Ron Paul, De Gaulle

The Rally for the Republic was the name of Jacques Chirac's first vehicle for preserving the legacy and reviving the spirit of the twentienth century's greatest Frenchman, that good conservative dirigiste in opposition to the capitalist corrosion of everything that conservatives exist in order to conserve.

Inseparable therefrom was his glorious battle against all four of German occupation, Soviet infiltration, American domination, and the unbalancing of the nascent EU by British accession. On all four counts, de Gaulle was right.

France needs another de Gaulle. Britain needs a de Gaulle. And America needs a de Gaulle.

At the very least, America deserves an organisation which will maintain and publish a list of candidates approved by two bodies, the members of which would retain their independence.

One such body, comprised of Ron Paul and his nominee from each of the other states, would approve candidates based on their views about family values, about strictly limited and strictly legal immigration, about fair trade, about constitutional checks and balances, about national security, about energy independence, about environmental responsibility, about Second Amendment rights and responsibilities, about America as an English-speaking country, and about foreign policy realism.

And the other such body, comprised of Dennis Kucinich and his nominee from each of the other states, would approve candidates based on their views about the protection of workers and consumers, about fair trade, about fair tax, about universal health care, about Social Security, about environmental responsibility, about Civil Rights, about constitutional checks and balances, and about foreign policy realism.

That would be a start, anyway.