Know the Past

"History by apprising [citizens] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views." --Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781



     As Thomas Jefferson pointed out, the best way to know someone is to know what they have done in the past. If their past actions do not match current rhetoric it can safely be assumed that they are not what they would like to appear to be. With this in mind, the first duty of every voter is to learn the past actions of each candidate so that they can really know who that candidate is. In this election voters, particularly conservatives, have not done adequate research and have allowed their fervor to remove what they see as an evil--Obama--to dupe them into supporting a candidate--Romney--whose past does not match his rhetoric, while ignoring a candidate--Hoefling--who has maintained admirable consistency throughout his political career, as a conservative political activist particularly active in the defense of life from conception to natural death, as campaign manager for Alan Keyes, and as chairman of America's Party. Those who cannot learn from the past, as the saying goes, will be condemned to repeat it, and if we conservatives cannot learn from Romney's past in Massachusetts we will see it repeated on the national level.

For a new birth of freedom!