American Thinker Blog: November 2010: Too little, too late.

An excerpt:

If conservatives wait until November 2010 we will be: Too little, too late.This is why: The nominations and primary races are shaping up right now. We must nominate conservatives for the November 2010 vote, right now. Deadlines approach soon. GOP county and state organizations are working right now to get their ducks in a row for the 2010 election – and beyond.

Another choice morsel:

As a conservative, you’ll face prejudice. Stay calm, stay cool. You’ll have to be sharper and better than anyone else… Get a copy of Robert’s Rules of Order. Know your local organization procedures. Read American Thinker. Read biographies of George Washington, John Adams, and other great patriots.

Carry a copy of The United States Constitution in your hip pocket. Read it, know it. That is the best civic guidance.

An interesting quote, emphasis added,

The reaction to Palin revealed a deep and intense cultural paranoia on the Left: an inclination to see retrograde reaction around every corner, and to respond to it with vile anger. A confident, happy, and politically effective woman who was also a social conservative was evidently too much to bear. The response of liberal feminists was in this respect particularly telling, and especially unpleasant. “Her greatest hypocrisy is her pretense that she is a woman,” wrote Wendy Doniger, a professor at the University of Chicago. “Having someone who looks like you and behaves like them,” said Gloria Steinem, “who looks like a friend but behaves like an adversary, is worse than having no one.”

Another quote from Levin,

Many of those (including especially those on the Right) who reacted badly to Palin on intellectual grounds understand themselves to be advancing the interests of lower-middle-class families similar to Palin’s own family and to many of those in attendance at her rallies … But it is hard to escape the conclusion that while these members of the intellectual elite want the government to serve the interests of such people first and foremost, they do not want those people to hold the levers of power. They see lower-middle-class populists like Palin and their supporters as profoundly ill-suited for governance, because they lack the accoutrements required for its employment—especially in foreign policy, which, even more than domestic affairs, is thought to be an intellectual exercise.

Please read great article at weeklystandard.com: The Palin Persuasion – A case for the new populism, by Matthew Continetti. Sarah Palin is in the populist tradition of Andrew Jackson, Williams Jennings Bryan, and Ronald Reagan. They all believe in the virtue and liberty of individuals rather than trusting the elites to rule us wisely.