Very well stated!!
As you know, I live in the rural Upstate New York area outside of Ithaca, the ultra-liberal City of Evil... I have the opportunity to argue pretty regularly with Democrats around here (there's damn few of anything else!). So I've been re-reading Goldwater's "Conscience of a Conservative", watching videos of Reagan's and Goldwater's speeches in the 60's (they saw this war coming and warned us!) and getting stoked...
What surprises me this season is that some of my neighbors who are moderate Dems, who are dissatisfied with Obama because he's a crappy leader, but who won't vote for Romney because he's a Republican, are thinking seriously about third-party candidates, and I don't mean the Green or Liberal parties. Some are looking at the cultural decay around them and considering supporting conservative third-party folks as a rebellion against establishment politics. They're sick of the decadence, too.
I find this very encouraging -- it not only pulls votes away from Obama, but it also encourages people to think about what is RIGHT FOR AMERICA instead of just choosing between the greater and lesser EVILS.
Of course, these folks have a way to go before they get their heads on completely straight, after all, they voted for Obama last time. But the signs are becoming encouraging, at this very local and personal level, that support for Rebellion to stop this decay runs deeper than we suspect (or dare to hope). I'm not wealthy or powerful, but every day I try to open a few people's minds to turning this thing around and DOING THE RIGHT THING FOR AMERICA'S RECOVERY.
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