The post-election postmortem of the GOP is in full swing. We got ourselves out-organized, out-technologied and for damn good and sure out-spent by the Obama camp. As patriotic an American as John McCain is, with his exemplary life of service to his country, as soon as the economy collapsed, he didn’t stand a chance. The GOP message couldn’t have gotten more muddled, if there was ever actually a message at all. If the Joe the Plumber encounter with the Chosen One hadn’t happened, we might have seen a McGovern-sized defeat.

Hugh Hewitt points us to this article by John Agresto, Party of Privilege, which is taking a good look at what we have to do if we ever want to be more than an ever diminishing minority to the Dems. This excerpt examines the effect of Sarah Palin, but do go and read it all.

This, by the way, is why Sarah Palin was so refreshing and, to be clear, so exotic to all the elites: a woman who could raise herself up by dint of hard work and self-sacrifice to be a wife, mother, mayor, and governor. She didn’t do it by set-asides, by birth, by quotas, or by handouts. She did it as a woman and she did it by her efforts. She exemplified what we all once saw as America—a land of opportunity, where you could be anything you set your mind to be so long as you worked for it. She showed us something about both her character and ours, our old-fashioned American character. For all this, she had to be ridiculed—she represented a kind of American virtue that shames the privileged, whether they be rich or poor.

The gist of Agresto’s argument is that the Democrats own the entitlement set — those that are privileged, those that feel that everything is owed to them by the very fact of their being born. That’s a big chunk of the electorate, and if the Dems play it right that chunk is gonna grow like hydrilla.

There’s still time — not a lot — but we’ve got to learn to communicate with the rest of US. Those that work, pay taxes, raise their kids together, go to church, believe in something other than their own self-goodness. Those that only bought into the hopichanginess of Barack Obama because our side was even less articulate than our beloved “W”.

Time’s a wastin’!

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