How serious is our situation?
Some would say not very serious at all. “The TEA Party cavalry has arrived, see look at this poll, and Republicans are going to retake the House. And the Senate.” Well, one of them, surely, or at least enough seats in the Senate that government will only grow by leaps, not leaps and bounds. Hardly anything to fret about.
Friends, do not accept this lazy frame of mind.
Conservatives outnumber liberals in America by a ratio of about two to one. Why is there even a contest on election day? Because we have become lazy. We have heard that our founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor — and have been inspired to watch football from the couch.
| The Marxists in charge of the labor unions, meanwhile, have community organized into a well-greased machine. They extract money from their members, using that money, the promise of reward, and all manner of threats both implicit and explicit to get union members to be their boots on the ground to elect Democrats. (Video: AFL-CIO, via YouTube) |
But this year is different, you say? We have polls! We have talk shows! We have Twitter and the blogs!
- Opinion polls do not win elections. Real people going to the ballot box and voting for Republicans win elections.
- Talk show hosts do not win elections. Republican precinct workers knocking on doors and handing out signs win elections.
- Bloggers do not win elections. Real people, humble enough to give their elderly conservative neighbors a ride to the polling place — that wins elections.
Last year, after the first Redstate Gathering, I wrote about taking a second job delivering pizza, to pay down some personal debt at the rate of a few hundred dollars a month. That’s proceeding, but not complete. Wait, what does that have to do with winning elections?
I have taken the next two months off of that job, to devote this part of my life to electing Republicans to office. I will do it through Redstate, through the Concord Project, and in my local precinct.
Will it be enough? I don’t know. But all I can do is to pledge this portion of my life, what little fortune I have, and my public reputation in support of this effort.
Because the Marxists have had their day, and now we’re coming for them.
Moe Lane
Neil Stevens
Steve Maley
Daniel Horowitz
Jake Walker
Socrates, right on, right on!
mriggio (Diary) Thursday, September 9th at 9:57AM EST (link)Family, home, job(s), eating & sleeping; consumers of time. Blogging/reading/studying opinion & current events=consumption of time. Time is now short and much work is to be done.
Our time management now should be to devote hours & effort to grassroots, face-to-face GOTV. The resources are at your fingertips, the Concord Project, RedState itself, your local candidates and party offices.
I’m pretty much on hiatus from blogging until the votes are counted; time for some door-knocking! Feeling alone & shy? Check out the Concord videos (thanks folks; excellent job!), because it really is just that easy! I say once again, come on in, the water’s fine.
Cheers!
mriggio
SMSgt, USAF (Ret)
Precinct Committeeman (R)
Tazewell County, Illinois
Save the
CheerleaderParty, save the World! (Heroes, ed.)Thanks, mriggio
Loren Heal (Diary) Thursday, September 9th at 11:16AM EST (link)I’ll be looking for your precinct when the votes are tallied.
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Join the Concord Project, and follow @lheal, if you dare.
The right thing is usually simple
RoguePolitics (Diary) Sunday, September 12th at 11:22PM EST (link)but never easy.
The left wins because they work hard(er).
Not this year.
Keep it up.
“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.” George Orwell
“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?” Will Rogers
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object. Patrick Henry
http://theprecinctproject.wordpress.com
Because the Republican Party is NOT going to fix the Republican Party.
http://americanamendment.com/
Because Washington is NOT going to fix Washington.
Exactly right Socrates
Warrior (Diary) Tuesday, September 14th at 12:32PM EST (link)We’ve gotten soft. We sit back, hoping things will go our way.
If the left provokes enough of us, however, they will have awakened a sleeping giant…
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma