The Thomas Jefferson Club was just recently formed in the Pennsylvania area and has burst onto the local political scene attracting hundreds of members. The group supports and speaks to traditional, conservative and libertarian ideals. Jeff McGeary, a Captain in the Army Reserve and the founder of the club, realized that something more was going on after giving a speech at the April 2009 Tea Party at Washington Crossing (see my coverage of this event and Jeff's speech). People came up to him afterward and were asking for more information and what they could do to help. I watched his speech and was very impressed.

The local Democrats are quaking in their boots as can be found in the story below on the explosive growth of the Thomas Jefferson Club and their response. The Dems try to minimize people like McGeary, who care for their country, by basically calling them whiners. However there are leaders who are paying attention and many members are no fans of the Republicans or George W Bush.

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[McGeary's] organization, started in December with five people, had more than 100 spilling out of a room at The Temperance House on Wednesday night for its sixth monthly meeting. His goal: "Educate, organize and mobilize to secure America's future."

A future that's been put in peril, members claim, by the banking and car company bailouts, a $778 billion stimulus package that hasn't yet slowed the unemployment rate, a cap and trade energy plan that threatens to impose costs on American households, and vast reform of the nation's health care system.

Groups like the Thomas Jefferson Club are sprouting all over this country as people have realized that those who claim to be our leaders, from both parties, are selling out the American people en masse.

McGeary, 32, has surrounded himself with like-minded board members who see an urgency to act and find candidates who support fiscal responsibility, individual freedom, constitutional government, immigration reform and the defense of America's Western culture and values.

"The time is now to step up and take a leadership role, it's a position I'm comfortable with," McGeary said. "We're hoping to channel the frustration out there in a positive way."

While much of the group's frustration is directed at legislation supported by Obama and the Democrats, many are no fans of former President George W. Bush.

"He surrendered capitalism without even firing a shot," one group member said during a Q&A Wednesday.

I couldn't agree more with that last sentiment. I also am quite disgusted that people in power in this country continue to bash it as if the United states is the worst country on Earth. The fact is our country is great because of the values and rule of law that has allowed people to flourish. What has distorted this country is the continued degradation of these principles and the rule of law.

It is simply amazing that so-called "leaders" would denounce those who are calling for the principles our country was founded upon to be restored. It is basically them saying that they do not accept those principles and they somehow know a more "magical" way. Something that others throughout history whom have formed countries have never discovered. The words arrogance, incompetence and outright ignorance come to mind.

I am pulling for groups like the Thomas Jefferson Club, because they are really the only hope we have of getting our country back on track in a peaceful manner. If they fail, lord have mercy on our souls for the other alternative.

Tim Bloom of Edison, N.J., who was raised in Germany and spent eight years in the Marine Corps after becoming a US citizen in 1991, was one of the five people at McGeary's first meeting.

"I grew up under socialism," he said. "America's values are what set her apart from the rest of the world. They should not change."

Hear, hear Tim Bloom!