Memo to Republicans:
Yesterday, Ron Paul was reelected to the House with 76% of the vote.
So much for the wisdom of psuedo-sage Republicans such as McCain, Colin Powell, Lindsay Graham, Trent Lott, et al. You know, the Republicans who - taking their cue from lamestream media - get all paternal and didactic with their admonitions that "extremists (READ: non-statists) can't win."
Conventional wisdom may be convention, but it isn't especially wise.
GOP gains in yesterday's elections will either make them or break them - either result is good for America, in my optimistic view.
If the GOP follows Republican tradition - lofty words about limited government and personal liberty, followed by continued expansion of the State and constantly trying to please the other party and its allies in the dinosaur media - it will become irrelevant, having spurned its friends once too often, while allowing it's enemies to frame the issues.
On the other hand, if new leadership arises in the GOP, willing to lose a few battles, and even some elections (Obama is a good example of this posture), while standing firm on the ideas that got them elected, they will become a true opppostion party, one that could rightly claim the honorable moniker, "Party of No."
At that point, I might even consider becoming a Republican.
Because "extremism" in the defense of liberty is no vice!
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