"Now, look, it's true, Americans do want leaders that will come to Washington, D.C. and work together to get things done, but that comes with a very important caveat, it depends what they're trying to do. If they're working to lower tax rates, simplify the tax code, they want us to work together. If they're working to get control of a runaway of a federal debt and annual deficits, they want us to work together.
If they're working to defeat radical Islam and the threat that it poses through terrorism, they want us to work together.
However, however, if the goal is to abandon America's free enterprise economy, if the goal is to convert America into a submissive member of the international community, if the goal is not to fix America, but to change America, then they want leaders that are going to come up here and fight it every step of the way."
Yes he is a politician and no man is perfect, but if Republicans and more importantly conservative philosophies are to move this country forward not backward we need men like Marco to be representing us. The liberal worldview is under attack right now from all angles, whether it's the Tea Party Movement or Scott Brown's unbelievable election in Massachusetts, and we must continue to attack it with common sense conservative solutions. Let them and their mouthpieces be the ones using ad hominem attacks on a daily basis while we give the American people their country back with the correct solutions.
As Marco went on to speak about his parents it hit an obvious tone with me. He and I are from the same generation with similar backgrounds. He is first generation American with 2 Cuban exiles as parents. So this portion of the speech definitely rang true and gives an insight as to why so many Americans of Cuban ancestry feel the same way. He was speaking of his parents working their asses off and it lead into this exchange:
"How many nights did I hear the keys of my 70-year-old father at the door as he came home after another 16-hour day? How many mornings would I wake up and run into my mom who was just coming home from the overnight shift as a stock clerk at K-Mart?
When you're young and in a hurry, the meaning of those moments escape you, but as the years go by and as my own children get older, I understand it now. I realize that my parents were once my age, that they once had dreams -- that there were some things that they once wanted to accomplish. But because of where they were born, because of who they were born to, because they lost their country, their dreams never had a chance. So they came here to America and went to work and it became the mission of their lives to give us the chance to do everything that they could not.
And so now I know that every chance I have ever had and everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parents' sacrifices and to the United States of America."
Powerful personal narrative yet methinks no one on the Left will get a "thrill up their leg" when he speaks of it. That is totally fine with me because their view of this country and what it and it's people have accomplished is just no where near mine. This country was put here not to grant you rights or hand you anything on a silver platter. The system was designed for government to protect our rights that were granted from a higher power. The concept of "unalienable" rights is borne from this and gives this country it's uniqueness. Yet so many who disagree with this notion would rather us slip into some Euro style social democracy? They feel we need a guardian class to protect you from yourself. In the words of Ronald Reagan: "Freedom is not something to be secured in any one moment in time. We must struggle to preserve it every day". I keep that struggle on every day....
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