Our kind host tried to tell us a couple of weeks ago in his post Enthused:

http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2008/09/18/enthused/

He said that it was a battle of inches.

Sometimes it seems that we’ve already ceded the fight and are conveniently mourning our loses before our opponents have finished playing. Poppycock!

We just saw people power in action – the House of Representatives voted down the first bailout bill because of the hellish flood of calls and e-mails from the public. Unsolicited calls and e-mails.
If every American reader of this forum sent an e-mail to the Presidential Debate Commission complaining about Gwen Ifill it might not accomplish anything right now, but it would nudge the game a bit in our direction. If we all e-mailed the Missouri governor or AG to complain about the Obama “Truth Squad,” well, you know what I mean …
We support politicians brave enough to speak out. We vote with our dollars.
Before even contemplating civil wars and such, first we type our fingers to the bone, we make our voices hoarse on the telephone. Then, if our opponents manage to stack the deck against us, we use political theater. If need be, we engage in civil disobedience. We put our bodies on the line for the nation that we love.
The last thing that we ever, ever do is take aim at our fellow Americans. We do not force our sons and daughters in the military and law enforcement to choose between their oath and their people.
Those *realists* that preach defeatism don’t have enough faith in the American militia. We are always late and you’ve got to convince us to even show up, but once we do, we faithfully kick ass.