My e-pal, Malcolm Pollack, quotes a writer, Peter Kirsanow, who provides an excellent 'call to arms' to American conservatives after first describing the situation they now face:
Conservatives can’t be in denial. The country may very well be at a tipping point. Yes, millions fewer voted for Obama than in 2008, but it’s astonishing and disconcerting that tens of millions voted for him with their eyes wide open. They voted for him after four years of 8 percent unemployment, exploding deficits, foreign-policy fecklessness, unsustainable debt, and assaults on liberty.
The electorate may well have shifted politically, and perhaps culturally. That will happen when we cede our institutions to the minions of ”progress,” when our media is biased and political elites cowardly. But human nature has not changed and neither have the principles conservatives — Americans — hold dear.
Obama and the Left will be emboldened. They will continue their effort to “fundamentally transform” America. Indeed, now that Obamacare will go into effect in full, the transformation will take several giant, worrisome steps forward.
He urges his fellow conservatives to stick to their cherished principles, to resist by all proper means and to fight back as hard as they can. Malcolm, himself, is more realistic and thereby less enthusiastic. He sums up the situation, thus:
So: America gets the government it wants, and that it deserves. We have chosen “equality” over liberty; free lunch over freedom; reassurance over responsibility. It will not last: it is utterly unsupportable. It will quickly be the death of America’s greatness, and will lead soon thereafter to the death and decomposition of America itself. But this is what we, the people, have chosen.
Defiance? I suppose. But it’s hard to imagine that lifting ourselves from the mud and staggering to our feet again will, from this moment forward, ever change a thing.
I urge you all to go over to Malcolm's place and read the whole post. It sums up my own fears for America better than I could express them myself.
ADDITIONAL: Whilst we are on the subject of Republican woes may I also recommend a visit to MDA (My Darling Ann [Coulter]) who has some deservedly harsh words for the two brain-dead Senatorial candidates who opened their mouths and let their bellies rumble by insisting that abortion should not even be allowed for women who had been raped. This swamped the MSM - with a little help, of course, from the MSM itself - and drove Romney off the networks and the front pages. Needless to say, neither of them won!