Despite the temporary elation delivered by a Rush Limbaugh pep
talk at CPAC, conservative morale is at an all-time low.
Painfully aware of the hold that Obamania has over the media and
therefore the nation, those on the right who are forced to align
with the GOP are feeling the winter blues more keenly than at any
time in our history. Under assault on all fronts — socially,
economically and politically — and taking the usual friendly
fire from our Senate moderates, there seems little cause for
hope.
But, as in all tribulation, there is always a silver lining. And
like George Washington in the winter of 1776, we’ve got to take
advantage of conditions and launch an attack out of our perceived
weakness. With this prolonged and snowy winter, we’ve already got
the global-warmists on the run and more importantly, with the
stock market plunging every time anyone in the Administration
approaches a podium, people are starting to feel the effects of
the recession like never before.
The one positive aspect of the 2008 elections is that now that
we’re out of power, we can go on offense instead of dealing from
a cowering, defensive position The time is past when we must
summon our policy wonks, or even Rush, to define and defend our
views. The very definition of conservativism is, in a way, a
backward-looking concept and the only way to sell our message to
an America that desires “change” is to force the left’s true
agenda out into the open; and then at election time, to contrast
theirs with our own.
The key to solving our dilemma is to put liberals in defense of
their grand plan. We can cry “socialism” all we want, but if its
tenets are unknown to the American people, we are merely spitting
into a howling wind of propaganda. If you’ve ever engaged in a
discussion with a product of the liberal brainwashing machine,
you know what I mean. It is useless to use simple facts to refute
their programmed views; because these are never based on
actuality, but on emotion.
And emotion is an ultra-powerful tool when it comes to politics,
and it has always been so. This was well demonstrated by William
Shakespeare in his tale of the fickleness of the Roman people in
the wake of Julius Caesar’s assassination. Recalling how the use
of rhetoric swayed the mob and then applying it to modern
America, it makes one want to cry out with Mark Antony, “O
judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost
their reason!”
So instead of coming to praise conservatism, let us instead bury
socialism. Let’s start asking questions; tough, specific
questions. Questions that, if asked calmly and often enough, will
force Democrats to explain themselves; a perilous risk in defense
of an ideology that must constantly be masked with rhetoric and
utopian platitudes like “hope” and “change.”
Are Democratic solutions to black poverty working? Why have
countless other minorities come to this country and flourished —
sometimes in less than a generation — when many American-born
blacks wallow in liberal-fed despair? Hillary Clinton and Joe
Biden can make all the
jokes they want about Indians owning gas stations and donut
shops, but the fact remains that other peoples of color have
managed to work hard and make the American dream their own. Why?
How can jobs possibly be “created” if the government taxes and
regulates businesses out of business. This can be especially
effective when countering ludicrous claims that Republican
measures are responsible for jobs going overseas. Try this: Can
the spate of companies going offshore possibly be the result of
onerous taxes, outrageous union demands and/or choking
governmental regulation?
Name one country that has a nationalized healthcare system that
provides more speedy or cutting-edge care than ours? And, as to
the reason why our system needs “fixing,” what can possibly be
the reason? Might the insidious demands of the trial-lawyer lobby
have something to do with rising costs?
Why have Japanese scientists, those in the backyard of Kyoto,
published a
report debunking man-mad global warming, calling it an
“unprovable hypothesis” and the equivalent of “ancient
astrology”? And, do the plans to wreck our economy with wild
“cap-and-trade” policies rest on real science, or merely on
scientific consensus? Define the difference between the two,
please.
If unions are good for business, why are the industries most
connected to them failures? Could their infiltration at the
municipal level account for bankrupted local governments? Is
their nearly total control of our dreadful education system
responsible for that continuing debacle? Might their shrinking
membership in the private sector be a warning bell? Should the
national hatred for workplace greed apply to them?
We must force these and many more questions to be raised every
morning at American kitchen tables. We can be fairly sure that
our media will never put forth any of the above of their own
volition, but that doesn’t mean that we lack venues for their
address. As liberals are fond of pointing out, we own talk radio
and a great deal of the Internet; and we do have some great
advocates in Congress.
Most of all, let’s make this a disciplined effort, meaning that
whatever the provocation, we stay on offense at all times. As
General Washington said, “Discipline is the soul of an army. It
makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and
esteem to all.”
