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Better to fight the bad things than to suffer them passively and convince yourself that they will lead to a better result as people wake up.

All that seems to do is produce democrat heroes. In a sense its exactly what I predicted would happen with Detroit. Rather than taking the initiative and seizing the opportunity to come up with free market and private sector solutions, conservatives chose to sit around and snipe from the sidelines. Lo and behold, here comes Obama trotting in on a white horse dragging hundreds of millions of our taxpayer dollars.

Reagan really nailed it with his nomination acceptance speech in 1980.

The major issue in this campaign is the direct political, personal, and moral responsibility of Democratic Party leadership - in the White House and in the Congress - for this unprecedented calamity which has befallen us. They tell us they've done the most that humanly could be done. They say that the United States has had its day in the sun, that our nation has passed its zenith. They expect you to tell your children that the American people no longer have the will to cope with their problems; that the future will be one of sacrifice and few opportunities.

My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view. The American people, the most generous on earth, who created the highest standard of living, are not going to accept the notion that we can only make a better world for others by moving backward ourselves. And those who believe we can have no business leading this nation.

I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose. We have come together here because the American people deserve better from those to whom they entrust our nation's highest offices, and we stand united in our resolve to do something about it.

We need a rebirth of the American tradition of leadership at every level of government and in private life as well.