If I Were Running for President, Part 5 of 5

The biggest problem facing Republicans in this election season is the lack of focus and planning. Republicans, or, really, all conservatives, are too busy trying to be all things to all people all the time. Instead, they need to come together and focus on their message and agenda.

In the last few blogs, I have investigated my agenda were I running for President in 2008. However, these blogs would also outline my agenda were I running for US or State Congress.

Yet, it is only mouthpieces like my blogs, conservative blogs throughout the world, and conservative radio like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity that are voicing such an agenda.

No one in the Republican Party is voicing an agenda or a focused plan. There is not one leader in the party that is defining what conservatives are going to be running on for 2008. There is not one leader in the party. Everyone is running in a thousand different directions.

This varied mindset and distracted party is why we have a psuedo-Democrat as our Presidential nominee. This is why Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson and other such conservatives are sitting this one out. The Republican party has weakened due to its strength. In 2004, Republicans had the world on a string...we could have done so much good the last four years, but we spent too much time working with the left that we drifted left.

If I were running for office, I would set forth a solid, focused, unmistakable agenda for my campiagn. I would make sure the world and the voting public knew what I stood for and what I planned to do in office. From the Presidential nominee all the way down to Atlanta City Dog Catcher, Republican candidates are in a murky mess as to what their campaigns are standing for.

For me, and anyone who is truly conservative, the agenda is the following. I would work toward these 5 goals:

1) We must become independent of other nations for our energy resources. We have our own abundant resources and it is time to invest time, money, and tax breaks to American companies to tap into those resources with the least amount of environmental impact.

2) We must continue to be on the offensive to continue to live in a safe and secure nation. We must WIN the war on terror.

3) We must secure our borders and make sure that people coming into this country are legal and have a right to be here. In that, we must work to clean out the current illegals in our nation.

4) We must make permanent the Bush Tax cuts and work toward the fair tax.

5) We must not allow judges to legislate from the bench on any court. Judges are appointed to interpret the laws of the land as they currently are, and not to create new meanings for laws for political reasons. We must appoint judges who will uphold the law, not create it.

Those are my five major platforms. Those platforms need to be the agenda for the Republican party if we have any hope in November. Not only do we need this hope for the Oval Office, but also for every elected office up for grabs this year.

Yet, Republicans are too quiet, too muttled, and too off-base to have a set of ideals. Time is winding down. Republicans are called the RIGHT wing for a reason...it is time we live up to it.