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"..I am just beside myself and have been for a while. He has turned his back on the people who put him there..."

I agree. The problem is that every so often a new outrage occurs, and the conservatives get upset for a few days. There is a call for action, and a few folks second the motion.

The problem occurs that a few of us, then, actually get conned into believing that the conservatives have finally had enough. And each time it seems we are once again mistaken.

My wife says that I rant a lot, but when push comes to shove, I don't translate that into action. I suppose many of us suffer under such calumnies!

The difficulty is that when we finally figure that enough is enough, and we throw out feelers as to whether or not "here and now" is the time to organize a response, any response,- we seem to be met with a cold, deep, silence.

I understand the impulse that drives folks to believe that the time for talking is over, and that- since the legislation is pending right now about fixing the "illegals" problem- just talking won't accomplish anything. That we need to "do something, organize a protest, anything" to put pressure on the Senate.

I just happen to disagree. There are huge protests now saturating the media, composed of those who champion the "rights" of illegals! What possible chance will we have of even being recognized, much less having our arguments fairly presented by the antique media? I suspect none at all.

No, I still think that now is the time to realize that conservatives are losing the propaganda war, by signing a blank "power-of-attorney" to the Republican party, and simply hoping that they will keep their promises to us.

Any takers left on that bet? Before we simply dump on all politicians, let's understand that they are representatives of their voters, and they sift through the expressions of public will, in order to divine what to do next. Some of them may even scan FreeRepublic on occasion. But we are frankly a thundering herd of cats with 75,000 different takes on the problem, and 76,000 solutions.

We may, and likely will, lose this one, but rather than dissolve into defeat, we need to finally determine to seek a "trial separation" of our marriage to the Republican party, and begin to put together a new conservative platform.

The problem is, we aren't herd animals like the Democrats. We each have strongly held views about a few broad principals, and some red hot anger about a few specific issues. Our strength is that there are some of the best thinkers around on this site, who never fail to impress me and I think many others. But we are all rowing different boats.

So far, we aren't going to find consensus on all of the issues around, and we can continue to debate each other ad infinitum.

Unless we begin to find enough common ground to assemble a sizable contingent of voters, then the RINOS, and even the "nervous Republicans", will not pay us more than lip service.

It seems that Americans need to really have their heads beaten into the concrete before we finally, grudgingly, admit that we can't keep going like this.

The last two things we all seemed to agree on was that we needed President Bush in place in order to redress the madness of previous Supreme Court decisions, and to fight the war on terrorism. We have gritted our teeth and closed our eyes to many domestic misdemeanors and felonies. And before you bristle that that is a reference to the delinquent proposed "Senate sanction" of actions taken to safeguard the nation- please understand that many who support the war on terror, do not support the surrender to "the political rights of illegals". The very fact that they consider themselves of sufficient power and security now to openly make political demands should alarm the voters of awesome danger ahead.

As to the Supreme Court, we seem to have gotten a couple of home runs. The jury is still out on that, and the maddening part of it is that sentence is apparently never really finalized.

It seems that a rational constructionist often gets infected with some weird Capitol Hill virus, and suddenly gets "unborn again", casting his votes with those who feel the need to change the law into what they "feel" it should be. I can't visualize a fix. There seems to be no way to screen out the madness of judicial misconduct, malfeasance and outright tyranny. We can only vote in to the Presidency someone who tries his best to appoint good prospects. (And in the case where he decides that a good friend of his deserves her chance- we can howl loudly enough to "correct" the situation).

As to the war on terrorism, in spite of the progress being made to stand up an Iraqi army capable of defeating terrorists on their own, they seem to be infected with the same fifth column that we are. We have Hollywood, the teachers unions, and the antique media undercutting all of the progress we have made in such a cost in blood, working their wormtongues to assist the terrorists at every turn.

While over in Iraq, the Middle East media, Al Jazzera, works on exactly the same wavelength, using exactly the same tactics of the truth embargo, and the team effort of defeatism. It's tough for us to rage that the bastards need to throw those pukes out of their studios, while we have the same spew issuing from our media outlets.

We need to win the PR war. Not in just the short term, but now and forever. We need to build an agenda of those things that we all agree on, and then present that to the FR crowd, the Republican base, and then the average voter.

I believe that we cannot win this contest of good and evil unless we organize for the long term. Those folks who have sold their souls to the Unholy Trinity of abortion, pedolphilia and re-distribution, will certainly not give up easily. Does anyone really believe that a time will come that they will say, "You know- now that the truth has come out- it seems that everything I have voted for, supported and sold all for... has turned out to be a package of lies, a nurturing swamp of real, tangible evil..."

It ain't gonna happen, folks. The millions of dead behind the iron curtain, the millions of dead behind the bamboo curtain, and the millions of dead behind the muslim curtain forestall any form of atonement. Some sins in their magnitude transcend any form of contrition. Which leaves only the undecided voters. And we aren't going to ram any quick Constitutional Convention, or any need third party down their throats without some serious work first. They won't take us seriously until we take us seriously.

I don't have the talent to begin such a task, I just argue from the sidelines that I have seen REAL talent here on this site, and I hope that if we encourage those who DO have the talent, that perhaps a powerful Conservative Caucus can emerge. Does anyone think there was anything divinely inspired by Gingrinch and his allies when they put together the Contract with America? I for one don't think so. I think they just said- "You know, the only way we are going to reach the voter... is to reach the voter. Now who has some ideas about what America needs badly?"

I am just outrageous enough to think it was no more difficult than that... at least to start. Then the hard work began. But if at that point they had all suddenly said, "Ahhh... this is pointless. It'll never change anything", then they would have been right. And it wouldn't have changed anything. Because it wouldn't have been completed.

People are pissed. And I can't say I blame them. We need to begin to agree on some things, and then hold some politicians to their promises.

The difficulty is, that without a solid, specific, clearly articulated core of conservative principals that we can hold up and say... "If you vote against any one of these principals- consider us gone, come next election cycle."

But this won't happen until we can form a Conservative Caucus, solid as granite, and serious as a landslide.

It just isn't the time yet, ... apparently.

Call me and the others when we're bleeding. But don't wait till we're bled out.