Certainly, there is a time for balance and withdrawal and reflection, but I don’t see your heightened interest in RedState, etc., as obsession.

I too was once politically unaware, back in 1992, and I became alarmed at the antics of the Clinton administration and discovered that I was a Republican in a hurry.

The Obama years are an order of magnitude worse. Obama is not just some Democrat with slightly different policy objectives… he’s going for the touchdown to win the game for the statists and ‘fundamentally transform’ our nation.

If we didn’t have an exceptional nation unequal in history and around the world as the pinnacle of human liberty and opportunity, one might shrug one’s shoulders.

But Patriots have given their lives for over two centuries for the very rights that this Marxist/Fascist interloper is stripping away.

Obama doesn’t think we built America, he believes every other nefarious explanation and worships the very thing which our ancestors worked so hard to limit… government (i.e. TYRANNY).

You are awakened. You are aware. You have found a source of solid information and you are engaged, perhaps driven by alarm at what has taken place and where it leads as much as a sense of civic duty or patriotism.

Thankfully, so far we are fighting with words and Bills and Laws and votes. And we must to some degree distinguish between our liberal friends and family who may not be as engaged or educated on the issues involved.

But I have lost my interest in ‘bipartisanship’. I do not forgive or forget that the Democrats in Washington rammed Obamacare through over the objections of the people on matters that relate to my health and welfare.

Who knows where this war of ideas will lead. I hope we win across the board in November and demoralize the Dems to the point of their disfunction and disarray.

I do see this as a war none the less and the Democrat party not as the opposition with good will, but the enemy to be defeated now and forever more for their embrace of tyranny, an unforgivable sin in our Founder’s day.

It is the willingness to be bipartisan, to endow Pelosi,Reid, and Obama with some Amercicanness that led us to this place, at the brink of no return.

We trusted. They abused that trust. We compromised, they twisted the knife in our backs.

So I say, take a break as needed. But this is not an obsession, it is an alarm that has sounded and we are in a position to reverse course and save our country from these leftist, unAmerican statist occupiers.

I can understand and relate to an uninformed, well meaning liberal, but committed leftists are on the other side of history and of me and I will have no ties with any one of them on any level unless they repent and surrender their allegiance to the enemies within.

I realize this is dark stuff. But I’ve seen their comments, I’ve watched their reaction to votes when they are defeated… they hate us. They’ve wished us harm. And with the Black Bloc OWS and the violence in our cities, I can tell they want this to go to the next level. For our children and our future, they must be defeated at the ballot box if we are to prevent much worse from coming. They can not be in charge of the White House and be Commander In Chief.

I pray the Democrats of old take back their party from the Progressive infiltrators, but I will believe it when I see it and not before.

The ray of hope is that we outnumber them. There are online communities where we can connect like this, and that is how we stay strong and restore our Country.

and see you as one of the well meaning liberals who should be the heart of the Democrat Party.

Currently, we do not need both sides, however. Stripping away right protected by our Constitution and acting outside the bounds of limited enumerated powers is not a ‘side’. It is the behavior of an enemy.

Things get crazy when government forgets that it works for US and not the other way around and the Obama Democrats are utterly unconcerned with the boundaries they are pushing.

I truly hope people like you recognize that whatever your interest in left ideals, the folks who run your party are not like you. They don’t want balance. They want total control. They showed that prior to the Nov 2010 mid terms.

All I’m saying is that you may need to take sides at some point and I hope you chose Romney over Obama because the ‘why can’t we all get a long’ thing is really not appropriate right now given that one side (Obama) is not acting in good faith in any way shape or form..

On this I hope we agree. Any elected official who won’t follow the Constitution does not deserve to hold office. Obama has not obeyed the spirit or the letter of the Constitution in key areas and that should not be rewarded with a vote by any American. Period. The ends do not justify the means.

I hope the happy days where we’re all Americans and can have disagreements with a range of what our Constitution allows return. I really do. But until then, until this administration and it’s allies are defeated, I say one is either with America and the Constitution, or against it.

You of course don’t have to agree with that, but know that the issue is on the table and in large part it is up to your side to prevent things from going off the rails.