Faint heart and all that rot, so here goes. I was invited here by the Queen of Mean ( by some peoples lights ) Miss Teri. Hard to get used to that spelling. I noticed there are several more riff raff on board, Tac, Yuma ( Rebel to me ) Miss Krakka, and maybe a few more I have crossed paths with in other incarnations on various fora. Any immediate friends I may have missed, give me a shout and believe me, it was not intentional.
I am an old man, striving to get much older. In fact, I am so old, dirt was named for me. ( another story for another day )
Politically, I am of the Old Right, when conservatives were the likes of Bob Taft, who was robbed of the nomination in '52 by the New Right ( big eastern liberal PUBS ) led by the likes of Buckley and some of his minions when they stole the nomination and gave it to Ike. I try to be a constitutionalists in every sense of the word, not always succeeding, but still I try.
As I read once on the Mises Institute site. 'Freedom is the Restraint of Government.' If this is true, and I do believe it is, our government is an abject and total failure. The anti-Federalist had it right. They knew the Constitution would become a dried piece of parchment signifying little. Mason, Jefferson, Patrick Henry, the Lees, were all libertarians. Mason, the father of the Bill of Rights, as well as giving many ideas to Jefferson that he incorporated into the Declaration, was probably the greatest statesman of his time, as well as the one that knew more about constitutions than any man. Jefferson, in my estimation, was the finest President we have ever had. None are, have been, or ever will be great. The office was not designed for such.
Having been born and having grown up in Beaumont, TX, I can honestly say it was always a hotbed for Democrats, and there are still many that will vote for DIMS now. I was raised in a Democratic household, and when the DIMS left me, I became a PUB. That was in '64. The PUBS have now left me high and dry, so where I go, who knows? Constitution Party, most probably. In Texas, it matters little.
Hopefully, over a period of time, I will be able to flesh out my ideas. Hopefully, I may learn a few things as well.