With fourteen months until the general election, the ever-present media crush demands our attention to this crucial process.  Actually, unless we are not breathing, coverage of the process is hard to escape !  I’m a fairly structured person who generally prefers order to chaos, prefers reaching conclusions quickly versus never-ending discussion, and prefers solutions to issues that fit on a 3″X5″ card. Therefore, to maintain my sanity in a world full of lawyers and pundits and pinheads and politicians, here is how I am attacking my own selection process.  I want to see the person I end up voting for prioritize the following two issues:   1) closure of our Southern border.  I’m very flexible about what should be done with those illegal immigrants who I don’t blame for coming to the land of opportunity through our porous border, but let’s turn off the spigot.  Now ! First !  The rest is negotiable.  2) cut federal government spending to achieve a balanced budget.  When we have to count the burden we are placing on our children in the trillions, it’s time to act and stop talking about it. Do it like any well-run business would do it – immediate across-the-board 5% cut in all spending, no exceptions, not even beloved Social Security.   Then freeze hiring for three years and freeze that budgeted level of spending for three years.   Shazzam, balanced budget !

I also want my candidate to pay close attention to maintaining the integrity of our Constitution, a document that is being shredded by our current Emperor, and stands to be burned by the inauguration of the previously identified crime family (ONE DOWN,ONE TO GO  —  June 5, 2015)  starting with the letter C. Secondly, I want God to be in the mix, to be identified as the guy in charge and the guy in which we trust.    Acknowledgment of who’s really in charge, and reliance on Him for guidance is a litmus test for me.