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A Random Act of Maverick for Hoffman

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reporter2NY-23 is shaping up to be one heck of a race.  The Conservative Party candidate, Doug Hoffman, has a real shot at winning, and helping us inflict a random act of maverick on the willfully wayward GOP.  I don’t have the least bit of trouble with it.  If they want to be liberals, why not call them on it?

You can see an ad at The American Spectator made by the Club for Growth that does just that.  If this guy wins, and I hope he does, I so want to hear the Republicans spin this.  Most likely they’ll call us grumpy again.

Getting the Word Out for Hoffman

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cheerIt’s time to do some work for real conservatism.

Michelle Malkin hosted a guest post by Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate running in NY-23 against the Democrat and the Other Democrat, aka the Republican.  This guy is a solid conservative, and you can help by donating, doing footwork, and/or helping get the word out that Hoffman exists and is in contention to the voters.  If you want to visit Hoffman’s site, it’s here.

This is another chance to give the Republicans a “shape up or ship out” notice while assisting a worthwhile conservative candidate.  Either that, or just return a few eye pokes they’ve given you over the years.

Ok, End Run It Is

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dive_elephantTwo electoral backhands in a row, and the Republicans still don’t get it.

First, Crist is the favored nominee for Martinez’ old Senate seat in Florida.  When I say favored, I mean that the Republican Party is backing that mislabeled Democrat over his more worthwhile opponent, Marco Rubio.  However, Crist isn’t doing so well.  Show your maverick support for Crist by visiting Rubio’s site today.

Second, the GOP establishment is actively backing a candidate in NY-23, one Scozzafava, against the candidate the district and grassroots actually support, Hoffman.  You can read the report about it at Michelle Malkin.  Scozzafava is as mislabeled a Democrat as they come, but apparently the GOP still doesn’t care.

Fine by me.  End run it is.

The GOP is in no position to block us anymore, at least not completely.  Conservatives have their own movement.  We have our own conservative sources of funding.  We have our own sources of grassroots manpower.  Candidates who aren’t favored by the Other Democrat establishment can’t be silenced, because we can give them the publicity they need.  In other words, we can do an end run around the GOP’s machinery and get what we want.

In the end, this may be the fastest and easiest solution to the problem with the GOP.  Just starve their national committees while continuing to build our own sources of money, manpower, and publicity.  In the end, the establishment may not like it, but we’ll be holding most of the cards so it won’t matter anymore.  We would effectively be a third party able to use the name recognition of the Republicans to be conservative again.  The strategy would be to get as close as practical to the place when only we would have everything it takes to give good, solid conservatives what they need to win Republican primaries and general elections.

The third party option is still a consideration, especially with a number of good ones out there, but it’s not the best first choice for a solution.  Building a viable third party takes a lot of effort no one has managed yet.  An independent conservative power-broker solution, however, can make changes within the existing structures.  Power-brokering has been proven effective before (that’s all the Republican National Committees do), and this is the way to go to reincarnate the Republicans.

Yes, We Can Get Through This

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flag_dogObama has spent the first months of his Presidency being good for the only thing I suspected he would be:  a rude awakening.  The country needed one after decades of dumbing down and propaganda, and nothing short of it would have sufficed.  It’s not what we wanted and it won’t end well in the short term, but more people will be awake and aware of exactly how much they have to lose by the time this is over.

It’s not pleasant to watch, and certainly not to live in a mess like this.  But yes, we can get through this.  It’s not the first time we’ve had to sail through rough waters, and it won’t be the first time we’ve succeeded once we’re done.

So while many of you may not see it now, I’m going to take some time to mention the silver linings to the current giant political storm cloud over all of our heads:

  • The Tea Party movement wouldn’t have formed without Obama.  As conservative activism is a must if we want to put America back on track, this is a good thing.  We’ll need them for Republican RINOs too, since a few are bound to slip by the purge and get back into office.  No more free rides for people like Bush.
  • The Republican Party spent two election cycles suffering some major defeats.  They were also major garbage disposals that couldn’t be avoided any longer.  Because of it, they moved back to the right, and until recently, stayed there.  Finishing what we started will put a stake through the heart of the Republican’s “Other Democrat” platform, at least for a time.
  • McCain’s defeat discredited the “Curry media favor by spitting on the base, then get elected President with their help.  What are the conservatives going to do about it, heh heh?” theory of politics.  Had he won, any Republican who wanted to be President would have attempted to use that theory to duplicate McCain’s success.  Think the opposition party is in trouble now?  Imagine if it was full of McCain clones, and you’ll see the bright side to this.
  • The race card is being played more abusively lately than at any time in my life.  Rush Limbaugh is its latest undeserving target.  If Obama and his like-minded allies abuse it to destruction, he removes one huge weapon from the arsenal of the Democrats, and we will have taken a huge step towards real post-racialism in the US.
  • A lot of people are about to learn to appreciate the freedoms and prosperity they have the hard way.  When that happens, a lot more people will stand up to defend it instead of being the sheeple they are today. If you look at all the first-time protesters joining the Tea Party Movement, you’ll see that this has already begun.

It’s not the first time we’ve had to do the seemingly impossible.  We’ve been through wars, a Great Depression, and all manner of social unrest.  We began when our Founding Fathers told the most powerful nation of its day to begone, and then made it stick.  Now is just another time we have to overcome the seemingly impossible, a supposedly irreversible descent into soft tyranny and socialism.  When we do, we’ll make jaws drop again, and we can do it because that’s who we are.

Yes, we can get through this.  Sooner or later, we will find a way.