"A free-for-all for the nomination between Romney, Huck, and Palin would be fascinating insofar as it would leave Mitt open to tack gently away from the culture warrior persona he cultivated last year and be more of the technocrat he seems better suited to being.... Anyone can say “life begins at conception,” but how many people can organize the Olympics?"  Palinmania May Stop Romney From Running, Hot Air, 11/15
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Michael Steele, who seems to be the de facto leader of the GOP (who knows), had a telephone conference with bloggers on Friday.  Who was included?  I wouldn't know.  When someone gets screwed:  little leagues, corporations, spouses -- it's usually an inside job.

I have been calling for a conference to stop the juggernaut that seems to be gaining steam.  When people of influence start talking about Romney and Huckabee and Palin as if those are our three choices (love it or leave it), then our destiny looks pretty bleak.

Sarah Palin is a thrilling candidate inasmuch as she is not tainted with the old brand of politics that we are pretty disgusted with by now.  Did I jump on her bandwagon early?  You betcha.  I was always going to vote for McCain over Obama.  She gave me reason to do it without gagging.

Over the course of the campaign, I perused and added articles to this website to promote her candidacy.  I read opinion from all perspectives.  Good and bad, and the bad was pretty ugly.  Sometimes I just posted the article without reading it because I just didn't want to know.

I determined that Sarah was a fantastic new face but she did seem woefully inadequate in certain areas.  Foreign policy being the most glaring.

However, four years is a long time to get up to speed.  Obama will have a crash course where he hopefully leaves us out of the wreckage.  Palin will have a better opportunity to learn without having to suffer the consequences of ineptitude.  We'll be watching her all the while.

But what I don't appreciate is already being force fed candidates in October, 2008.   Give me a break.

How did the Democrats find their Godot?  

He certainly wasn't the next one in the queue.  We need to take note of that.

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He didn't show up, just at the end of the day, after Huffington Post-ed the job opening.  Wanted:  A Savior. 

To attract the youth vote, they found youth.  To attract an electorate wanting change, they found change.  To win, they found someone who actually really wanted to.

It wasn't a complicated formula, but it took more than sitting under a tree, gnawing on chicken bones.  It took planning, and a little giving and taking.  It required people to shut up for a minute, just long enough to accomplish the task.

Instead of walking out on the performance, we should be reviewing notes of the Democrats' stage play, brilliantly executed, stunningly performed.

And, with critiques in tow, we should meet to design our own play.  New media, idea marketers, bloggers and writers of all kinds.  Creative thinkers.  More producers, less directors.  

Libertarians, conservatives, independents, all.   We need to join up and understand that nobody is going to crown himself our leader without our approval.  We refuse to be told "this is the guy!".  Here is what happens when regular voters have establishment candidates shoved down their throats:  Hillary. 

I am calling on you.   Get up from under the tree, stop tugging on your boot.  Go out and make something happen.  The Democrats proved it could be done, as if you didn't know it already.

Let's have a conference.  Let's plan an attack.  I'm not talking about CPAC or the other meetings where the usual suspects strut around stage seeking confirmation.   In fact, I am rejecting anyone who has heretofore rejected me.   Anyone who voted for the bailout, anyone who has been part of the system that has grown government to its present monster state.  Anyone who is part of the status-quo who rejected individual producers in favor of some collectivist idea of common good.

The tragicomedy Waiting for Godot has two acts.  This is the second act.  To Act means somebody has to do something.  Which means we all don't attach ourselves to blogs, we come together to discuss the situation and reach a consensus.

Are you ready to do something?  email

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