After reading Jeff's piece, this thought came to me: We need to take this to the grassroots. Have people like YOU and ME (that are working to live, not living to work and are FAR from RICH) be the face of Conservatism. Show our fellow Americans that Conservatives are every day people with a great respect and appreciation of what we earn, who we are and who we want to be. We need to show those that are teetering that the values Conservatives stand by are what this country was made of. Not the values of the likes of Pelosi, Reid, Obama....
Furthermore, we need to find experts that can break down this bill line by line, word by word, and in layman's terms, so that our fellow Americans can UNDERSTAND the rights and liberties this "stimulus bill" will take away from us. We then need to send the breakdown in every form possible: snail mail, email, newspaper editorials. Hit it hard. Go door to door if we have to. Go to the roots.
This country is full of people that believe they are entitled to all that they have and are very used to living beyond their means. I don't know that once they figure out their basic rights are being stripped of them with the passage of ONE bill that they will take too kindly to it. It'll be interesting to see how the "common folk" react when the Federal government (otherwise known as the Prominent People) tells them *how to work, *how to raise their children, *whether or not their illness is cost effective and if their life is worth saving...
200+ years ago, this idea started with a group of people that all shared one common goal. Freedom and Justice for all. NOT freedom and justice for the Prominent People. It is time again, for the "common folk" to stand together and rally.
I think people are finally starting to see...this is beyond hope and change. This is now about the country that we love so dearly and all that it represents. This is about our freedoms, our rights, and even, our luxuries.
It is time now for the Rebirth of the Conservative Party.
