It Ain't Over Yet...!

It may seem like this election is hopeless for those of us on the Right, but don't give up just yet.  There are plenty of reasons to keep fighting and hoping for a good outcome.  The polls are tightening a bit, the base is responding to some tremendous McPalin rallies, the Bradley Effect is still in play, and the media is saying the same inevitable things they say every election cycle (despite the GOP candidate winning 5 of the last 7 presidential races).  In short: this ain't over yet!

But here's the best news of all: America is fundamentally conservative.  From American Thinker (emphasis mine):

In late August I recounted that since early 2002 the Battleground Poll, a bipartisan poll which always asks a core set of questions and which always reveals the battery of questions asked, shows an astounding fact:  In answer to Question D3, sixty percent of Americans in twelve consecutive Battleground Polls taken over six and a half years asking virtually the same question each time, call themselves conservatives. 

This is the single most consistent response in any area of any poll over the last decade or so.  It ought to be very, very big news.  Since early 2002, there have been no less than fifteen Battleground Polls and Question D3 is always asked.  If you take all the polls, add the percentages of respondents who call themselves conservative, and divide by the number of polls taken, that percentage is 60%.  If you look at the polls over these years individually, the number of Americans in any particular poll who have called themselves conservatives has been as high as 63% in May 2008, and it has been as low as and see the highest percentage of people who call themselves conservative has been as low as 58% in December 2007, but 12 out of the 15 Battleground Polls had the percentage of conservatives at 59%, 60%, or 61%. 

Remember when Rush Limbaugh first began to be an unapologetic national voice for conservatives?  What did callers say first?  They thanked him for speaking for them.  More than that, they thanked him for showing that they were not some "nutty right-wing loner," as the media, Hollywood, academia and other organs of information, entertainment, and communication had portrayed conservatives.

The Left long ago stopped trying to win arguments.  The Left long ago adopted the Alinsky school of political warfare:  Destroy your opponent.  Portray conservatives as racist, homophobes, wife-battering moronic paranoids and that campaign of political annihilation is largely won.  The political movement which sanctimoniously prides itself on rejecting stereotypes smeared sixty percent of America with a savage, humorless defamation.  And, as long as no one raised the banner of conservatism for others to join, sixty percent of America sat quietly in their living rooms, wondering if anyone else really believed what they believed.

After Rush, people realized that they were not alone.  No:  We are not alone at all.  We are the majority, really the overwhelming majority, in America.  Consider other evidence.  How does the Left win many of its policy battles?  Through unelected federal judges who are appointed for life.  How does the Right win many of its policy battles?  By referenda and similar votes of the people.

When did McCain get a bump?  When he picked an unapologetic conservative running mate.  How is Obama winning this election now?  By never calling himself a liberal at all, by never mentioning his true allies and mentors, and by pretending not to be a radical Leftist.  Conservatives lose when they deny that they are conservatives:   When they seek that two percent of America that calls itself moderate at the cost of that sixty percent of America that calls itself conservative.  When was the last time an unapologetic conservative ran against a nice, old-fashioned liberal?  Twenty-four years ago.  The result?  The conservative got about sixty percent of the vote.

What this means is that most Americans don't agree with Barack Obama on his positions.  At this point, I think that many like the surface Obama without actually knowing what he stands for.  So, it is up to the grass roots to spread the truth about Barack Obama to family and friends.  If that happens effectively, and if that 60% conservative base turns out, the election is ours, hands down.  So, get busy.  Talk to your family and friends, point out what Barack Obama is truly all about, and above all, get to the polls on November 4th!

It's not over until the votes are counted, and there's a lot of time left to inform people on their choices.  The key is the turnout - we know that Obama will get thousands of fraudulent votes, so it is up to us to make sure that we more than compensate for the ACORN factor.

There's my two cents.