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“ “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.  But, under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” Norman Thomas U.S. Socialist Party Presidential candidate 1940 “We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism.” - Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, 1959 Barking Moonbat ”

We have here dueling post-election autopsies. Antisocial Conservatives By W. James Antle, III  'Center-right' America lurches further left Mark Steyn: “ In truth, there is very little evidence that the country has moved left on social issues since 2004, when values voters were said to decide the presidential election. Polls have been shifting somewhat more pro-life since the mid-1990s. Even leftward movement on same-sex marriage, which has gone from being unthinkable in the early '90s to a live issue today, seems to have stalled around late 2003. Republicans emphasized their social conservatism much more in 2004, when they won, than during their losing campaigns of 2006 and 2008. My Republican friends are now saying, oh, not to worry, look at the exit polls, this is still a "center-right" country. Americans didn't vote to go left, they voted to go cool. It was a "Dancing With The Stars" election: Obama's a star, and everyone wants to dance with him. It doesn't mean they're suddenly gung-ho for left-wingery. Up to a point. ” W. James Antle, III (whoever he is) gravitates toward the David Frum camp's solution, "Republicans should now embrace "a future that is less overtly religious, less negligent with policy, and less polarizing on social issues," a move that will "involve painful change" on such issues as abortion."  Also known as the "what do Frank Luntz's focus groups say?" method of social pandering.  Poop. The  "overtly religious" values that so bother these party intellectuals, are values embraced by even those of us who are non-religious  -- because they happen to represent core conservative values. Mark Steyn, who actually understands, and lives conservatism, recognizes the real problem that faces us, and by "us" I mean all Americans. “ The president-elect's so-called "tax cut" will absolve 48 percent of Americans from paying any federal income tax at all, while those who are left will pay more. Just under half the population will be, as Daniel Henninger pointed out in The Wall Street Journal, on the dole. ” The successor to the failed RNC formula, that has been leading us into the jaws of defeat for a dozen years, had better go back to acting out of principle in all matters, regardless of what a Luntz focus group dictates. In fact, quit using focus groups entirely. Give no quarter, and ask none. Begin by moving every resource they have into ACORN infested Minnesota, where Democrats are poised to steal Norm Coleman's Senate seat, using the Christine Gregoire method of "finding lost ballots" until she won. . Things have slipped so far that it may be impossible to restore our democracy, but keeping 100+ million of us together with focused, principled goals will make it possible to do this Don't Tread On USA, when necessary. Say Amen.