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Strength in the face of the enemy is the only measure of character that matters.
1 posted on 11/07/2012 9:30:21 AM PST by jessduntno
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To: jessduntno
Take heart! The job for lovers of liberty has just begun!

On another thread today, the question is posed: What do we need to do differently?" Good question!

A nation robbed by "progressives" of its constitutional understanding--that is the primary reason we are continuing on the road to tyranny under deficit, debt, and government control! The secondary reason is the GOP's failure to use its billion-dollar campaign to focus like a laser on educating voters!

During the primary season, one of my FR posts stated the following in response to a Jonah Goldberg comment about Romney:

Sorry, Jonah, but this is not as simple as "not speaking the language (of conservatism) naturally." When a person is steeped in the ideas of Jefferson, Adams, Madison, and Washington, it just "naturally" slips through in the ideas they convey. Remember Reagan?

Do Republicans seriously want to conserve America's constitutional principles? Or, are they just objecting to Democrats? Do they have a passion for liberty? Is this just about changing the Party in power, or is it about preserving freedom?

If their concern is for convincing enough voters to reject the idea of "a government big enough to give you everyting you want" and turn to advocacy for "a government small enough to allow you freedom to keep most of what you earn," then they'd better get busy seeing that someone is nominated who has been "marinated" (to use a word coined by Ingraham last night on "The Factor") in the Founders' ideas (isn't that what conservatives purport to "conserve"?).

So far (February 2012), Mitt Romney, though a good man, demonstrates no such "immersion." He has been "successful" in benefiting from those ideas, and he recites familiar words and phrases from patriotic speeches and songs, but that is different from understanding and being able to call up and articulate the philosophy which made such success possible.

Ronald Reagan's life and letters reveal that he had "immersed" himself in those ideas for years before he agreed to run for President, and that is why he could set "issues" in light of constitutional "principle." and explain his advocacy or rejection of solutions in by that light.

The other three candidates in the Primary--Paul, Santorum, Gingrich--couch their answers to questions in a manner which indicates personal pursuit and understanding of the Constitution's protections, each in his own way.

Of the two so-called "frontrunners," however, the lifetime history scholar, teacher, legislator, and participant in what was called "the Reagan revolution," appears to be the one most likely to be able to successfully articulate and distinguish those ideas to voters, if given the chance to compete with the "counterfeit ideas" of tyranny cloaked in righteous benevolence by Obama.

Is "politics as usual" to win the day, or might we not bring Gingrich, Santorum, Paul, and others who embrace founding principles together to help to create a "passion" for liberty among citizens sufficient to defeat the counterfeit ideas which are leading the Republic to ruin?

The following is excerpted from "Our Ageless Constitution," p. 181:

"It was John Adams who said: "The foundation of every government is some principle or passion in the minds of the people." Clearly, the Founders' passion was liberty, and in order to secure that liberty, they sought out and incor­porated into the United States Constitution those ideas and principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

"The French historian, Guizot, once asked James Russell Lowell, "How long will the American republic endure?" Lowell replied: "As long as the IDEAS of the men who founded it continue dominant."

"Herein lies the answer to the question, "Will the Experiment Succeed?"

"It can and will succeed IF the motivating "principle or passion in the minds of the people" is LIBERTY, and if that passion causes them to exert the determination and will to complete the needed restoration of the IDEAS upon which the great American experiment was based." ---(End of excerpted material)

My call to the GOP and all lovers of liberty is the same as then! To rediscover and recover liberty from the hands of those who are turning America into just another failing nation dominated by a government-over-people ideology, a determined and massive education effort should begin November 7, 2012, focused on the teaching of the fundamental principles essential to the survival of individual liberty for a people.

2 posted on 11/07/2012 9:35:29 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: jessduntno

The margin of victory was slim? Hardly.


3 posted on 11/07/2012 9:35:44 AM PST by Misterioso ("Do you like Ayn Rand?" "Kinda, how 'bout you?" "Well, I grew beyond her." "Oh, me too, just today.")
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To: jessduntno
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies."

These are the words of a gracious victor, not your average American progressive.

Its very hard for me not to consider people enemies who clearly consider me one.

4 posted on 11/07/2012 9:36:47 AM PST by skeeter
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7 posted on 11/07/2012 9:41:57 AM PST by Baynative
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To: jessduntno

The “Will” of the American military to protect our nation died 9/11/2012 in a shithole called Benghazi.

Our Commander in Chief was AWOL, then gutless, and a pathological liar. Same for the Secy of State, Defense, etc.

The head of the Jt. Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dempsey, is a politically correct useless POS. He abandoned Americans in the field and left them to die.

He should have quit immediately when Obama refused to help the Benghazi Four, if he had any honor. He didn’t, and he doesn’t.

My son is a combat veteran of Iraq, and for the first time since his service there, he is pissed off to the point of saying so.

He still serves our country in another capacity where his life is on the line protecting our government and one of its high-ranking leaders (who has disdain for his security people). But how can you ask him to take a bullet for a country that just shit on those who served, are serving, or who died in the line of duty for a country (50%) and president who also disdain them, won’t support them properly, or lead them in a time of war?

I saw our best and brightest in Vietnam and Cambodia. I don’t see our “best and brightest” leading America today, and tomorrow may be too late for the necessary change.

America had her best chance yesterday to redeem itself, and it failed.

God help us, because 50% of Americans won’t.

MadMax, Vietnam journalist, 1970


8 posted on 11/07/2012 9:45:23 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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we are not sure what to do here in Central CT. We supported three candidates ... all of the right, all pro-life

1. Candidate #1, won by 277 votes vs. 18-year lefty NARAL Green incumbent.

2. Candidate #2, freshman state Senator, lost 50.1% to 49.9%.

3. Candidate #3, open seat. In recount due to machine error. We expect to win.

this is in DEM leaning area of CT, in the deep “blue” CT in areas Obambi won big.

What should our attitude be? No gloating. Don’t need congratulations. We do not apologize for winning.

We paid attention to our own business, campaigned and avoided the hysteria of the national race. Which we had no way of being involved in. Tell me, was it worth it? or should we throw in the towel now that we’ve won a couple?


14 posted on 11/07/2012 10:39:20 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (campaigning for local conservatives)
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To: jessduntno
I know alot of FReepers are feeling down. Everything comes in cycles and it will get better.

I know Obama sucks as a President, but he happens to be probably the best campaigner of our generation.

The GOP just happened to run into that.

This was the Dems golden child and his numbers were close to Bush 2004. That's the good news, there's no candidate for the Dems who will ever bring in numbers like that again. I know lots of FReepers are bringing up the demographic shift, but that too will not be enough for the Dems in the near future when someone other than Obama is running. Throw in the economy will be in the toilet for the next few years and your gonna have a real 'change' here soon.

15 posted on 11/07/2012 10:41:10 AM PST by Theoria (Romney is a Pyrrhic victory.)
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