Posted on 05/17/2014 7:45:19 AM PDT by Baynative
Saira Blair, who just unseated an incumbent West Virginia state legislator, isn’t thinking about her plans for the summer. She’s thinking about how to defeat Democrat Layne Diehl come November. Because if Saira wins, it will make her the youngest legislator in West Virginia’s history- she’s just 17 years old.
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“But...but...but...she’s young and has no experience! The abortionists, homosexualists, education industry, immigration lobby, et al., hasn’t even had enough time to buy her off, yet.
(ESA - Extreme Sarcasm Alert)”
The longer they are there the more they are corrupted, and they are mostly a corrupt self serving bunch. When was the last time that Congress actually served the American people in making the USA a better more prosperous country for Americans?
Boehner is likely jockeying for a high paying new retirement job at the US Chamber of Commerce after he brings in millions of illegal immigrants and temps that will only undercut the opportunities for all Americans, for the sake of subsidizing big global business, with taxpayer food stamps and unemployment. Crooked sobs.
When I was seventeen I could have handled that AND finished college AND taken my USMC comission AND made my own living AND cracked a bunch of miscellaneous heads on the ball field. Some of us grow up faster. Bless her for leading with her chin———Semper Fi.
It makes perfect sense that someone who wants to represent the voters would be considered “divisive” in DC. She wants to represent the voters. They are out for themselves and the media is on the establishment side, hence they consider her “divisive”
Using that term says a lot more about the establishment pols and the media than it does about the 17 year old would-be-congressman.
Bingo
Indians (500 Million voted!) just elected the equivalent of Tea Party in US. It’s name is not “Hindu Nationalist” party regardless of being called that incessantly in MSM. It’s correct name is BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party). It’s objectives are to decentralize central (in US federal) government, giving more autonomy to state governments, privatize government operated industries, and deregulate.
In other words it is pro capitalism party. Nehru’s Congress party was all about central government in New Delhi running the country. During my days growing up in India, the government ran Airlines, Telephone service, machine tools manufacturing (HMT), military aircraft manufacturing, Banks, insurance, cement, steel, post office, and Railroads! Railroads are the main transport system in India boasting the largest length of tracks in the world.
And give the liberal educational system a chance to get their hooks into her? To make her really see how nearly hopeless her cause is? To give them time to crush her and her dreams under a load of impending doom, no matter what she wants and dreams of doing? Did Davy Crockett follow that advice? For that matter, did Benjamin Franklin or George Washington? The time to strike is when the iron is hot and for this young lady, the time is obviously now. I say go for it now and go with God.
BTTT!
Posted on 08/13/2013 3:43:07 PM PDT by NYer
For the Journal of the American Revolution, Todd Andrlik compiled a list of the ages of the key participants in the Revolutionary War as of July 4, 1776. Many of them were surprisingly young:
Marquis de Lafayette, 18
James Monroe, 18
Gilbert Stuart, 20
Aaron Burr, 20
Alexander Hamilton, 21
Betsy Ross, 24
James Madison, 25
This is kind of blowing my mind...because of the compression of history, I'd always assumed all these people were around the same age. But in thinking about it, all startups need young people...Hamilton, Lafayette, and Burr were perhaps the Gates, Jobs, and Zuckerberg of the War. Some more ages, just for reference:
Thomas Jefferson, 33
John Adams, 40
Paul Revere, 41
George Washington, 44
Samuel Adams, 53
The oldest prominent participant in the Revolution, by a wide margin, was Benjamin Franklin, who was 70 years old on July 4, 1776. Franklin was a full two generations removed from the likes of Madison and Hamilton. But the oldest participant in the war was Samuel Whittemore, who fought in an early skirmish at the age of 80. I'll let Wikipedia take it from here:
Whittemore was in his fields when he spotted an approaching British relief brigade under Earl Percy, sent to assist the retreat. Whittemore loaded his musket and ambushed the British from behind a nearby stone wall, killing one soldier. He then drew his dueling pistols and killed a grenadier and mortally wounded a second. By the time Whittemore had fired his third shot, a British detachment reached his position; Whittemore drew his sword and attacked. He was shot in the face, bayoneted thirteen times, and left for dead in a pool of blood. He was found alive, trying to load his musket to fight again. He was taken to Dr. Cotton Tufts of Medford, who perceived no hope for his survival. However, Whittemore lived another 18 years until dying of natural causes at the age of 98.
Quite the brave young lady. Another Lady Thatcher, perhaps.
What is this obsession with college? Most college graduates I have met lately are total morons, brainwashed with Marxist ideology, and totally useless for anything that requires independent thinking. College is overrated and completely unnecessary. More qualified tradesmen would be a big improvement over all these degree-sporting fools, the majority of whom are educated beyond their intelligence.
Then you tell her she’s going to wind up being a moron....since she will attend WVU in the fall.
I will do just that.
College is over-rated and completely unnecessary to succeed.
My opinion of most college grads remains unchanged ... They turn out to be over-educated lay-abouts, having not a dime’s worth of common sense, and no practical skills so to be useful - but in debt up to their eyeballs. And the worse part is that they think they are smarter than the rest of us who actually live in the real world.
I never realized that the Founding Fathers were such a young group.
I was always under the impression they were much older.
That’s a lot of wisdom from a group that young.
But then, hey, our experience is only with today’s youth, and there really is no comparison.
Hey, not all of us could be ensnared by the evil lurking within campus walls.
Some of us have too good foundation.
And it helps when you take REAL courses of study that have nothing to do with politics. And incidentally - the only ones worth the paper on which they’re printed! The only useful courses! Problem is really all the useless studies that are easily corrupted.
What an awesome young lady. She truly is the future of our nation.
But, Fellow-Citizens, I shall conclude.--Considering the great degree of modesty which should always attend youth, it is probable I have already been more presuming than becomes me. However, upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
Check out the text of Lincoln's very first political announcement here. Not bad for somebody who grew up in a log cabin and had very little formal education. Just goes to show that "home schooling" can be superior to our other forms of education.
I made sure my kids went to local colleges and lived home.
I have one with a masters in engineering and others moving through college now.
I talk to them about what to look for as there are loads of Marxists trying to destroy America in college.
but I would not want to just ship a kid off to a liberal college and wait for them to come home a leftists. I just would not do that.
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