If my math is accurate, and Washington keeps it up, this nation will be bankrupt within a few years. Over the next 20 years, we will have done what no foreign army in 230 years could do.

The markets will react, making a solution much more difficult. Our enormous role in the world’s economy will result in a global economic meltdown. We will renege on trillions of unfunded payments due generations of contributors to Social Security and Medicare, and impair our ability to defend our nation.

Now, if this country is going to start electing people to attack this looming threat and mitigate the damage, where do you think those kind of leaders will come from? Will they come from Barney Frank’s or Nancy Pelosi’s home town? Will they originate in Chicago or Maryland?

No. If we’re going to save this precious nation, a different kind of leader will have to come from right here, in the nation’s heartland. They’ll have to come from very conservative, practical districts where folks don’t wait at the mail box for government to deliver their way of life; places like the 5th District of Indiana.

They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and wondering why you continue to get the same result, correct?

So, if this District sends 28-year incumbent Dan Burton back to Washington for what will amount to a 30-month paid vacation, or another career lawyer-politician-party operative like Luke Messer or Mike Murphy, you think we’ll get anything different?

These are the same two God-fearing, family-loving conservatives who in 2005 worked together to expand gambling at race tracks in Shelbyville and Anderson (HB 1569 – HB 1702). Mr. Messer ran against Mike Pence, then moved into the 5th to be jammed into a vacant state legislative seat, only to quit so he could lobby for a big law firm. He spent five years as a party staffer. Mr. Murphy, who I really like and enjoy as a person, has been in the legislature all his adult life and served as a party chief in Marion County. Now, I ask you: Do these chaps sound like anything new or different to you?

This isn’t personal. It’s just that I’m mad and I’m scared. I have three sons growing up in this world, and I want to see REAL change in Washington and fast. I’m tired of sending old school incumbents, insiders and operatives to Washington and expecting them to act like businesspeople, farmers, engineers and statesmen. Let me spell this out, folks –they won’t.

That’s why I’m going to give voters in the 5th District an alternative on May 4th.

EXPECT MORE

April 13, 2010