So what do we do now? A semi-manifesto

OK, so following our resounding defeat at the hands of Obama, Pelosi and Reid (wow was that hard to write. It is still hard to swallow the vitriol) what do we do?
Tuesday night there was a lot of talk about setting up a grassroots organization to try and promote conservatism. By Thursday morning all that talk has disappeared. Maybe people are off working on it and since I am not one of the cool kids I am not invited. That’s very possible. Be that as it may I haven’t seen much talk or activity since so I am going to take the bull by the horns and reiterate a couple things I have said earlier.

1. We need to fight fire with fire – Obama learned a lot of his organizational and confrontational skills as a community organizer utilizing Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”. We need to develop those skills ourselves and apply them with a conservative twist. In addition ACORN et. al. hold camps to train their activists . Conservatives should be doing the same. Not only that but there should be workshops on how to deliver a good speech, how to deal with the press. etc.
2. We need to be thinking long term. We can’t continue to let liberals control the media and the schools. Scholarships and grants need to be developed that attract conservatives to those fields. I also still like the idea of the Foundations of Freedom series developed on the same lines as Schoolhouse Rock, and in fact I think the RNC should print those books such as Wealth of Nations, The Federalist Papers etc. that are in the public domain as a set and donate them to school and public libraries along with a curriculum / reading list. It would be especially interesting to print an annotated Constitution that allows kids to go back and see where the ideas in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights developed.
3. The Republican Revolution of 1994 required two things – Newt Gingrich and The Contract with America. We no longer have Newt, but a new contract can be developed. I have ideas about what should be contained, I bet a lot of other people do too.
4. Here I am going back to point one for a second. Alinsky says that you have the power people think you have. Right now it is obvious that the RNC doesn’t think we have any power. We need to show them we do. The easiest way to do that is to withhold donations until Nicole Wallace, Steve Schmidt and Mark MacKinnon are disavowed.

Anyway that’s where I am coming from at this point.