[HerrBlucher]

Well said. I guess for many on this board, Tokyo Rose and Lord Haw Haw were actually great Amercian and British patriots just trying to wise up their countrymen on the "reality" of the situation.

[Sudetenland]

Yup. Faithless surrender monkey. Real conservatism is optimistic at its core. It believes unflinchingly in the principles laid out by our Founding Fathers and the certainty that they will prevail in the end. Conservatism also believes that those values are worth fighting and dying for.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. We only learn through adversity and pain, and this minor setback shouldn't deter us from the moral certainty of our rightness and the historical certainty that conservative principles are the only principles that will allow people to be free and still be governed.