I’ll use this post as a place to gather ideas on what to do next. If you have suggestions, please leave a comment.
The first thing that occurred to me is how vital it is to protect the integrity of the voting process, especially now that ACORN, the professional voter fraud organization, has their man in the White House. It’s just insane and suicidal how easy voter fraud is in this country. In many states, including mine, poll workers aren’t even allowed to ask for ID. So I think we should push, nationwide, for:
- Photo ID requirements for voting.
- Reviewable paper trails for all ballots.
- Safeguards against multiple votes – which could tie in to #1.
- English-only ballots.*
- Make fraudulent registration a felony for both the registrar and the registree.
* If you can’t understand English well enough to vote a ballot, you don’t understand it well enough to understand the issues. And spare me any accusations of “racism”. Race has nothing to do with language. It’s a great advantage for people to be bilingual – all of us in my family are – but it’s a disadvantage for a country to have multiple official languages. Language is culture. And multiculturalism is death.
Jim Manzi writes of a two-day discussion on this topic happening at Slate.
Some good ideas there: Vouchers. Yes, a lot of the blame for yesterday’s debacle goes to public schools – or, as Lee Rodgers calls them – “ignorance factories”. If this country is to survive we have to get the NEA’s stranglehold off of our children’s brains. And don’t forget the universities:
Preliminary indications are that the youth vote (ages 18-29) was way up: an increase of somewhere over 2.2 million (maybe way over) from 2004 (a year in which it was very high), and as much as 13% over 2000. The Left’s dominance of the academy is now having a material impact on electoral politics. As we think about the future of conservatism, we ignore that at our peril.
Roger Kimball’s new edition of Tenured Radicals seems like an excellent starting point for that urgent discussion.
Ties in with this:
We’re getting beat on the ground, on campus, and in new technologies. Republicans should get as many smart 20-30 year olds in a room as possible ASAP and figure out how to mobilize people to spread Republican enthusiasm and use new technology (twitter, Facebook, text messaging, social networking, etc.) to do it. We also have to find a way to raise money and hit all 50 states.
Dr. Helen suggests working on getting more R’s in the Senate.
I wonder if Arnold Schwarzenegger might run against Barbara Boxer for her Senate seat…
Here’s one case where even a complete RINO like Schwarzenkennedy would be an improvement. There aren’t many senators to the left of Boxer, and one of them is moving to the other end of Pennsylvania Ave.
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