January 26, 2007
clear message...
Charlene remarked, when I got up this morning, that nothing much encouraging is going on, but that it's good to read people like Hugh Hewitt. He writes today...
....Time and again the Republican caucus has gone wobbly, and yet it seems to wonder why the roof fell in.
Republicans like their elected men to act like Reagan and their elected women to act like Thatcher: Principled, firm, sunny and full of resolve. "We win. They lose," was Reagan's prescription for the Soviets, and it ought to be the GOP's prescription for Iraq and the far greater war beyond. That is the clear message of the rightroots, and it isn't hard to hear, even for senators wearing Beltway earmuffs.
Please print off some Pledge Cards and pass them around. if you are headed to the National Review summit, take a stack. Be sure to hand them to passing senators. Tell them the lefties are outraged --a very good sign....
We are the good guys. They are the bad guys. We win. They lose. Once you get that, then you can and should consider the nuances and shades of grey, and criticize our own side when we make, as flawed humans always do, mistakes.
We are chips tossed in a nihilist sea. Without that sort of basic moral clarity, we are simply lost. And no amount of "seeking" will ever find anything. (And the situation in the religious sphere is precisely analogous.)
Posted by John Weidner at January 26, 2007 07:05 AMIt's not going to happen sir. If we could live like that, we would be Democrats. Remember, the the Democrat dream is a jackboot kicking you in the face, forever, and the Republican dream is "Let a thousand flowers bloom".
Posted by: Robert Mitchell Jr. at January 26, 2007 01:17 PMIf Dems dreamed of jackboots, they would be much more interesting! And have real moral clarity, though of a negative sort.
Alas, their dream is a vague mish-mash of Swedish welfare state and hippe platitudes. And you can't even argue with them, because they won't make it explicit.
Posted by: John Weidner at January 26, 2007 02:20 PM Ah, but sir, they do dream of jackboots, and have real(negative) clarity. Read any of a number of autobiographies from redeemed Leftists. Mr. Chambers and David Horwowitz(misspelled) come to mind. They can be argued with if the dream is shared. You can't argue with them, because they don't see you as an equal, to be treated as a child.
With the Left, the jackboot is never far. Look at the anti-smoking people, and the diet nuts. There is no place they will ignore in their dream of control.
