The Way Forward

[Don Walker]

There needs to be cohesion and co-operation between the conservative groups; Right to Life, Firearms and Anti-Tax groups as examples. This should be done on the state and national level. Our future mutual interests should compel us to put aside petty differences. United, we will present an unbeatable front.

Message management needs to be applied. Where a republican starts to sound liberal, we need to openly, yet politely, disagree. If we are conservative, then this is what we stand for. No other message is conservative. I'm tired of RINO's [Republicans-in-Name-Only] making off with our message  

There also needs to be a faith alliance geared towards protecting our commonly shared values. This alliance would be comprised of members of every denomination and cut across faith lines. This will be tricky, as the cry of ecumenicalism will invariably come from some quarters. We quiet those fears by pointing to the Founding Fathers who came for several different traditions, yet worked to forge a government representative of their common values. We must return to this way of thinking if we are to survive.

It will take national leaders to help us coalesce around some common ideas and to help energize us to action.

We need to start working on this right now!

Don

 

[Randy]

Don,  
I couldn't agree more.  The idea that conservatives would support McCain and his wishy washy ways is just beyond belief.  I did not vote for him as much as I voted against BHO.  Reaganism is not dead it has been drown out by the Main stream media.  True conservatives must retake this country and vanquish the notion that liberalism is the way forward.

[Don Walker]

Absolutely. Each one of us must stand in place and take ownership over our area of influence. We have great leaders like Newt and Bobby. So don't worry. Be confident and stay strong. Our principles will always shine through the darkest gloom. Have faith. We will prevail.

[Matthias]

Don, I agree with you. I think now that the GOP has suffered such large losses (unsurprisingly) it is important for the right to re-unify; however, it seems unreasonable for us to expect all on the right to see eye to eye on every single issue. Lately many in the media and some of the political pundits have been pushing for the emergence of reformers in the GOP. Reform is a nice word, but what exactly does this entail? I’m afraid that some (even some conservatives) are pushing for either a purge of the religious right or the fiscal conservatives/small government conservatives. I believe, just as you, that if we are to have a successful “reformation,” then we will need to bring together the social conservatives and the libertarian leaning conservatives. Jonah Goldberg makes a strong argument for this in his NRO article: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjRlMDEyZDcyYTNlODliYmRhZWRkNjc2OGE2YjViOWI= . It could serve the right well to agree to disagree and yet unite on the issues that they do stand together on. For example, Ron Paul seems to have no “street cred.” as a member of the conservative movement; however, he is a strong supporter of many things that all conservatives value (life, the Constitution, efficient government, etc). Instead of throwing him to the curb, why doesn’t the right use someone like him and his movement to their benefit? Instead of pretending that all conservatives follow the call of the GOP, the conservative movement should respectfully make their arguments to one another when they disagree and unite on the issues that conservatives value.