I had an interesting phone call last night which I want to share, for it went to an issue we've written about before. Last night the words came a little easier. A man called, who, I'm sure you all would know if I told you his name. It was in response to a solicitation St George had sent to raise money for The Sands Institute. StG had sent a link to a recent post here on Townhall, plus a link to our website. It was a real pleasure that he would call personally (must be a Lutheran) as usually a secretary or aide answers those kinds of letters. And he had done his own research, for he was a little miffed about a Moses Sands piece we posted here last year, The Failure of the Constitution's Protectors.
   He wanted to know why, if I thought major conservatives were laying down on the job, should he send me any money?
   I used up all my cell phone minutes telling him, but for once (unlike with Moses) I got to do all the talking.

   I need to set this piece up, as you already know we've spent page after page here telling you what ordinary people can do understand what's happening out there, and what we can do at the grass roots to begin taking back government.
   But I've also commented, as well, about the failure of the wealthier, more recognized and powerful conservatives, for not "plowing the road" for all of us down here in the trenches. Remember that line from "Independence Day"? It just came to me last night, but it's no different than that "handshake" Moses Sands said the people at the top of the hill had to reach around and offer to those at the bottom.
   
    I offered two examples, seemingly unrelated. I linked Sarah Palin and public education. As you know Sarah got her start in a local PTA.
    I said in all likelihood Sarah has reached the zenith of her national political career, in the sense that she will be unable to get public office with a broader voter base than she already has in Alaska. This is analysis, not a wish, so don't get me wrong. My own wish is that we had fifty governors that had all started out as presidents of a local PTA. But the hard truth is, there has been no road "plowed" in most states for a person like Sarah to rise much beyond county commissioner. My own county is more populated than all of Alaska. And we have in Virginia the same sorry band of lawyers and other hand-squeezers being picked by their respective parties, as they do in Florida, California and Colorado.
   There is no road "plowed" for a Sarah Palin of Virginia to rise at all, nor is there a road plowed even for her kind to be matriculated in the necessary aspects of the Constitution and human liberty to be able to argue down one of those lawyers in debate. The cards are simply stacked against it. The System favors another road, already paved...but with several toll booths, which people like Sarah can't afford. Sarah is unique in that she is a quick study, self-educated in all those things necessary to rise to leadership in the conservative movement, plus natural skills and instincts. But the bad guys will be laying in wait for her. That sort of ambush wouldn't work if there were a hundred, or thousand Sarahs. But most of all, Sarah rose from a state of only 700,000.
   I think my interlocutor saw where I was going, and I finished by saying that plowing those roads requires lots and lots of planning.
   "Compare what conservative's have done and what George Soros and a few others have accomplished on the Left. They have literally hundreds of plans out there, some of which have failed, some of which still lie dormant but stand at the ready, some still in the incubation phase (such as future plans to interdict any popular rise of Sarah Palin), and others, such as the Secretary of State Project, started in 2006, living testament of remarkable successes. I don't know when the SoS Project was conceived, or designed, but it didn't show up until 2006...with a view to 2008. Just reverse engineer such a project to understand the assets, both in people and dollars, to make such a plan work.
   "Do we have any plans like these...or are Ann Coulter best sellers and Rush Limbaugh talk radio supposed to serve as an adequate substitute?"
   He responded, "I don't think we have that kind of money."
   "Well actually all of you probably do, but it isn't really necessary. That's the point. Unlike the early days of Marxism, the war between Left and Right is now being carried out between competing camps of The Rich, one trying to enslave the common man and woman, the other trying to protect them. Only now, it's back to liberation. The Founders had this all figured out. They saw it coming. The poor proletarian Marxist is at worst a sham, at best a hiccup, between the real struggle that has gone on for centuries, the desire of some rich and power men to build empires on the backs of serfs.
   "This newest brood of Leftists doesn't have to be totalitarian. Mere socialists will do. Still, the prospects they represent now, and which lay just over our horizon in America are far worse than the "tyranny" the Founders feared under King George, when they pledged their lives, fortunes and honor. So where are those pledges?
   "The Founders always expected the good rich to protect us and the Constitution, from the bad rich. In times of tyranny ordinary people have no where to go. All they can go is hunker down and wait it out, or wait on a new leader top come rescue them. But when things gets hot, the rich on either side can always just move on...to Costa Rica or someplace.
   "The bottom line is that you, and other conservatives don't have to try to match Soros dollar for dollar, for you have something he doesn't have.  Maybe pennies against the dollar, but still, unless you go to Costa Rica, you really don't have much to lose anyway, do you? If you take the pledge.
    "We have the Ace hole card. There is an immutable law (we believe this here at the Institute) that Evil and Good are not and never can be equal. When Good meets Evil head on, it wins...every time. And the reason Good wins is that Evil instinctively knows it must retreat."
    (Some of you may want to challenge this. Mr ... did, and I explained, at some length, which I'll set out in a separate essay in a couple of days. I hope I won him over. But this is not a faith-based assessment, as he assumed and some of you may believe, although faith does help. Many natural biologists believe this as well.)
    Moving to Public Education, making my second point, I noted that he and many others have been carping for years about the left-wing indoctrination of public schools, to name just one sin. What should we do about it? Are there any plans on the table? Take one school, any one school...how about the worst of the lot, the University of California at Berkeley? Do you have a plan to take it back?
    Take it back? No.
    Do you know anyone who does? David Horowitz? Heritage? Anyone? I'm out of the loop here. Anyone? I know they study the hell out things like that. But does anyone have a plan?
    My point is that Bill Ayers, and many others have always had plans to take those schools away from the people in the first place. Plans. Not studies to be published. Plans. Not opinions to be shared with politicians. Plans. Those plans have been in the process of being carried out for forty years, under the noses of  politicians on both sides of the aisles.
    They had plans and we don't. The Left has reached well beyond our comprehension when it comes to planning. It's like MacArthur noticing Germany's tanks in the 193Os, while he was still General-in-charge of horse cavalry.
    I don't care how far-fetched the plans are, there has to be some plans, constantly being designed, changed, and when possible, laid into action. You love the military, I know. You know they have a contingency plan for just about everything, don't you? You know, I'm sure, that they have a plan, for instance, if the situation is especially dire, and there is no other option, to completely denude Waziristan of every living thing. We already both know the military can do it. But is there a plan. You betcha. I'd hate to see it come to that, but it sure would end a whole passel of problems, wouldn't it? Only it would also raise new ones in its place.
   My point is, no matter the unthinkability, they still have that plan, and still keep it current....just against that day. They have to.
   That's what I mean by Planning.
   And we don't have it.
   They do.

    I don't know if we'll get any money.

Vassar Bushmills