The conservative, constitutional American is the sleeping giant. He is slow to react, but when he reacts, it is with vengeance.
I'd like to compare this upcoming year, 2010, with the culminating Conservative/Libertarian congress, with 1994. When we voted the republicans in office in '94, it was in response to the-then abject irresponsibility of the Clinton era. We had a borderline-RINO president, Bush 41, who essentially stopped and reversed his predecessor. But we rested on our laurels, and thought that the media would play fair with us as we were the winners. And the moderate republicans got suckered by the left side, and Clinton, forced to move to the right, was able to recover and beat Dole in '96. The republicans NEVER learned to govern as a majority, and we paid the price. Bigtime. With incrementing totalitarianism throughout the Bush years, especially in Congress, it culminated itself with the Obama win over the worst presidential candidate we had since, well, Dole.
Before moving on to 2010, let me give you the parallel. In World War 1, we entered the war and beat the Germans. But we did not clean up. We did not assert ourselves in the region until the people were allowed to fully stabilize. Think 1918, Armistace Day, as the same as the 1994 Congressional elections. And we all know what happened. Adolph Hitler became leader.
(Now, there are other reasons that conditions leading up to World War 2 were allowed to foment, mainly because the US stopped engaging in foreign trade to a large degree in the thirties, which affected the economic policies of Germany and the Soviet Union. But I digress for now, as the parallel I am presenting still stands).
And World War 2 was far worse than WW1, especially with the fact we had two major theaters, with 4 significant fronts. But when the war ended, it actually was not the end of hostilities. We had to ensure the people convert to a democracy, which is the purpose of occupation. To this day, there is no way that we can in any way consider Germany or Japan a threat.
But back to the parallel. With the 2010 election, we have to put out the same amount of magnitude in understanding our enemy, the statists. We can't just win and celebrate the victory. We have to GOVERN with our victory. In addition, we have to maintain the process THROUGHOUT the tenure of office. Not just in "running" for office, but in espousing and championing our views, without the temptations that the moderates can fall for in the quest of the left to subvert the democratic process.
We do have advantages this time around. First of all, there is no pretense of a "fair and balanced media," other than Fox. Far more people who aren't died in the woll liberals have a greater cynicism of the Alphabet Soup of Statist media. So, like our WW2 comrades in Europe and Japan, we have to provide the transition, and to champion this transition, of moderate thought of people back to our constitutional principles. And with the media tanking the way it has, along with the fact that the Internet is a far greater force, we can ensure our own representatives and senators have an internalized, genuine conservative/libertarian persona.
And we must continually project this position, not just in Congress, or the presidency, but in the State houses and the state legislatures. In short, we must present a very strong focus of accountability to such principles... much like the military has engendered a strong focus to national security and safety.
Sorry for being so long, but these are just thoughts off the top of my head. Hope this helps.
