Maritime Sentry points out a great post from the Draft Sarah Palin for Vice President site on Moving Forward. I encourage everyone to read it. My sentiments are mostly the same.
I am a Palin supporter. I am also a Bobby Jindal supporter. As charismatic conservatives who have records of real reform, I think the two of them offer great hope to the future of our Party. But they are not alone. There are other strong conservatives in America, and hopefully over the coming years a few of them will rise to the top and carry the party forward. We must resist all attempts to move to the center and lose our soul. That is a losing proposition every time it is tried. The liberal media will try to persuade us otherwise, but make no mistake, John McCain was the case study of moving the party to the center and he failed… miserably. George W. Bush tried to move to the center, and that lack of discipline and principle damaged his presidency. The liberals are going to hate us either way, so we might as well have our dignity and principles in tact. Its much easier to defend yourself when your position is not defenseless.
Our country has taken a serious step back, and over the next two years it could get much worse. We are in no position to protect the judiciary, the military, the Constitution or the unborn. We must fight to make sure we never find ourselves in this position again.
2010 is not a long way off. That will be our first chance to push Conservative voices in Congress. We must start now. But this fight is more than just promoting candidates with the right ideas. We have the chance to reshape the Republican Party and have it focus back on the core principles that matter. The “first principles” of our founders. The party is beholden to no one because the party lost. Its not time to rebrand or renew, its time to rebuild and reform. We need more discipline and integrity in Washington. We need more values and responsibility. Those are the same things we need from our party, and if we enforce within ourselves, we will get back into a place of prominence.
I vow to not give up the fight. Will you join me?
As a Conservative, I keep raking my brains trying to understand why our leaders, calling themselves conservatives and Reaganites, mess it up so badly. There can be only one answer. They are not real conservatives.
Jindal, Palin, and some others are the future. It is time to tell those wanna be campaign gossipers trashing Palin and the Conservative movement that if they hate conservatism so much, they can register to vote Democrat next time.
My family and me will continue calling for reform in Washington.
Let’s take the fight to the enemy…