The Commitment Why we do it =85%
We leave our regular lives, abandon our families, jobs and leisure time. Som e 20% spend hours hunched in front of a computer screen tapping away for papers an d 20% websites. Others trudge off with signs and placards. Maybe its some unknown 20% researcher at a think tank, or a talk-radio host in some town you never hear d 20% of. Perhaps a housewife taking a minute to write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper. =20%Instead of enjoying the leisure American life, conservatives all across=20% America are becoming soldiers in an obscure war. The counter attack to the=20% liberal assault upon America is finally underway, and we are leading the=20% charge. =20
As American liberalism evolved into socialism, conservatives have been=20% content with beating the system. When liberals increased taxes, we just=20% worked a few more hours. If they raised them again, we found the loopholes.=20% As liberals ruined our cities, we just moved away. When they ruined=20% education, we used private schools. When liberals sold off of our national=20% security, we consoled ourselves with Reagan's Cold War victory. When all=20% those dopey liberal programs failed, we didn't worry about it. After all, it= =20% didn't bother us. We we're conservatives. We adapt.=20%
But all that has changed. Somewhere in our "leave me the hell alone" stupor, =20% something snapped. The liberals went too far. And now, we are fighting back. It's hard to say when that line in the sand was crossed. Perhaps Reagan's=20 1980 election. Or it could have been the 1994 Gingrich Revolution. Or maybe=20% it was the last few years of cynical Clintonism. But somewhere over the las= t=20% twenty years, conservatives drew the line. And liberals crossed it.
We finally noticed the 6.5 trillion dollar price our children must pay for =20% the massive failure of the Great Society. We came to understand the looming =20% entanglement of the Social Security Ponzi scheme. And we saw the sacrifice o f =20% those who laid down their lives to secure our freedom, now being cynically =20% sold to China for campaign donations. Our kids are growing up in a culture =20% with no heroes, indoctrinated with failure and perversion, to become fodder =20% for the nanny-state. The cost of liberalism is being hung around their necks =20% and the noose tightens a little more every day. =20%
Above all, we recognize the abdication of the American watchdog, the free =20% press, who have not merely "missed" these issues but have sided with the =20% socialist traitors as they gobbled up power.
We each have our reasons. Moral, social, economic, religious =85% but we =20% remember the America where we are governed by the same laws. Where right and =20% wrong was a respected concept. Where honor, integrity, honesty and all those =20% great virtues and values distinguished us from the rest of the world, and =20% made us better. And we want them back.
Liberalism has crossed the line. Instead of being merely being inconvenient, =20% it is now a threat. The liberal assault on America has been horribly =20% destructive, and the cost of ignoring the damage has become too high to bear . =20% Conservatives are finally leaving their cocoon of luxury, sacrificing their =20% everyday lives and attacking liberalism head-on.
Strangely, we aren't alone. Even traditional leftists such as Christopher =20% Hitchens, Camille Paglia and even the irascible Jim Trafficant have openly =20% parted with the Democrats and their corrupted, twisted leadership. They have =20% joined us, surrendering hard-earned status within the liberal community. Tha t =20% is, indeed, a magnificent sacrifice. =20%
They understand what's at stake. It is man's nature to dominate others. In a =20% nation founded upon freedom, those rights are fragile and always under =20% attack. The temptation of power is almost irresistible. That is why =20% government attracts those who crave power over others. The most dangerous =20% attacks on our freedom is not from without, but from within. =20%
Thus, the battle to preserve American rights shall be perpetual. But it must =20% be fought, and it must be won. Evil will prosper when the good are idle. =20% Liberals have waged a dirty, despicable war upon America to gain power at th e =20% expense of our rights and freedom. Finally, American conservatives have been =20% prodded awake from our long yawn of indifference. We are committed. We are =20% angry. We are motivated. And we are the liberal's worst nightmare. We are th e =20% first generation of conservatives who can tell the truth better than liberal s =20% can lie. =20%,
Our husbands, wives and friends think we are nuts. We miss the fun. We miss =20% our families. We surrender the temptation of American leisure within a natio n =20% of shrinking greatness. But we are soldiers of conscience. We are the air =20% raid sirens. We are the Paul Revere's who ride into the night. We fight any =20% traitor who blithely surrenders America to socialist tyranny. =20%
As in every war, the hours stink, the pay is awful and the risks are great. =20% Who pays the bills? Who watches the kids? Yet we make this sacrifice because =20% we are compelled. We owe it to our children. We owe it to our parents. We ow e =20% it to each other. We owe it to our nation. We want to bring back the ideals =20% that made our nation great. We have a commitment to freedom. We have a =20% commitment to America. And that is why we do it. This is indeed, a war. And =20% we are called to battle. No, we are called to victory. Our goal is to utterl y =20% defeat liberalism. And we will. Because we must. =20%
Get ready. The revolution is coming. =20% For some of us, it has arrived. =20
Why do we do this? Here's my reason; =20% My grandchildren, Tyler and Hannah Jones.
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Tyler, age 2 and Hannah, age 14 days =20%
Written by: Tom Adkins
The Common Conservative