Is The Ideal Candidate Out There?

Sarah Palin came out Monday and said it is not too late for someone to jump in the GOP presidential campaign and grab the nomination.

Let’s hope she’s right on this one, because let’s face it folks — there aren’t exactly any Thomas Jeffersons running for office right now.

Just maybe, somewhere, somehow, the ideal candidate is picking out his red tie, knotting up the Windsor and is ready to burst onto the scene.

If that’s whom you are hoping for, then maybe Santa Claus will stuff himself down your chimney on Christmas day, or maybe the Easter Bunny will leave him in a basket at your doorstep.

There are a lot of good people out there who could do a good job, but most do not want to jump headlong into the blender that is Washington politics.

The current narcissist in chief is a prime example of the type of people who yearn after the job. Like Bill Clinton, Obama yearns for the power the office provides, and is more obsessed with “ruling” the nation than steering the ship of state.

The problems this nation faces are profound. There is the specter of a looming world economic collapse, the constant menace of war in the Middle East, and then just the general feeling of listlessness among the people of this nation.

All of those problems go beyond policy. That’s all we get from Obama, and to be fair, Bush, Clinton and Bush again, we don’t get leadership.

There is no inspiration coming from the White House. No grand speeches calling for the “City on a Hill” or a declaration that America will put a man on the moon in just a few short years. The spirit of “do” has left the nation and the wind filling the sails of the ship of state has fallen, causing the ship to be adrift at sea.

One of the lessons of the economic history of the United States is that the country was founded on the principal of rugged individualism. Economics teaches that with the coming of the New Deal in the 1930s, the age of individualism was gone, replaced by the age of entitlement.

It wasn’t an overnight change, as the boom of the late 1940s and 1950s served notice of a country with an attitude of getting it done. As those generations have passed, so to has that attitude.

Now, it is taught to people from an early age, to look to the government to solve the problems. So, now even Republican candidates claim to be able to solve all of your problems, only if they would get elected.

The time is now for a candidate to stand up and say, “Government isn’t going to fix anything, now it is time for you to take responsibility.” Until a person does, nothing is going to change and America will continue to be a debtor nation, with little hope of a bright tomorrow.

Santa Claus probably won’t be making such a delivery this year, but it is always fun to hope.