NEOAVATARA

“It will again be morning in America,” Glenn Beck stated, as he concluded is keynote address to the Conservative political action committee’s national meeting.

There were many messages from numerous messengers at this three day meeting.  Polticians, pundits, and bloggers all had their conservative voices  heard, and gave a multitude of visions for the future.  But it did focus on a couple key points:

• Fiscal conservatism as the core of the conservative movement…something Republicans have moved away from during the last decade.
• Reducing the focus on social issues, especially those that are contradictory to individual freedom.
• Back to the ‘era of big government is over’.
• Ending ‘too big to fail’.
• A defense of individual and economic freedom.
• And ultimately, a future without Barack Obama after 2012.

I think that about sums it up.

CPAC was certainly different this year.  Certainly, the antagonism against Barack Obama and his extreme leftist agenda has united the right in ways we have not seen since at least 1994.

But this is just the beginning…or the end of the beginning.  Getting Republican governors elected in New Jersey and Virginia and taking Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat is a good start…but it is only a start.

The media and Democrats will focus on who the leader of the conservative movement is.  And that, frankly, is a joke.  Let me ask you this:  in January of 2006, would Barack Obama been even in the Top 10 list of liberal leaders?  Hell no.  I doubt he would have even been talked about among the leaders in the Senate.  John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards…but not Mr. Obama, the eventual 44th President of these here United States.  So, as for a leader, I will be patient; and so should you.  We have work to do, and leaders rise to the occasion when history demands it.

The focus now centers on November.  Everything we do should be focused on taking the House and Senate.  Is it possible?  I myself am not sure…but I think it is at least possible, even if it is not likely.  In any case, an election to send a statement to Barack Obama and the Democrats about their wrong headed view of where the country is heading is what we all need.  And even with many diverging views of politics, we conservatives can all unite on that.

UPDATE:  I have to credit Allahpundit of Hotair with linking to this George Will clip.  Will is not my favorite conservative…but this speech (which has three parts; the first is seen here) is excellent.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhFBWw8bsAA