This is the first in a series of videos called “Common Sense for the Common Good.” David Fowler, President of the Family Action Council of Tennessee, addresses issues of significance for Tennesseans, offering his opinion and perspective.

This issue of Common Sense for the Common Good features Basil Marceaux, who recently ran for Governor of Tennessee and lost in the primaries. His one-minute campaign speech went viral online, and he has been the subject of ridicule on national television programs. It seems everyone got a laugh at Mr. Marceaux’s expense. But Basil Marceaux knows something that millions of Americans seem to have forgotten.