Don’t mistake graciousness and prayers for the best for surrender. Conservatives need to pull themselves together, straighten themselves out and win. That means blocking the liberal excesses that we all expect will be coming from a strongly Democratic Congress and White House, and it means getting back power in 2010 and in 2012.

I remember in 2004, in the first flush of victory, I foolishly thought that the Democratic party as we knew it would be effectively marginalized for a long time to come. Dubya had won decisively and the Republicans had improved their strength in Congress (having already improved it in the previous mid-term election). This kind of record of consecutive successes for one party in both presidential and congressional elections was virtually unprecedented. A fat lot that meant. Two years of an unassertive and un-conservative Congress led to big punishment and defeat in 2006. And we know what happened this past Tuesday. The lesson is this: Politics never ends. You’ve never really won, and you’ve never really lost. Not in America, at any rate, and for that we can thank the Good Lord and the founders of this country.

Limbaugh was right yesterday:

Now, our road to rebuilding is going to be steep, but I know also that as a people, we will get there. As conservatives, we will get there. Can we oppose the idea that confiscatory taxation produces prosperity, when in fact it punishes economic growth? Yes, we can! Can we oppose the notion that our national greatness is derived from an ever growing government instead of the freedom from government our Founders envisioned? Yes, we can.
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Can we oppose the belief that one’s earnings must be redistributed for the false promise of fairness? Yes, we can. Can we oppose the belief that it is immoral to secure our own borders or defend ourselves from terrorists intent on destroying us? Yes, we can. Can we do all that and more? Yes, we can.

I would add: Can we oppose the idea that human lives are only worthy of cherishing, of dignity and of defense when it is not too terribly inconvenient? Yes, we can. And yes, we will, to all of it.

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