Our lovely bride and we were preparing the floatplane last night when we noted a couple old bolts that needed to be replaced. When one is several thousand feet above mother earth, one would rather not have the wings fall off the aircraft. It is common practice for everything in aviation to be a tad bit oversized and over strength.

Now to the thoughts that creep into our mind while working next to that windy runway.

Aviation designers engineer extra strength and flexibility for those occasions when we pilots take the aircraft past the point of normal operations.

We conservatives who believe in adhering to the Constitution could use a bit of over-engineering right about now. Our culture, borders, Constitution and general way of life are in a buffeting stall. Should we let the current batch of drunken pilots in Washington continue at the controls, we will all be in for one heck of a flat spin right into the ground.

What we conservatives need now is a sure thing, not to be confused with an easy compromise. The former Mayor of New York has commented that he can harvest a large part of the liberal vote. While the Senator from Arizona champions non-conservative causes when he is not in the mist of an anger outburst.

What these two Republicans-in-name-only do not understand is that most of the conservative voters in the United States know the difference between bull dung and bacon.

Unfortunately the current crop of so-called Republican front-runners will ensure a win for the Democratic Party and their legions of Sunday Socialist. This would be true regardless of which party name appears on the ballot, since there is scant difference between the current neo-Marxist democrat party candidates and the compromise to anything Republican frontrunners.

We conservatives are a picky lot and it may be near impossible to find candidates that will suit us all. We do need something less common and more inventive to pull us out of our impending spin.

So while handing a wrench across to our lovely bride, we noted that the job at hand was impossible for one person. That is when it struck us that our current political situation is too far gone for one person. What we need now is some good old American team Work.

What would happen if ,,,,,
..the former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former Senator Fred Thompson and current senator Duncan Hunter all went on stage and announced that they were running as a team.
President, Vice President and Secretary of State (or sec-def)

Can you imagine a team of candidates who all agreed on their roles? Not for themselves, but for the country.

It is our belief that the aforementioned team ticket would steam roll the opposition during the next election.

A dreaming Sourdough