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calls and emails have been coming in furiously. Stated in different
ways, 'where do we go from here,' is the question that is on just about
everyone's mind.
We can answer that question in two words, "leadership" and "courage," but before we go any further, let's take an honest and realistic look at what actually happened on Tuesday, where we stand, and what potential long-term disasters were possibly averted on Tuesday.
As we lick our wounds, it may seem unreasonable for us to make the following point but bear with us: Nothing actually changed on Tuesday. Pause and think about it for just a minute. In reality, as a nation, we simply maintained a horrendous and intolerable status quo.
Barack Hussein Obama is still illegally occupying the White House. Harry Reid is still in charge of a small but obstructionist Democrat majority in the United States Senate and the spineless John Boehner is still 'leading' the House of Representatives.
Obviously, we gained nothing, but we haven't lost ground either. Our country is in the same (albeit intolerable) position that it occupied on November 5th; and while we have said, in the past, that Barack Obama is a "disease" that is afflicting this great country, truth be told, he's merely a symptom of a far greater sickness that has afflicted this great country for far too long.
Star Parker so aptly stated: "For years, we've talked about the demographic shift impacting our country's policies, with liberals selling entitlements to an ever-enlarging voter block in exchange for votes and values. Well, it's time to stop talking because the shift has happened."
Parker is right but if one were to point fingers, our Republican leaders have been quilty for years, unwittingly perhaps, of spreading the very cancer that is destroying this great nation.
Here's just one example of how our Republican leaders have allowed the left to build constituencies that erode our very foundations and drive the country ever leftward.
For years we've allowed the government to fund so-called "comprehensive sex education programs" in our public schools, we've allowed the government to fund Planned Parenthood. As a country, we've worshipped at the altar of birth control and abortion and pushed welfare programs that place the government into the role of father in the lives of far too many of our children; and now we wonder why single, unmarried women and young people voted in overwhelming numbers for the man who supports such suicidal programs.
We could cite countless examples but suffice it to say that our problems did not surface overnight. We are indeed reaping what we sowed. As Obama's mentor, Jeremiah Wright would say: America's chickens have indeed come home to roost.
And when it comes to "what we lost," namely, reversing the horrendous direction touched upon in the above paragraphs, a clear win, in this presidential election, was never an option.
While we kept our powder dry during the campaign (lest we be falsely accused of sabotaging a Republican victory), we didn't swallow the Kool-aid either. We always knew that Mitt Romney was not a conservative. He never was a conservative and he will probably never be a conservative.
A Romney administration would have simply continued the leftward march of this country, albeit at a much slower pace, put a "GOP-Stamp" on it and compromise-to-get-along Republicans in Congress would have simply jumped on the liberal Romney bandwagon, as if leftist policies advanced during a Republican administration are somehow better than leftist policies advanced during a Democrat administration.
The dark cloud of Romney's loss, in the end, may have a silver lining. We may have averted a much worse disaster; the long-term continuation of a march to the left on the part of Republican elected officials which, over time, might have done more damage to our fortunes and our country than the hard times which are sure to come over the next four years.
Put another way, disaster was unavoidable after Mitt Romney secured the GOP nomination; as a nation, assuming that we succeed in coming years when it comes to electing principled conservatives to office, we may have succeeded in trading a long-term disaster for a short-term disaster.
Are we painting a rosy picture? By no means. If Barack Obama has his way, gas prices at the pump will continue to rise. The cost to heat our homes and feed our families will go up. More of us will lose our homes and our jobs.
It's not a pretty picture but, as Americans, we are made of stern stuff. We can weather the storm.
Are we engaging in a delusional attempt to put a happy face on a disastrous situation? Hardly. It was however necessary to take a realistic look at where we stand to adequately explain where we must go.
So where do we go? We must stay the course and continue to force our elected officials, kicking and screaming if we must, to effect a change in the political dialogue in Washington. We must force them to start exhibiting qualities that have been in short supply in Washington in years past, namely, courage and leadership.
One of our members, Dorothy L., in response to words of assurance we sent her in an email wrote us in reply: "For two elections now there have been excellent books and articles about who Obama really is. The leaders of Republican Party have said nothing I don't think that the fact that the Liberals have controlled the media is the real culprit. As you have said and I will paraphrase, the GOP is weak."
Dorothy hit the nail on the head. We've perceived our Republican leaders as weak because they've followed (and are still following) a failed strategy. They only act when they believe the political dialogue indicates that it would be advantageous for them to act instead of acting to change the dialogue.
That's a recipe for disaster. We must convince our Republican leaders to follow the example of Ronald Reagan and act to advance a dialogue that, in turn, makes it advantageous for them to pursue an affirmative agenda.
Perhaps an illustration is in order. On Wednesday, Gary Bauer, a man whom I personally hold in the highest regard, made a statement in response to the question of where we go from here that touches upon the kind of thinking that brings us defeat.
Bauer wrote: "We are probably stuck with ObamaCare. I hedge that somewhat because I believe it is possible that as the law is fully implemented over the next few years, and as its negative effects become obvious, its unpopularity will continue to grow."
He went on to say: "The courts will be skewed further to the left as Obama has four more years to pack them with left-wing activists."
Bauer was right to "hedge" because, truth be told, and in spite of what Republican elites make believe, we don't have to accept anything. We don't have to accept ObamaCare and we don't have to accept left-wing tyrants on the federal bench. The solution is simple. We must convince Republicans to have the courage and exhibit the leadership necessary to just say no.
ObamaCare can be stopped. The Republican House can simply exercise its Constitutional duty of the purse and refuse to fund it. That was always an option, but it's an option the GOP leadership has refused, thus far, to explore.
Why the refusal? The GOP political establishment is living under the delusion that such a move would lead to a "government shutdown" which would be perceived as draconian and stigmatize the GOP in the eyes of the American people.
We don't accept that premise. We don't accept the premise that it's necessary to attempt to engage Mr. Obama and then complain that getting him to "compromise" is like "nailing Jello to the wall."
Here's a piece of advice Mr. Boehner. Draw a line in the sand and just say no. The tactic, after all, works for your opposition.
Harry Reid and Senate Democrats have refused to pass a budget for almost 4 years. Isn't his refusal draconian? Didn't Harry Reid make crazy and highly inflammatory statements during the presidential campaign? Were his actions not the types of things that should cause public disenchantment and accusations of ineptness, stupidity and incompetence? Of course, but that hasn't stopped Harry Reid and there's a lesson to be learned in studying Harry Reid's tactics.
The same goes for Obama's nominations to the Supreme Court and the federal bench. Senate Democrats obstructed George W. Bush's nominees to the federal bench. They "borked" Robert Bork. Are they stigmatized? Perhaps, but they're also the majority party in the United States Senate in spite of their foolishness and there's a lesson to be learned there as well.
In short, Harry Reid acts, Nancy Pelosi acts, Barack Obama acts; and when they act, they change the dialogue and thereby "justify" their inane actions. In contrast, our "leaders" cede issues and fight from positions of weakness. They do it legislatively and they do it when they campaign.
Mitt Romney ceded Benghazi... he ceded the Obama's administration's assault on the Church and people of faith. He ceded so many issues because his handlers thought that bringing them into the political dialogue would make him appear to be "stupid," or worse, an unreasonable political ideologue.
Ronald Reagan knew better. He advanced the issues that politicians typically avoided and the media predictably called him "stupid" and "unreasonable" but he didn't seem to care because he knew that once he forced the issues into the political dialogue, people would come to understand those issues. People would come to understand why he was advancing those issues and people would come to actually support his "stupid" and "unreasonable" stances once they realized that his "stupidity" mirrored their own.
If your opposition is going to paint you as a buffoon for supporting "idiotic" issues like traditional marriage (which most Americans support by the way), the sanctity of life (which most Americans support by the way), saving American lives (which most Americans support by the way), that organizations like Planned Parenthood, which not only advances genocide but has an annual budget of approximately 1 billion dollars, is not deserving of taxpayer money; or, in Reagan's case, calling the Soviet Union is an "evil empire"... don't back away from those issues, embrace them.
The "squishy-middle" will never respect you for attempting to convince them that you really don't hold those "idiotic" views or that you only hold those views "moderately." Efforts to back-away, only add credibility to the false premise that such views are "idiotic."
People will however respect you and join you when you make a reasonable argument for holding those views and there are words for that Reaganesque quality, courage and leadership. It's a quality Reagan had and Mitt Romney and John Boehner lack.
What would happen, for example, if Mr. Boehner allowed Barack Obama to shut the government down over a refusal to fund the implementation of ObamaCare and very simply stated: 'If shutting down the government is necessary to stop the advancement of tyranny and ensure the American people will not be subjected to servitude to the federal government, then so be it.'
Admittedly, the liberal media would castigate him. He'd watch his approval numbers temporarily plummet, but we maintain that the American people would, in fairly short order, affirm his bravery and his commitment were he to simply stay on message and refuse to compromise or equivocate.
Courage and leadership are desperately needed in Washington, but it's not enough for us to simply say that courage and leadership are needed in Washington.
Our mission is just as clear today as it was back in 2008, when we founded GrassTopsUSA. Courage and qualities of leadership may not come naturally to some of our self-appointed leaders in Congress but those qualities can we learned and we're more than willing to provide the necessary instruction.
Our task won't be easy. Even self-proclaimed conservatives will, out of both malice and stupidity, oppose efforts to advance a truly conservative agenda.
Stupidity? Oh yes and here's a case in point. The publisher of Newsmax, Chris Ruddy, recently cautioned us that Romney lost because Hurricane Issac preempted Senator Marco Rubio's primetime speech during the GOP convention and Hurricane Sandy put Romney's campaign into "freeze mode."
Ruddy went on to blame "double-dealing" by Chris Christie, Romney's choice of Congressman Paul Ryan's as Veep (Ryan, in Ruddy's estimation was too "conservative" and therefore "unqualified" for the job), Romney and... here's the icing on the cake... Ryan's specific calls for fiscal sanity and the "myth" that a "conservative base" actually exists.
Hey, we couldn't make this stuff up if we tried. It's hard to win a fight when the publisher of the most widely read "conservative" publication on the Internet behaves delusionally.
It may never occur to Ruddy and Karl Rove or RNC Chair Reince Preibus for that matter, that Romney lost precisely because he failed to advance a conservative message. It may never occur to them that the fact they they're allowed to breath and occupy space on the planet earth contributed to Romney's defeat and it will never occur to them that we lost because Romney and men like Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to unapologetically advance a conservative agenda.
That last statement bears repeating. We're not saying that Boehner and McConnell don't fight for the conservative agenda. The problem is that they refuse to fight for it unapologetically. No one ever won a war with his hat in his hand.
Yes, we'll not only be forced to fight the left, we'll find ourselves fighting the delusional and weak-willed who claim that they are not only within our ranks but that they are 'leaders' within our ranks.
And, as we continue the fight, we'll all have to make sacrifices in our personal lives, some we will make freely and some will be bestowed upon us by an increasingly hostile government, but we are made of stern stuff and if we grid our loins and prepare for what is to come, we will be victorious.
Keep the Faith
Chris Carmouche
GrassTopsUSA
P.S. We'd also like to take this time to thank all of you who graciously helped us with our Facebook GOTV campaign. When all was said and done, we put out over 6.1 Million GOTV messages to over 1.2 Million conservatives on Facebook.
As far as we're concerned, that's a positive because showing up for the fight is half the battle and if we can depend upon the moral and financial support of our members, subscribers and supporters in years to come, we promise that we will not waver in the fight or dare to fly the flags of surrender, compromise or accommodation to the people and movements that seek to destroy this country.
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