Cichawoda,
Your problem is that you sing into the echo chamber, a problem that conservatives have had through the last election. Your positions ARE NOT POPULAR with the majority, no matter what the newspapers tell you. The majority of Americans have been asleep at the wheel over the last few cycles, lulled into complacency by Pres. Bush and the absolute hatred of him by the left, which seemed so unreasonable and visceral that no one could quite believe that it could be used as a tool against the GOP. Well, we were wrong and we’re waking up to an unpleasant reality.
During the “stimulus” madness, when I called my Democrat representatives (NY – Arcuri, Schumer and Gillibrand), I learned some very interesting things. Almost all of the contacts from constituents were against the stimulus, and the lines were frequently jammed, so I got the DC offices some days and local offices other days. I asked the phone call fielders how old they were (19-23) and reminded them that this was their future that the good senator or representative was voting to obstruct with a huge deficit. That usually rendered them speechless. I also talked to a lot of people around town who felt the same way I did about the money the government was proposing to spend – this in blue NY.
The tea parties around the country are the opening shots of this new war that Obama has declared. Yes, we’ve been complacent and yes, we’ve allowed the other side to control the message, but that time is over. Conservatives have learned a valuable lesson over the last few years, CPAC’s attendance with a high percentage of young people speaks volumes about the message of freedom even if it doesn’t have an Obama as spokesperson.
Cichawoda, Obama spent a lot of time in the general election moving to the center, and he received votes he would not have received if he hadn’t done so with the assistance of the media refusing to question his past positions in reconciliation with his newly professed stances. He is charismatic, I’ll give him that, but he lied repeatedly and deftly about his positions to the point that even his most ardent supporters wondered if he was the lefty savior they had been wishing for. Perhaps his old mentor Rev. Wright said it best when he said that Obama is a politician and he’ll say whatever he must to get elected. We are now seeing that. He pretended to be a moderate knowing that he was anything but. Americans don’t like being made the fool. This will be a problem for him, which is why he is moving quickly to ram as much liberal policy through congress as he can.
The overreach will be a call to arms. The tea parties are just the beginning. But enjoy your wishful thinking.
