It all begins locally. We can cry and moan and groan about Washington DC, but if we don't have our own house in order locally, the national scene is a moot point. Today, the Constitution Association meets at 5:00 pm at Boston Billie's, 26850 Cherry Hills Blvd, in Menifee off the 215 Freeway and the McCall exit. Today's guest speaker is Jon Ingram.
I will begin the discussion with a few Constitutional reminders, and my opinion on how we should be fighting the good fight. An emailer in Florida constantly tells me we need to give up on our Republican brethren, because they have skidded too far to the left. A local Facebook commenter tells me that unless you are on the front lines in the face of the opposition, you offer no solution. A Murrieta acquaintance reminds me constantly that anybody that fails to be in agreement one hundred percent with her brand of conservatism is dead-weight on the struggle, and possibly a plant inserted in order to undermine the effort.
I disagree with all three.
Trust me, I have little patience for those that try to blame the TEA Party, social conservatives, or conservative activists for the woes of the Grand Ol' Party. The Republican old guard is doing the same thing they have always done, trying to be careful, trying to get along, and trying to time their legislation just right - to get a little now, and maybe more later - and it is a failing effort. I believe the social issues are winning issues. I believe hammering these progressives constantly is a winning tactic. But I also believe we need to know where the social issues should be inserted, and we should make sure our hammering of the Left is done in a fashion that it is effective, recognized, and discussed by the uninformed.
Back to the social issues. . .
The federal government has no constitutional authority over social issues, so federal candidates should not engage as they have been on those issues, and instead need to state where they stand on them for voters to scrutinize their character, and then state that they will not engage anymore regarding the issue because it is constitutionally a State authority.
The republicans would have to understand the Constitution, however, to come that a conclusion like that.
What happens, in all of these disagreements, is that we shoot ourselves in the foot. While the establishment types are going after Ted Cruz, and the Tea Party types are going after those that say we have to pick our battles more, and work with the Left, the hard left progressive commie-bastard democrats are running the table. We are so occupied with attacking each other, that we have failed to fight the good fight against the real enemy.
I don't believe in battling so heavily with people I mostly agree with. By doing that, we are spinning our wheels, and are creating animosity between ourselves and people that down the road, or even today, that could be valuable allies. This is one of the reasons I am so angry with the Republican Establishment going after the TEA Party, social conservatives, and Ted Cruz. The Calvary has arrived, and the GOP has rejected the assistance, and attacks them worse than they would attack the Left. People, as a result, are throwing their hands up in defeat, and have resolved to either go after each other in other stupid little squabbles, or to sit on the couch so that they can moan and groan in peace.
Neither is a successful political strategy.
We all fight the good fight differently, using different tactics, and different strategies. But we are on the same side. We are cogs in the same machine.
We must, as Benjamin Franklin put it, "Hang together, or surely we will hang separately."
After my speech is complete, about an hour into the meeting, Jon Ingram, a local mover and shaker, will discuss the importance of local activism, and why it is imperative that we be involved.
Join us for dinner, and an opportunity to fellowship with like-minds. . . or at least minds that mostly are like-minded. Leave the battle gear at the door.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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