how Eisenhower is a key root of the problems we have today in America. The series will look at the Eisenhower presidential role in the:

• Failure to clean up  communism as an election promise.
• Military and economic aid and concessions to communist leaders.
• Failed “cultural exchanges” with communists.
• Abandonment of winning freedom fighters behind the Iron curtain.
• Presence of communism on our borders: Cuba.

Warning to Republicans and RINOs
This series also should be a very strong warning to RINOs  and all Republicans on who you select as the best Presidents for the party and more importantly the reasons you select them. In the grassroots conservative movement, the restudy of American history is underway in full force. Old books and records are being dusted off to reveal American History deleted from our government run educations and communist infested higher learning institutions. Eisenhower is not the only example of Presidents asleep at the wheel over Communism but the one selected for the series because of his key early role setting us back and establishing precedents we still follow. We can easily do Kennedy for example and Democrats if we must we will.

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The uncertainty of Hamlet against what appears a sea of troubles may just what conservatives face for candidate selection to run for the US House of Representatives. Do we go the traditional route with the two parties and probably the Republican party? Do we go a third party candidate? Do we sit by and watch wish washy independents choose for us? Do we leave the country and benevolently overthrow a banana republic with American productivity producing wealth? GOOOH, pronounced “go” and standing for Get Out of Our House, is one more alternative that may apply no matter which way you go.

Revolution! is Required Reading No Matter How You Intend To Select 2010 US House Candidates

GOOOH With Whom?
GOOOH is the brainchild of Tim Cox who is a business person from Texas. Tim set aside his business and in 2008 started working on the GOOOH concept. I was introduced to GOOOH November 19th 2009 at a mock candidate selection workshop hosted by an ad hoc conservative action group out of Morris county where I met Tim Cox and acquired his book Revolution!. He  was offering the book free but I and dozens of others at the event left a donation.  Revolution! is a common sense analysis of what is wrong with our political system for selecting candidates. It outlines the sorry results we have gotten over and over because of failed candidate selection process. The book contains a detailed action plan to change that. There is a web site to assist, promote and carryout the plan. GOOOH is not about Tim Cox but is a framework for everyday citizens to work together and select a candidate for their US House District. GOOOH is about you.

GOOOH Where?
The GOOOH candidate selection is directly targeted at the US House of Representatives. The goal is to select candidates,  finance them and get them elected. This is a third party route with a national approach unseen except twice such as with the “loose” Contract of America. Thus you can run for your US House District and eliminate the nasty issue of financing. For that and other reasons I am running as a GOOOH candidate in District 7 where we have Leonard Lance (R). GOOOH is about anyone of us going to the US House of Representatives staying for one or two terms and returning to life in their district.

GOOOH How?
On an initial look, the mechanics of the GOOOH candidate selection system appear detailed. There is software and training  guides to carry out the details. The system is simple. You declare yourself as a candidate and work with other candidates in your district to select the best to send to the US House of Representatives.

The process entails passing a simple screening exam such as Constitutional eligibility. The screening goes further to include not being a politician or office holder and openly advertising if you are lawyer. Revolution! goes into details why these qualities contribute to the current problem. If you are one of those, GOOOH is not for you and thus you can run in traditional ways if you like.

The more rigorous step is to answer the over 100 debate question issues as for or against. These are used in the candidate selection process. Having done the questions, I guarantee your core values are challenged.

You sign a commitment letter which includes not taking money from anyone and promising to vote to reduce term limits in House of Representatives to two years until passed as well as having a self imposed two term limit. If you violate the agreement, then you are booted out of the GOOOH system as a candidate for the future. You may also suffer the wrath of the GOOOH members who had faith you live by your word.

Then you participate in a series of Saturday workshops with the other candidates in your district. The workshops are moderated by others in your district who are not running. The process of elimination repeated with 2 winners moving  forward until there are only 10. Those 10 pick the final candidate. The process is done by scoring in a round robin fashion so you really have no idea who is going to be picked in a workshop until the scoring is tabulated.

There is also a $100 donation required, but this is not needed until GOOOH officially announces they have enough participants to move forward.

GOOOH will handle getting selected candidates on the ballot and raising funds. Finally you campaign.

GOOOH When?
GOOOH is just about the US House of Representatives. GOOOH was in place for the 2008 elections. Tim Cox claims that the Presidential election was a strong distraction for GOOOH attention. GOOOH is now targeted for 2010 elections. GOOOH will start candidate selection in March with one condition. Tim Cox says that we need 500,000 candidates. This is on average about 1,150 candidates per district. If that number is hit by the end of February 2010, the system is go.

GOOOH $$$?
GOOOH will arrange for funding with the base being the donations from the candidates participating plus additional members who join GOOOH to support it. GOOOH will also run a national campaign to raise funds. Tim Cox believes that total available per district will be larger than either party running. Because this is a networking process, the base of the network is 500,000 candidates who then build more GOOOH donors by the mere action of running for office.

You GOOOH
A simple action you can do is to buy the Revolution! Book, read it. You can also and visit the web site. A more valuable action is to run for office in your district using GOOOH. This means you sign up at the GOOOH web site and do all the steps a candidate does to get ready for the selection process. You do not have to donate money.

Signing up as a candidate is how I learned a lot. I checked that I wanted to be a candidate and took 2 hours to answer the candidate questionnaire that eventually will be locked and used in the selection process. I am not formally committed to being a candidate or my answers until March and when I donate $100.00. I may stay a candidate even if I do not really want to run because I want to participate and make sure there are other candidates better than me that will be my GOOOH district candidate.

NO GOOOH?
GOOOH is a third party but only for the House of Representatives. It is not about the Senate or Office of President. A party name is yet to be selected, but GOOOH is the official name for the process. A large objection is a third party may cause Republicans to lose Districts to Democrats because a GOOOH candidate would take Republican votes. This argument is false because GOOOH is not about conservatives. It is about creating a candidate that is not selected by the political system. It is about people not politicians and lawyers selecting candidates and thus can include anyone. Thus a GOOOH candidate has appeal to all of the other ways we split candidates such as Democrat vs Republican, Independent, Conservative vs Liberal, Right vs left and so on.  The GOOOH candidate on the ballot was selected by other members of the district who are not in the political machine  and not beholding to special interest groups. They are practically untouchables when compared to all other names on the ballot.

STILL NO GOOOH?
You cannot dismiss the GOOOH candidate questionnaire. Introducing GOOOH to fellow conservatives who said no GOOOH, I suggested a simple test. If you are going the traditional candidate selection route, that you take all or a subset of the GOOOH candidate questionnaire and ask your current elected incumbent you want to run or an opponent you like to run and ask them to answer them. GOOOH candidates must answer the questions for or against and defend their answers among their peers. Traditional candidates do not and are very likely to give you multi-part answers that contain “for” if this condition and “against” for that condition and will take15 to 30 minutes boring the hell out of you to weasel out of a commitment that will make or break their selection.

Revolution! Guide to What's Wrong With US House and How To Fix It

AND STILL NO GOOOH?
The book Revolution! is your guide to correcting the problem in the House of Representatives. I strongly recommend you read Revolution! so, which ever way you GOOOH, you know what you are trying to fix. Otherwise you may get the same result we have had for decades regardless of the House being controlled by Republicans or Democrats. This is something American cannot afford for one more term.

ObamaCare protesters strongly voiced disappointment with Chris Christie campaign energy on key issues. The protest rally held at Leonard Lance’s office to push the US House Representative to broaden opposition to the health care legislation, drew interest from a RNC worker assigned to solicit Christie volunteers. Protesters were quick to point out issues that are underplayed by the campaign.

Billy Baer Holds Blank Sign Summing Up 2009 NJ Governor's Race

School Vouchers Not Just Inner City Issue
One protester got feedback from Christie representative that he was promoting school vouchers with inner city efforts. This limited approach was unacceptable as school problems in inner cities impacts all New Jersey residents in the form of taxes.

The Citizens for NJ Assembly candidates have school choice as one of the 10 points on their Common Sense Pledge. Many are running in districts that do not have the destroyed NJ inner city schools yet back school choice ideas like vouchers.

Morristown Tea Party recently ran an educational program on school choice in a part of New Jersey with generally good schools.

Cavuto Reveals Strong Christie Tax Solutions Supporters See Underplayed In Campaign
Linda Gerisi pointed out she was excited about Christie’s tax ideas but would not have know about them if it were not for the Neil Cavuto interview on Fox.

“He was terrific. … He actually said what he was going to do in order to cut property taxes”

Corzine who made his fortune on Wall Street at Goldman Sach’s actually declined to appear on the Neil Cavuto show with Christie. Cavuto asked Christie if he would raise taxes. Christie said flatly no.

“I will not raise taxes on the citizens of this State [New Jersey] which is already the highest tax burden State in America worst than New York, worst than California. … John Corzine is going to raise taxes.”

Cavuto questioned Christie on the over duplication in New Jersey municipality services. Christie pointed to successes in maintaining municipal independence though service sharing.

“We got to get them to share services. We have so many redundancies in municiple goverment across the State and its happening already in New Jersey in certain isolated places. In Brick and Toms River down in Ocean County you have them sharing services and literally saving millions of dollars  for their taxpayers”

Christie goes on to explain how to replicate these successes if he is elected.

“One we are going to give grants out to towns to encourage them to study shared services in their communites and here is the accountability piece .. if you get that study and you can show that you can save money and deliver those services you have two choices. You implement the plan or give me my money [grant] back.”

You can listen to the vocal thrashing of protesters over the weakness in getting these points across.

News 12 New Jersey Strong Bias Towards Corzine
On a related campaign topic, protester John Wycoff, reported his experience viewing News 12 New Jersey.

“The next time they talk to Steele, tell him to get himself back up here … watch News 12 New Jersey for a couple of hours and then file a complaint with the Federal Election Commission ..  they [News 12 New Jersey] are actively compaigning for Corzine.”

[Author's note: Quite honestly I cannot stomach watching any local news channels or their programming, so I will have to take John's word for it. I strongly recommend to delete those channels and you will not miss anything important or enteraining while maintaining a much happier life.]

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Citizen political activists hit the streets in Westfield NJ at Leonard Lance’s office to voice concerns over moderate voting occurring by Republicans. Pointing to the vote on Cap and Trade last June, protesters, also constituents, voiced a strong concern about the potential deals and offers that Republicans like Leonard Lance would get for a vote on government run health care.

Energetic ObamaCare Protester Braves Busy Road at Leonard Lance Westfield Office

Leonard Lance is the US Congressional House of Representative for the Seventh District covering a large portion of Central New Jersey from its Eastern to Western borders.

Lance A No Vote On Health Care
Lance’s Deputy Chief of Staff Amanda Woloshen, assured protesters that the Lance would vote no on current health care legislation. She made the statement both publicly to the group outside his office as well as to individuals that accepted her offer to meet and discuss the issues inside where they were told the legislation is a single payer plot.

Lance Using Cost for No Vote Worries Constituents
Lance has expressed the importance of CBO (Congressional Budget Office) scoring being a key factor in any vote he makes. Woloshen provided a stack of local paper articles covering Lance’s statements on health care legislation spanning July to September where Lance opposes the health care legislation flatly on cost. However it is clear in these papers he has an interest in health care reforms via the Congress and thus the Federal Government. The most recent statement is dated 9/15/2009. Much has changed in Washington on health care that constituents are following closely.

Leonard Lance US House of Representative District 7 Westfield NJ Office

Washington Hidden Gamesmanship
Protesters voiced serious concern that Lance may be swayed based on unpredictable cost estimates to allow another failed Democrat Party program like Medicare to be foisted on the American people and particularly on the producers. They pointed out their keen awareness of the gamesmanship occurring in Congress to split up the bills to hide the deficit increasing cost. They cited the many taxes and subterfuge fees and gimmicks to show revenue increases all disguised as tax increases and cuts they often blame as Republican motives. Linda Gerisi outlined the tax increases and cost cuts.

“But its only because they are tax increasing in order to raise the money and then they are cutting … Medicare. This is their rationale for getting it to be revenue neutral.”

Linda points to a recent example of the subterfuge.

“Plus what a lot of people don’t realize is that they took $300 billion dollars in cuts from the doctors out of Medicare … which was going to cost to bill more and all they did was sliced it out of the bill and put it into another bill.”

Protester Billy Baer clearly wants Lance to oppose ObamaCare on more than just cost issues.

“The idea that Lance’s vote is primarily based on the cost of it we think is going to create a real problem. Because if that is all its based on and not a philosophical opposition to the health care bill and the politics of the government taking  essentially what is going to amount to the government at some point taking over health care … he can be rolled very easy on this and he might even … use anything as cover to go along voting yes on this and that is our concern and that is why we are here today because we do not feel he is a solid vote on it.”

“If it is only based on cost, that could change. They’ll come out with a report, they’ll juggle the numbers, they’ll come in with some projections, they’ll … increase taxes on something and say it will not cost anything which is absolutely ridiculous. He needs to be standing up… against this bill on grounds other than the cost of it and that’s our concern.”

Republicans as Moderates Failing
A general theme was the lack of distinction the Republican party is making from the Democratic Party. Protesters made clear statements that there are no distinctions when Republicans act like moderates. Sarah Palin was mentioned as a key element in Senator John McCain receiving an uplift in polls during the 2008 presidential election. Based on declining Republican counts in both the US Senate and the US House of Representatives, this message may need careful attention by the RNC (Republican National Committee) for 2010 elections.

Probably this one theme has Republican constituents paying attention outside of elections rather than sitting home. They have lost trust in their party to protect them and their country from an onslaught by liberal controls. They are finding their own party capitulating to liberal programs under the assumption they will appeal to more voters when the reality is such voters are less inclined to vote for them for moderate views.