What did yesterday bring?

Wednesday – October 3, 2010

What did yesterday bring?

I waited two years to vote the way I did yesterday. I waited two years to find my voice and to inspire others to do the same. We did it! Yesterday was the start of something old in America. It was the start on to the road back to independence. If you ever wondered how the founding fathers felt when they decided to go down the road to independence, just remember yesterday.

What did you say yesterday? You said that you don’t want tyranny and oppression. You said that you are not the enemy to the president. You said you would prefer to go the way of the founding fathers. You said that you are not a bigot, nor are you a racist. You said that you are engaged in the process and that you will stay involved. You said no more and no way to big government - period.

Am I blowing this out of proportion? I don’t think so. We took the House and we came closer to taking the Senate back. This was a great showing for the Republicans and the Tea Party and better yet and more importantly, it was a great showing of patriotism. This is also a repudiation of the Presidents agenda. This repudiation will play out in the Senate races in 2012 and possibly the Presidential race, if the President doesn’t recognize the sea of change that occurred yesterday! He lost his House. He lost many Governors and State Legislators. Yesterday was far reaching. It put in motion the context for the next election, which starts today!

It’s time to celebrate. Not because one side won and the other side lost. We should celebrate, because the people voted their conscience. We became Patriots, we became active and we became engaged. The landscape is painted with the hues of the changing season. This is what we are celebrating. We don’t celebrate the loss, but we celebrate the win of American Patriotism.

Thomas Jefferson said: “Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The Federal government is our servant not our master!” He went onto say, “One man with courage is a majority.”

Yesterday, I ran into a poll worker who reads my FORUM everyday - he said: “Pinecone - Everyday I read you and you inspire me.” The truth is he inspires me, because he works the process. He makes sure that the process functions and ensures that the process goes forward with the duty he performs at the polls. This is what American elections are all about. We are able to walk in to a polling place to cast our vote, because of men like Jefferson, my friend at the poll and all those who make the process work.

The country has spoken and our leaders have to listen. For those who are new to office, you now have a lease and for those who remained in office you too have a lease. This was not a Republican revolution, but a people’s revolution to restore sanity, fiscal responsibility and a conservative overview to a very liberal Executive branch.

What we have not spoken about and what has not been said yet is that the President now owns everything going forward. The era of George Bush is over. The consequences of this election are now facing this president squarely in his face. He can choose to govern with the will of the people or face the fate that those who lost yesterday witnessed. It is now up to those who won yesterday to set the course and work towards what the dream of the founding fathers was. It is now up to us to remind those who won that the American Dream must go on and endure. Samuel Adams said: “Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.”

My thanks to those who read my FORUM and to those who work to keep us free and who work to guarantee that the process of freedom and liberty keeps moving forward.

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: Yesterday brought us a new start towards our old style of independence. Like our Forefathers knew it doesn’t happen in two years or four it is a process that takes time, but eventually freedom and liberty does prevail and that is what independence is all about!