Hannity, Rush, Prager, Hewitt, and Savage are saying the same thing. Republicans lost because they weren’t conservative enough. Does that make sense? The conservative base voted for liberals because the Republicans weren’t extreme enough? So Michael Savage with his hard core, uncompromising conservative principles was right all along? I don’t buy that completely. One thing more frightening than becoming a minority is that Michael Savage was right.

This explanation is almost insulting. It implies that Americans were willing to throw the entire conservative agenda because their conservative principles were not being met to the proper degree. The conservative ideas being blamed are spending, illegal immigration, the RHINO’s compromise on the Democrat’s filibuster, the president’s inability to confront false accusations, etc. However these problems are finite compared to the War On Terror and are not worth throwing away our majority. This doesn’t explain what happened.

The national deficit was on a 5 year low. Unemployment was at a ridiculously low level despite Hurricane Katrina. The immigration and border fence process was finally moving. We finally got 2 conservative Supreme Court judges. We had tax cuts. We had terrorist surveillance, the Patriot Act, and a growing missile defense. Iraq was self ruling with a non-theocratic, representative democracy, constitution, and a growing military.

Yes, the Supreme Court and Senate were granting Habeas Corpus and Geneva Convention rights to terrorists, and the Congress wasn’t pressing charges on the New York Times for leaking top secret information. But that’s not what this election was about, at least not that I know of. I wasn’t listening to the left. Maybe that’s what my problem was, but I doubt Democrats ran against Republicans on these points. And these are not good enough reasons to hand the liberals control. This still doesn’t explain our loss, even though that’s what my conservative radio sources are saying.

I know nobody gets Hugh’s rope-a-dope approach to debate. I’ve been listening to Hugh since 9/11 and I finally realized what his strategy was at Thanksgiving 2005 with his 12 questions for liberal relatives at family reunions. So many times before, Hugh would let a caller answer with a lie and move on to the next question. And I would yell at the radio, “Call them on that!” It took me 5 years and an explanation from Hugh for me to get it.

Apparently the rope-a-dope has also been a strategy of President Bush’s, but people can’t see through the nuances of this strategy. Americans are blunt and want to see strait forward confrontation, Savage style. President Bush was too long unresponsive to false accusations. But they have stuck for the same reason I think Republicans lost. And here’s my point: too many conservatives are listening to the wrong voices (LIBERAL TV NEWS) and believing them.

That’s the best explanation I can think of, and it beats the ‘scandal and conservative principles’ argument. I avoid and ignore liberal voices, which is why I knew exactly how to vote. I was not distracted by the Foley or Haggard scandals. Over spending did not compete in my mind with the War On Terror in Iraq. And I was not convinced by the lies about Iraq coming from the Hippy News Media. I was with Hugh who said that any vote for any Democrat is a vote to abandon Iraq, impeach Bush, and stop conservative judges as well as the entire conservative agenda. This is why the ‘lack of conservative principles’ argument doesn’t explain the Republican loss.

According to the election results, Americans don’t care about liberal judges, higher taxes, or the War On Terror. I was confident that Americans knew better than to believe the illusion of the liberal media and Democrat candidates who ran pretending to be conservative. We lost because we’re listening to the wrong voices. MSM hates the military, they hate moral leaders, they hate cops, they hate Christians, they hate conservative values. Why do we listen to them? Why do we read their stuff? We should know better. We need to start listening to sources that are sympathetic with our world view, and reject the opinion of those who are hostile to what we believe.

Conservatives, (Christians,) are not going to change society through politics or elections. Christians will now only change the political, moral direction of society by getting people saved. Once people are changed through salvation, they will begin to think right, vote right, and ignore the wrong voices.

Christians are not going to accomplish this by operating like we have in the past, through passionless, unconvincing, powerless, proofless, religious words. There is a resentment for religion in America, and it is well deserved. America needs to experience the real presence and miraculous power of God, and average Christians today do not have that. We need that same thing that was on Jesus where he didn’t have to chase people around with the truth. All he had to do was make eye contact with an oppressed person and their hearts would instantly break. It was the Holy Spirit who made that possible. We can have that too, because Jesus said He would pour His Spirit on all flesh and we would do the same works that He did.

To get an observable presence and power of God, we need to pursue the presence of God ourselves, (its called prayer and worship,) and quit the habitual sins (Foley & Haggard) we use to fill the emptiness and wounds in our souls. Those wounds were created through cruelty, frustration, and disappointment. They can only be filled and eventually healed with the presence of God, and not only once a week at a church that doesn’t preach the full gospel.

Its hard work, that’s why we don’t do it. But will our nation survive any other way? This is the diagnosis of what happened 2006, and the prescription to heal our land.

Pursue the presence of God.

Quit habitual sin.

Get the observable power and presence of God.

Win souls.

Saved minds think right, vote right, and ignore the wrong voices.

Moral and political direction is corrected.

By Heaven, my Godly values will be reinforced

by my choice of counsel, (conservative political talk radio.)

Red Fox,

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