[gondramB]

"We need to fight this. Raise hell as loudly as possible that the Republican leadership is delivering us into the despotism of arbitrary law. We have been arguing against hate crime legislation for years, and yet it's a full Republican majority and dominance of both legislative and executive branches of the Federal government that is passing this abomination."

But who would we get for allies? No Democrat is gonna vote against this. I think the best hope are the courts.

[Anthem]

I think the Republican leadership needs to feel our wrath. Too many conservatives are cowering because the third parties didn't pull the votes away. Well that was when we were doing our best to give the Republicans their chance. Look what they've done on the budget and now this! If a credible conservative movement like FR that has previously been very helpful to the Republicans says stop or we'll go third party, they will either listen or lose power. In fact that's exactly what brought the Republican party from its tiny roots to major status in 1860. It's also how the Socialist party changed the Democrat party in the 1920's.

There is a new movement in the Libertarian party to take an incrementalist, rather than all-or-nothing approach. It is political pragmatism, and if the Constitutionalists party could also find leadership that was willing to form a coalition, that would scare the liberalism out of the Republican leadership. It can start right here.