Pounding The Podium

So, after my last article about “where do we go from here” I’ve been kind of called out.  I won’t mention the source by name,  but they felt that I was been a little disingenous about my reasons for leaving Gretawire and coming out here to the land of safe blogging (well apparently not too safe as I got called out).

Basically I was told “Well, I guess you are in the right place now, where you won’t be criticized or disagreed with, as this is your real comfort zone, however not very conducive to being the writer that you want to be.  Try not to fall into the trap of thinking that your political stand prevents you from standing up to those who exhibit PERSONAL traits that are distasteful and ignorant.”  Fair enough and well said.  I do however stand by my statement that I find blogging and arguing with individuals to be a total waste of time.  Liberals don’t come on to Gretawire to be converted anymore than conservatives do, and if anyone ever got their affilation changed from reading someone else’s view on GW it would be a first.

Regardless, the reasons that I choose not to be criticized or disagreed with are that my passions run deep when it comes to some things, and my health is very poor and very fragile.  It was for this reason (primarlly) that I left GW in the first place.

But I am not afraid of sticking up for my beliefs, and I am not afraid of sharing those beliefs.  I will just have to avoid as many pointless ‘he said she said’ arguments as possible.  I still have a tough week to go through medically, but I will take this weekend to rest up and get ready to battle some more.  I guess the best thing I can say is the old cliche “be careful what you wish for”

I’ve got to tell you that I am as frustrated tonight as I can ever remember being.  There is so much going on in the world today that needs good, dedicated, concerned and engaged individuals working on that it is difficult to keep track of it all.  Let me make a quick off the top of my head list:

Health Care

Cap & Trade

Union Card Check

Immigration Reform

2010 Elections

And on and on and on.  So what am I doing?  Writing articles about people writing articles about Sarah Palin because they make me mad.  That is in all likelyhood not helping the cause much.

This is why I quit blogging on places like Gretawire, not that I don’t think that there are some great conservative bloggers there, but because I was spending far to much time fighting with people with monikers like “Vixen, Robinhoodlum, Glenn Lachrymose, Obama Rocks, Zorra, etc.” and even though I would always tell myself what a waste of time that was, I would find myself doing it again next time.

Why?  Because I hate to see the left get away unchallenged.  I hate to see them look down their noses at people and treat them with their typical elitist snobbery.  I especially hate to see “men” or individuals who are supposed to be ‘men’ hiding behind a moniker and talking to women in ways that their mothers would have in all likelyhood slapped them silly for.

But as long as I spend time fighting that fight, no matter how personally satisfying, I won’t spend the time fighting the liberal agenda that I listed earlier.  Writing your Senators and Congressman (even the liberal ones) is more effective than arguing with some liberal loon.  I am also half convinced that more and more leftist bloggers are just employed to cloud the issues.

So I will continue to plug away sending letters, emails and op-eds anywhere that will accept them.  I can’t promise to eliminate my articles about liberals bashing Palin, but I promise to limit them somewhat.

Stay Free!!!