John R. Houk, Blog Editor
November 15, 2018
Justin Smith has blessed readers (Conservatives) at my
Facebook Group Social
Media Jail Conversations for Conservatives & Counterjihadists
with some very valuable wisdom in two recent posts. The lesson from both posts
are – It’s time for Conservatives to flee complacency and learn to be militant
advocates for their Patriotism. AFTER ALL the Dems have learned to become
militant in their Left Wing (i.e. Marxist socio-political) value system.
The first post is a short thought provoker by Justin. The
second post is Justin sharing a friend’s post (Kurt
Schlichter) originating from Townhall.com.
Justin has a bad habit of not titling his Facebook posts in
my Group so I get to create one. I’ll be taking the Schlichter post directly
from Townhall.com but I am going to precede it with Justin’s intro.
Enjoy and become activist minded.
JRH 11/15/18
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Hear Me My Fellow American Patriots
By Justin O. Smith
November 14, 2018 8:44pm
Hear me My Fellow American Patriots. We are a nation once
fortunate and wise; a nation that has nearly half, possibly more, of its people
who no longer hold the law in high esteem. We have a republic but,
unfortunately, we will not keep it, on this current path. We will lose it all
because of what we did, as well as what we did not do. It is completely our
fault.
On the whole, We have not been diligent, and of late, We
have not been honorable. We do not value liberty enough. We lie and we cheat.
We corrupt ourselves and we let ourselves become corrupt.
As a result of both our shameful complacency and outright
failures to uphold truth, honor, liberty, and justice, we have experienced, and
will continue to experience, the devastating consequences.
Again, we fully deserve what has happened, what is happening
now, and what will continue to happen, because of what we did, in addition to
what we did not do.
It would be so great if our direction could be changed; if
we could turn things around, and return our nation back to “good”. Perhaps this
could be done now; not because we deserve it but, instead, for the sake of
truth, honor, liberty, and justice, once more, and for the sake of America's
Children and Her Children's Children and generations beyond.
Either Constitutional Law will be reestablished in America,
and the treasonous cabal of Deep State minions are tried and convicted for
their crimes – or – President Trump and company turns out to be a minor
speedbump on the final stretch towards the New World Order.
Be prepared to take your country back by the bullet. The
time is rapidly approaching. Destiny looms; choose your way or it drags you. ~
Justin O Smith
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5 Dumb GOP Mistakes We Better Fix Before 2020
Nov 15, 2018 12:01 AM
Intro by Justin Smith
From Facebook Group Social
Media Jail Conversations for Conservatives & Counterjihadists
Posted 11/15/18 7:04am
From My Fine Friend, Kurt
Schlichter, on point and accurate as ever in his assessment:
The good thing about screwing up is that you can learn from
your mistakes and do better next time. That, of course, assumes you are not a
Republican Party official, because the GOP Establishment seems largely
incapable of learning from its mistakes.
We should try again anyway.
We won some races, but we lost a lot more. Losing has one
advantage over winning – pain is a better teacher than joy. After all, winning
generally teaches you the wrong lessons. It makes you complacent. Look at
Texas. The governor did worse than expected; Ted Cruz had a close call, and
down ballot the Texas GOP got thrashed. In Texas. With a great economy. Because
the Texas GOP got soft from too much winning.
Look, there are sometimes reasons for poor performance that
are beyond our control. Tex Kennedy poured $70 million into the race, and the
Democrat transcriptionist media nearly flooded Houston all over again
slobbering all over that skateboarding goof. It’s no surprise that these
factors had an effect – I don’t blame Ted Cruz, but I do blame the guys who
were supposed to be keeping the Lone Star State red. The Dems went out and
mobilized people who had not been mobilized before. The GOP should have done
the same with its own people long ago – it should have had its grassroots wired.
But it didn’t, because for a couple decades it didn’t need to. Well, it needs
to.
Lesson One: Never get into the mindset that you
can’t lose. Always play like you’re 10 points back, which is what saved Ted
Cruz.
Let’s look at Arizona. If resumes were competing, Martha
McSally, A-10 pilot, would have crushed Pinko Barbie. But resumes don’t run for
office; people do. My AZ pal Jon Gabriel has a deep
dive post-mortem, but there are some key lessons we have to draw
from this ~1 point debacle. McSally is an admirable person who decided to run
on “I’m impressive and not one of those conservative kooks” instead of on “Here
are the things I stand for that I will get done.” Now, Sinema also ran a
campaign based on personality – “I’m nice and oh so moderate.” So why would the
average person pick McSally over Sinema if the only difference was “Impressive”
versus “Nice?” What was McSally for?
Not being either Sinema or a conservative?
Hardly inspiring. Here’s an alternative idea. How about you
embody the conservative values the GOP base wants? How about you not channel
Jeff “18% Approval” Flake by launching Operation Desert Sasse and imitating the
gutless weenie vibe of the same dork who you were seeking to replace because
the GOP base fired him for not being conservative enough?
Trump endorsed her, but like he had a choice. It kind of
shows the mindset that led to this fiasco – Well, these conservative
dummies will be dazzled by Trump’s thumbs-up of necessity, so we don’t need to
pay attention to them. Wrong! McSally had a bloody primary against Kelli
Ward and Joe Arpaio – say what you want, but they stood for something, and it
was something the GOP voters liked. But did McSally go on stage with the
defeated primary candidates to show unity? Not that I know of. I do know she
skipped out on conservative events and cancelled appearing on the Mark Levin
Show. That is certifiably insane.
She ran away from being conservative, and – surprise! – when
she looked back the conservatives were not behind her when she needed them. As
my new book Militant
Normals: How Regular Americans Are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our
Democracy explains, we’re tired of being disrespected by
GOP candidates who seem to find their own voters slightly icky. That 2% edge
McSally needed to win was right there for the taking among the Ward and Arpaio
fans, but she shunned them. She didn’t want to scare the neurotic suburban
mommy demo that these squishes always seem to chase and never quite catch.
Falling into that trap was the insight of the out-of-state consultants McSally
hired and listened to – diss the people who would vote for you in order to suck
up to people who would never vote for you. But those conservatives voted for
Governor Ducey, and in droves.
Lesson Two: Be for something – specifically,
conservatism. Nail down the base by not buying into the Fredocon notion
that true conservatives should be ashamed of being conservative.
Florida is always close and crazy, being full of Floridians,
but we need to understand that the “Why looky here, a whole bunch of new votes”
thing is the wave of the future. Today, every blue enclave is Chicago, and if
it’s close they will cheat. It’s going to happen. They are already planning on
it. Remember, election theft is a part of the Democrat campaign plan just as
much as ads about Republicans murdering grandmas; it’s neither an aberration
nor a rarity, but a deliberate strategy that has worked in the past. The people
who will steal our elections are not Russians; they are the nitwits who are
babbling about Russians stealing our elections.
Lesson Three: We need to be ready. We need
lawyers prepositioned and poised to fight wherever we expect the corruption to
happen. And we need to win races outside the margin of fraud.
We got slammed below the fold. We lost 300+ stage
legislature seats on November 6th. Remember how smug we were about
winning 1000+ seats during the Obama years? Change is inevitable, and in a
split nation we have to lose some seats sometime, but 300+? Do we have a
coherent plan for recovering them? The state government seats are our farm team
of future talent and they will have a huge effect on redistricting after the
next census. A seat in the Idaho House of People Who Live In Idaho is not as
glamorous a US Senate race, but it’s important.
Lesson Four: We need to get back in the fight
down ballot. Who is the GOP leader in charge of that nationwide? If the answer
is “Shrug,” that’s the wrong answer.
Finally, we need good candidates. They are out there. The
search for our stars in 2020 started November 7, or at least it better have. We
need a solid candidate on every ballot. Again, who is the GOP official in
charge of recruiting? What is his/her/xir name?
And we need to be picky in our primaries. You know the guy
who lost to Flattop Jerk in Montana? Turns out he had some baggage those of us
out here in the rest of America did not know about. Montanans voted for Trump
by pretty big margins; they didn’t turn into SJWs in the last two years. But
they felt that liberal creep Jon Tester represented them better than the GOP
candidate – why? What were their concerns that our party ignored, that our GOP
voters ignored in the primary? Let’s vet our candidates better – not just the
party functionaries but those of us who vote in the primaries need to be much
more careful.
Lesson Five: Candidate quality matters. No more
losers.
Losing sucks. But you know what sucks worse? Losing twice in
a row. So we Normals
need to get militant and demand that our GOP Establishment try
something new – like learning from its mistakes.
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Hear Me My Fellow American
Patriots
© Justin O. Smith
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