Dear Gov. Bush:

I read, with some dismay, your announcement yesterday that you are running for president. Not that it was unexpected, mind you – you’ve been putting off this declaration for six months, apparently to skirt campaign finance laws. That makes sense since you are looking to gain the backing of this country’s elite Republicans, who feel entitled to make such decisions as who our nominee should be on behalf of all us “little people.” But it was still dismaying that you are choosing to run, not as a conservative that respects the Republican Party Platform, but as one who wants to fundamentally transform our party.The American people have been subjected for the last seven years to the rule of a petty tyrant, a socialist bent on “fundamentally transforming” these United States. The vicious slide into full-blown totalitarian state has only been partially halted by the milquetoast “efforts” of GOP leadership on the Hill. The voters deserve a choice, and a chance to be led out of the morass that America finds itself in right now.

You, sir, do not present that choice. Instead, you represent the worst in American politics – a big-government advocate, wrapped in a big-business advocate, wrapped in a Republican jersey. Should you be nominated to be the Republican candidate for president – and worse, should you actually win the presidency – you will provide fodder for posterity that Republicans stand for nothing. No difference from the current administration. No chance for Americans to find prosperity. No advocacy for the vast middle part of America that simply wants to live their lives without government interference – that part of the electorate best represented by those who understand and apply the Constitutional principles of our Founders.

Please stop pretending your brother’s plan for a federal takeover of the education system is not Common Core under a veil, and stop proposing that destroying our borders and the sovereignty of the United States would be any different because you did it with a vote instead of a pen. At best, you believe the Constitution to be an annoyance to be ignored. At worst, a hindrance to be subverted. An administration headed by you would prove no different from the current administration, except, perhaps, whose pockets our tax money falls into.

Your mother was right: we do not need another Clinton or another Bush. Our country can’t stand up to another four years of assault from progressives like you.

Kristina CookHost, Grassroots Radio ColoradoKLZ 560 AMDenver