A Recipe for Republican Success

While many may view my political views as extreme, leftist, socialist and even, communist at times, I assure you that I am not any of those things. In reality, I tend to vote for the person who's platform makes the most sense to me. As unbelievable as it may be, I have even been known to vote for a Republican or Independent candidate a time or two.

My problem with the Republican Party of the new millennium is really an issue of ethics. It seems to me that the party's 'win at all cost' agenda that began, in a way, with Richard Nixon, has caused the Republicans to 'sell their soul to the devil'. The Republican Party is far from the ethic and humanist morals of the political party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower. It was lured away from being the 'party of the people' by money. In recent years, that money has been doled out, for the most part, by the brothers Koch, David and Charles. Whether the money comes from the personal accounts of either brother, the Charles Koch foundation, Koch Industries, Freedom Partners, Americans For Prosperity, the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation or the Center for American Progress, it's all from the same source, handed out for the same purpose. To further the political ideals of the Koch empire. Most of these ideals, that stem from the patriarch, Fred Koch who was a founding father of the John Birch Society, are racist, elitist and VERY greedy for money and power. The Republican Party of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush was ripe for the Koch brother's picking. The brothers were smart enough to realize that the all-consuming power that they wanted was not going to be attained by their participation in the Libertarian party after David's failed Vice Presidential bid of 1980. The brothers knew that they needed to become part of major political party. They chose the Republican Party to infiltrate.

The Republican Party must divest itself from all things 'Koch' in order to redeem their communal 'soul'. The Republican Party is in desperate need of independent voices, who run on a platform of freedom, freedom from the 'golden chain gang' the brothers have used to keep their puppets under control. I realize that Citizens United has made this independent Republican virtually impossible to find but, morally, we all know that what Citizens United has done is about as far from 'uniting' citizens as you can get. The announcement was made in yesterday's Washington Post, the Koch brothers intend to spend close to $1Billion to win the White House in 2016.

WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Conservative political advocacy groups supported by the billionaire Koch brothers plan to spend $889 million in the 2016 U.S. elections, more than double what they raised in 2012, the Washington Post reported on Monday.

The newspaper said the goal was announced to donors at a weekend meeting in Rancho Mirage, California, hosted by Freedom Partners, a business lobby at the center of the Koch brothers' political operation. The Post cited a person who attended the gathering.

The money will be doled out by a network of 17 organizations funded by industrialists Charles and David Koch, who have become a major force in conservative politics in recent years, and other wealthy donors. The network raised $407 million for the 2012 campaign.

During the 2012 election cycle, the national Republican Party collectively spent about $675 million, according to election data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.

The Post said the $889 million would be spent on field operations, technology, policy study and other expenses.

The Republicans need to be brave in the face of all that money flowing freely and stand stoic espousing their own ideas, their own morals and their own beliefs in what the United States of America can be. The Republicans must reclaim their party as their own. If the Kochs want to buy the White House, they should do so by starting their own political party, with their own presidential candidate. The Tea Party that began with the Koch funded Americans for Prosperity, one of their non-profit organization that is the cornerstone of the group, needs to splinter off from the Republican Party. The Tea Party and it's candidates like Sarah Palin, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, Rick Perry, Michele Bachman, all of whom have 'kissed the ring' of the Kochs, are not the the intelligent, conservative, education supporting, equality minded Republicans of old. The Republican Party is being held hostage by members who are merely doing the bidding of the supreme puppetmasters, Charles and David Koch. If the Republicans want to return to the White House, they must return to the ideals of Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party.

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