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How To Keep Up Your Own Morale

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If you’re paying attention to politics on the conservative side of things lately, there’s not much of a way to be happy about circumstances.  The Republicans are in the process of turning what could have been a slam dunk election in 2012 into their own rout.  Boehner and McConnell have been disasters.  After the Kelo decision, there’s a real chance the Supreme Court could say “Yep, Obamacare’s on the level” and we’re stuck with it.

So how do you keep up morale?  When feeling overwhelmed, think smaller.

Yes, the big picture isn’t so bright, but that doesn’t mean we can’t move the ball forward somewhere.  There are individual Congressional candidates like Mia B. Love to assist.  Ted Cruz is making headway to the nomination in Texas.  Indiana just passed a Right to Work law.  Life’s not good everywhere, but it’s madness to say it’s not good anywhere.

If you look, there is somewhere and some way to push conservatism forward.  Should you find yourself demoralized, shrink your focus to one of them until it goes away.  You can always jump back into the bigger fray later once you’ve regrouped.  We can win somewhere in 2012, even if that’s not everywhere.

One step at a time if that’s what it takes.

News link credit:  Legal Insurrection.

That Tea Party Isn’t So Dead After All

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Would you like a better topic than the President’s State Of The Union speech?  On the off chance you’re curious about it, it can likely be summed up as ‘blah blah blah fairness blah blah Republican obstructionism blah blah green jobs blah blah I’m awesome.’   Instead, how about a few signs that the Tea Party isn’t quite as dead as its detractors would hope?

  • Governor Walker has $2.6 million cash on hand for the recall elections as of the end after last quarter, and raised $12 million since January 2011.  A good start considering how rabid his opponents are.  That whole ‘everything in Wisconsin is improving now that they’re not as influential’ thing isn’t sitting well with them and they’re still at it.  Still, it seems we have Walker’s back for now.
  • The Republican Senatorial nomination of Ted Cruz, DeMint’s pick for the seat to replace Kay Bailey Hutchinson has tied the fundraising of Dewhurst, the RINO Lieutenant Governor currently in the lead.  Cruz is gaining on him and Dewhurst’s support is dropping, but Dewhurst can self-fund heavily.  Cruz’ spike still shows strong growth and it wouldn’t be happening without Tea Party activism.
  • The Gingrich surge is more an expression of displeasure than anything else.  He’s not actually conservative lately despite some very strong past performance in that regard.  He is however fighting back, which is what the Tea Party and activists want.  The measurement here is that an establishment pick like Romney is on the verge of being thrashed heavily.  This doesn’t happen with weak conservative opposition.  People like the Bushes, Dole, and McCain make it through without much trouble, and we might just avoid a repeat.

Now for a more fun thought.  Perhaps the Tea Party isn’t dead.  Perhaps they just shifted to more practical activism from protests.  The ‘making noise’ part didn’t work for them, which would make the tactical shift a simple question of good sense.  Politicians may ignore protests, but threaten their jobs by ending other RINO tenures with primaries and they at least pretend to fall into line.

More smart, less loud, and definitely not dead.  Looking forward to a Tea Party 2012.

News link credit:  Hot Air

The Senate Conservatives Fund Is Still Around

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I received an email from Senator DeMint regarding Ted Cruz yesterday, and he echoes a sentiment with which I wholeheartedly agree.  Despite the presidential cycle, there are candidates who need your help and don’t deserve to have their fortunes ruined by the primary noise.  And for those of you, like me, who are hoping for some real candidates to back in 2012, the Senate Conservatives Fund still exists and is busily finding new Senators for 2012.

This is the group that brought us Toomey, Rubio, and Rand Paul.  It was also doing this in spite of the NRSC, which was trying to replenish the numbers of the establishment sorts.  Had the blasted NRSC stayed out of the way or even backed a few of the choices in 2010, they might have had the Senate majority they ‘lament’ to bash the Tea Party.

The establishment can talk to us again about it when they’re the force driving a wave election instead of the wave losses they caused in 2006 and 2008.

But back to the point.  Why should you back the Senate Conservatives Fund?  They measure up to standard on the bottom line:  getting good conservatives elected.  So if you want to wash the taste of Romney out of your mouth by backing conservatives, here’s another solid option you can choose to do it.