Standing athwart history, yelling, “I’m not wearing any pants!”

Like with most bloggers who weren’t fans of Mitt Romney in the primary, I was responsible for my fair share of snark and sarcasm at Hugh Hewitt’s expense. If you aren’t sure what I’m talking aboot, let’s just say his support of Romney sometimes bordered between fanatic and obsessive.

However since the end of the primaries, and especially since the election, he’s been one of the best analytical voices of what we need to do as a party and how urgent it is that we do it.

He was also right aboot Romney, but I’m trying not to dwell too much in the past.

Anyhow, here’s what he had to say today aboot the opportunity we’ve been presented with the recent announcements that a few Republican senators won’t be running for re-election:

The expected retirement of Ohio Senator George Voinovch combines with the retirements of Missouri’s Kit Bond, Florida’s Mel Martinez and Kansas’ Sam Brownback to offer National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn an opportunity to recharge the NRSC’s volunteer/donor base. The chance to recruit young conservatives for four key seats with rhetorical skills and a deep commitment to Reagan conservatism is a chance to energize the base quickly.

An NRSC fund to defend the seats has to established and segregated from other funds, just as one needs to be established for challengers to Democrats seats. The NRSC is still recovering from its disastrous 2006 cycle when it tried to raise money for the likes of Lincoln Chafee and saw its credibility hit bottom with conservatives. If Senator Cornyn established contribution options for donors so that their money goes to particular efforts and not to defend incumbents’ seats (who ought to be well positioned to raise their own cash), the NRSC will quickly become the key coffer to fill in anticipation of the 2010 vote.

I’d like to add something else as far as young conservatives go. I just got finished reading “Reagan’s Revolution,” which was a look at Reagan’s 1976 campaign. It was a fascinating book, but there was one fact that really jumped out. It was the Young Republican’s who broke with the RNC and endorsed Reagan. We’re the ones who chose Reagan where the (as much as I hate the word) “status quo” went with Gerald Ford…resulting in four years of Jimmy Carter.

And by “status quo” I mean the same ass clowns whose response to the 2008 election was to blame the voters for being too stupid to know any better and/or mocked everything Obama did right that we didn’t do…like how he had a “message” and used “technology” to “market” that message.

The point is, it’s been our job as young Republicans and/or Conservatives to step up and tell our party elders when it’s time to change…even when they had to be dragged kicking and screaming. It’s our time, and it’s time for us to be the one’s to step up.

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