An Open Letter to our Republican Candidates for President

Dear Potential Candidates:

We are writing this letter to share our hopes and fears with you in anticipation that you might be instrumental in fulfilling the hopes and quelling the fears. As the campaign intensifies, we beg you – please remember the following:

1. DO NOT attack each other. During the debates, during any press conferences, during any interviews… You may present your plans, views, and philosophies as the best for America, but DO NOT present the other candidates as BAD for America. They are NOT your enemy! We must have the confidence that you can all work together as a team after the election.

2. We like all of you. You are all called to represent conservative, moral, responsible values. You are all called to uphold the Constitution and protect our individual freedoms from increased Government oppression.

3. We want all of you. None of you would make a bad President. We would like to think that whoever is nominated would pick one of the others to be Vice-President. We would like to think that the others could all have some positions in the new administration. Anyone who gets that close to being President is certainly qualified for a Cabinet or Secretary position.

4. We honestly do not believe that it is possible for anyone to be a worse president than the one we have now. If Ronald Reagan was exhumed and nominated for president, we think he would be a better president than what we have now. Just prop him up in the chair and play some of his recorded speeches at the proper time.

5. Our greatest fear is that whoever is nominated will do something so foolish that they forfeit the election.

The American people are not stupid. Do not lie to us. Do not make promises impossible to fulfill. Do not exaggerate OR oversimplify – life is complicated, we will be depending on YOU to understand and direct that complexity.

Do not sink to the lowest common denominator. Rise to the occasion. You were called for such a time as this.

Rev. Harold Max Curtis
Director, Ministries For Christ, Inc.
Owner, Curtis Controls
Design Engineer, Mechadyne Machine, Inc.
Rev. Jeanne Grace Curtis
Director, Ministries For Christ, Inc.
Owner, Nails Your Way Salon