Posted by
Jennifer Waite on Friday, November 07, 2008 3:05:04 PM
It’s 10:41 a.m. and all is not well. The con of the century has just been pulled on the greatest country on Earth. Americans have entrusted our leadership to a man who wouldn’t pass the security clearance his body guards had to pass. His path to the White House went through Chicago, a city I hold close to my heart but also hold disgust towards. I have no doubt political checks were post dated to lowlifes in the filthy Chicago political machine the last 20 years. On January 21st they’re gonna be cashed, and Americans will pay dearly. What’s done is done. We can’t do anything about that besides hand-wring. And I hate hand-wringers. I’m a conservationist and that’s a huge waste of energy. We need to take action.
Hopefully conservatism has now hit rock bottom. We can only move up, baby. We need to make a lot of changes and, like it or not, a big part of that is image. What image does the average swing voter have of conservatives? James Dobson. Tom Delay. Rush. Abortion clinic bombers. Gay bashers. Hypocrisy. The comb-over. Some of those things are good, some are bad. Some are misunderstood representations of conservatism and some are parts of conservatism that need to go away. We need the youth. And by youth I mean under 40.
Young people are attracted to liberalism because they think it means freedom. The rest of us know nothing could be farther from the truth. I suspect the Obama bubble will inevitably burst. Hopefully before 2012. When he fails to deliver rainbows and unicorns the “Obama Youth” will be sorely disappointed. They’ll be a little older, life will have kicked them in the butt a little bit and they’ll be looking for the real American Dream. And we need to be there to help them find it. I know all this is true because I used to be that way. There just wasn’t an Obama in my day. Instead of having my delusions shattered by an empty suit I was rudely awoken on 9/11, like a lot of people.
So where do we start? I say anywhere. Voting and bumper stickers aren’t cutting it. After the election I wrote a sappy letter to John McCain. I hope he reads it someday. Getting to “know him” during his campaign really changed the way I think about being an American and being a human being. His campaign is over, but I see no reason for “Country First” to stop. I think those two words really sum it up. There are big and small ways to put Country First on a regular basis. The new bumper sticker should be on our bathroom mirrors and it should say, “What have you done to advance conservatism today?” That’s what I’m trying to do, and if…oh, say a few million people will join me we can save America. I love this country and I think it’s worth saving. Who’s with me? Let’s make John McCain proud. Let’s make Abraham Lincoln proud. Let’s take back America before it’s too late.