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I subscribe to the Groucho Marx sentiment — I would never join a club that would have me.

I would not really allow any political party to count on my personal loyalty. I am a guy who believes in policies driving decision making and not party affiliation or loyalty.

As an example, I am wildly liberal on education. I am extremely conservative on finance looking for a balanced budget, a commitment to wipe out all debt and a smaller, limited, less expensive government. Anyone who espouses those sentiments gets my vote and my support.

I don’t think America can get a real third party in our system. The primary system of getting on the ballot is too hidebound and structured. It needs some serious disruption. Ross Perot came the closest to tipping the scales and he got 18% of the vote.

I could embrace gun regulation but am aghast at the lack of enforcement of the laws we already have and the nonsense that a criminal about to commit murder is somehow going to be dissuaded from a crime because of the number of bullets he can legally jam into a magazine.

This is just such stupid and unrealistic thinking as to make the entire debate be disqualified at the start. Criminals are not going to be discouraged from killing by the size of the magazine.
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Not in the US, so I can’t tell very well from afar, but Libertarians sound really good to me. In fact, considering I live in Europe, even Democrats sound better than anything we have around here. Europe is just a huge government with some people around to pay the bills (humongous bills, btw…).

Whether we’re governed by capitalist survival and a drive to succeed, or socialist ideas like no one’s left behind, we’re still governed, controlled, and bound by social custom.

There are other alternatives besides two party systems. What we need are more social political experiments. We need the startups of government to show us what can and will yield improved individual rights and social well being. Maybe a few hundred or thousand of these, with full mobility and choice between where one resides.

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I must admit that I have often wished that the Cape and Nantucket — not Maaartha’s Vineyard — were part of Texas. Maybe a heads up swap for Galveston is in the works?

It must be wonderful to live in a place like Concord — to close your eyes and see if you can feel the history. I have stood in the quiet of the Alamo and felt it myself.

Contemporary events make me wonder what our Founding Fathers would say about the great Nation they birthed. Have we been worthy stewards of their sacrifice?

I have confidence in the system — hopeless romantic, I fear — that the pendulum will swing back and we will find the equilibrium we so desperately miss and need.

The Big Red Car is in the midst of preparing an Underground Railroad for all worthy automotive specimens to make their way to the great nation of Texas — we were a country when we came into the States “united”.

In Texas, cars do not rust.

In Texas a man and a car can have as many plastic water bottles and Big Gulps and guns as he desires.

I pity the poor man who tries to put a leash on a cat, even a Massachusetts liberal cat.
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When cataloging a man’s flaws at any station in life, they rarely come in singles or doubles — but more likely in 24 unit cases with perhaps a six pack thrown in to boot.

For a man of any refinement and breeding to set foot in a Cadillac — the very sound of it rolling off one’s tongue arouses an urge to brush one’s teeth painfully and with an electric device of some kind — when he could “command” a true Muscle Car speaks with a clarity and volume that leaves no doubt as to having been a spawn of the Devil himself.

The Big Red Car is at your service, darling.

A Big Red Car in the hands of a proper conservative is a thing of great beauty as it “conserves” the very greatness of our Nation itself. When those horses are unleashed and the wind builds in your hair you can only say one thing: “I am free and free is good!”

On Earth as it is in Texas!
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