Well, that's it.
I've been reading the ongoing blog on National Review Online and was sickened and disheartened to read the genial notes of congratulations to Obama from worthies such as Jonah Goldberg, who one thinks would be one of the good guys.
What you realize is that to most folks inside the beltway - even so-called conservatives - this is all a game.
The attitude is something like, "We lost this time. But we'll get 'em next time." Reminds me of the scene in Bridge on the River Kwai when the William Holden character fully realizes that the British commando team he'"volunteered" with treats their entire suicidal mission as some sort of game. Holden shouts to the Jack Hawkins character, "By all means! Good hunting! Good show! Jolly good fun!"
I'm afraid that's where we are.
This election is a wake up call; matters needs to be taken out of the hands of the political operatives who have just been disastrous for conservatism over the past generation. A true grass roots effort, unbeholden to anyone, needs to reclaim the movement, the party, and the nation.
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The Republican Party needs an immediate and thorough purging. No more so-called moderates. No more suggestions that bi-partisanship is a higher value than conservative principles. This has been a disaster every time Bush has tried it, and McCain has just become the biggest disaster for the Republican Party since Bush 41 (who lost in 1992 because he reached across the aisle, raised taxes, and thereby made himself a--read my lips--bald liar. If we don't soon get a Republican Party that is a true conservative constitutionalist party with a bold and vibrant voice, them I'm finished with it. The alternatives may be flegling, but at least they stand for something worth committing to.
I think you're absolutely right. I'll look forward to seeing what the very few street-fighters we have on our side have to say about this all too predictable outcome. Surely they've come to the same conclusion. perhaps a fledgling movement won't necessarily be a small one.
Assuming free speech is allowed to survive in the caliphate of Obama (not a foregone conclusion) the new conservatism must stand on principle and principle alone: This is what we believe; here's what we'll do; and here's why. Take us or leave us, but we aren't going away.
Amen to all of the above.
Good movie, "Bridge." Did you know there's a documentary from not too long ago about the real Colonel, who was nothing like the Alec Guiness character. In fact, survivors of that hell quite resent the movie portrayal. The real Colonel was an extremely honorable man. He gave a long recorded interview to a biographer. Even one of his jailers, a real-life Saito (albeit a sergeant) admired him greatly. The colonel said something I'll never forget, that we all leave a shadow behind when we die, and he implied that he was concerned what his shadow should be, what it should look like. His men loved him as well. He never would have willingly helped the Japs to accomplish anything.
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