What are the Founding Fathers doing today?

A friend on facebook asked this questions: Hi Patriots! Where would the Founding Fathers fit into today's political climate? Your thoughts?

Here's my answer:

To maximize freedom, government must be minimized. When faced with similar stifling of freedoms, our Founding Fathers studied the great scholars of freedom, they wrote and gave speeches defining and defending freedom. Our Founding Fathers... sacrificed home and family in various ways to retain their freedom. Remember, the Colonies essentially ruled themselves and it was only when King George tried to take their independence away and only after reasonable discourse failed, that they took up arms.

My daughters and I have wondered who the current George Washington, John Adams and Ben Franklin are. We've come to the conclusion that we don't need a new George or John or Ben -- we already have those great men as role models. We also have Abigail, who took care of business and didn't let John off the hook when he was away. Today we need new people -- look around, who are these people. We have Rush, and Glenn Beck and Glenn Reynolds. We have Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann and Newt Gingrich. We have Bill Whittle and General Petraeus. We have Lori Hendry. We have homeschooled students across the nation, studying the great scholars, getting ready to lead.

John Adams would be causing trouble, harassing the white house and the liberal democrats. Staying up late into the night, writing papers. Ben Franklin would have a blog and a huge facebook following, Thomas Paine would be a talk radio host. George Washington would be fighting the battle of freedom in the mid-east. Tom Jefferson would stay up later and write more than John Adams and work for the Cato Institute. Betsy Ross would be struggling at a couple jobs to pay the bills. Thomas Jefferson's teacher (whose name escapes me at the moment) would be the outcast professor on campus. Alexander Hamilton would be heading up Heritage.org.

They would not be wanting war, but they would be drawing a line in the sand - preparing.

Our time is not their time. We can look to them and learn from them, but we must be the ones of action. I think the next question should be "Where do YOU fit into today's political climate?"