It all comes back - as ususal - to the fact that the silent majority would prefer to remain silent. This is diametrically opposed to the nature of the bolsheviks in this country.
IMHO, a grass-roots movement (easy to say, almost impossible to launch, and forever to achieve) must start, and its chances of success are remote if it isn't bi-partisan. The reason I say that is that there are so many democRats, especially where I live in the South Texas area, who are salt-of-the-earth, hard-working, conservative people, be they Hispanic or Anglo, who pull the democRat lever because their dads and moms did so at election time, when they were loyal to FDR.
So the emphasis for bringing these folks around is with getting them to field conservative candidates for municipal, county, and state offices, in the hope of eventually seeing these conservative democRats "bubble up" to D.C.
However, the same effort must be expended for Republicans as well, to *prevent* the fielding of people like John McCain, Jim Jeffords, and Lindsey Graham. We need conservatives, IOW, running in both parties. You know what this will cause: With none but conservatives coming up through the rank and file of BOTH parties, the liberals' days of power are numbered.
It's simply amazing to me that after Karl Rove made the TRUE statements I heard him make, that the liberals have the stones to demand an apology and/or his resignation. Like I said, I wish the Republicans had those kinds of stones.
That McCain compromise (to name just one activity) should never have been allowed to occur!
There is something just so frighteningly fragile about Bill Frist. From our perspective out across the nation - we strong Republicans - it really does look as though we've handed these wretched Democrats the reins of power, now that we're in all of the drivers' seats........and that just perplexes and frustrates me.
Thanks for your comments.
Char :)
It appears that some do. 8^)