The first ad from the race to take down Senator Evan Bayh is now up. Marlin Stutzman takes on the empty suit in his first spot.

In the meantime Richard Behney, one of the other guys running, is writing a book (yay!). An advisor of his posted an excerpt of the narrative on Facebook, proving why friends shouldn’t let plumbers write books.

Throughout our nation’s history, America has never been in the predicament where we find ourselves now. We have never been in such a dire situation before. In the past, we have fought off external threats, but this time the threat is more ominous. That’s because the threat is from within. Events are unfolding as the result of our very own government. This is no time to play nice and smile. That time has passed.

Ultimately, most Americans want to take care of themselves rather than to be “kept” by their government. So, government must step out of the way. For those who do need a helping hand, government must allow our charitable institutions like churches and nonprofits to do what they do best. Those in need will be taken care of, but not due to anything our government does. Government’s job is not to be your mommy. Government’s job is to defend this nation while removing any threats that keep its citizens from being able to pursue their dreams. That is an ideal that we must preserve at all costs if we expect the United States of America to remotely resemble the country it was founded to be. We must preserve the big ideal!

As Americans, however, we have become rather complacent. As we have gone about our daily lives raising our children, volunteering in our communities and running our businesses, we have failed to keep a close watch on the loss of freedoms that we now face. Our founders warned us about this. Freedom must be nourished or it will elude us. Forces exist in the name of power that desire to take away those freedoms. That is precisely the struggle in which we find ourselves. If we do not change things now, one day soon we won’t be able to dream the American dream. We won’t be able to start a business, because we won’t be of the right color, culture or class. The government will pick the winners and losers. We won’t be innovative any longer, because there will be no reason or reward for being innovative. In fact, there will likely be more debt in being innovative! We will see our standard of living decay, largely because we won’t have any industry. America will become Europe without any of the quaint, old architecture.