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My name is Blake Ashby. I am running for President of the United States because I believe it is my duty, as an American citizen, to participate in government and facilitate change.

Although I had been a Republican since my sophomore year in High School, I am running as an Independent. I can no longer stomach the hypocrisy of the Republican Party on economic issues. My goal in this campaign is to highlight the degree to which the Party has abandoned its traditional fiscal conservatism, and the damage this is doing to our country. And if the Party does not change course, this might become the start of a twelve year mission to split the Party in two – into those Republicans that care most about fiscal conservatism, and those that care most about social conservatism.

Maintaining a positive perspective with the political process, especially when personally invested, can often prove to be tedious and disheartening. The well-being of our country is suffering economically politically from the power of the special interests and the torpor of party politics. We are enmeshed in a financially and psychologically bankrupt war based on half-truths and the Bush Administration's hubris. Once the pride of our free nation, civil liberties are now negotiable and human torture is acceptable. Although frustrated with the state of our nation, however, I remain positive about its future.

I am asking Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians and everything in between to come together because we share a greater vision for our government. As a once concerned, but now determined citizen, and a lesser-known but politically sound candidate, I am asking for your support. I believe I represent how we think and feel about the current state of our nation and the changes necessary to preserving what our founders intended for it. I am committed to vociferously delivering the message that the status quo of manipulation, lies and corruption by our political leaders will not continue. My endeavor, though challenging, is possible.


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Independent Presidential Candidate Ashby Ends Campaign

After not too much soul searching, I have decided to end my independent bid for the Presidency. I started this effort because I believed that we as a nation had slipped away from the role of governmen...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:56:00 GMT

Partial Amnesty for Telecommunications Companies

Would you have broken the law if the President had asked you to, after 9/11? To me, that is what happened with AT&T and the other telecommunications companies. I am curious about just how much inf...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:19:00 GMT

Congratulations John McCain

Congratulations to John McCain, almost assuredly the Republican candidate for the general election. I have to say, this election has been like no other presidential election I can remember (1980, Car...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:38:00 GMT

McCain and Fiscal Conservatism

As I read of the intense dislike that modern fiscal conservatives have for John McCain, I cannot help thinking back to his vote against the Bush Tax Cuts. Republican electoral success over the past tw...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:14:00 GMT

Voter ID and Equality of Individuals

I have said that some portion of the Republican Party no longer believes in the equality of individuals, that they do not believe that all people do have the ability and right to choose the course of...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:57:00 GMT

Baffled by the Club for Growth

Nothing illustrates the mass delusion that has overtaken the Republican Party more than the Club for Growth. For those who don't know, the Club for Growth is an organization of very wealthy people wh...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:30:00 GMT

Im Glad the Torture Tapes Were Destroyed

When I read about the CIA having destroyed video tapes of interrogations of a terrorist, my first thought was that I was glad.    I certainly don't blame the CIA for wanting to protect itse...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 23:02:00 GMT

Blake Ashbys Campaign Kickoff Speech

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Posted by on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:26:00 GMT

The Bush Tax Cuts and Oil Prices

I was reminded yet again of some of the lasting effects of the Bush presidency as I read the paper today.  An article in the NY Times on OPEC had the following paragraph in it: "OPEC said the rea...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:10:00 GMT

Why Does the President Hate Iran?

I am continually baffled by this Administration's seeming hatred of Iran. At least with Iraq, you could point to the fact that Iraq had invaded two countries in the previous twenty-five years. In add...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:18:00 GMT