Thank you for the kind words. You have nothing of which to be ashamed. Heck, in these last three years I should have been able to find you and tell you personally. ;-)
There is nothing that I can add to your reply to Luis. It is excellent, well reasoned, and much more polite than I can usually manage when I reply to him.
In my regular monthly meeting this Wednesday (I lead a discussion group in Pittsburgh), we will be talking about the race and its aftermath. Several of the key area people from the campaign will be there including more than a few of our local FReepers who were instrumental in this effort.
Over the next few months, I will be working with a few of the remaining principled conservative politicians and others to harness this network and make it into an effective machine to work for the values that mean so much to all of us. I trust that I can rely on your help in your area.
We can win. We can take our country and our government back from the forces of modern day liberalism/socialism. But first people have to realize that there is a problem and that it is the very thing that they believed WAS the solution to all their problems. Government.
On a related note, I was honored to be asked by the local LP to consider running if Pat was defeated … I had to decline because the skeletons in my closet still have flesh on the bones. A wise choice, if you ask me (with or without the flesh-bearing skeletons. :) It’s just my opinion, but I believe that people like us (you even moreso than me) are more powerful ‘in the trenches’ – as is evidenced by your subsequent post:
Over the next few months, I will be working with a few of the remaining principled conservative politicians and others to harness this network and make it into an effective machine to work for the values that mean so much to all of us. I trust that I can rely on your help in your area.
Thank you (thankyouthankyouthankyou!). THIS is the kind of work that so few want to tackle, and yet it is the only grassroots way that we will be able to turn this country around … if that is still possible at all. And yes, you certainly can rely on my help in any way I can assist here in Lancaster Country. I enjoy public speaking, and grunt footwork. Just whistle.
Again, many thanks for all that you have done, and continue to do, not only for Pat Toomey, but for the conservative cause in general.
~ joanie