They say if you can apply enough force, you can move mountains.
I have given some thought to this, as I come from People who really don't like being "moved" by outside forces that much.
I am Ani Yun Wiwa (Of the Total of All Real People)
My Great Aunt Ruby (who was a Medicine Woman) said to me when I was a boy, "Danny you just look White, NEVER forget that you are Really CHEROKEE."
If you know the History of my Ancestors you realize we REALLY don't like being moved. If you don't, you can see why Here.
That's my Mother's side, mostly from Cherokee, Welsh and Irish Stock,
My Father's People come from the Mountains of Pennsylvania, Platt Deutch, Pennsylvania Dutch and Scots.
So I am descended from a rather stiff necked stubborn stock.
Which makes me by nature Conservative.
It is not that my People cannot accept change its just that we think what is good enough for the North American Continental Plate is good enough for us.
A sedate Plate Tech tonic shift of say, 5 to 10 centimeters a year give one time to consider the direction and implications.
So it was with my own particular cultural matrix I listened to Iowa's National Committeeman expounding on some actions by our Party Leadership at the 2cd District Convention last Saturday.
You can find some information on that subject on the Iowa Independent website in
Iowa Christian Alliance President and Republican National Committee member Steve Scheffler is among 10 co-sponsors of a resolution being circulated that aims to impose a conservative litmus test on potential GOP candidates.
The resolution, dubbed a “purity test” by the media, became public Monday. It lists 10 positions Republican candidates should support to demonstrate that they “espouse conservative principles and public policies” that are in opposition to “Obama’s socialist agenda.” Any Republican candidate who breaks with the guidelines of the resolution on three or more of these issues would be penalized by being denied party funds or the party endorsement.
Mr Scheffler mentioned the New York Politician Dierdre Scozzafava as an example. What he failed to mention was that it was the Voters who rejected her and the Party Leadership there which chose her.
Also not mentioned was the peculiar case of Senator Arlen Specter who did not seem to have much of a problem with the Republican Party LEADERSHIP, but was quick to jump ship when it became apparent that the Voters were probably going to reject him in the next Primary.
It is for those reasons along with my Native Conservative Nature that I feel that any "Litmus Test" needs to be left in the hands of the Party Membership and not entrusted to the Party Leadership, who have been sorely failing in that area.
The only Litmus Test I can in good conscience support is that rendered by the VOTERS in a PRIMARY.
Most of us are Adults and WE can decide for OURSELVES who we want to represent US.
The Party Leadership does not seem to have a good track record in this area anyway.
To go back to what I started this with I think it is true, if you apply enough force you CAN move mountains,
I also think the Political Class in this country HAS applied that force, but perhaps unwittingly, and the Mountains of the Poltical Desires of the Body Plolitic ARE on the move.
There are two other truths, if the Mountians Move, you had best be going in the same direction as they are or get out of their way.
IMO Mr Scheffler has not taken these truths to heart and feels that he can LEAD us in the direction HE chooses.
Updated: Monday, 26 April 2010 7:10 AM CDT
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