I live in fly over country. I bitterly cling to my guns and my Bible.

I enjoy playing in the outdoors on my bike and skis. I don’t trust Congress, and I think the American people are smart enough to make difficult choices on their own. What attracted me to Mitt Romney (other than his hair) was his focus on independence in American culture. His CPAC ‘08 speech (when he conceded to that statist John McCain) was a turning point for me and my own political ideas. He said:

The threat to our culture comes from within.

In the 1960s, there were welfare programs that created a culture of poverty in our country. Now, some people think we won that battle when we reformed welfare. But the liberals haven’t given up.

At every turn, they tried to substitute government largess for individual responsibility. They fight to strip work requirements from welfare, to put more people on Medicaid, and remove more and more people from having to pay any income tax whatsoever.

Dependency is death to initiative, risk-taking and opportunity. Dependency is culture killing. It’s a drug. We’ve got to fight it like the poison it is.

And that is the battle I want to fight. That is the war I want to win. We must win. Our culture, our nation, our lives depend upon that victory.

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