If we eliminate any GOP members, won't we guarantee another victory for the DNC? Can we realistically believe a tea party or independent candidate won't split the conservative vote guaranteeing another victory for the democrats?
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Yes. Now is not the time to start holding discussions about how many angels (or GOP members) can dance on the head of a pin. Now is the time to find those who, tho' they may have wandered, have responded sufficiently to the pressure put on them by the Tea Party people and the other demonstrations and the townhalls that we can keep them in line
by continuing to apply the same sort of consistent pressure.
The simple fact of the matter is, politics is not a spectator sport and anyone who thinks that there are ideologically pure saviours out there who, if only we can get them elected, will run on auto-pilot and allow us to go back to basically ignoring politics and politicians is simply not facing reality. We did not get where we are today, on the brink of having socialism/communism made a reality in the US, by accident. We got here because the liberals and the hard left have been pushing politicians constantly, for decades - at least since Ronald Reagan kicked Carter's ass so hard his liberal intestines popped out of his mouth - and they have learned what works and what doesn't work from each one of their losses; Rahm Emanuel didn't just cry in his pansy-ass white wine when Hilarycare got the boot, he sat down with other crypto-communists, figured out where their weaknesses had been, and set about changing tactics in order to work around the worst of the weak spots. That sort of consistent work will almost always pay off, particularly if there is no pushback from the other side. And, quite frankly, there has been very little pushback from conservatives - by that I mean us, the average conservative in the street - since 1994 and the Newt Gingrich remake of Congress.
Basically, we conservatives have been resting on our laurels since 1994 - fat and complacent in the belief that Gingrich defeated the liberals and the left for us once and for all back in 1994 - and we have, through our own negligence and inattention, allowed the liberal worm to burrow so deeply into the American psyche and grow to epidemic proportions. By contrast, the liberals/left have been working furiously for decades to rot America from the inside out. Why do you think that Bill Ayers, whose favorite tool of political persuasion was a terrorist bomb up until the late 70s, turned himself into a "teacher" and started burrowing into the warm, welcoming flesh of American academia the way a tick burrows into a hiker's unprotected groin? It wasn't because he had realized the error of his ways and had decided to forswear the marxist goals he had been attempting to achieve through his prior bombing campaigns, let me tell you.
Bill Ayers is a good whipping boy for this point, because the same negligence and inattention from conservatives has been going on in American academia since at least the 1950s, when Buckley wrote about it in his book
God and Man at Yale.
But all is not lost, seemingly. What is most startling to me is the degree to which we conservatives were actually able to get a response out of so many Congress-bitches with the Tea Party demonstrations and the townhall demonstrations this past Summer and Fall. That is really encouraging. Also encouraging is the fact that, notwithstanding their pro-liberal biases, RINOs such as Snowe and Collins stood with us and not against us when the cards finally started getting laid on the table for the final tally.
I think one of the reasons the Democrats continue to push so hard forward to enact their America-destroying socialist/communist agenda is this: they believe - not without some justification given what happened after 1994 to conservative political pressure - that if they just wait it out, the conservative protests will prove to have been nothing more than a tempest in a teapot, and not a latter-day Boston Teaparty, and that Americans will inevitably resign themselves to having Obamacare become part of the accepted political landscape, as unquestioned as social security and medicare now are.
And they will be correct, unless we follow through with what we started and do the really, really, really hard work of slogging through the political mud and keeping up a consistent level of pressure on our politicians to do what we want them to do. The fact of the matter is, too, that this should not be as hard for us as it was for the liberals/left, because poll after poll continues to show that Americans, in general, are consistently more conservative - in a real little "c" sense - than they are liberal and as such American politicians should in general be more likely to respond positively to a consistent level of "love" and attention from conservatives than they would to an equal amount of "love" and attention from the left - we conservatives are the natural constituency in American politics, not the left.
Toward this end, we should take a great deal of solace from the fact that Rep. Griffith was willing to buck the god-awful pressure coming from the hard-core leftist Antsy-Pantsy Pelosi and publicly throw in with us in what appears to be the darkest hour traditional American values have ever faced since the War of 1812. Mr. Griffith's public change of heart should bouy us up and give us hope that if we continue to apply our own consistent political pressure to even the Democratic politicians who come from right-of-center districts, we may start to see the hard-left Democrat facade begin to buckle faster than we could ever have imagined, and ultimately encourage enough similarly-minded conservative/moderate Democrats to come back to their natural constituency that the hard-left Democrats' apparent majority will dissipate like so much pea-soup fog in the bright sunlight of a new day.
