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conservatives & libertarians!  have you heard of this? 











"the next right" is a new project started by Patrick Ruffini, Jon Henke, and Soren Dayton designed to build a new Republican Party and conservative movement.  as a community-driven grassroots action website for the right, the next right will feature in-depth political analysis, on-the-ground reports, and strategic discussion and debate.   the launch date is May 27th. 

sounds exciting doesn't it?  and maybe exactly the shot in the arm the conservative movement needs to respond effectively to left-leaning moonbats and those brats at the KOS who are dominating much of the blogosphere.

here's an excerpt of what patrick ruffini says about the next right:

If you’re looking for pure-play opinion and link bait on sundry topics from Ann Coulter to Jimmy Carter/Hamas, you won’t find it here. What you will find is in-depth (often unabashedly technical) writing about the election, the polls, the strategy, and the issues. Our analysis will track truth and stay true to the numbers. But it will self-consciously serve a greater purpose — educating YOU to be your own political strategist and start doing something — whether that’s blogging about your local Congressional race or Democratic corruption in your state, organizing fundraising drives, and maybe even managing races or running for office yourself. Only a revival of civic engagement at the grassroots level will create a conservative future we want: one that is pork-free and robust in the defense of our country and its values. We can’t call a switchboard and wait for Washington to fix the mess. We have to do it ourselves, from the ground up, in every state.

We don’t think this alone will solve the activism gap. Anyone who tells you that they alone have the answer is fooling you. This is not “the Daily Kos of the right.” What we’re hoping to do is create momentum and an intellectual framework for action — because action ultimately starts with narratives and ideas. We want grassroots conservatives and libertarians to start believing that they can make a difference again — a sense all too many have lost. Only you – and not some well-funded 527 — can bring the movement into the future. Only when grassroots conservative have a direct stake in the future of the party are we effective. The Next Right is about creating a vision for a 21st century Republican Party and conservative movement.

we really need to regroup don't you think?  we need to get back to basics.  to what made a conservative, a conservative.  we need be proactive, creative and use technology to our best advantage.  we need to NOT concede, retreat, back down, or stay silent.

read up on the next right yourself.  then go here to be notified when its up and running.  we need this.

William F. Buckley, Jr. was a man of intellectual brilliance, entertaining wit and personal charm, and an amazing vocabulary.  but he will always be remembered first as the founder of the modern American conservative movement. he conceived it, nurtured it, grew it, and, when needed, skewered it.  today the conservative movement in America is broad, strong, and vibrant—we all owe so much to the great man who began and guided it for so long.

"I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition," he wrote in The New York Times Book Review in 1986. "I asked myself the other day, `Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?' I couldn't think of anyone."

he will be sorely missed.

William F. Buckley, Jr.   1925-2008
 

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Shiloh's Golden Nutmeg 'n Irish Creme - "Meg"

May 29, 1994 -  February 25, 2008

a faithful friend.  a beloved member of our family.  a free but gentle spirit to the end.

romney withdrew from the gop presidential race today.  giving a pretty terrific speech at CPAC, he finally became a conservative.  his speech was energetic, compelling and emotional -- setting a solid conservative tone that was lacking on the stump.  in many ways, his withdrawal from the race - so as not to be a "spoiler" like huckabee - propels him to a higher stature within the conservative movement and the gop in general. 



good job romney.  and i wasn't even a fan.

so now it really is a mccain nomination.  **sigh**   

mccain's speech at CPAC was good but not as uplifting as romney's.  he does deserve a wee bit of credit for even showing up this year -- knowing how most conservatives feel about him.  his speech included a clear acknowledgement of his need and desire for conservative support to win in november (duh) as well as an understanding of our agreements and disagreements with him over the last decade. 

i think, however, he needs to do alot more in the next few months then just say those well placed words once to a conservative audience. 

 

senator?  i need assurances.  assurances on tax reform.  assurances on immigration.  assurances on conservative judge appointments.  assurances on your commitment to conservative principles in the selection of a seriously conservative VP running mate who will help unite us.  and finally, assurances that you will not "lecture and scold" the most vital and significant voting block in the gop. 

so i am listening and watching.   and for the sake of the troops and the unborn, today i support mccain.

super tuesday.  is this man really going to be our candidate? 

 

rudy, who has endorsed mccain since pulling out of the race, said this yesterday...

“No matter what happens with us, we all need to make sure it’s not him.”

that "him" of course is romney.  and though all of the (R) candidates have tried very hard to wear the reagan mantle (some better than others), they seem to have forgotten his 11th commandment -- "thou shalt not criticize other republicans".  with one voice they seem to all (except fred who has not endorsed anyone as of yet) dislike romney very much.  you would think they would put their collective energies in defeating hillary and obama. 

stand tall.  hold your nose.  vote.

so i guess it's going to come down to this:  mccain or romney. 

mcain is and always will be an american hero because of his vietnam experience however, as a politician, he has been incredibly unreliable to upholding conservative principles.  some call him a "maverick".  loose cannon is more accurate when you look at the issues in his career that he took a "maverick" stand on:  tax cuts, campaign finance reform, immigration, gang-of-14...  he even has that "open borders" guy, Dr. Juan Hernandez, on his team as a "hispanic outreach" advisor for gosh sakes.  he has, however, been stellar on the War on Terror.



i have a conservative discomfort with romney.  though i believe that positions on issues -- especially life -- change (it did with ronald reagan), i worry that romney's change of heart is simply convenient rather then sincere and trustworthy *coughflipflopcough*.  i do however believe he is a fiscal conservative and has a conservative view point on the War on Terror.  and he is certainly more conservative then mccain.

it's crunch time for conservatives.  with huckabee and paul basically marginalized, we conservatives must either rally to romney or we reconcile ourselves to mccain and all that means.

time really flies when you're having fun doesn't it? 



on Sunday, January 27, the infamous vast right-wing conspiracy will be 10 years old.  actually this is an important political anniversary albeit one that is scorned on the left and embraced on the right.  ten years ago this is what hillary clinton said to matt lauer on the today show:

"This is the great story here for anybody willing to find and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president."

i suppose hillary really expected thinking americans to believe that this so-called cabal out there was capable of a great  and mystical power -- a silent, faceless, underground group whose sole mission was to distroy America and all held dear.

the truth of course is different.  the "vast Right-wing conspiracy" lives and thrives today.  it includes tens of millions of intelligent, thinking Americans who have systematically been marginalized, demonized, and completely defamed in the public debate and culture.  we actually have a voice now -- a strong one -- in the form of talk radio, cable tv, incredible conservative authors and thinkers, and the blogosphere just to name a few.

after Ronald Reagan of course, so much links back to Rush.  he is "the voice" that pulled us all together, taught us, empowered us.  soon we had many other "voices" who have their own minds,  panders to no faction, and stands up to the critics.  this is hardly the stuff of secret groups plotting and planning the distruction of a couple of amoral politicians from Arkansas and their cronies.

its hard to believe its been a full decade of bitter accusations, silly snipings, and paranoia.  if your not with "them" you most certainly are against them.  and its always someone else's fault.  isn't it ironic that during this birthday week, "they" are once again involved in a bitter accusation campaign with obama and many in the party they led so proudly are rising up against their dirty tricks?

oh well.  happy birthday to me, me, me!  and of course to all my fellow conspirators, i raise my glass.

Hey so did you see this from rightwingnews.com?  Yea Rush!