Like Ronald Reagan, conservatives need to learn to sell the idea of conservatism. Instead, the current conservative leaders seem embarrassed by it.
It was easy for Obama to win promising to take care of everybody and make the world “like us again”. Its harder to inspire the better nature of people – like self-sufficiency, hard work, financial restraint. But this is the better way to live, and we can sell it. But the candidate has to believe it first before (s)he can sell it.
Socialism is ruination. That is another reality that needs to be explained to the people.
First, though, we need to get back into the schools and teach people the ideas upon which this country was founded. This was the approached used by the left (go into the schools), and we need to adopt it for ourselves.
