This year has seen a surge in conservative activism like I’ve never seen in my adult life. Many of you here at Redstate have been a part of that. We’ve been to tea parties. We’ve donated money to candidates and to causes. We’ve spoken up at the town hall meetings. We gathered in Atlanta. We emailed and called capitol hill. We acted.
Next week, for many people, the activity, the protests, and the activism will reach a peak. The President is speaking to schools, and the people are speaking back. We’ll be keeping our children home. We’ll be marching on Washington. And we’ll be rallying around the country throughout the week.
I plan to be a part of the activism next week. I’ll be at one of the biggest planned rallies outside DC, in Salt Lake City, Utah. We’ll follow the march, meeting fellow activist conservatives and, most importantly, participate in training and discussion about what’s next for conservatives who want to be active in our movement. Please read on …
During and after the Redstate Gathering, many of you wanted to know what to do next. We had a lot of great answers for you. And I kept thinking about all of that as the days passed by. Then I found out about the Liberty Tour and I realized what an opportunity this is.
The winds of change are stirring, you see. When I heard that refrain a hundred times a day last year it made me want to kick puppies. I got SO sick of it. But little did I know how true it would prove, in both good ways and bad. That the change Obama hopes to bring is of the most radical sort is clear. And in response conservatives, Republicans, libertarians, independents, and sane Democrats are pushing back. That’s a change, too. The monstrous growth of government and the subsequent intrusion upon the liberty of individual Americans has provoked a radical change in us, too. We don’t sit home and wait. We are a silent majority no more.
And now we have our moment, and now our voices are loud, and people have no option but to pay attention. The left is marshaling against us, calling us a mob or worse and literally gnashing their teeth at us. And now we must marshal back, we must join together in common cause. So I’ll be there with you. In Sacramento. In Salt Lake City. In Charlotte. In Atlanta. From coast to coast, I’ll be with you as we come and reason together, as we stand up together. We’ll create a spectacle of liberty and we’ll inform an army of activists. And when we’re through, when the tour has ended and the buses are gone and the last echoes of our cries for freedom have faded, we’ll be a movement. We’ll be in that moment. And we will be heard.
If you can sit by no longer while the whole of conservative thought is driven from the public square, as our leaders and our base are ridiculed by the press, as our very liberty faces existential threat, then join me. Join us. Join the movement.
I truly hope to see you there.
Jim Kelly
Erick Erickson
Can't be two places at the same time...
rbdwiggins Thursday, September 3rd at 3:59PM EDT (link)Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending how one looks at it, I have a 1:59 Tee Time at TPC Myrtle Beach.
“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan
I'll be at the rally in Fort Collins.
NightTwister Thursday, September 3rd at 4:12PM EDT (link)I won’t be able to attend the training in Denver though.
Get Connected in Colorado…Colorado Political Analysis: 2010
For Starters: Heritage Org screening of "33 Minutes" in MI
JLenardDetroit Thursday, September 3rd at 4:22PM EDT (link)which I hope all anywhere near MI will consider coming up for: heritage.org on 9/9.
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (toss McCain)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” - a Rush caller (other Quotes)
Busy Week
abbynormal Thursday, September 3rd at 4:43PM EDT (link)I’ll be volunteering at our high school the 8th, 9th, and 10th. They haven’t yet decided whether they’ll be able to air the president’s speech, but I won’t keep my 15 year-old home, if they do. He needs to be able to identify evil when he sees it, and it isn’t too often he gets to see it at school, dressed so well and so adept at teleprompter double speak. I’ve printed out the lesson plan, and intend to have our own lesson, so he’ll get both sides of the picture, and hopefully be able to make informed comment or ask thought provoking questions for the benefit of both teacher and students.
On the 11th, husband and I are dragging same 15 year-old to DC for the Tea Party. I figure if the president can use school time to talk to my kid, I can take my kid to talk to the president on school time as well.
Don’t forget to honor and remember all those lost and those still mourning the loss of loved ones and friends on 9/11.
“Therefore, we must control men in order to force them to be free.”
Professor Pritchett
Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
I'll be at the Dallas one
E Pluribus Unum Thursday, September 3rd at 4:59PM EDT (link)And it doesn’t really matter when or where, I’ll be there. Perhaps I can meet some of our local RedStaters like streetwise, izoneguy, and otheres?
Carthago delenda est
Do your conservative t-shirt shopping at EPU Gear. Save the conservative muse, save the world.
I will be in D.C.
Aaron Gardner Thursday, September 3rd at 5:10PM EDT (link)And I will be bringing a friend who voted for Obama.
Aaron’s Archive I
Aaron’s Archive II
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
I will be speaking at the 9/12 Gathering
Socrates Thursday, September 3rd at 5:30PM EDT (link)in Effingham, Illinois. The crowd will be drawn from a three-county area, in a town of about 15,000 people, so it’s not going to make the national news, in all likelihood.
Plus, they had the foolish idea of asking me to speak.
But it will be from the gazebo on the courthouse lawn. A sweeter slice of Americana there isn’t.
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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.
I plan to attend the 9-12 gathering at the AZ capitol
ColdWarrior Thursday, September 3rd at 5:39PM EDT (link)and I will speak if given the chance.
Thank you.
ColdWarrior
American first, conservative second, Republican precinct committeeman by necessity.
http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com, so you can say, “I became a precinct committeeman before it was cool.”
“[Primary e]lections have consequences, my friends.” — John McCain
9/10 in Sacramento
Cheryl Thursday, September 3rd at 6:00PM EDT (link)I think I can make it.
http://www.twitter.com/CherylAnnCA
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America, than the whole force of the common enemy.” –Samuel Adams
Cross Posted from PajamasMedia
Patricia_C Thursday, September 3rd at 10:46PM EDT (link)Our President has made a serious misjudgment when it comes to the ferocity by which the majority of Americans love and defend the rights and freedoms, which define our great Country. However, it is amazing how misguided he is in not understanding that our determination to protect and defend our own children is even more rabid.
It is clear that this President assumed that by tossing out a litany of new programs (intended to “remake” America) we would be so overwhelmed and confused that we would not be able to focus on the details and potential damage his plans would bring… Too bad he doesn’t know our real history… Too bad he was too busy “seeking out” and surrounding himself in the company of radicals who believe as he does, that our Constitution is “fundamentally flawed” and who share his desire “remake” America because while he and his followers believe that they’ve “begun the work of remaking America”… WE THE PEOPLE have begun the work of systematically preventing and dismantaling his every effort.
He managed to slip the Porkulous bill through, but we woke up to that joke. We’re paying close attention now… to everything… and his tanking numbers are evidence of just how many of us are not pleased with what we see… and in the height of our alert he dares to go after the minds of our children.
Cap and Tax, ObamaCare, Omnibus… rhumors of another Porkulous bill… What, Mr. President… Did you think by throwing all of this at us at once we’d be too distracted to see you slipping in the back door of our schools? What, you’ve found that you can’t win in a battle of whits with us adults so you just think you can slip around us and go after our kids?
Bad move Mr. President… BAD move.
We are losing thousands of jobs… we are struggling to pay our mortgages, we are battling against your battery of socialist plans and we remain ever vigilant against the threat of terrorists who still want to destroy our Country… Thanks for all the “Hope and Change” and all that… but don’t for one minute underestimate our capacity to multi-task and to defend viciously those things we hold dear… ESPECIALLY when it comes to our children.
“Even when you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.”
I'll be leading
Steven Friday, September 4th at 2:51AM EDT (link)The smallest protest in the world, here in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Wish I could be home for it; would be great to be in such good company.
There’s nothing quite so exhilerating as being shot at… and missed. Winston Churchill
I'll be right there with ya, Steven
Karina Friday, September 4th at 5:54AM EDT (link)I’m having one in Kuwait as well ! Love the Expats!!!
“Let me give you my vision: A man’s right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.” -Margaret Thatcher
I'll Be In DC
jerseydevil Friday, September 4th at 5:56AM EDT (link)I’ll be in DC 9/12…Standing UP for America!
Chris
“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all the people all of the time.” — A. Lincoln
I'll be in D.C.
peg_c Friday, September 4th at 10:22AM EDT (link)With the family — marching, protesting, attending rallies, attending speeches, trying to keep all our fingers…!!! We’ll be there 9/9 - 9/13 staying at one of the 912 Project hotels.
Hope to see some RedStaters there!
Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.
I'll be in DC
Maggie_in_Indiana Friday, September 4th at 10:27AM EDT (link)I’m taking my high school senior and his gir friend to add our voices and our bodies in the march to freedom. My home town is a good representation of the country ,totaly split. The democrat voters for Obama are either still strongly for him or are throwing him under the bus. My yard signs have not been stolen or vandalized in 2 months. The new lighted one will carry the 9/12 march in DC next week.
Oh and one day will be set aside for one final family picnic,where we don’t discuss politics(at the table).
Maggie in Indiana