In the past couple of months I've come to realize that movement conservatives and all people who love freedom, justice, and prosperity need to change our goals and tactics on a fundamental level. The sort of good natured “Mr Smith Goes to Washington” politics that President Bush championed is dead and needs to be buried. We've gotten a new tone since 2000, that's for dang sure.
We need to fight as hard and mean as needed to win. We must fist twice as hard because we won't (and shouldn't) fight dirty.
We need to lower our expectations in the short run and embrace people like the PUMAs that share our ultimate core value of freedom within a constitutional democracy. We've spent too much time eating our own.
We need to dramatically raise our objectives on the strategic level and fight for a planet based on the humane values of individual rights, private property, and political liberty that we know are the right path to a better world. We are the legitimate occupants of the moral high ground. Take and occupy it.
People all over the world are fighting the same battles that we are: In Venezuela in Argentina, in Europe. The individual champions of freedom from every country need to stand shoulder to shoulder in absolute solidarity. We are either going up or going down as a single team....
We have allowed these would-be-killers of our constitution and our country faaar too much power. We can never take the chance again of letting them take over our nation.
Well, on second thought, maybe, we can wait until November 6 to start, I know I, for one, need a day to just breathe and try to unwind...this has been a heckuva a hard ride. :^(