I missed yesterday’s post because I was returning from Ohio after spending an evening with OH senatorial candidate Josh Mandel and possible Republican VP candidate Marco Rubio. The Griffin and I were among a couple hundred other patriots who paid $25 to listen to and see the dynamic duo outline their vision for America.
Mandel, the local star of the event, talked about how others in his family and in the audience had “paved the way” for him. He learned the lesson well. When it was his turn to step up, he did not hesitate. He enlisted in the Marine Corps reserve in 2000 and served two tours in Iraq’s An Bar province as an intelligence specialist. He served on the Lyndhurst, OH city council before running for state representative and then carrying 80 of Ohio’s 88 counties to become the state’s 48th treasurer. He earned a bachelors degree from The Ohio State University and a law degree from Case Western Reserve. Not a bad resume for guy who is only 33.
While Mandel talked of the sacrifices of others who paved the way for him, he noted that many were coming to him as he campaigned around the state saying, for the first time in their lives they feel the American Dream slipping away for their children. I can relate. I have noted on this page several times my feeling that for the first time ever I have a creeping feeling that the republic is truly at risk. Whatever is left after 4 or 8 years of the P-BO will bear little resemblance with what we knew to be America as few years ago as 2008.
This administration is going about turning the nation on her head and isn’t even bothering with the usual impediments to such efforts, the co-equal branches of government the judicial and legislative. They are going about it by through the gigantic onerous government bureaucracy with unelected unaccountable bureaucrats issuing on average 44 new regulations a day. The current kurfluffel with the Catholic Church was not started with some judge or elected official, it was started by bureaucrats in HHS.
Mandel is running against Demo-Dope Sherrod Brown. Brown as you might recall was the Sen that land thief Harry Reid held the vote on P-BOcare open for as Brown rushed from his dying mother’s bedside to screw America. Mandel labeled Brown the most Liberal Sen in the senate. Brown needs to go and so does the P-BO. The case being made was that if Mandel carried OH, whoever the Republican candidate was would as well. It’s unlikely, as the logic goes, that someone would show up to vote for Mandel and then vote for the P-BO.
As impressive as Mandel was, the star of the night was Marco Rubio. He gave a speech with national appeal. One point he made sticks with me. America has given many gifts to the world. We are the greatest power for good in history of the world. We give more, invent more, protect more, and provide the economic power that literally drives the world. But as great as those contributions are charity, innovation, creativity, military and economic might are not our greatest gifts to the world. Our example, with all of our faults, is the greatest gift to the world.
That’s what the P-BO and others do not understand about America. American exceptionalism is not the notion that we’re better than anyone. It is the notion that we offer more opportunity to the individual to pursue his dreams through hard work, creativity and/or savvy pragmatism than any other place on Earth. Unfortunately, as Rubio said, there is no close second place. If we lose America, like the Truffula trees in Dr. Susses’ The Lorax, the idea is gone.
That is what is at stake in this election. Are we going to continue to be a country that places the individual above the state or are we going to slide into a Borg like collective.
NOTE: All of the speakers noted that Ohio is likely to be "ground zero" in the election this year. So if how goes Mandel, so goes the election, the P-BO and Demo-Dopes will be dumping tons and tons of cash on Mandel's head. Help him out @ https://joshmandel.com/donate
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