“How Would I Define the Lingle Campaign in 250 Words or Less?”

Linda Lingle, Governor -- The leader for all the people of Hawaii.

In four short years, the Lingle Administration has turned Hawaii around from being at the bottom of most lists on achievement, and even the awareness of what was wrong -- to the top of most lists of where people want to be, with all the promise of life as it can be in the 21st century -- a greater society for all.

Perhaps nobody else has such a ready mastery of the skills our Governor impresses us with daily -- of fresh and new ways of looking at our age-old problems -- and always seeing a way out of them. That is the only kind of leadership that will overcome the challenges of these times.

Now that we’ve seen what a New Beginning can be like -- we need to take that success to the next level of ensuring that experience and reality for all. The Governor and the people she has recruited to serve, have inspired that trust and confidence in the integrity of our government leaders to want to solve problems, rather than just perpetuate them for bureaucratic careers -- while the difficulties grow more severe, demanding evermore money from the taxpayers -- who have a right to ultimate accountability for all government does.

The manner in which this is all accomplished is the hallmark of the Lingle-Aiona Administration of going beyond politics and partisanship to accomplish.

Vote to continue the exceptional leadership of Linda Lingle!

* The preceding message was neither paid for, authorized, approved, nor solicited by Linda Lingle or the Hawaii Republican Party.

My political preference is that all political statements should be limited to 250 words or less, and if it can’t be said or summarized in that space, one needs to think about it further before launching into the familiar tirades and rants that political discussions often devolve into -- discouraging and driving away participants.

In an age in which information is overabundant and even an intrusion to one’s quality of life, the ability to express/embody a message in its totality (big picture implications), is the skillset of the 21st century personality -- as well as that ability to share it with others.

The 20th century personality is essentially the authoritarian personalities (Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc.) of one individual seeking to impose their will upon everybody else. Those types are still around -- as more or less self-isolating individuals because the lure of ideologies is not that compelling. Ideas are no longer fixed -- but fluid, dynamic and ever-adjusting to the realities, and not just trying to shove reality into a convenient idea, and these days, into words that have no meaning but are merely triggers for emotional responses and conditioned (educated) reflexes, which is mostly what "liberalism" is about anymore.