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Sorry, I was out last night.

Folks, the bedrock abilities Conservatives (Republican or not) must develop, is to know the issues, and develop the ability to hit the Left between the eyes on them at will.

If your instincts are good, it doesn’t matter if you’re in a position of power and can’t explain to the public why they are.

The Left has their stories (their version or their lies) ready to go up front, and they are coordinated, on the same page. Our side seems to fumble around and possibly come up with excuses for their actions after the fact, and each person has their own version. We can’t prevail like that.

Not only can we not prevail once we hold public office, we can’t even sell the ideas to get us there.

It’s the articulate well grounded person like Michelle Backmann that we need. And please, I’m not trying to say she is the cure for what ails us on this post. I am trying to make the case that her mode of operation must be adopted by others. This goes beyond dogma, and is more geared to an overall game plan.

We must become...

1. Get grounded.
2. Know the issues.
3. Know the talking points.
4. Know how to present them to the public (helps if you’re on fire).
5. Don’t be bashful, and drive these points home every chance you get.
6. For God’s sake, network!

Today our folks are not...

1. Well grounded.
2. Don’t know the issues.
3. Don’t know the talking points even if they do.
4. Don’t have the slightest idea how to present something they don’t know to others that don’t know, and desperately need to.
5. Don’t want to offend anyone, so won’t present truth to them even if our guy knows it.
6. Too interested in personal advancement to network with others - so we have three to five people popping off with different answers to the same problem.

So what would I urge Republicans to do. Rethink everything. If we were as organized as the Left, and pushing our solid principles with solid arguments, we’d destroy the Left.

Are we destroying the Left? No. The Left is too busy destroying themselves (and sadly, the rest of us in the process). Thank heaven too, because our bumbling boobs are the Keystone Cops of politics.

We don’t destroy the Left. More often than not, the Left goes too far and destroys it’s own credibility. How I long for a time when we capitalize on their transgressions long before those transgressions do serious damage to our nation.

Changing this is job one.