Right On The Right

Keep piling on the reasons to attend the next Gathering of Eagles. The following is pulled from an editorial about the anti-war movement and the Conservative course of action:

Conservatives, then, have three possible courses of action to get their fellow Americans onboard: they can express their outrage that it shouldn’t have to be this way, condemn those who are unable to overcome the image barrier, or learn to tell a better story.

The last choice is undoubtedly the most challenging, but it also stands the best chance of succeeding. For example, consider the shift in perception that occurred when conservatives and pro-troop moderates turned out in large numbers to counter a major anti-war protest in March 2007: holding aloft a sea of American flags, they threw the scattered objectives of the protesters into sharp relief. Suddenly, the protesters could no longer claim to be the sole voice of disaffected Middle America; a fair slice of Middle America had obviously chosen to stand on the sidelines under their own flag rather than take center stage under the banner of the openly-Communist Workers World Party. However, the new story was not the conservatives’ tendency to rally around the flag, or even the disturbing agendas of some anti-war groups. It was the picture of conservatives and right-leaning moderates as a force every bit as dynamic, diverse, and passionate as that of their liberal counterparts—and, at least at that rally, a much larger one.

A sea of flags will fly again, a sea of voices will be heard again, and hopefully a sea of humanity will make the t.v. screens and prove that Americans still support victory. Eagles up!