What the liberals get right can be identified with one word – ACTIVISM.

While we as conservatives also participate in activism, we tend to do so within the context of traditional morals and values, the ultimate result of which is that we are not heard.

We operate at a distinct disadvantage in that the liberals have powerful allies in the MSM that we do not. They are therefore heard loudly. They generate exposure to the general populace that is effective, yielding results!

The methods and tactics that are employed in this activism bring to mind the expression that ‘the end justifies the means’. I in no way advocate the methods employed by the liberals, but the old saying goes, “fight fire with fire”. Are we to descend to their puerile level of name-calling and vilipendious rhetoric to achieve our objectives?

The results yielded by this activism have been incremental in nature. All one has to do is study the progressive movement from the time of Woodrow Wilson to the present. As an educator, Wilson understood the importance of inculcating young minds with the progressive message. What has resulted is an educational system and an academia that is almost wholly liberal. It is a battle won in a much larger war.

As this country turns away from its traditional founding values into a morass of secularism, we can rationalize ANYTHING as having some good in it, producing a million shades of grey, but no more black and white.

Liberal activism, with the complicity of the MSM, allows a disproportionately small portion of our population to have a huge voice. And believe me, it is heard!

A current example is Rosie O’Donnell, pushing an extreme left wing agenda.

Ah, but she does much good with her charitable work, you say. Sorry, but I would offer the analogy that her ‘good works’ are a PR stunt similar to the purchase of medieval indulgences to assuage a guilty conscience.

President Bush is now ‘mulling’ over the possibility of troop withdrawals, in addition to pushing the ‘illegal behavior is fine with us’ immigration bill. Is this capitulation to liberal activism or something more sinister? I’ll leave it to you to answer those questions.

In the final analysis, we need to DO something other than what we have been doing because we are losing the battles and therefore the war. Losing this war means losing our country as we have known it. To win this war will require ACTIVISM on a level we as conservatives have never employed. Whether we must drain the swamp by ballot box revolution, employ congressional recall petitions, or some other as yet tried method, we cannot afford to lose!

Cross posted at Redstate.com