The news started being filled with success stories of entrepreneurs, while we also quit seeing racist and intolerant minorities showing up with sob stories.

Factually, most of this was the Mainstream Media trying to get ratings out of controversy - the more they stirred it up, the longer it lasted. They had some funny idea that they could "control the narrative." Far from the truth.

"Can't we all just get along?" was the phrase we started using - and the history of that statement speaks volumes about how minority "oppression" is exploited by various sources for their own good.

The LGBT community had to swallow a bitter pill - that they had to tolerate other's beliefs just as they sought (and marched and boycotted) to get theirs.

Because you win in the courts doesn't mean you ever won over the majority which put that law into action originally. Hearts and minds are different things. Such take time to change and to heal.

The Mainstream Media was always pitting the overpopulated coasts against the more traditional middle (Flyover Country.) And they held to this odd-ball concept that controversy kept their advertisers (mostly drug companies) happy.  Makes sense, in a perverse fashion.

The more interesting point was how people were watching less and less news in favor of stories which they could get online that weren't so disaster-driven.

Mostly, our work in Washington was to get the government out of the meddling business. Since that "community-organizer-in-chief" (aka "reverse-discriminator-in-chief") left, things calmed down rapidly. When the White House was asked for a comment, the standard line was to ask a question back - such as, "What would you have us say?" Then a conversation would ensue - the PR person was coached to encourage discussion amongst the reporters - and the whole thing was covered on CSPAN so people could make  up their own mind.

(Our own website would often excerpt these, posting to YouTube and then embedding it for all to see. Very calming when your favorite reporter has a personal paradigm-shift on national television.)

Press Conferences Gave Back

In fact, my press conferences (held each Ides of the month, poetically) got  quite interesting. The ground rule was set: For every question, the person on the podium was then able to ask that person a question.

Long "exclusive" interviews were filmed by CSPAN as well as that station, so that the entire give-and-take was recorded, unedited. Generally, the interviewer got 25 questions and I got 25 questions.

This got real interesting after awhile, where reporters were asked personal questions about how they personally felt about things, and their own employer's policies. This kept my staff busy researching reporters and the media - and those reporters soon learned about living in glass houses.

Soon, some reporters quit asking for interviews. And the ones that did (and could thrive in that give-and-take) usually got a bigger following on the social media.

Minority Intolerance

Because a person was "gay" or "islamist" meant no difference to me or to the government. The laws of the land were as they were. When a person was discriminated against, then they could seek relief from the courts. But where a person discriminated against others in order to push forward some extremist-minority view which attempted to force others to change their own beliefs, then the shoe was on the other foot.

Gays had no right to force a person to sell stuff to them. Like the old ploy of the government forcing contraception coverage on religious groups. Commerce is not a natural right or law. It's governed by man-made laws.

Chiefly, we stayed out of things and referred them to state and local areas for resolution. And we encouraged outside groups trying to take advantage of a scene in a local area to "butt out." That community needed to resolve it's problems on it's own. It's been the natural order of things since history started being written.

Governments only exist through vast majority opinion. Minorities should be heard, and also have their rights to exist and to believe as they want. But you can't use any government to force someone else to change their beliefs just for your own personal benefit.

Those who were shouting loudest for tolerance usually ended up exposed as hypocritically intolerant of those who didn't believe as they did.

Weird, huh?

It just goes back to what a person says. You get back what you give out. Be supportive and understanding, and you'll get more of this back in your life. Let people choose their own beliefs - and as long as this doesn't deny natural rights and laws to others, then you can pretty much do what you want.

It was our job to move the government back to honoring natural rights and laws as much as possible, just like the Constitution and Declaration of Independence states. A right to the pursuit of happiness.

Not so remarkably, revenue jumped up without an increase in taxes. More jobs opened up, less crime happened.

And yes, we pretty much ignored the U.N. - other than holding ambassadors responsible for their staff's parking tickets (those that could come to the U.S. because they weren't terrorism sponsors.)

Lots of commerce for everyone. American dream and all that.

Constitutional Crisis Averted. 

Cracker-barrel Humorist Takes Office.

(Photo: Alejandro Meteos)

No one was hurt in this process - the ASPCA was happy with how the pets were treated. But the nation had an wake-up moment.

The Vice President had been making inane goofs for years. Mis-speaking, etc. Really embarrassing gaffes at times. Some just quietly referred to his being an "old white guy."

It was in his medical checkups which lead to some problems. Seems he had something going on with his brain that wasn't normal Some said it was too many years in the Senate, which had done that to a few people. The bottom line is that he was getting more demented all the time. Meanwhile, he was going to get worse at embarrassing people and himself - and the Administration.

So he resigned "to spend more time with his family."

How I got here.

Kind of a funny story. You see, I've never even campaigned for a job. The most public post I ever did was a junior member of a local water board in a rural county. Otherwise, I kept mostly to the farm and out of politics. Other than cussing their stupidity when I listened to what passes for "news", I kept pretty quiet.

It was the Governor who set me up. Seems a representative quit (signed up with a Washington lobbyist firm) and my name came up as an "Independent" who could fill the shoes for the rest of that term. So there I was, a greenhorn in Washington, nearly as naive as Jimmy Stewart's character.

When the VP had to be replaced, someone came up with this great idea to put me in there.

You see, I have this great habit of responding to the press with quotes from midwestern humorists like Mark Twain and Will Rogers - sometimes even Ben Franklin. The press loved this. And they'd seek me out for interviews and talk shows to "add color" to the normal old white guy talking heads.

Afterall, it was only going to be the last two years of a term - what could happen?

My rise to popular fame.

And then I found Twitter and my staff started sending out tweets with these types of quote in them. They set up a Facebook page and had fun with this. (I swear I didn't have anything to do with these. Really.) That made me even more popular. Rogers and Twain and Franklin had some really pithy things to say at times. All I had to do was sit and do my reading, plus sign some papers and do some voting.

You see, I was just there to hold the spot until the next election. I didn't have any concerns about "leaving a legacy" or anything. Just represent the people in my little gerrymandered district, and vote the way I think they thought.

But the media loved me. Because I quoted others people and made politics interesting. Particularly after the big speeches.

So, being an Independent and loved by the media (and the Twitterverse) - I was someone's great choice to fill out the VP's shoes for the last couple of years of this presidency. It would make people love the President and his decisions, I was told. (I had my doubts, but just gave another pithy quote as a reply - which make the news.)

Filling some big shoes

I had just started settling into the schedule of meeting and greeting, and spent my spare time boning up on my reading - and then the "crisis" happened.

Someone found (hacked) their way into all these emails between the President and a huge amount of others. Then they dumped them on the Internet, duplicating them on all sorts of foreign sites so they couldn't be taken down.

Turns out there were more than a few skeletons besides Solyndra, Fast and Furious, Immigration, secret negotiations with rogue nations, etc.  Quite a few more.

Yes, they're still looking for the guy (or gal) and plan to extradite him to an unknown prison. But the horses were out of the barn, so the doors could fall off for all anyone cared about that barn anymore.

And the only unelected President in history took office. Which someone said was a crisis on its own.

Since I was an "Independent" - I took the obvious logical step first. I told everyone I wasn't running for re-election, that fixing this mess was more than enough work for me. I laid it all out in a memorandum and sent it to all the media. (Drudge got his copy first, though.)

I just let everyone squabble over what they wanted to do. I had a lot of mess to sort out. Lots of mess.

First steps.

Well, I gave the former President an amnesty, whether he wanted it or not. He certainly didn't ask for it. He was busy vacationing in Norway while it all settled down. Figured they'd love him there for his Nobel Prize and was too far away for the media to hound him (although they gave it a try.) We talked on the phone a couple of times, but he was pretty miffed about his legacy being ruined before his eyes.

Next was simply suspending all his executive orders and memoranda pending review. Because some of those emails pointed out that he hadn't been exactly truthful about his background - and might not have actually be qualified to be elected for the job. So I gave all the legal guys some room to move - and meanwhile, took out a lot of these quibbles which were happening all around.

I started giving some Saturday talks which were simply fun - optimistic and upbest. "America's best days are ahead", was the theme. Then both parties and any one with a dog in the fight could give a response.

Seemed fair. I had a job to do in cleaning everything up. People could do what they wanted.

So that's how I got there.