Time to wake up!

I liked this quote from Peggy Noonan in today’s Wall Street Journal…

As for Mr. Obama, some thoughts that start with a hunch. He has the kind of self-confidence that will serve him well or undo him. He has to be careful about what he wants, because he's going to get it, at least at the beginning. He claimed a lot of moderate territory in his Inaugural Address (deepen and expand our alliances, put aside debates on size of government and aim for government that is competent and constructive), but no one is certain, still, what governing philosophy guides him. He would be most unwise to rouse the sleeping giant that is American conservatism. One thing that would rouse it, and begin to bring its broken pieces back together, would be radical movement on abortion, such as pushing the so-called Freedom of Choice Act.

We can only hope that Ms. Noonan is correct, and that in his hubris and his “messiah complex”, President Obama will arrogantly overreach and waken the majority of Americans who are socially conservative.

We have grown lazy on the Right in America, especially among Christians. We were comfortable because “one of our own” was in the White House, and because “our guy” was President we began to lose cohesion and focus, our will was sapped, our strength atrophied. In large part, that lapse has led to where we are today with an unqualified, rabidly pro-abortion President and congress. We became concerned about our pocketbooks, 401k balances, mortgages and the other cares of life and forgot about defending life. The huge numbers of professing Christians who voted for Obama must face the fact that in doing so and helping to elect Obama they are complicit in his actions which will inevitably and tragically lead to more abortions in America.

Admiral Yamamoto, commander of the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II, is famously (perhaps apocryphally) quoted after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor as saying: “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”. I pray fervently that like the sleeping giant we will awaken from our slumber, be filled with resolve and zeal and drive the stain of abortion from our nation.