What we believe in
Check out the Mausers and Muffins blog today. Brigid has outdone herself on saying what conservative patriotic folks believe in.
Umm...
A lot of conservative and patriotic folks appear to have sat on their butts and elected Barack Obama to a second term. Somehow, I doubt many will admit to it.
JLF
I feel a little twinge of 9/11 - life as we know it will
Never be the same when he is through
What we believe in
Yep, Alexis de Tocqueville, pretty much summed it up several years back. Nuff said, this covers it all.
History always repeats itself.
Umm...
You are exactly right. This election was ours to win, and the turn out overall for conservatives was shameful. Every single conservative registered voter who could have voted, and who did not should be ashamed of themselves.
Guilty. [raises hand]
This conservative voted a write-in, because there wasn't a conservative running for president.
-AaronB
What we believe in
Well, if as de Tocqueville suggests, American democracy is doomed, there is one more thing I believe:
I believe my part of it at least, will go down fighting. Those fellows at the Alamo knew they were doomed, too, but it didn't stop them from giving their lives for a greater good.
More folks need to read Alexis' stuff.
He pretty much revealed our future, and all the reasons involved.
Pretty sharp, observant young man, IMHO.
That's different, you went to vote, good on you
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