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To: brushcop; proudofthesouth

Oh please - stop the false posturing. This crap is happening at the highest levels. What, pray tell, is your “plan” to “take back the country”?


178 posted on 07/11/2008 6:28:16 PM PDT by khnyny (Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy)
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To: khnyny

Not false posturing in the least. It starts on the local level where you know your elected “officials” the best. I find that generally we live in an very polite society (yeah, I know, sometimes you wonder...) and rarely do people actually TALK to their local politicos and express their opinion, they usually mince away. That needs to change, er, excuse me for using that word. You need to know WHY you argue those points, time to be informed.

Rarely do people write. Emails are too easily ignored, written letters aren’t and need to be brief, to the point are best, firm but polite. Phone calls, uncompromising but firm and polite, all this stuff is elementary but most people don’t even do it.

Finally ACTION is necessary (put motions to those thoughts by following through). Challenging your local Democrats and of course there our “our guys” too that need a verbal kick in the pants. At the gas pumps when I hear a grumble about the prices I’ve started saying, “Are you a Democrat? If so, thanks a lot for the do-nothing congress, start drilling!” Challenging? You bet. If they are like-minded conservatives then we have a great blow it off discussion and leave in better spirits. Dems (and RINOs) usually back off and slink away.

The “highest levels” as you say, are supported by the “lowest levels”. There are always those “moments” that present themselves but you have to be ready. Who would’ve thought that Newt’s “Contract With America” would be so powerful? Just words right? That’s where it begins.


258 posted on 07/11/2008 8:19:39 PM PDT by brushcop (We remember SSG Harrison Brown, PVT Andrew Simmons B CO 2/69 3ID KIA Iraq OIF IV)
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