November 25, 2013
Monday PM

Editor- Sitnews,

Been waiting patiently for a Democrat to announce his or her running for the Alaska State House. As I await I have given thought to the changing political scene where the Independent Party has attracted a logically thought of Democrat contender while the Democrat Party standing silent with no contender. That requires action. Given an open forum as well as an open candidacy I am giving thought to registering and running as a Democrat. You may ask why. As an example I am so taken with the Democrats Alternative Health Care progress as an example demonstrate the wonders of Big Government, I'd be jumping right in advocating the State of Alaska participate to the tune of Billions of our fiscal holdings.

This only one example, there will be time to discuss those aspects of wasteful spending should the transformation from being an extreme "Right Winger" to a lurching "Left Winger", in the mean while I want to "Make Clear" to the "Folks" my "Transparency" by making "Sure" my potential desires of running as a Democrat.

With out further adieu, my bullet points for running as a Democrat.

• I want to run as a Democrat because I think it's better to pay billions of dollars to people who hate us rather than drill for our own oil, because it might upset some endangered beetle or gopher.
• I want to run as a Democrat because I believe it is okay if liberal activist judges rewrite the Constitution to suit some fringe kooks, who would otherwise never get their agenda past the voters.
• I want to run as a Democrat because I believe that corporate America should not be allowed to make profits for themselves or their shareholders. They need to break even and give the rest to the federal government for redistribution.
• I want to run as a Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted, so long as we keep all of the murderers on death row alive.
• I want to run as a Democrat because I believe it's okay if my Nobel Peace Prize winning President uses drones to assassinate people, as long as we don't use torture.
• I want to run as a Democrat because I believe people, who can't accurately tell us if it will rain on Friday, can predict the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don't start driving a Chevy Volt.
• I want to run as a Democrat because Freedom of Speech is not as important as preventing people from being offended.
• I want to run as a Democrat because I believe the oil companies' profit of 3% on a gallon of gas is obscene, but the federal government taxing that same gallon of gas at 15% isn't obscene.
• I want to run as a Democrat because I believe a moment of silent prayer at the beginning of the school day constitutes government indoctrination and an intrusion on parental authority ..... but sex education, condom distribution and multiculturalism are all values-neutral.
• I want to run as a Democrat because I agonize over threats to the natural environment from CO2, acid rain and toxic waste ..... but I am totally oblivious of the threats to our social environment from pornography, promiscuity and family dissolution.
• I want to run as a Democrat because I believe lazy, uneducated stoners should have just as big a say in running our country as entrepreneurs who risk everything and work 70 hours per week.
• I want to run as a Democrat because for the moment I don't like guns ..... so no one else should be allowed to own one.
• I want to run as a Democrat because I see absolutely no correlation between welfare and the rise of illegitimacy.
• I want to run as a Democrat because I see absolutely no correlation between judicial leniency and surging crime rates.
• I want to run as a Democrat because I believe marriage is obsolete, except for homosexuals.
• I want to run as a Democrat because I think AIDS is spread by insufficient funding.
• I want to run as a Democrat because I think "fairness" is far more important than freedom.
• I want to run as a Democrat because I think an "equal outcome" is far more important than equal opportunity.
• I run as a Democrat because I'm convinced that government programs are the solution to the human condition, NOT freedom....
• And lastly- Should I elect to run, I promise ice cream for everybody!!!

Regards,

A.M.(Al) Johnson
Potential Democrat in waiting and waiting and waiting.
Ketchikan, Alaska

Received November 24, 2013 - Published November 25, 2013

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