A delightful evening with Michael Medved, Bill Brady and others.

Well, everyone, Mom was invited to the annual New Trier Dinneree once again and, as opposed to last year, this year was marvelous! If you check my post from last year, you will see the speaker was Mort Kondrake and he could not have been more of a downer. This year, we were fortunate enough to hear Michael Medved, of the famed radio show and in years past, the show Sneak Previews. (I am old enough to remember enjoying that program.)

Mr. Medved was as uplifting in his speech as Mr. Kondrake was depressing. He spoke of three of the Ten Big Lies About America. Specifically, that third parties are not and never will be the answer, that multi-culturalism is NOT what makes this country great and that we conservatives must support even the moderate base of our party, especially once they are running in elections.

I must admit, that last one threw me a bit. I do tend to support our moderate candidates, but I sure don't do it happily. My personal belief is that the Republican party would do better to nominate more conservatives and then work to explain why the conservative candidate is the better choice for all of us. I think the most work needs to be done in this area. We just can't seem to get the message out there. Mr. Medved is very good at this and he is a valuable voice for our party. I did end up agreeing with him on this subject by the end of the speech. I mean, really, do we really want more voices for Obama? Or do we want people in office who, perhaps, just hold slightly different views from ours, but generally, are in agreement? Mr. Medved quoted Reagan as saying,

"If you agree with me 70% of the time, you are not my enemy, you are my ally."

That struck me as being very true, but I guess I never really thought about it that way.

Tomorrow, I will tell you about my visit with Mr. Bill Brady, candidate for Governor of Illinois. I was pleased with his approach and will support him in the elections. I think you will too!!!