Now Hear This...Pt. 2...

Mark Steyn hits BINGO!

"If the non-political sphere is permanently left-of-center — the movies, the pop songs, the plays, the sitcoms, the newspapers plus the churches, schools and much else — it's simply unreasonable to expect people to walk into a polling booth every other November and vote conservative. The culture is where the issues get framed and the boundaries set."

Steyn's Article in Full

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The value of social networking is to bulwark and reverse what Steyn points out - the default is liberal. It's less about logic or reason than celebrity, cool, and hip. We and Hillary were rolled by a campaign devoid of substance that became a movement.

Now Hear This...

From "Rebuild the Party" www.rebuildtheparty.com


The time is now to set in motion the changes needed to rebuild our party from the grassroots up, modernize the way we run campaigns, and attract different, energetic, and younger candidates at all levels. We must be conservative in philosophy -- but bold in our approach. We don't need a slight tweak here or there. We need transformation. We can't keep fighting a 21st century war with 20th century weapons.

I'm ready to start play the new game and hope you are, too. We can scree on blogs, preaching to the assembled choir. Or, we can form ourselves into a social network to discuss HOW to defeat the Liberal, and take community action. Please read my post below, "It's all in your imagination-Campaign '10 and beyond." We've got to get moving, or we can blog until the chickens come home to roost.

Columbia forum addresses health care reform

County residents offer suggestions to incoming president

By Derek Simmonsen, Columbia Flier, 12/30/08

President-elect Barack Obama wants to reform the nation’s health care system, and many Howard County residents are more than willing to tell him how. Roughly 200 people gathered at the Bain Center in Columbia yesterday to offer their ideas to the incoming administration on how to reform health care, one of hundreds of community meetings taking place around the country. The Obama transition team asked people to host the discussions between Dec. 15 and Dec. 31, and send in their ideas on health care reform for future action.

http://www.explorehoward.com/news/14382/columbia-forum-addresses-health-care-reform/
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Want to energize conservatives and the Maryland GOP? Maybe this is a template with which to start. I can't remember the last time such a forum was organized around conservative solutions. Let's see...there's O'Malley's budget mismanagement, taxes, crime...must be something to talk about!