The Post Mortem of the Election is beginning…

WHY?

What is next?
What will happen to the GOP?

Are Conservatives Relevant?

Will the GOP ever win again?

All of this is legitimate, but it needs to be view through the reality of the Historic moment, the PERFECT STORM of the 2008 election.

First, consider that it was a referendum on President Bush, not the Conservative movement. The buildup of angst over the Iraq War, GOP Malfeasance and the daily barrage against Bush and the GOP in the Manufactured Media for more than 4 years.

Second, the Economy is always the most important issue for voters when it is problematic. Historically, the surest test of an electoral outcome is the state of the economy. This fluid situation that had its roots with the CRA in the Carter years, was boosted along during Clinton and found its peak under Bush, just happened to POP shortly after the Conventions…just in time to hurt the party in Office…irrespective of WHO caused it, or WHY it happened…that is just too much detail for the average voter.

Third, the historic act of a major party nominating the first Black American for President of the United States. The fact is that Barack Obama enjoyed a swoon of history on his side..everyone (nearly everyone) would like to be proud of the distance the United States has come since Slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, and Segregation. It is easy to assign this candidacy to the pedestal of our American Exceptionalism. Though certainly not guaranteed to win, the first Black nominee of a major party has many advantages that ordinary candidates would not have had, the first time around. Minorities in general would feel the import of the historic moment, and the rest of the American people would also like to be part of that achievement…the part of belonging to something bigger than just a Presidential Election.

SO the question remains what is left for the GOP, the Conservative Movement and where do they go from here.

Since we briefly looked at the three elements that made up this POLITICAL PERFECT STORM, we need to look at the lay of the land as the storm clears and the sky’s turn Red, White and Blue again…

The Conservative Movement specifically and the GOP in general have to realize the color of the rainbow that is left in the wake of this storm. The ‘browning’ of America, the growth of Latino populations in America, is an undeniable truth. We need to realize that we cannot win long term with only White men and some White women…we need to recruit minorities who are also concerned with traditional conservative issues.

This is not to say we need to give up our Social issues (LIFE, MARRIAGE, ETC), we only need to educate and reach out to the Latino community in a more direct and rational way. Black American’s and Latino American’s go to Church and are traditionally socially conservative, We need to remind them of this, and recruit more from these two communities.

Clearly we lost the Latino vote and it cost the McCain camp dearly. Rove successfully gained enough in 2000 and 2004 to win the White House and the GOP will need to do better here in the future. While the Latino vote is a sub-set of the Catholic Vote, which too is a sub set of the Social Issue of Life. The Challenge to the GOP is to educate Latino’s on their Faith, the primordial issue of Life and to bring them back into the Social Conservative voting group…but the obstacle is Trust in Immigration, in particular.

IMMIGRATION needs to be considered as a comprehensive issue going forward for the GOP. The Pelosi Mafia and Pollsters on the Left will realize, if they already have not, that passing an amnesty immigration path bill will enhance their (DEM) chances of retaining this vitally important vote into the future…Colorado, Florida, New Mexico and Los Angeles proper are key to this point.

McCain lost Los Angeles by 1.2 Million votes…the same types of Demographics can help explain why reaching out to Latinos is important for the future…and we can expect the Pelosi Mafia to do it in the next term.

The GOP needs to recruit minority candidates, mostly Hispanic/Latino, to begin this healing process. Losing this demographic will place the GOP into a monochrome box in perpetuity.   Vital to the GOP and Conservative movement success is to bring Latino’s into the fold as traditional Protestant Work Ethic American’s…willing to work, willing to do whatever is necessary to take care of their family…reach them on both the religious grounds but also the Family Value grounds.

The GOP would be smart to begin to find a common ground, sensible and long-term solution for the Immigration problems…

1)NEXT, the GOP must get back to the CORE message and SPECIFIC message of Conservatives desires…Limited Government, Lower Taxes, Liberty, Freedom, Strong Defense, and Fiscal Conservatism. A renewed CONTRACT with the AMERICAN PEOPLE must be developed that can be synthesized and communicated. The GOP Failed to remain true to it’s values since the early days of the Bush years (2002) and the by-product is being swept out like the houses on the Gulf Coast as Katrina moved in. We must realize that the efficiency of a consistent message allows for fewer dollars to be used to achieve larger coverage.

2) The GOP and Conservatives must realize that money is not going to flow to our coffers for a while; we must understand that the DEMS will remain the bulwark in fundraising, so we must develop a strategy that relies upon more grassroots appeal, support and utilization of resources. The lack of money will be a huge obstacle, but if we craft an ALINSKI MODEL that enthusiastically challenges the mainstream thought with a consistent and clear, rhythmic message, our needs for funds will not be so great to recover the reins of government.

This cannot be overstated, that we must work smarter, harder and more clearly. The Obstacle of our cause is that the ALINSKI MODEL is one best served in an URBAN environment, where geography is more easily traversed. Our challenge here will be the mastering of the URBANIZATION of the WEB…we must look at WEB-BASED COMMUNITIES as the left has used URBAN POPULATION S.

Educating the masses on the VALUES they have, and aligning it with the CONSERVATIVE movement is key. Re-enforcing what they already believe but creating the connection to the GOP/CONSERVATIVE movement is our key…ID…Religion, Values, Taxes, Jobs, Economy, Defense, LIFE, Family, etc…

3) LIMITED GOV’T is a core level issue that must be sworn to like an oath to office. We must never allow ourselves to be viewed through the corrupt scope of Lobbying Dollars again. Our enemy has blurred the view with great help from the GOP APROPRIETOR CLASS officials. This is our Achilles heel issue. McCain missed his opportunity to differentiate himself with BUSH, OBAMA, PELOSI, REID and FRANK by not railing against the Bailout…we must never be seen as being the BIG GOVERNMENT types again. Our chore must be to illustrate the difference with us and the Socialist Mentality…despite the fluid movement of so many towards this line of thought…we cannot be half-socialists or we will lose every time.

4) Post Election analysis showed that we did not lose because fewer conservatives are out there verse Liberals, it is because we failed to BE conservatives. We still represent about 33% while LIBS are 22% and Moderate are 45%...so we are still ahead in the game…we need to begin to win the MINDs, HEARTs and SOULs of the moderates….it can be done via consistency of message and a commitment to proper education.

5) Pendulums swing…we must not be afraid of being true to our cause…support our issues, but we must not worry that we are lost. We must realize that the challenge ahead is perhaps more difficult than it was in 1992…the first time you sneak up on someone is the easiest!

We will not win trying to be the best moderate party out there, we will win when we convince enough folks that we cannot afford all that the LEFT likes to promise…we must remain positioned to be ready to assume control again, but being committed to our principles and our cause..Limited Government, Lower Taxes, More Freedom and Individual Liberty…

We will see over the next 3-5 years the failings again of International Socialism, we must be ready to Indentify it again, be ready to provide an alternative. City after city will fail to meet their spending desires, County after County and State after State…business after business will fail like Ford Motor and United Airlines in the near future…we need to be ready to offer an alternative set of ideals and principle other than the knee-jerk Socialist proposal as we saw with the 700Billion Bailout…

The PRINCIPLE of the CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT needs to be…GOVERNMENT only produces UN-INTENDED CONSEQUENCES…that Government should not pick Winners from the Losers…

The Obama Presidency will fail because of its weak foundation…it rests upon the CULT OF PERSONALITY,…Castroian, Chavezian, and now Obamaian…Socialism is our enemy, …this is why the theme of the Obama campaign rested upon a tax cut for 95% of American’s…it relied upon Populism.

Below you can see the urban centers who bought this message…it is classic ALINSKI MODEL organizing…from the ‘touching’ of the masses, the pitting one class verse the other, to the populist message of CHANGE/HOPE and it only resting in one Man…in one cause Socialism…it was magnificently achieved by grit, desire , practice and timing…utilizing the Internet, technology and traditional Community Organizing techniques…we need to build our counter organizations to combat the infrastructure of the URBAN POPULAR movement created by the Obama team…

Conservatives stead ready to work! Conservative stand ready to organize and unit, stand ready to recruit, get dirty and build the necessary model that will lead to long term success!