First things; quite tearing into other freepers over the Romney candidacy. Save the getting personal nastiness (if there be any) for real enemies, not past allies, and/or potential future friends.
Regardless of which way the election goes, we are going to need more conservative firepower. Wasting it in circular firing squads doesn't help much.
Otherwise, I've already given some info on "where to start", or at least the sort of things we should agitate for...though I reckon others might be able to serve up the same or somewhat different, with better detail and organization.
Now as to this;
I’m not trying to get your vote, but if you hate Mormonism so much, what is your opinion on what a good Christian ought to do regarding the election?
I never said "I hate Mormonism" much less "so much".
There is no real need to go about revising and extending MY own comments, thank you. I'd much rather reserve that privilege for myself, if you don't mind too much.
I'm not sure what the future will hold, or how long it will "hold", for that matter.
What does seem plain is that we will need some form of coalition(s) which can exert pressure and influence in an effective way.
Tearing new holes in each others' hides while investigating and discussing the issues, I seriously doubt will help us focus on the facts, and those things we can influence. In the past, the TEA Party made it's presence known. Became hated by many establishment types, lied about and mis-characterized in the press.
Stand by to be opposed like that some more, but keep your cool. It would help if we could somehow put real stories behind that bunch of malcontented voters (that would be us) publicized, to humanize the crowd, showing average but informed citizens (which makes them above average in a way) that are united in the view that we must live within our means as a nation -- or at the very least begin to start taking steps towards doing so.
Energy independence... I already mentioned. It's part of a national security issue, even though I'd prefer the future to be such that it turned out to be much more, basically an economic issue, than not.
Have you ever noticed that each of our last few Democrat presidents dipped into the Strategic Oil Reserve as a token salve for domestic price increases --- but Republican presidents always had to come along behind them and work to refill the dang thing, at prices higher than the DemoDumDUms tapped it at? What part of the word "strategic" do they not understand. Give me few hours alone with any of them in a locked room for a few hours, and I assure you I could get them to see the light.
I do apologize. The post was addressed to Elise; I copied you because you had put your two cents in and I thought you deserved the courtesy to see the response.
And I agree completely, energy independence should be one of the top priorities of the new administration (and if it’s not, we ‘little people’ should force it on them). Boy, would it be nice not to have to depend on dictators to make the country go.