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.
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.
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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.
Excellent post, and yes, I called three reps on Friday to express my objections to this visual dilution of the hard fought Republican victory to control of the congress. Dems had no interest whatsoever in bipartisanship over the past six years and even engaged in a lock out of Republicans.
Agree with your "thesis", it's hard scoring points when you're always playing defense. Time for ball control, as they say in football.
Good Post and so true so true. Called Boehners office on Friday regarding the SOTU. I will continue calling on Monday!!!!