How to take back America (GOOD READ)

The Washington Times ^ | September 18, 2007 | Joel Himelfarb

[2ndDivisionVet]

It is an honor and privilege to live in the United States, the greatest country in the world. Yet for all its blessings, American society is beset by serious problems, including jihadists seeking weapons of destruction who want to create a world caliphate; a violent, sexually loaded popular culture that targets our children; unelected judges who ignore the Constitution and abuse their powers; and a disrespect for human life that has resulted in tens of millions of abortions.

It is possible to become demoralized and conclude that everything is hopeless, and that we should withdraw from the political and cultural debate and abandon the nation to Harry Reid, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Michael Moore, Britney Spears and the like. But doing so would be moral cowardice, and, as radio talk-show host Laura Ingraham demonstrates in her excellent new book, "Power to the People," the truth is that we have only begun to avail ourselves of the tools at our disposal to fight back and win.

I like this book for the same reasons I have enjoyed listening to Miss Ingraham's radio show for nearly five years: 1) She is a conservative who shares my values and beliefs; 2) she has an ability to poke fun at herself, and, best of all, at arrogant, preening politicians and knavish show-business types; and 3) she's an optimist in the tradition of Ronald Reagan who believes in the ability of the American people to change things for the better.

In this book, she provides real-world examples of how this can be done — and is already being done. Miss Ingraham details how talk radio and movement conservatives stood up to the Bush administration and its allies in Big Business, Big Labor and the Democratic congressional leadership to kill the mass amnesty bill earlier this summer.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Comments?

[Judges Gone Wild]

Laura Ingraham is fighting the good fight. Go Laura!!

[crazyshrink]

We didn’t get into this mess overnite, and were not going to get out of it by sunset. Patience and doggedness are a conservatives best friend right now.

[Shery]

Sounds liike a very good book, and a much-needed one, at that. I know a lot of people are angry and feel disconnected with our culture, feel that the left is winning. But that is what they want us to believe so we’ll give up and stay home on election day for the primaries and the general election. The election isn’t over yet, and let the pollsters claim what they want to. The important thing is for conservatives to stay in the fight and take what ground they can.

[freekitty]

I have just started her book.

[Old_Mil]

Conservatives need to take a page out of the liberal playbook. If you've watched the liberal movement over the past 30 years, one thing is clear: liberals never compromise.

They know what they want, they expect all of it, and they never settle for less than all of it. If they can't win it at the ballot box, they try the courts. If they can't win it through the courts, they try societal fifth columns.

There is no "big tent" liberalism. Despite this, liberals stand on the verge of achieving everything they have spent three decades fighting for.

You would think that given the visceral hatred that the conservative right holds for any sort of an amnesty, that at least one this one issue, the four party committee blessed candidates would toe the line on at least this one thing...and yet all four want to legalize the illegals already here.

Whatever tactics conservatives wish to use to take back America, they must first adopt a strategy of demanding exactly what it is they want, and never settling for anything less.

[Bigg Red]

Thanks for posting this.

I like the way LI’s mind works.