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To: fifedom
How long before the nay-sayers on this website claim that this does not matter and that the voters should have stayed at home?

As we've seen, winning the elections doesn't mean anything. It's what the newly elected do with that win that matters. Reserve your celebrating for after these officials actually do something conservative while in office.
22 posted on 11/04/2015 8:34:28 AM PST by fr_freak
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To: fr_freak

Reserve your celebrating for after these officials actually do something conservative while in office.


Nope, I will celebrate now. As they say in math, winning the election is a necessary but not sufficient condition. If the RATS had won, there would be no hope. With the Pubbies we have a chance so I will take that and continue to fight.


30 posted on 11/04/2015 8:43:00 AM PST by fifedom
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To: fr_freak
Reserve your celebrating for after these officials actually do something conservative while in office.

Don't reserve your celebrating. That is tactically wrong. Your advice betrays a profound naivete about human nature. In the struggle ahead, we can't afford the kind of emotionalism you just demonstrated. The Web is a leadership tool, so act like a leader. Celebrate every single advance—accompanied by what the next steps are.

The reason is that there is no ultimate victory (conservative action) without the preliminary victory (conservatives getting elected). There will be countless setbacks, and progress will much of the time be glacial. But do not, just to protect yourself emotionally against your own disappointment later, hold back from celebrating a victory. To behave that way is a failure of courage and imagination concerning the next steps.

No victory is final, except entrance into Heaven. A victory on earth points to the next battle. The troops—all of us—depend on morale, which is affected in part by whether those around us speak with wisdom and are pointed positively toward specific action, rather than pride or fear.

52 posted on 11/04/2015 9:06:00 AM PST by SamuraiScot
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