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It is my view that the Republic has never been under such a threat to the very structure of our constitutional system since the Civil War. We are in a mortal struggle for the liberty of our children.

If we lose the 2010 election-that is if we do not severely dent the Democrats hold on the majority-we might never be able to reverse the tide. If we do not unhorse Obama in 2012, it is more likely than not that the Republic will become unrecognizable to Americans of my generation.

Nathan, Thank you for your well considered posts. We conservatives are good at some things and not so good at others. We need to recognize that so we will take advantage of our strengths and compensate for our weaknesses.

In honest company I think we can discuss that we are pretty darn good at discussions, well thought out ideas and debate. Witness the over ten year success of Free Republic and talk radio's boom.

Though we have the record of the Reagan Revolution and the Contract for America and other successes we have shown an inertia against organization and street level political work, especially within the Republican party.

Look at how the hard left took over the Democratic party. They attacked hard and got rid of the Scoop Jacksons and Zell Millers and Norm Colemans. They fought tooth and nail to get Obama elected. They had all the legislation pre-written for when he was elected and boasted of it before the election.

If we are worth our talk and our words we need to get out and do the hard work of transforming the Republican party. It will not be given to us. We have to take it back and fight hard to do it. We have to fight as hard as the left did and harder.

We need to join the organizing committees and become delegates and organizers. We need to become election judges. Take the day off work and drive people to the polls. Get rid of the RINOs by working for good candidates and getting them elected instead. Work hard and be smart. Work the phones for a candidate you can believe in. Become a candidate. Get out there and fight.

We need to join and infiltrate our way into the party apparatus. We need to network and recognize each other so we can see who our fellow conservatives are doing the same thing and help them out even though they may not agree on our favorite color or brand of beer.

And when the old guard won't let us in we push in. We force our way in the door. We don't take no for an answer. We get up off our fat, blovating asses and do something.

It will be dirty and uncomfortable and we will bloody our knuckles. It will be hard work. It will be as hard as Nathaniel Greene or Daniel Morgan had it during the Revolutionary War. Look at what they gave to something they believed in.

There is a level of unremitting, steely determination we need to muster that will take us though to win this fight.

Nathan is right. This is no ordinary fight. It is possible to fail and to lose this country. The left is deadly serious. We have to be even more determined and harder working than they are.

We have to take over the Republican party like John Paul Jones took over the Serapis. We cannot hold back or shrink from getting our hands dirty or doing something unfamiliar. We can do this. We can take back the Republican party in order to save America. We have to do this or we will lose America.

Mr Sol