Broad and Wide

An enormous crowd descended on Washington D.C. at Glenn Beck's urging to restore honor. Estimating the multitudes is an inexact science at best but even the shills and hacks of the dinosaur media put the number of attendees at three hundred thousand (300,000) while others with less of a vested interest in lowering the scale said as many as a million souls gathered. In either case, the magnitude of the event should not be underestimated. The very title of the gathering demonstrates a profound dissatisfaction, that people were animated to journey hundreds or in some cases even thousands of miles out of a sense that our nation's sacred honor is imperilled. The multitude that crowded around Beck and company may have been cheerful but they did not come in good cheer but rather out of a sense of grim purpose, determined to save the United States as we have known and loved her. And there is hope as an election is approaching where we may start to turn or at least stem the tide. The seemingly impossible has already taken place with Scott Brown seizing the "permanently" Democrat Kennedy seat from Massachusetts in the US Senate and fiscal conservative Chris Christie gaining the Governorship in New Jersey. Though perhaps neither Brown or Christie is as down the line rightist as many (including this author) would like, their victories show socialism's rise in the US can be thwarted. And there is excitement all across the nation from Sarah Palin's Alaska to Mark Rubio's Florida, to the Midwestern heartland of Paul Ryan's Wisconsin and Tim Pawlenty's Minnesota, right down to Louisiana now remembering Hurricane Katrina and still recovering from the BP oil disaster but led by GOP rising star Bobby Jindal that the Right is resurgent and well on the way to saving America.