Posted on 01/16/2011 6:49:25 AM PST by Repulican Donkey
Every time a conservative "responds" to some idiot like Krugman, Dionne, Blow, Page, Krauthammer, Noonan etc, all we are doing is expanding their reach and increasing their power and influence. They all represent yesterday's news and yesterday's politics.
When US Grant assumed command of the Army of the Potomac he became furious about the near hero worship his officers had for General Lee. Finally, the exasperated Grant reportedly said "Stop talking about what General Lee might do to us and start talking about what we will do to him".
It is time to follow Grant's example! The polling data since the Tucson shootings shows that all the efforts demonize conservatism have failed. These pundits we fear so much are impotent! They are the ones who actually are on defense and it is time for bloggers to start advancing ideas instead of defending ideas.
Obama has not rebounded. People are not buying anything he says or sells. Obamacare is in serious trouble politically and legally. Americans don't want the debt ceiling raised, don't want the fairness doctrine, don't want immigration amnesty, don't want acccomodations with Islamofacists, don't want higher tax rates, don't want government mandates in healthcare, don't want any more deficit spending.. and the list goes on and on!
We need to stop watching the View, Olberman, Maddow, Schultz. Their audiences are tiny and half of the viewers are conservatives who watch just to get angry! The only way their collective idiocy gets traction is that conservatives cite it and spread it!
It is time for conservatives to set the agenda, not just to defend it!
By the way, write your representatives and senators to tell them this idiocy of dems and republicans sitting together is designed to give Obama an incrdedible photo-op because the dems will be jumping up and cheering at every word while we will see Boehner, Cantor, Ryan, Bachmann et al in isolated closeups, framed as angry opponents of everything that is good and progresive!
Completely agree with you!
Excellent!
This will only be possible when GOP/Tea Party conservatives outnumber the RINOs.
Until then, nothing you say can be accomplished.
We basically have two parties in D.C.
Liberal and liberaler.
Amen brother/sister. Returning America to its glory days will require behaving like Americans of the glory days.
Liberal and communist.
I agree! and use the phone too.
We need a think tank. Your ideas are good.
First, we must understand who the enemy is: The Radical Leftist wing of the DemonRat Party and the Communist Party of the USA. That is who is driving the agenda: envirnomental, financial, economic, education, energy, food and agriculture, health care, abortion, and foreign policy.
They have operated in the shadows for decades but recently they have been so emboldened that they openly discuss the destruction ot he United States and our way of life. They sponsor conferences about The enemy is NOT just the DemonRat Party—it goes much deeper than that. Our enemy is much more tenacious and virulent than the stupid politicians that command the spotlight like Barney Frank, Kerry and Dodd. Look past these people and you will see an enemy who is determined, well-financed, elitist, and intellectually belligerent. It includes their helpers in the media establishment, entertainment industry, and academia. Their organizations include thousands of nonprofits with names like the Center for American Progress, Media Matters, and the Tides Foundation. The enemy is not clearly arrayed across the Potomac.
Revolutionaries in 1775 / 1776 were never a numerical majority yet their ideas carried the day.
In 1860 abolitionists were a statistically insignificant group.
In 1917 Lenin named his socialist group “Bolshevik” (majority) even through they weren’t.
Time will take care of RINO folks - most are older and are moving into old age. The fact is the Tea Party folks already outnumber the liberals and the RINOs. We just need to start acting that way!
I think many people are missing the obvious. WE WROTE THE RULES OF THE GAME!!!! The Constitution is the rules. It is our representatives job to keep the rules of the game pure.
For lack of keeping the rules pure with policy, it is our obligation as Americans to stop those that want to change the rules to promote their leftwing agenda. We allow those people to hide behind the rules while defiling the rules. This is unacceptable.
We should not ignore the Olbermanns and Behars of the world who fight their guerilla war against liberty. We should do what made America successful against the Vietcong. Play by their rules which prevents them from changing our rules.
Obama actually made a great point. “You don’t bring a knife to a gun fight.”
Sorry, but I don’t believe we need a “think tank” any more than we need focus groups.
Each of us, as an individual, needs to be positive, assertive and actively involved in spreading conservative values and ideas.
I believe I read that General Giap, in his memoires, said that our strategic bombing campaign against North Vietnam was only weeks from breaking the back of the NVA and the Viet Cong. Had we continued for six more weeks instead of “pausing” he says North Viet Nam would have been unable to continue the war and would have had to admit defeat.
The lesson is that we did not use the Viet Cong’s tactics strategically. When we still cared about winning we dealt from strength, not from weakness. We nearly bombed them into oblivion. On the ground we used much the same strategy that General Petreus used in Iraq - creating safe zones for civilians with the strategic hamlet concept.
Behar at al are not the Viet Cong. They are frightened, angry people who are seeing their dreams crumble to dust. They have no weapons left but name calling and insults. We have won! Now we need to act like winners!
kaching!!
Mead had come into camp in a panic trying to explain what Lee would do to turn the battle into his advantage. At that time the usually calm Grant rose to his feet and said;
“Oh I am heartily tired of hearing what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to do a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both flanks at the same time. Go back to your commands, and think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.”
Grant; The greatest general this country ever produced. He personally ran 5 armies and won a contest with one of the greatest tactical generals in this nations history. All at the same time and often had to go personally to a theater to make things straight..I.E Hunter in the Shenandoah Valley.
Lee said that he searched history and up to that time he could find no greater general than US Grant. And to think that Halleck wanted to sack him. Lincoln, Halleck and Stanton were in fact perfect idiots, as Grant would have ended that war soon after Shiloh, if left to do what he wanted.
Grants weakness was his poor judgment of character...he was a kind trusting man and it caused him much unneeded trouble.
I am no fan of Abraham Lincoln, but I have a great deal of respect for some of the Union officers, and Grant is way up there in my esteem.
Tactically, I think the greatest American general was Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. In fact, I think he should be included among the top five American military leaders of all time. My top five (not in any particular order, as there is a difference between a strategic leader and a tactical leader) are:
- Robert E. Lee (strategic)
- Stonewall Jackson (tactical)
- U.S.S. Grant (strategic)
- D.D. Eisenhower (strategic)
- G.S. Patton (tactical)
I have purposely not included George Washington, because, really, he holds a place all to himself. He was at once a strategic and tactical leader. He had his ass kicked all over the landscape, but was always able to execute extraction to live to fight another day, and to keep his forces from dissolution, and then to rally them to strike when the enemy least expected it (i.e., Christmas at Trenton). George Washington was an uncommon man for an uncommon time in history.
mho...this is the main point of the quote, by U.S. Grant, which makes a call to action. Yes, action, created by thinking and planning, then action. Now if the people in Congress are listening and paying attention, there will be thinking, planning, and action to problems currently existing which will create a much more stable America...mho
btw...it may become worse before it becomes better, even if thinking, planning, and action rule the field.
I agree with much of what you said, except for the comment about the Viet Cong. The VC pretty much ceased to exist as any kind of effective fighting force in 1968, with the Tet Offensive. But you are right about the 1972 bombing: Had we kept it up the NVA would have thrown in the towel. Unfortunately, our strategy with the 1972 bombing was not to get North Vietnam to surrender, but to get it back to the Paris Peacetalks to agree to a cease fire (which was what happened).
“Grants weakness was his poor judgment of character...he was a kind trusting man and it caused him much unneeded trouble.”
Quite true. And that is what sunk his presidency a decade later.
One more thought.... Behar’s show is on Headline News. The network has fewer viewers than informercials about Pilates or Zumba dance. She has no leverage or following in reality, but we give her both when we give her power.
Olberman’s network had Roseanne Barr as a guest. Now, let that sink in - Roseanne Barr - a minimally articulate has been was a guest! Olberman is a parody of himself. watch him for five minutes and you have seen the whole shtick - hyperbole + volume + name calling. Why do we care what he says or thinks? The viewing public does not! The early census figures put the population at over 300 million. Olberman’s audience is half a million and it is not growing.
He’s losing politically and economically. That’s why he rails against Limbaugh, Beck, Palin and Levin.
The same goes for old “happy leg” Chris Matthews. His audience is so small that his commercial time costs chump change. For all we know NBC is using prime time money to prop up the cable operations
Do you believe, even for a second, that Fox Entertainment or Fox Sports has to subsidize Fox News? Not a chance! Murdoch’s too good a business man to let that happen.
My point is that we conservatives are granting liberal pundits and TV personalities capabilities and powers they don’t have. They are more the Maginot Line than the VC.
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