Flashback: We’ve come a long way, baby
Thought you’d enjoy a look back at my little post-election manifesto from November 5, 2008.
We’ve come a long way, baby.
Gird your loins, conservatives
By Michelle Malkin • November 5, 2008 01:05 AM
There is no time to lick wounds, point fingers, and wallow in post-election mud.
I’m getting a lot of moan-y, sad-face “What do we do now, Michelle?” e-mails.
What do we do now? We do what we’ve always done.
We stand up for our principles, as we always have — through Democrat administrations and Republican administrations, in bear markets or bull markets, in peacetime and wartime.
We keep the faith.
We do not apologize for our beliefs. We do not re-brand them, re-form them, or relinquish them. We defend them.
We pay respect to the office of the presidency. We count our blessings and recommit ourselves to our constitutional republic.
We gird our loins, to borrow a phrase from our Vice President-elect.
We lock and load our ideological ammunition.
We fight…
Fortes fortuna adiuvat.
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Another flashback…February 21, 2009:
Seattle on Monday. Denver on Tuesday. Mesa AZ on Wednesday. Overland Park, Kansas today. What a week, huh? We got the anti-stimulus, anti-entitlement protest ball rolling — and now the movement, spurred further by CNBC host Rick Santelli’s call for a “Chicago Tea Party,” is really taking off.
David Hogberg at Investor’s Business Daily has a nice piece out today spotlighting the growing taxpayer revolt the rest of the MSM won’t cover. He interviewed our registered commenters Liberty Belle Keli Carender, who spearheaded the Seattle anti-pork protest, and HuskerGirl Amanda Grosserode, who organized today’s anti-stimulus demonstration against Democrat Rep. Dennis Moore in Overland Park, KS.
I’m happy to report on several new protest events now on the docket.
My friend Michael Patrick Leahy of Top Conservatives on Twitter and his crew are spearheading “simultaneous local tea parties around the country, beginning in Chicago, and including Washington DC, Fayetteville NC, San Diego CA, Omaha Nebraska, and dozens of other locations” for next Friday.
Time: February 27, 2009 from 12pm to 1pm
Location: Chicago, Washington DC, other cities, Twitter
Go to OfficialChicagoTeaParty.com for all the info.Co-sponsors of the events with #TCOT include #DONTGO, Smart Girl Politics, Americans for Tax Reform, Heartland Institute, and American Spectator Magazine. The tea parties will be “simultweeted” with the hashtag #teaparty. You can find me tweeting here.
There’s a Facebook page here for the DC Tea Party. I hear that PJTV will also be stepping up to the plate.
If you are in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, reader Mark Christopher Frimmel has come forward to put a Tea Party ’09 event together. He put up an ad on Dallas Craigslist, has contacted local radio and TV, and wants you to be there. The protest will be held on the outside stage at The Cowtown Bar & Grill on Friday, Feb. 27, from 3pm to 7pm, located at 7108 Camp Bowie Blvd Fort Worth, TX. Music, food, and great fiscal conservative company guaranteed.
Are you in Georgia? Reader Patrick e-mails that he’s “getting a tax protest off the ground in Atlanta. I’d appreciate it if you’d pass on the word. The blog is http://atlantataxprotest.blogspot.com.” He needs your help. Calling Neal Boortz!
Here’s a snippet from Hogberg’s IBD piece to get your motors running:
As unemployment soars and anger over Wall Street bailouts mounts, public outrage will seek an outlet. Populism could go in many directions — and could easily ebb when the economy revives. But if it takes shape as an anti-spending movement, it could revive conservatives much as the 1970s tax protests did.
To be sure, the protest sizes so far are a far cry from the left’s anti-globalization and anti-war demonstrations of the past decade. But they appear to have grass-roots origins. The organizer of the Kansas protest, Amanda Grosserode, calls herself a home-schooling mom who is “fed up” with the spending in Washington. She has been a member of Fair Tax Kansas City since last fall.
“My husband and I were feeling frustrated that the stimulus had passed with very little debate and no one had read it,” she told IBD. “I said, ‘We need to do something.’ ” She began contacting family and friends, and eventually received attention via Fair Tax Kansas City and local talk radio.
Grosserode received considerably more publicity after e-mailing popular conservative commentator and blogger Michelle Malkin.
“I think the taxpayer revolt is the new counterculture,” said Malkin, who has been publicizing the protests on her blog. “People want to stand up and say, ‘Hey, I’m paying for that, I do not support that.’ “
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And tomorrow we lay the groundwork for the next batch of weasels to be dispatched with in 2012.
How about “Now We Are Free” from the all-time great movie “Gladiator”, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYLseVbOHjk
Only a rookie like Obama could’ve rubbed us the wrong so badly as to breathe new life into the American conservative movement. Now, we’re giving HIM a movement, of the rectal variety!
Maximus: Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. Imagine where you will be, and it will be so. Hold the line! Stay with me! If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you’re already dead!
[Cavalry laughs]
Maximus: Brothers, what we do in life… echoes in eternity.
Disappointed that McMahon and O’Donnell didn’t make it.
But a message has been sent and we will still have the wave!
If polls are still open out west and even here in the east, VOTE!
Proximo to the Dems: Those giraffes you sold me, they won’t mate. They just walk around, eating, and not mating. You sold me… queer giraffes. I want my money back.
I remember. I was at the one in Fort Worth with my wife and son. We can win and will if we keep the faith and hold them ALL accountable, Ds and Rs, incumbents and freshmen.
Fail.
You are correct Chapoutier, when Bush was in office the office of the President was treated with contempt and disrespect on a daily basis.
Chap,
I don’t disrespect the office of the President, just the policies of its current occupant.
Amen.
Many thanks, Michelle, for all you do for this country.
Dear Chap, “folks” as Dear Leader refers to us all, tried to give him a chance in the beginning. Honest. That was before he threw us all the middle finger (recorded) and then became the appointed emperor of all time while bowing and not acting presidential.
On with the celebration!
I’ll take all the wins from tonight as a starting point. 2012 is the next battle in the war to take back the country. Those who made it back into the house will be up again as will the next bunch of incumbent senators.
Thanks for the reminders. Time flies.
Let’s hit the ground running hard tomorrow!!
This is only the beginning.
Some of you have said 2012, but let’s keep an eye out for incumbents who might just call it quits once Issa turns up the heat.
If we do have special elections, we need to capitalize on them and quickly.
In two years we have had nothing to smile about but this AM on Nov. 3 I am turning cartwheels! If Dirty Harry would have lost my poor heart wouldn’t have held up with all the happiness but Angle fought a valiant fight against formidable odds. Thanks Sharron.