This afternoon’s One Jerusalem conference call was with former House Majority Leader Tom Delay. On the call with us were Jim Hoft (Gateway Pundit), Pamela Geller Oshr (Atlas Shrugs), Anne Lieberman (Boker Tov, Boulder), and Daled Amos (Daled Amos). As always, Allen Roth was moderating the call and audio will be made available soon on the One Jerusalem frontpage.
Let’s not mince words: the Republican situation going into 2008 is dire. As if there weren’t enough real reasons to be disillusioned with the Bush administration, the Democrats have added a new arrow to their quiver: making shit up. The media’s handling of the attorney firing dust-up is more or less proof positive that there’s nothing Democrats can’t turn into a scandal. We have reached a point where Ann Coulter is actually sounding reasonable when she talks about how it’s “illegal to be Republican.”
The Left is united ideologically, financially, and politically. If you’re not worried yet, go check out David Horowitz’s Discover the Networks site. They’ve got a database that tracks how Leftist donors, activists, and organizations have begun pooling their money and making common electoral cause. This isn’t your parents’ identity politics, where women and blacks used to march together to show solidarity. This is about politically obliterating the Republican party and bureaucratically stymieing conservative causes – which, in today’s landscape, includes the pro-Israel movement.
In response, Delay is trying to reinvigorate grassroots activism. He’s pushing a grassroots site called Coalition for a Conservative Majority, which will hopefully become a virtual clearinghouse for grassroots causes. He’s even started his own blog, and it’s quite good. The posts are being written by someone signing as “NJ Conservative”, and it actually reads like an real blog – the the look is right and the tone is right. It’s as good a step as any other – something needs to be done, and fast, to unite the right against what’s rapidly emerging as one of the most organized political juggernauts in recent memory.
In the non-Internet world Delay has a new book out titled No Retreat, No Surrender. It’s an autobiography, not a theoretical work – but it does its job of outlining broad contours and values for a kind of revived successful conservative movement. Here’s one of the parts about Israel:
Over and over and over again, evangelicals insist that their alliance with Israel is built on the most laudatory of values and mandated by Christian faith. And over and over and over again, the left slanders this alliance. Most recent and stark example: Wonkette West Coast overlord Ken Layne:
So on one side you’ve got every important evangelical in the country insisting that evangelicals have to support Israel on the basis of genuine affection and Biblical injunction. They say it in interviews, they preach it to their parishioner, they write it in their books, and they print it on the back of pamphlets.
On the other side, you’ve got millions upon millions of liberals who have transformed their apocalypse myth into conventional wisdom. This slanderous nonsense is a token of sophistication in a breathtaking number of liberal corners. Which gets back to Delay’s central point: Democrats can make up anti-conservative stories out of whole cloth, and they still get disseminated as if they were totally reasonable positoins. That’s the kind of coalition that the Republicans face in 2008, and it spans. political, journalistic, media, and academic forums. And time is running out to counter-organize.
Full disclosure: I blog for Gridskipper, which is owned by Gawker Media, the same company that owns Wonkette
References:
* One Jerusalem
* Shooting Elephants in a Barrel
* Discover the Networks
* Coalition for a Conservative Majority
* Tom Delay
* OneJerusalem.org Conference Call: Pastor John Hagee, Senior Pastor of Cornerstone Church [FAQ: Debunking Liberal Myths About Evangelical Support For Israel] [MR]
* John Edwards Expresses Concern Over Israel-Iran War, Loses Nomination [Wonkette]
Previously:
* JPost Drops Bombshell: Democrats Illegally Communicating With Hamas Terrorists
* Democrats Take a Brave Stand Against Israeli Self-Defense Israeli Self-Defense and Other Stuff Too
* [Video] What You Get When You Vote For Democrats – Empowering Conspiracy Theory Wackos
