Constant Conservative

It has been said that “politics makes strange bedfellows.” And, while this expression goes back to the days of sharing a bed with whomever (of the same gender, usually) when one stopped at an inn, many find it no less true today.

I recently received a press release from a group which is supporting Initiated Measure 10 here in South Dakota. In part, it states that the NEA (National Education Association) is opposing IM10 with a substantial contribution, therefore those of us who find nothing to like about the NEA should think again about being on the same side of this issue as it is.

As I have stated to a number of people over the last few days, in conversation, via email and on this website: I am against IM10 because I believe it to be bad law, not because I find any problem with holding people (and governments) properly accountable for any actions which would appear to be causing conflicts of interests in the public sphere.

• Do I personally find the NEA to hold the antithesis to 99% of what I stand for as a conservative? Yes.
• Do I find it thought-provoking that the NEA is spending over a million dollars in little old South Dakota to defeat this measure? As that moose-shootin’ governor would say “You betcha.”
• Am I (my children, wife, father, mother, brother, sister, uncles, aunts, cousins, grandfather, or any other person defined as a “relative” under this measure) receiving anything from the NEA or anyone else to take the position I have with regard to IM10? No.
• Will I be more than happy once election day has come and gone and the NEA and I can stop sharing the same bug-ridden bed with regards to IM10? Absolutely.
• Am I ready to support a simple law which will address any needed gaps in current constitutional or statute law in reference to contracts, donations, funding, and such matters? Yes.

I close this explosion of digital bits by once again quoting Thomas Paine:

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered;