Why do the results in Iowa mark the death and resurrection of presidential campaigns? At least 1 Democrat and 4 Republican candidates dropped out of the Presidential race since the Iowa Caucuses. The lack of funding, enthusiasm and a poor message, usually bring about the end of campaigns. Most candidates made enough money to be comfortable for the next few years, a few like Ben Carson made tens of millions of dollars that he can keep, plus all the money he made from his book sales. The big losers are those who spent most of their money, and still got little name recognition. What happens to two party candidates after the primary season, and their defeat is the losers go home. The difference between a traditional two party candidate and myself is my candidacy will never end, because I will never lose my enthusiasm for my message or my commitment to activism. If I must be the Eternal Independent, Presidential Write In Candidate, to inspire other Independent Presidential candidates in the future, I will be.
Over my lifetime I have observed many politicians on local,state and federal levels, and have come to understand the highs and lows of politics, also the American love and hate of politicians. There are few political figures in American History, who ever achieved secular sainthood in the eyes of their countrymen. One was FDR, and the other was JFK. I remember during the 1960s and 1970s men and women who survived the Great Depression were the first generation to collect Social Security and Medicare, had shrines in their living rooms dedicated to FDR and JFK, these pictures and plaques could be bought in gift shops and convenient stores next to religious candles and icons. One I will never forget was in the home of an elderly man and his wife, who had a wooden plaque on their mantel with the images of Franklin Roosevelt. John Kennedy and Jesus Christ together.
Great activists like Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s fought for the Freedom and Justice of Black Americans, who were still denied the vote and lived in segregated communities during the early 1960s. Great leaders knew no end to their mission, even at their deaths their spirits remained alive and guided the movements and laws that they initiated and succeeded to make permanent in American Society, and have expanded into greater freedoms for minorities. Proof being the election of Barack Obama in 2008. Only the presidential candidates who enter the race for money, fame and ego gratification are the losers of any political race. To announce a presidential candidacy takes great thought and preparation, also a true commitment to the causes one is willing to publicly defend. My first presidential run was in 2007. My platform for the 2008 campaign is published on this website. I later endorsed Barack Obama. I believed wrongly, that he was the better choice for President than I was, and as a Liberal candidate, some of my platform he supported. I was fooled as were millions of other voters, however given the Two Party choice of John McCain or Barack Obama, Obama won a landslide victory. I regretted endorsing Obama shortly after his inauguration
Due to personal issues during the 2012 election cycle I declined running for President, but I wrote and broadcasted my criticism of the Obama Administration, and my political opinions three to four times weekly for the last eight years, everything I have written, or stated publicly on radio since then, is published and available on this website. I refuse to remain silent, or ever support anyone nominated by the two party system. I make this guarantee to all my readers and supporters, that I will never be silent on political issues, and I will remain in the Presidential race until someone is elected, and if I am not elected, I will run again and continue my campaign into the 2020 elections. Don’t believe that the results of the Iowa Caucuses or the New Hampshire Primary will mean anything to me. I will run until my vision of my Independent Presidency becomes reality.
L.A. Steel,
2016, Independent.Presidential, Write In Candidate
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