Watching political and media efforts to explain and define the significance of America’s repudiation of the Bush Administration, yesterday as well as the nauseating fawning on the “historic moment,” it has become very clear that American Conservatives – the true ones whose intention is to preserve the past cultural achievements of mainstream America, and to build on that base – need to reassess our tactics. To be clear, as each of you receiving this well know, tactics are not principles. As the great Virginia Senator Harry Flood Byrd reminded the Virginia General Assembly in 1964, “Times and circumstances change, but principles do not.” In the tactical reassessment, being suggested, the goal is not to surrender principle; rather, quite the contrary, to reexamine how we can reach others more persuasively; the purpose to increase the numbers of articulate Americans who will understand our principles well enough to stand with us in the future.

The campaign, of course, was no test for Conservative principles. Did anyone, other than Chuck Baldwin (Constitution Party) even urge traditional American values; even seek to identify with the remarkably clear & timeless vision that went into the Constitution, the other candidates chose to ignore. Of course, probably less than 1% of the electorate had ever heard of Baldwin, while the major party candidates were spending hundreds of millions of dollars a month, trading slogans and promises, only more notable for their lack of Constitutional awareness than for their abysmal ignorance of the actual dynamics that drive markets, or of what are actually in play in American education.

Had Senator McCain actually drawn on his own family’s involvement with the continuity of America, he might have had the sense to anticipate the number of false “guilt-driven” middle-class Whites who were almost orgasmic, yesterday, in getting America over her history. If any of you have the slightest doubt how to address that phenomenon in ways that will reduce the incidence, feel free to call me. But McCain seemed to suffer from a milder case of the same neurosis. He obviously had no clue as to how to gain the initiative from the Obamaists. And yet, he could have completely turned the tables on Obama, in the final debate, if he had really understood why the true Conservative position on Federal involvement in education is actually better for every element in the population. (Fawning over the false premises of a skilled demagogue is not the way to unhorse him.)

The Left, since the Fabian movement in Britain in the 1890s has made tremendous use of a class of pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-altruistic, neurotics, of the ilk that Lenin described as “Useful idiots.” For over three generations, we have treated this type with contempt, hostility and ridicule–if not outright hatred. The time has come to analyze the neurosis more closely. With a little different approach, we could actually turn some of these people back to reality. It involves being able to look at what on the Left hooks them; what the factors can be broken down into, in order to alter perspectives, to help even “Parlor Pinks” to understand that their wish lists really are counter-productive, if they actually care for the well being of other peoples–i.e., not set out to denounce them as meddlers, simply estrange them from believing the Marxist and/or Fabian meddling can accomplish anything for those their compulsions lead them to patronize.

A Friend.