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Finding our new Ronald Reagan from the grassroots up
The Collins Report ^ | Nov. 5, 2008 | Kevin “Coach” Collins

Posted on 11/05/2008 5:25:34 AM PST by jmaroneps37

The election is now history. America has rejected conservatism, and we have to live with the results. Our hearts are broken but now our work is cut out for us.

Let’s not pretend to see many bright spots in these results because there are none save for the opportunity to earnestly seek out a new conservative leader.

We’re at a crossroads: we can retreat feeling sorry for ourselves or search for a new Ronald Reagan-like conservative giant.

We must stand up for America and fight though we don’t much feel like fighting. We’ll have to watch people who don’t understand how America was built or how our nation works, dance, cheer and even gloat.

We conservatives know none of that matters. We can see over the horizon. We don’t have time to feel sorry for ourselves, because we have to win back America’s hearts and minds.

Genuine conservatives know we had America ripped from our hands; we didn’t meekly hand it over. Now we have to take it back.

To do this, we have to find the new Ronald Reagan. Rebuilding a new Reagan-like conservative movement from the grassroots up is job one. We have to meet and plan in new “meeting places” for exchanging the ideas.

The Collinsreport.net will do our part.

We will soon be launching a new site to serve as a clearinghouse for our grassroots search for the new Ronald Reagan. The new site won’t be afraid to be conservative.

The names and titles of those who pretend to be conservatives will be used. We’ll praise real conservatives and spotlight fakes.

We will owe nothing to anyone and always call things as we see them. Watch for the launching of this new site.

It will be here soon. Together, we will find America’s new Ronald Reagan.

(Excerpt) Read more at Collinsreport.net ...


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There will be lots of conservative fakers and pretenders to sift through over the coming months. Because there is no conservative leadership in our country today we'll have to use the power of the Internet to get the job done from the bottom up or it won't get done. Now we can only depend on ourselves. This idea has promise. During the first American Revolution only 1/3 of us fought while another 1/3 fought with the British against our freedom and another 1/3 hid in their basements with two flags waiting to see which one to run out waving. We go it done then and we can get it done again. We have much work to do.
1 posted on 11/05/2008 5:25:34 AM PST by jmaroneps37
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To: jmaroneps37

SARAH SARAH SARAH !


2 posted on 11/05/2008 5:26:25 AM PST by se_ohio_young_conservative (looking for a reason to believe....)
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To: jmaroneps37
America has rejected conservatism, and we have to live with the results.

Did I miss something? Was there a Conservative Presidential candidate? If so, I sure missed it.

I hope folks recognize where this logic leads. "We tried Conservatism and it didn't work. We must move to the left."

Folks, let's please not buy into this tripe.

3 posted on 11/05/2008 5:28:38 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Our nation is uncomfortably close to having B.O. We need to use a Republican roll on by 11/04.)
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To: jmaroneps37
Genuine conservatives know we had America ripped from our hands; we didn’t meekly hand it over.

I disagree with that point. We had one of the worst possible Republican candidates and we knew about him even in 2000! But your point is good, that we need to establish a strong conservative minority that will attract the rest of America except for the much smaller minority of anti-Americans.

4 posted on 11/05/2008 5:30:41 AM PST by palmer (Some third party malcontents don't like Palin because she is a true conservative)
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To: DoughtyOne
Was there a Conservative Presidential candidate? If so, I sure missed it.

I think the point of the article is that we need a conservative candidate.

5 posted on 11/05/2008 5:32:16 AM PST by palmer (Some third party malcontents don't like Palin because she is a true conservative)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

I love Sarah Palin. She needs to be a part of this movement. But I don’t think she is fit to lead it. She has a tremendous ability to communicate and to disarm the opposition. But I fear that the MSM has sufficiently Quayled her to apolitical Americans - the same idiots who just elected a Marxist. Her political instincts are dead on and her idelogy is perfect. I’m not trying to be an elitist here but Reagan was clearly able to explain why he was a conservative - and at the same time circumvent the media. I do not think Sarah has that ability. Today I start fighting for Bobby Jindal. Anyone else?


6 posted on 11/05/2008 5:32:19 AM PST by Massghanistani
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

Sarah wants to divide His land. Joel 3:2

Sorry to burst anyone’s bubble.....


7 posted on 11/05/2008 5:33:01 AM PST by MrLee (Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalyim!! God bless Eretz Israel.)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

Coleman misses something here doesn’t he. Palin seems to me to be what the doctor ordered here. What’s the need to go looking further?


8 posted on 11/05/2008 5:33:07 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Okay lefties... the problem with wanting something, is that you sometimes get it. Good luck now!)
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To: jmaroneps37

Duncan Hunter.


9 posted on 11/05/2008 5:34:57 AM PST by cripplecreek (Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
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To: DoughtyOne

As much as I hope for a real small-government Conservatism to rise from the ashes of this election, I’m not optimistic. America just voted for the most liberal, leftist President ever, and gave a liberal Congress an even larger majority.

America simply doesn’t want conservatism anymore. It’s too much work. It requires too much personal responsibility. Easier to just let the big government do everything.

We know this won’t work for the long run, but that’s where we’re headed. America is doing down in flames, and there is no stopping it until it hits the ground.

They say great civilizations are not conquered from without, they rot from within. America has several generations of rot to endure.

I wish I felt otherwise, and I’m sorry for the negativism, but I just don’t see anything changing in my lifetime, or my kids’.


10 posted on 11/05/2008 5:37:03 AM PST by Zeddicus
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To: jmaroneps37
I think all these sentiment miss the point.
The Great Experiment is over.
The population of the United States has reached the point where the Spock babies are in charge, their children and grandchildren are voting adults, and all are wanting the nanny state to do for them.
The is the pony-tailed guy writ large. The country has stepped over the cliff, and there's no going back, no matter how much conservatives do - because from now on, we're outnumbered by those who run around with their hands out, and we have "leader" who is suitable for nothing more than an African third-world cesspool, willing to fill them.
11 posted on 11/05/2008 5:37:37 AM PST by grobdriver (Let the embeds check the bodies!)
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To: cripplecreek

Here we go again. Why not just throw Tom Tancredo out there? These people can’t win at the national level. I love them but they’d bore the paint off the wall. They need to inspire. Sure, they inspire you ane me, but I’ve hit my freakin thumb with the hammer too many times. Let’s try something different.


12 posted on 11/05/2008 5:37:55 AM PST by Massghanistani
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To: palmer

I don’t disagree with that, but America did not just reject Conservatism. We have to be clear on that point. If we aren’t, then we draw the wrong lesson from this election loss.

Conservatism was not rejected.

Next time let’s clearly define conservatism, run it up the flag pole and see if anyone salutes. It’s a novel idea, no?


13 posted on 11/05/2008 5:41:23 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Okay lefties... the problem with wanting something, is that you sometimes get it. Good luck now!)
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To: Massghanistani
Here we go again. Why not just throw Tom Tancredo out there? These people can’t win at the national level.

And this folks, is the source of our failure. Self appointed political strategists who have nothing to show for it but failure.
14 posted on 11/05/2008 5:42:28 AM PST by cripplecreek (Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
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To: DoughtyOne

Absolutely right. No one was offering conservativism. It’s all the fault of free markets. We do NOT have free markets. Blame government-hating Bush. Huh? “W” stands for Washington. The Republicans offer 95% of what the Democrats offer. And then wonder why folks choose the real, pure %100 thing.
You can compromise toward evil as the Dems have been doing but you will never compromise yourself to good as Republicans would have us believe.


15 posted on 11/05/2008 5:45:14 AM PST by all the best
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To: jmaroneps37

#1. Get involved locally in your town government. Start small if need be. (Planning board, rec committee etc...) Use this position to push for conservative values. Work your way up.

#2. Help local causes and organizations that promote conservative values. (Donate money and time)

#3. Write letters to the editor, your congresscritter, go on the radio...get vocal.

Dont give up, use this defeat as a motivator for YOUR values and help save your local community from the insanity that is sure to come.
I know I will.


16 posted on 11/05/2008 5:46:38 AM PST by DeusExMachina05 (I will not go into Dhimmitude quietly.)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

While Sarah Palin is indeed a leader, there is now an opportunity for other leaders to arise as well. We have a lot of opposition work to do, and whoever in Congress performs that the best, that man needs to be considered a party leader as well.


17 posted on 11/05/2008 5:49:03 AM PST by hunter112 (We are the John Galt we've been waiting for.)
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To: cripplecreek

You’re right, we need to nominate non-charismatic one trick congressmen. Look, I love those guys but they aren’t very good at communicating their ideas. They couldn’t get 2% of the primary vote...they’re going to get some old bag from Ohio to vote for them over the smooth talking Barry?


18 posted on 11/05/2008 5:50:11 AM PST by Massghanistani
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To: DoughtyOne

You are right, I skipped right by that first sentence in the article. Conservatism didn’t run in this past election except as a small token in Palin and that wasn’t nearly enough.


19 posted on 11/05/2008 5:50:49 AM PST by palmer (Some third party malcontents don't like Palin because she is a true conservative)
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To: jmaroneps37

The America that elected Ronald Reagan is gone.


20 posted on 11/05/2008 5:52:27 AM PST by Carley (Vote McCain/Palin.....Change babies can live with.)
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