You know how it feels when you follow your favorite team all season with the hopes they’ll make the playoffs? They make the playoffs and may even go deep. They hang in there game after game, round after round through mounting injuries, sometimes just barely winning. Now they’re in the final round tied 3-3 with the other team. Through the bad calls and all the time outs, you wait and hope. In the blink of an eye, time runs out and your team has fewer points than the other guys. They’ve lost. Losers. Eliminated. Post-season is over.
Heartbreaking! I used to be a New York Knicks fan in the 1990s (I adored John Starks), so I know what heartbreak is.
Liberals in the media and across the blogosphere are going through similar heartbreak, struggling to define (or redefine) and explain who they are and what they stand for. It’s kind of sad. Some are even trying to shed the liberal label. It’s like an epithet. They prefer “progressive” or something similar.
One of the measures of a man is knowing what he believes and why he believes it. The rest is child’s play. Here’s a simple test. Can you look yourself in the mirror, in the eyes, and say what you believe without laughing or feeling stupid? If so, you’re on the right track, even if you believe Martians walk among us. It’s about conviction.
Conservatives aren’t confused. We know who we are and what we believe, and we embrace the label “conservative.” If George Bush had lost on Tuesday night, I’d still be a Christian and a conservative. I’d still believe conservative policies and principles are better than liberal ones, even if the results had turned out to be Kerry 51 and Bush 48. The only soul searching I’d be doing right now is how I can have more of an impact in the blogosphere. I’d have no need to redefine who I am and re-think my message.
Have you seen the “purple” voter map floating around the blogosphere? To minimize the impact of the “red sea” across our country, liberals are latching on to the purple map. Understandable, of course. If you were a liberal, would you want to look at this?
My advice to liberals: Stand tall and be men and women of conviction, if you believe you’re right. I think you’re wrong, but you have the freedom to express your viewpoint. You do not have the freedom to impose your will on me, though.
While you’re refining, repackaging and analyzing your message, consider this: truth is truth and decency is decency. If your “product” doesn’t contain both of these elements, your next advertising campaign won’t appeal to us, either.
Update: See Joe Carter’s post on evangelicals in America. More from Blogs for Bush.
Today is the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
David Limbaugh asks, “Is America Lost Or Just Liberals?”
