By
ROBERT LAURIE - We're better than the crybaby routine
On April 2nd 1780, British Lieutenant General
Sir Henry Clinton led an overwhelming force as it lay siege to the city of
Charleston, South Carolina. The ensuing violence lasted 40
days. When it was over, 5,200 Continental troops had been captured,
92 were killed, and 148 were wounded. The city was lost. It
would go down in history as the worst U.S. defeat of the Revolutionary War.
As news of the loss spread, Americans complained that
war was hard, there was no way to win, and that Liberty just wasn’t worth
the hassle. So, they surrendered and we remain English to this day.
Oh wait…that’s not what happened, is it.
No. They licked their wounds, put on their big
boy pants, and took it to the Brits with such fury that, a couple of years
later, the enemy signed the Treaty of Paris.
For conservatives, Election Night was the siege of
Charleston.
Unfortunately, for the last two days, the whiners
have taken over the narrative. Instead of getting angry, and
re-engaging in the political battle, the people who should be fighting the
hardest are moping around feeling sorry for themselves.
“America is doomed,” They say. “We’ve lost it
all. In four years you won’t recognize the place. We’ve been beaten
by Mad King Obama!”
Please, just stop. We're better than this.
Believe me when I
tell you that I understand the sting of losing. We all do. As I pointed out yesterday,
The United States finds itself in a dangerous spot, on very shaky footing.
The country, as we know and love it, took a very hard hit Tuesday.
With that as a starting point, the fact that our
constitutional ideals have become harder to defend does not mean we stop
trying. Yes, because of Obama’s re-election he has four more years to try
and stamp us out. He’s made it quite clear that the Constitution is
an obstacle, and there’s no doubt he’ll attempt to weasel his way around it
at every opportunity.
However, if we simply sit back and wring our hands
rather than fight, he’ll have free reign. If we weren’t willing to give
that to him on Monday, why are so many ready to admit defeat and hand it
over now?
Somehow, conservatives got it into their heads that
Election Night was going to be our last battle. We were going to win,
liberalism would go away, and we’d be a nation of strict constructionists.
That was never the
case. If you thought so, you were really kidding yourselves. This
fight never ends, and it would have been no different had Romney been
elected.
Now, we can do one of two things. Either we run
away with our tails between our legs, or we fight like we’ve been backed
into a corner. Personally, I’ve never been big on the whole “whipped
dog” routine, so I choose to fight.
We still have the House, we still have the new media,
we still have talk radio, and we still have our voices.
You want to give up? Fine. The rest of us
will carry on without you.
If you’re tough enough to keep going, cut the crybaby
act and saddle up. We have work to do.
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