What Now?
November 10, 2008 by Ron
Filed under News and Opinion
The election is a week behind us and once again Republicans have been whipped soundly. So what does a good conservative do now?
What we do now is consistently apply pressure across the board. We, as grassroots conservatives have to apply pressure first to our members of Congress to replace the inept leadership at the top. That means I’m contacting Congressman Henry Brown and telling him NOT to support Minority Leader Boehner.
We’ve had two disastrous elections in a row and yet it appears the House it poised to retain the leadership that handed us those losses. We have a GOP that is still in denial. They continue to make excuses, apparently having learned nothing from the ‘06 and ‘08 elections. If the GOP has any hope at all of retaking anything in 2010, it depends on replacing the current leadership in both the House and Senate with solid ideological conservatives. It makes no sense to continue rewarding failure yet the GOP has a strong tendency to do just that.
We grassroots conservatives have successfully flexed our muscles before. When President Bush tried to pass Harriet Meyers off on use we rose up en mass and put a stop to it. We have the power to do the same kind of thing now. If members of Congress are overwhelmed with phone calls, emails and faxes from their constituents demanding new leadership, they will listen.
The question is, do grassroots conservatives care enough to take action?
![[del.icio.us]](http://forthardknox.com/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/delicious.png)
![[Facebook]](http://forthardknox.com/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/facebook.png)
![[Twitter]](http://forthardknox.com/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/twitter.png)
![[Email]](http://forthardknox.com/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/email.png)
I believe the Democrats have the Republican’s testicles in a lock box. With the rise of The Messiah, Lord Obama, I think the GOP is too afraid to appear racist for any type of dissent to his policies. I predict they will play a pacifist role with minor attempts to challenge.
I disagree, I think a full-court press pseudo-obstructionist strategy is the most likely. It will be highly politically convenient if they also go below 41 seats in the Senate, then they can vote against everything without actually stopping any legislation and then they can cash it all in during the next election.
If anything at all goes wrong, they can say they knew it all along and if it all works, they can just claim they were being a healthy opposition party.
It will also be important to keep pressure on the godless liberals, maybe we should all sign up for multiple email accounts and reply en-masse to their blogs, letters to the editor and whatever else. I call it “Operation Silence Majority”.