"So I have no hard & firm answers...only the belief that great troubles are coming, and that the Republican party as we know it is not capable of addressing them."
We are sure on the same page, if guys like you and I don't get some conservative leadership soon, many of us will simply fade away from the struggle.
I'm a fire breathing conservative, and if I don't get a little red meat occasionally I get very discouraged, and the Republican party hasn't thrown us any red meat for a while.(Actually they did, with the new supreme court appointments, and the strong defense of Rumsfield)
Rush Limbaugh is very important to me. While I'm ready to grab the pitchforks and man the barricades, Rush is there to laugh and ask, so did you get that out of your system?
Rush reminds us that this is America, that to implement change we have to win electoral politics. We have to take a long view and win the majority of voters to our side.
I have to remind myself that conservatives are making headway on campuses, among the judiciary, in media, but without the umbrella of Republican party we don't stand any chance at all.
If the Democrats take control of the three branches again it will truly be over.
A lot of the younger people think this is hell, but being old enough to see what the "Greatest Generation" did to this country during the sixties and seventies, I know what hell looks like when the left runs everything.
Look at all the evils that plague us now, almost all the legislation, and court decisions that permanently altered the American destiny was passed during those years.