Posted by
Patrick S. Adams on Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:14:01 PM
Our Founding Fathers knew that we could never survive as a nation if our leaders were chosen by the barrel of a gun or a select few in a smoky back room . The United States of America is the greatest and most successful experiment in self governing. While other nations mark their political cycles with popular uprisings and violent revolution, we mark ours with elections. The Constitution stands the test when our country veers off course, as it did in 2008. With smoke and mirrors, grand oratory and the complicity of an adoring media which threw their objectivity out the window, a radical socialist who once called the U.S. Constitution "a flawed document" became President. Fooled once, the American people have awoken to not get fooled again. At ballot boxes in Virginia, New Jersey and New York, the revolution has begun.
Each citizen is a minuteman who uses buttons, levers or punchcards as his or her weapon. We mobilize via Twitter and Facebook. One if by mainstream media and two if by DNC, we stand watch, citizen activists, over the shining city that is now in the iron grip of Barack the Barbarian. We wield our metaphorical swords with cutting words on our blogs. We swarm the steps of the Capitol demanding our country back. We form groups and support candidates as we take up the call to "preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth," fearing that we may have inadventently sentenced "them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness" with our last electoral mistake.
Americans learn their lessons the hard way, but we learn them well. 2008 was our political Pearl Harbor. We fell asleep at the switch, assuming that this Democrat would be just like the last Democrat. We ignored the warning signs: Obama's associations with radicals. We didn't read deeply enough into Obama's own words in his books and writings. Noone has seen the video of him with William Ayers and noone has read his master's thesis. Like an employer who overlooked a job candidate's references, we hired the wrong guy and we now realize it.
So we begin a two tiered process toward correcting the mistake.
First, we take to task the good old boy network of the old Republican party. Integrity free centrism for the sake of winning elections, party insiders making decisions for the rank and file, silly rebranding themes such as compassionate conservatism or neo-conservatism and the business as usual gaming the system is about to meet their endings because America woke up and learned from a very bad mistake.
In cleaning up the party, we infiltrate it from the grassroots up. We speak out against party insiders picking liberal Republicans for the sake of winning elections and we pick our own candidates instead. We prove to the party insiders that we are smarter than them and that a conservative like Doug Hoffman can win. We don't water down our principals. We are true to the Founding Fathers, The U.S. Constitution and our last great warrior, Ronald Reagan. We re-embrace Sarah Palin and welcome her leadership. We elect an unapologetic conservative governor of Virginia and we win the first battles of the new revolution ON OBAMA'S TURF!
Second, we revive the Republican party and return it to its Reagan roots so that it can be the vehicle we need to end the madness in Washington. The new Republican party will be the vehicle by which the grassroots citizenry of this country focuses on the next step in the revolution: taking back Congress. By forging local leadership and recruiting strong local candidates, the states and their legislative districts now back in the hands of conservatives, we move to the national representative wing of our government. 2010 will be "politically bloody" for those who do not hear us now.
Finally, strengthened by our electoral wins locally, statewide and nationally, we will head into 2012 an army stronger and more powerful than ever before. There will be a strong bench of leadership to choose from this time. But the old guard of the Republican party is going to have to do what it has not always done best, back those that will help them win. No guts, no glory: those who fear choosing the right candidate based on what the left or the media will say about them need not apply. For some reason RINOs only seem to attract sheep. That can never happen again.
There must be no compromising on one principal. The party that brings in people of all walks of life and all socio-economic classes, and welcomes libertarians, fiscal conservatives and social conservatives to the table is not shutting anyone out. Those who feel they are being shut out are just not choosing to come in. The final leg of the revolution will only succeed if we are led into battle in 2012 by a strong, principled, Reagan devout and uncompromising conservative who understands that the biggest tent we can ever erect can only be built with the smallest government possible and in a way that looks nothing like business as usual.