And Sarah Palin? A good person, someone normal for a change on the national scene…but what can she do? I’m not buying anything anyone has to sell right now.

Can I say Merry Christmas?

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles.

and an even better one

When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy.

Sounds like those Republican rascals are at it again, on the wrong side of history again, with those same old excuses, just like way back when they dug in their heels and tried to slow down abolition when pretty much the whole country had recognized the wrongs of slavery. Fortunately there was another great president from Illinois who believed in hope and fought for change. He overcame those bitter and clingy Republicans, and put an end to the evils of slavery, and led the country into a new era of ….

What? … he was? … they weren’t? … so what party was opposed to? … no way! then how could he use this as an example? [scratches head] never mind, um… Chris, how do I delete this comment?

But I also have a more pessimistic, paranoid side. And while I don’t think Obama and his minions could ever take this country violently (1. I don’t think most in the military would go for it anyway and 2. With a high media profile, I think Obama and his minions would really start to lose support and fast if people in Europe were watching him pull a Hitler or Aquavelvaman, beating his fellow citizens into submission. He just couldn’t get away with it abroad.), I sometimes worry that some kind of civil war could be started and probably for the same reasons, except that this time the “state’s rights” people would be on the RIGHT side this time.

The more the Left talks like this, the angrier the Right gets. The Right is tired of being bullied and guilted into agreeing to things for fear of being labled racist or greedy or heartless or whatever.

The final straw is coming. I can almost feel it. Climategate is being ignored, the EPA is declaring some kind of emergency so that it can control more of our lives, cap and trade is still in the wings and so is health care. Any one of these, or all of them together, could be that final straw.

And I don’t know what it’s going to bring. People are P-I-S-S-E-D. I see it a lot on different conservative message boards. And while we all try to hold each other back, to encourage the use of the ballot box, what if that doesn’t work anymore? What if all the gerrymandering has made it near impossible to get rid of these Lefties? What if we can’t get rid of Obama in 2012 and he has another four years to screw up this country?

His rhetoric and the rhetoric of his minions sounds awfully like “fighting words” and I’m telling you, I think a fight is coming. If the GOP can’t put anybody up in 2012 to get rid of this clown, we may just be doomed, and that doom may include a second Civil War.

Also, Reid’s rhetoric sounds awfully Hitler-esque to me – demonizing those that don’t agree; creating a scapegoat of some kind so that if it doesn’t health care reform doesn’t pass, they’ll be a group to blame and they can inflame people to go after them in some way, the way that the anti-Prop 8 people tried to go after donors and voters, the way people went after AIG executives around their homes . . . and maybe worse.

If anyone sounds like a Nazi, it’s Reid, not our side.

How do we survive this? Can we survive this without violence?

Between wondering when the next terrorist attack will come and worrying about a possible Civil War or worse, it has made me quite uneasy for some time.

I can only that our side is on God’s side, and that we will prevail.

That Freedom will Ring. That we will again become the Shining City on the Hill, as we once were and not just some European satellite country of no exceptionalism at all.

“If American freedom is lost, if America is destroyed, if our blood-bought freedom is surrendered, it will be because of Americans. What’s more, it will probably not be only the work of subversive and criminal Americans. The Benedict Arnolds will not be the only ones to forfeit our freedom.

“At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected?” asked Abraham Lincoln, and he answered, “If it ever reaches us, it must spring up among us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher; as a nation of freemen, we must live through all time or die by suicide.” (Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1837.)

If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers–normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free–Americans who have been lulled away into a false security”
Ezra Taft Benson