I agreed to join The Minority Report in order to help kill it.
At least 60% of Americans share Reaganite conservative principles and favor policies based upon the Judeo-Christian values that Reagan and the Gingrich revolution advanced.
There is no excuse that the voice of a majority of Americans is not properly reflected in Congress.
Yet, when the GOP finally gained control over the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches, they failed to follow the policies that got them elected.
I speak mainly of the GOP congress that is no more. They betrayed the majorities that elected them due to their fear of the between election polls of the mainstream media and their desire to be liked by the powers that be in Washington.
So, when presented with clearly unpatriotic speech from their Democratic colleagues declaring a quagmire within 72 hours or our invasion of Iraq, declaring Bushlied within months of same, through Jim Webb's SOTU rebuttal declaring that Bush "recklessly" took us into a war that the overwhelming majority of Democrats voted for and which Bush advocated for months in public at the UN, the elected republicans in DC only gently "disagreed" with their "honorable and good (democratic) friends", when their duty was to call them out in shame in public.
It is imperative that republicans in Congress develop the courage of their convictions, risk not being liked and stand up for the Commander in Chief and their conservative principles. The fact is that their timidity risks the loss of their seats in Congress, not bold advocacy.
Additionally, it is vital that our declared candidates back the president, the war, and Reaganite principles.
And it is absolutely indispensable that our 2008 nominee for president and the GOP platform be pro-war till absolute victory, pro-life, low tax, small government conservatives.
If not, The Minority Report will have as long a run on the Web as Meet the press has had on television, and that would be sad.
We must kill The Minority Report so that on January 20, 2009, we can launch The Majority Report.
Gamecock, aka Mike DeVine is the conservative voice Op-Ed columnist for The Charlotte Observer
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/16468980.htm
regularly blogs at http://gamecock.townhall.com, www.race42008.com and www.redstate.com, and is the DeVine Law Legal Editor for www.thehinzsightreport.com.
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
You mean this site goes down the same day GWB gets removed from office by Constitutionally mandated procedure? The horror!
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