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Do Not Lose Hope Conservatives

Put not your trust in judges—nor in other berobed or bejeweled personages. To the degree you trust anyone: Trust the people.

Do not lose hope fellow conservatives. While I too woke this morning with a depth of sickness in my belly at hearing the misguided decision of the Supreme Court, I am not one to give up easily. Our fight since we started was never easy and it will not be easy in the future. This decision has further awakened and strengthened the populace to defeat the self-appointed dictator Barack Obama on November 6th. SCOTUS is not the final decision on Obamacare–YOU are. It is up to YOU.

Right now, we may feel helpless. Stop. Think. Use the emotion of anger to spur you forward to what will be a victory in November and beyond. In a prophetic piece in the Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol wrote:

While a defeat for Obamacare in the Court would be nice, the defeat of President Obama at the polls on November 6 is crucial. If electoral victory is achieved, Obamacare can and will be repealed?—?and more judges of a constitutionalist persuasion will be appointed by the next president. Indeed, one could almost say that a bad Court decision later this month would be a salutary reminder that here the people rule, and that persuading the people is the key task. As Lincoln put it in his first debate with Stephen Douglas, “In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently he who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.”

Also from the Weekly Standard:

“This Election Just Became About Obamacare”

“In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the constitutionality of Obamacare, the principal choice now facing Americans on November 6 will be whether to keep Obamacare or to repeal it. The question is a binary one, and the answer — expressed almost entirely through their presidential vote — will go a long way toward determining the future course of this great nation.

Yes, the economy is extremely important; and, yes, Obamacare is hurting the economy. But the reason why this election is the most important since the Civil War is not because Mitt Romney would make a far better steward of the economy than President Obama (though he would). Rather, it’s because we are about to decide whether to put what will soon be one-fifth of our economy under the control of the federal government; whether to funnel previously unthinkable amounts of power and money to Washington; and whether this nation conceived in liberty will continue to prioritize liberty.”

Don’t know about you, but I’m donating to Romney. God Bless America

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  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    You want us now to Trust the People?

    Let me tell you something, the people as a whole are very very uninformed, and they don’t really care.

    They will fall for big government lies most of the time, for a long time we had institutional barriers to unlimited mob rule. But those have now all fallen.

    Even if there are enough concerned citizens to elect Republicans this fall, the damage is done. There are no CONSTITUTIONAL barriers anymore to raw federal power.

    And don’t think that the republicans won’t use that power just as fast as the democrats.

  • http://www.chicagobluesgirl.com chicagobluesgirl

    Kyle8:
    You are every bit as important as those who fought for the first constitution. For good or for bad, THE PEOPLE are our only choice. There will always be liberals but they will not always be in power. So damage is done. What does that mean? It means that liberals can never again be in power. RINOS must be voted out. Look at Wisconsin if you want to see what WE THE PEOPLE can do. That has to sweep across the nation. We need a conservative lead in the Senate, in the House. We need to keep it there and monitor every vote. We will NEVER again be able to rest. It is OUR job to inform them..to train our children. I got all of mine (3 + 1 stepson) to vote R in 2010. Now I’m working on getting them to volunteer. One already has gotten involved with the YR in San Francisco of all places. Did the men who fought in 1776 give up to the liberals of their day? Hell no! Thank God they didn’t. You and I can’t either.