Keep Up the Good Fight

Hi everybody. Sorry I've spent another week plus away from the blog. I was in Dallas for an editor's conference the first weekend of November and I had a test on the Wednesday after the election and another test today. Not surprisingly, I didn't do so well on the test last Wednesday. Scheduling it for the day after the election wasn't the smartest decision in my opinion, but I digress.

Look, I'm not going to waste a terrible amount of my time or yours digging too much into the results of last week's election simply because everyone else is already doing it. I won't let the results of the election go and I'm sure to make repeated references to it in the future, but we cannot change the results. Sixty million Americans were fooled by one of the best liars this country has ever seen. On top of that, an estimated 3 million Conservatives stayed home because they believed "Mitt is too moderate." One would think they would rather have Mitt over Obama though because if Mitt is too moderate, then what does that make Obama?

Regardless of the outcome of the election, the lies that Obama told to get reelected and the lies the main stream media told to help get him reelected, it is safe to say that you and I still know the truth. And come 2016, when we have gas over $6 a gallon, a $20 trillion national debt, unemployment back around 10 percent and skyrocketing energy and food prices to go along with out of control inflation, I'm confident everyone else will see it, too. The money will run out folks, that is unavoidable.

Now is the time to stay the course, to keep up the good fight. The Republican Party does not need to moderate itself further. If it does, more of our Conservative base will stay home next time around than did this year. We have Marco Rubio, Allen West, Mia Love, it's time to put them to good use! The problem isn't our party's positions, it's that our positions are a lot harder to explain to voters, especially youth and minorities, than are Obama's positions of "we'll get the 'rich' to pay more so I can spend more and then you'll get more free stuff!" Or, "I need some time here, everybody! Just look at this mess I inherited from myself!" Obama doesn't put it quite like that, but that's essentially what he means.

But seriously, the GOP needs to figure out how to explain its positions better because they are hard to get. Just after Obama had been declared the winner of the election on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, I got into a heated debate with people on my floor over politics. They have no idea what quantitative easing is and they didn't know what Romney meant when he said we needed to crack down on China, just to name two things they were clueless about. To be honest, that even took me a long time to figure out, but at least I figured it out! Their biggest concern on Tuesday night? That Mitt Romney "beat up a gay kid in high school." Seriously?!

We've already seen the signs that America is headed for trouble in a second Obama term: The stock market crashed epically to finish out last week and it's been flat for the past two days. Boeing has now announced plans for layoffs along with nearly 50 other companies. The layoffs range from in the 20s to nearly 4,000 proposed layoffs at Pepsi Co. More companies are almost certain to follow. And let's not forget the companies who were planning on hiring only if Romney won.

So like I said, keep up the good fight, I know I certainly will. May God bless you all.

Jimmy Williams