Remembering Lee Atwater

Lee Atwater is the person photographed with Frank on his campaign card. Many people in the 118Th already have the card, but for those who have not yet received one it is available at www.rfrank118.com as item 7 on the scrolling slide show just click the photo for a printable card.

Today's post is to help many of those new voters, or those who do not remember who Lee Atwater was. The video up above tells his entire story, from his rise and fall and his dynamic and enthusiastic support of Republican politics. Personally I knew Lee in the later years of his life, and was one of his favorite Young Republicans during the Bush one campaign era.

Lee as the video above depicts marks his aggressive and often direct campaign style and later in his terminal stages an epiphany on life. This epiphany is what ultimately dejected me from the Republican party and became my impetus to rethink the job and responsibility of our elected leaders who all to often become all too insensitive to the needs of the common person.

Lee was not only an accomplished musician and a a great entertainer, but also one of this countries greatest heroes whose last words compelled all of us to work toward unity, a common country and ourselves become a voice of freedom and change.