It's an unfair world for conservatives. We are held to a standard far and away different than the standard to which liberals are held. It has gotten nothing but worse the past few months. We are being scrutinized. Our every paragraph, our every word… even our every syllable, for words or sounds that could be cast as ‘racist” or “hateful” or make us sound like a “terrorist” as Janet Neapolitano would have you believe those of the Tea Party persuasion might be… people who, as in the words of an aspiring Senator once said, cling to their God and to their guns and might clandestinely plan for violent civil unrest. The same bunch that had no problem making movies depicting George W Bush being assassinated assails Sarah Palin for saying “it’s time to reload” … as if they can find a true conservative that has thrown a pie at a speaker as they did to Ann Coulter … or has rose up and stopped a speaker of an opposing viewpoint from saying their piece as happened to Karl Rove and Ann Coulter a week or so back.

Don’t give them the chance to turn your words back you. Don’t use words that could be taken as racist or hurtful. If you can’t refrain from saying such things, refer inquiring media types to someone who can refrain, for believe me, they want to find some one in the movement who uses those words… those phrases… that they can hold up and say “BEHOLD… A TYPICAL TEA PARTY MEMBER!” and thus use that person to portray the entire movement. We must be decent people in indecent times.

A few weeks back, U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri said he was spat upon by Tea Party members on his way to vote for the Health care scam. Andrew Breitbart has put up a $10,000 reward for a video that supports this statement. His money is still safe in his bank account. The media wants you to do something stupid… DON’T!

Times have changed. I was young but I remember when Walter Cronkite, the so called Dean of TV Journalism… the man every reporter and news anchor wanted to emulate pulled the plug on ever winning the Viet Nam war. After giving a report about the Tet Offensive… you know during what they used to call “news?”… he gave an editorial where he declared the war as unwinnable.

President Johnson then told his aides, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.” .

The media used to have THAT kind of power… but no more. In 1988, a young man from Missouri began a talk show in New York on the AM band… you know that part of the radio to which no one ever listened? His voice and his views conflicted with the main stream media… but he began to grow because people like me… and maybe people like you.. heard him and said… “Gee this guy is saying what I’ve wanted to say!”

Rush Limbaugh began to cut a swath through the liberal BS like no one before him. Twenty two years later, he is still cutting that swath. His voice consoled us during dark times. He said things that made you wince because conservatives were like women and kids back in the 1890’s… they were to be occasionally seen but never heard and that is what the liberals of this country STILL want from conservatives.

It was fine for Liberals to denounce George Bush… to call him a Nazi… to portray him as Hitler… as a chimp… as stupid… but also cunning… because some people believe that George Bush and Dick Cheney secretly lay all the explosives that brought down the World Trade Center buildings. I never understood that part. Bush was so dumb he couldn’t read but he and Cheney masterminded the Trade Center disasters and still had time to blow the levies in New Orleans. Fascinating.

It was alright for Sean Penn, the Dixie Chicks, and Danny Glover amongst others, to go out of country and belittle Mr. Bush… but if we want to plan a Tea Party convention… SHUT UP! Hillary Clinton boldly stated it was an American right to dissent. But if you express viewpoints counter to the media and the current administration, SHUT UP you racist dog you!

Let March 23rd 2010 be our July 4th, 1776. Now, just as then, the battle had yet to be waged, but the people declared to King George, “We WILL be FREE!” Many dark days loomed ahead but the battle was officially started that day. Many of my friends tell me I need to be careful… I need to tone down my rhetoric… but let me remind you a something… Silence becomes Socialism. Just as the signers of the Declaration of Independence knew that merely signing the document was the same as signing their own death warrant, we need to fight back while there is still time to fight back. We need to fight back while we still are ABLE to fight back.


Yes indeed, it is a new day and new times… but once again, let us remember March 23rd but not March 23rd, 2010 but rather March 23rd, 1775. The following is long and I tried to find a way to shorten it but I could not… so bear with me as I give you a passage from the most stirring speech on freedom I have ever heard, given March 23rd, 1775.

Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne!

In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free-- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Please remember… I do not exhort you to violence my good people…. but to action. I do these things for my two grandsons… look down the path of where we are headed if we do not act now and decide for whom you act. Thank you.