I see that I still have not had any readers but that's OK, I haven't spent much time 'recruiting.' For not this is the place that I can record any significant thoughts before they disintegrate.

Over the weekend I watched Rush Limbaugh's address at CPAC 2009. I attended my first CPAC in February, 2001, a pre-9/11 America that seems to be gone forever. I attended my second CPAC in February, 2006 while attending Law Schoool at Capital in Columbus, Ohio. I very much wanted to be in attendance at CPAC 2009 but due to my current lack of employment couldn't afford to attend.

I thought that Rush's address was right on the mark, he didn't need to sound like a wannabe politician and he didn't mince his words, it was simply like watching him do one of his monologues. In his speech he mentions that we need to fight the left with philosophy not simply try to find a compromise point somewhere in the current proposals, and not to debate and argue about policy and process. Since we don't have enough voting power in either house of Congress we can't push our way into any of their proposed legislation but however we can start the education of the American people about what conservative philosophy is.

I agree with him but would add something that he mentioned but didn't seem to follow up on. He mentioned that Newt Gingrich had a health-care proposal ready for debate on the floor of Congress. We need to attack on policy through an aggressive media blitz with a grassroots swell of support for a specific proposal on each major issue.

We do in fact need to quit being the party of "no" and attempt to distance ourselves from appearing to be 'obstructionists.' We must a two-prong attack: first, debate and educate what conservative philosophies are and two, propose practical applications of those principles simultaneously.

Simply stopping liberalism hasn't been and never will be enough. We must go on the attack and attempt to enact conservative principles. Talk, then act. Recon then direct action. Spear then sword. However you want to analogize it we have got to change our tactics.

I'm currently reading Newt Gingrich's Real Change, go to www.AmericanSolutions.com to learn more.