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If the GOP runs a guy who isn’t strong on those issues when those issues are so obviously self-evident then we’ve already lost.

But it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings. I'm not sure she's even warming up yet.

FWIW, the first thing that needs doing is the retirement of Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader. He is 0Bama's chief enabler and codependent. That will mean electing a Senate majority this coming Tuesday. Enuf said.

That could buy conservatives some time — to get the GOP Party Establishment back in ORDER.

The Party is suicidal to think it can prosper by spitting on its natural (and historical) base. The "official" Party needs to divest itself of all relations with special-interest groups, no matter how deep their pockets. It needs to start listening to the People again and can begin doing that by simply listening to what the Tea Party is saying (they've already done the "homework"). It can articulate an inspiring message to the American Middle Class that it will defend their interests. And that's just for starters.

In short, I have not lost HOPE.

Methinks neither should you, dear brother in Christ.

If you know me, you know I haven’t lost hope.

But my hope isn’t in these jaybirds. :)

I hear what you are saying. You know I agree with you almost right down the line point by point. Sometimes the stuff you write just rings like a bell.

I’m not ready to lay down by a long shot. But I have to say, my outlook has shifted quite a bit over the last few years for a number of reasons. I’m looking up in much more immediate terms than at any time in my life. I’ve rather lost interest in what these people say and do (in many cases I simply don’t believe them)... I am focused rather on getting my life and my extended family in order. Politics is no longer as interesting as it once was.

For me politics was the visible trace of an underlying invisible spiritual and moral contest, thats what gave it its drama, and of course it still is, it always is. But whereas the party once knew that, they have in recent years tried to divorce themselves from that knowledge, cut themselves off from the only thing that gives politics meaning, the only thing that made them relevant at all. They have sawed off the limb they hang from.

The Democrats never had that transcendental connection, they were always about populism and power politics. But the GOP was once something more than that. Remember the birth of the GOP; Christians founded it, with very little support from anyone, and in a decade slavery ceased to exist.

This GOP is embarrassed of its Christians, and is headed for the shelf of irrelevancies and historical oddities. They would rather peddle populism at a discount; there isn’t much drama in that.

I’ll no doubt vote for whoever the GOP sends up, because heaven knows he won’t be as awful as the guy the other side sends up. But if he agrees with them on everything that matters, but just wants to implement it at a discount, we haven’t won anything. So don’t look to these guys for our salvation, they don’t have it in them.

I know you know that. I know your eyes are turned upward, and you like me are just trying to be where you are supposed to be and do what you are supposed to do while God does what he does. The only thing that has changed is that while I’ve always known this, I feel it as if in my very flesh.

Its funny. Sometimes when I write, I go back and ask myself, do you really believe what you just said? And all I’m sure of is, thats what came out the tip of my pen. I guess I must, more or less. :)