It is a great honor to join the impressive list of contributors here at Save the GOP. I am phatkid74. Why the pseudonym? Well lets just say when there is so much to learn of someone by Googling their name I felt it prudent to use a pseudonym.

I am a native Atlantan (one of the few) where I work in technology in the la-la land of Academia. I am in the heart of liberal academia. I have lived here my whole life save 4 wonderful years at Hampden-Sydney College in beautiful middle Virginia. HSC is a very unique college, being one of two all-male colleges left in this country. HSC is the rare conservative campus where traditions are valued and have been preserved for more than 200 years.

Politics are in my roots. My family never shied away from political discussions, they were encouraged. I thank my parents for that. For it is through them that I am a conservative and a Republican.

In college I worked on the Oliver North failed senatorial campaign. It was there that I was introduced to the works of Ayn Rand, more her novels than her essays on objectivism.
Rand championed the individual as the savior of society. This is where I leave Ayn Rand’s philosophy because she left no room for religion and our savior Jesus Christ.

I was the typical non-practicing Christian until recently. I believed in God and Jesus but I never made the commitment to let go and let Jesus into my heart and guide me. I have my beautiful wife and the Holy Spirit to thank for that.

Recently I worked the polls in the last 2 presidential elections. Since taking power in 1994 the GOP has stumbled and not lived up to the promise. Particularly in the Senate where the Democrats run circles around us. The GOP wins when it espouses conservative ideals. We have an opportunity now, to finish the conservative re-alignment in this country. It why we are all here.