Rob Wasinger used to work for Senator Brownback and, before that, Kansas. As Brownback staffer, Wasinger became so indispensable that he got promoted to chief of staff. In other words, he was the man people had the to convince Brownback would benefit from talking to them. If Wasinger said no, the answer to a (any) request was negative.

Wasinger is a father of nine and a real American conservative. He was born and raised in a conservative, traditional household, went to Harvard but came back more rather than less convinced of conservatism’s basic strength as a political theory.

He’s now candidate for congress. Instead of going on national television or writing his views on the future of the Republican Party for a major newspapers, Wasinger chose to contact conservative blog Red State and to use it as a launching path for his campaign.

Although most such articles and posts are incredibly boring to read, this specific one is actually quite interesting. Wasinger writes:

But do you know the most important thing I learned along the way? That knowledge, experience, and values are not enough. They are just the starting point. If you cannot maintain and defend what you know and believe, all of the knowledge, experience, and values in the world will become shifting sand in Washington, DC.

Our nation’s capital needs reform right now, precisely because too many of our elected officials have been unable to maintain and defend our values. I have seen first-hand how Washington works, and I have seen why it fails. The sands have shifted for many of the people in Washington, DC. It sometimes seems we have more convictions than conviction. Our country is paying the price for that.

We need conservative leaders who have values and conviction. But we also need vision.
I have a vision of how conservative values and policies will help our country, and especially aid rural and small town America. I believe in a set of policies aimed at breaking down the barriers to prosperity for rural America, unleashing the ingenuity and productivity of the American worker, and rejecting the old, failed policies of high taxes and burdensome regulation. We cannot prosper when the government demands more and more of our money to sustain Washington, DC.

We have two simple choices. We can choose prosperity for Washington, DC or we can choose prosperity for the rest of America. I will always choose Kansas and America.

That last paragraph especially is important: “We can choose prosperity for Washington, DC or we can choose prosperity for the rest of America.”

Americans believe Washington doesn’t work for them. Its inhabitants are not ‘elected officials’ as much as ‘career polticians.’ They do everything in their power to remain in office, regardless of whether this means they have to act against the ‘interest’ of the people at large and the of the people they represent or not. Congress isn’t a goal. It’s a means. A means to serve the interests, and freedom, of the American people.

Having said that, I doubt that the House of Representatives is the real problem. Rather, the Senate is the place where most important battles take place. It were Republican Senators who voted for Obama’s economic plans, even though these plans were not in the interest of the people. They only supported them because they enjoy calling themselves “moderate Republicans.”

The House certainly is important. But House Republicans are generally doing a good job. Senate Republicans are an entirely different affair altogether; perhaps some House Republicans could try to get themselves promoted into the Senate. That could accomplish something.