Lang Sias for Congress

With 2009 all but in the books, attention will soon turn toward the 2010 mid-term elections. By most accounts, Republicans are poised to do well as centrist voters become increasingly alarmed by the President’s radical agenda.
 
Perhaps, no place typifies this more than the suburbs of Colorado’s 7th Congressional District. Nestled just outside the Denver City limits, Republicans lost CO-7 with the Democrat election wave in 2006. Since then, however, Democrats and Congressman Ed Perlmutter, in particular, have seen their poll numbers fall even as President Obama’s big government agenda continues to grow.

Fortunately, the Republicans have landed an eminently qualified candidate who can defeat Congressman Perlmutter, and the Obama Administration on the issues.

While the rumblings have been in the works for weeks, only yesterday former Vets for McCain National Coordinator, Lang Sias announced his race for the GOP nomination in CO-7. 

As a veteran of both Gulf Wars, an active Lt. Colonel in the Air National Guard, and an Attorney, Sias is a veritable foreign policy expert. Bringing his substantial  expertise to bear on the Adminstration, Sias recently discussed the President’s half-baked plans for Afghanistan at length on the blog of former Congressman Bob Beauprez.

In his remarks, Sias forecasted:

The President was clearly entitled to time for careful deliberation before deploying additional resources. But the glacial pace of those deliberations, especially for an administration committed to “the fierce urgency of now” in its domestic agenda, suggests that prudence is becoming a smokescreen for procrastination.
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Sadly, this assessment remained spot on nearly one month to the day from when Sias penned his column. After nearly three months of ‘deliberations’ (dithering?) the President’s latest comprehensive strategy commits our armed forces to fighting terrorism in Afghanistan, but only for the next 18 months.

Not exactly a steely resolve.  

The point, of course, is that Lang Sias had the foresight to call a spade a spade all along. As America copes with the remainder of the Obama term, it will be essential to have a Congress full of people like Lang Sias who can balance, and temper the views of a radical administration. But this can only be accomplished when voters elect representatives who possess an abundance of commonsense that this Administration seems to lack. In CO-7, that candidate is Lang Sias.

The Sias campaign is barely up and running, having had their initial roll out only yesterday.  But it will be interesting to hear sensible points of order injected into the 2010 Congressional debate. Naturally, Pax Plena will follow the race closely and hope for a win by Team Sias.

For more information, check out the Lang Sias campaign website here.