As the opening act of the Greatest Story Ever Told, each character mentioned in the Christmas narrative has had a number of literary traditions and homiletical assumptions added that may or may not be directly traceable to the text of the Holy Bible. One of these is none other than the Innkeeper.

As Ben Franklin was leaving Independence Hall, he was asked by a woman, “Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” To which Franklin is quoted as responding, “A republic, if you can keep it.”

It was only twelve years earlier that Patrick Henry had uttered the stirring words, “Give me liberty, or give me death.” Among the people who occupied the original thirteen colonies, there were those who believed that liberty was so important, that it was worth fighting, and possibly dying for.

Anybody with a lick of sense realizes there’s no difference anymore between the Democrats and Republicans. Both preach big dictatorial government to the people, and they do so relentlessly. Thus many Americans now realize that we need to open up the process and offer a small government vision as a third choice.

The question is how do we bring about such a goal. Many hurdles to a third-party exist, and many objections among conservatives to even begin such an attempt exist. What follows will provide some answers to those objections and outline a dramatic plan that will not only defeat Obama’s socialist agenda in 2012, but also save America in the coming decades from Republican socialism.