Taking Out the Big Stick. Target: Whiney Conservatives!

Minutes after I posted a Monday, October 3rd, 7:05 AM comment at Confirm Them regarding the announcement of President Bush's nomination of Harriet Meirs' to replace Sandra Day O'Connor, the site sank into near anarchy.

After reading comments regarding the Meirs' nomination, I thought I had made a mistake and connected to Democrats Underground!

Yes, most conservatives were itching for a real fight between the Socialist/Liberal Democrat axis in Congress and the American majority that supported President Bush and Congressional candidates in the last two elections.

That final battle for the hearts and minds of the American people may be a fight we can win, but at what cost?

I don't need to remind readers that the country remains polarized between defeatist/socialist Democrats and Republican conservatives working to move America forward and succeed in the war to make America safer and more free.

The reality is that until we elect more candidates to office at the federal level who adhere to conservative principles, we cannot hope to restrain, let alone reverse, the slow slide toward socialist decrepitude that many of us feel is the direction in which we are heading.

Congressman John Ashbrook (center top) stands with Ohio Wesleyan University College Republicans at the O'Neil Hotel, in Columbus, Ohio, the night of President Reagan's VICTORY in 1980. Mike is pictured far right, as you might have guessed.

Years ago, I worked for Congressman John Ashbrook(R-OH) as he sought to depose arch-liberal Howard Metzenbaum who sat as a U.S. Senator for Ohio. Ashbrook was an early founder of the conservative movement and worked closely with Goldwater, Buckley and Reagan. During one of my many trips to visit potential supporters I encountered a group of young conservatives.

After introducing the views of my candidate (unassailably conservative) one of these "my way" conservative cookies turned to the another and said "He's not one of us."

Whether that slight was directed at me, or the candidate, is unclear. But speaking for me, I stood on platform at the Republican National Convention at Detroit in 1980 while Barry Goldwater delivered his address supporting Ronald Reagan's nomination to be our candidate for President of the United States.

I had the privilege to serve President Reagan in the White House Political Office.

And frankly, I have about as much patience with conservatives who whine that they don't get 100% of what they want, as I do for socialists whose hate for President Bush blinds them in the same way that it did towards President Reagan as he achieved VICTORY in the Cold War.

Would I prefer President Bush select a qualified, and certifiable conservative nominee like Janice Rogers Brown, recently confirmed Justice to the DC Appeals Court? Of course I would. Just read her speech to the Federalist Society.

A message for my conservative friends:

President Bush, like Reagan before him wasn't perfect.

Would you prefer to read the following headline:

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi......"
or

"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid...."

How about this one:

"Today, President Hillary Clinton....."

Keep tossing chum to the Democrat sharks circling the political waters and you may look forward to that sad reality.

I have no problem telling our lefty friends to "GROW UP." and I have no problem taking out that same rhetorical stick to whack recalcitrant conservatives.
Stay the Course my Friends! Stay the Course!