The Right offers intellectually centered debate for the three most critical issues.

• Sleeping with the Enemy
• JournoList and the Leftist Mentality
• The Autumn of the Left
• The Winds of Over-Regulation
• The Big Lie of Preventive Care
• Catch-22s Mounting for Democrats
• Paul Krugman Gives Up
• The Obama Aristocracy
• Europe's Lynch Mob Mentality
• Inflation: The Last Gasp of the Obama Economic Crisis

Point of post: to demonstrate to others the abundance of intellectually driven material appearing on the Right, proving, of course, that the intellectual might is clearly on the Right. And where do the Libs go for intellectual challenge?? Well, to the likes of Keith Olbermann and Paul Krugman and other self-proclaimed "intellectuals."

So, why is the GOP playing catchup to the geniuses on the Left? Leadership. Our leadership is in the transformative stage - moving from the big government leadership of the recent past to a Federalist (states rights) positioning . We still have clowns like McCain running around pretending to be the representative leadership of the GOP. This is a guy who suggested putting Al Gore in charge of the environmental agenda, if he, McCain, had been elected president. You have Trent Lott, no longer in power, but influential nonetheless, telling those who would listen that the GOP has to "co-op the Tea Party" when its folks come to Washington, that "we don't need another Jim DeMint."

Understand that Jim DeMint is one of the hero's of the current "uprising." Those who disagree are either big government heretics (all of the Dems and most of the GOP old guard) or conservatives with an overreaching agenda (the Tenth Amendment folks are an example - we have them in our blogroll ).

We conservatives need to understand that the more involved the agenda, the fewer people we attract to our cause. In our determination to rid this nation of the current threat, we must resist the opportunity to add too many ideals into the mix. For Midknight Review, the return to states rights, the reduction in the size of the Federal Government, and a real balance between spending outlays and taxation are the primary issues -- and they are listed in the order of importance. Independents need to understand that we are not against government, per se, just the increasing domain of the Federal Government. The Federal Government is so far removed from the people (city and county governments being the closer) that it can now function AGAINST the will of the people - which is exactly what the Marxist methodology for governance has been over the course of the past 20 months. That needs to come to an immediate end and nothing, absolutely nothing, is more important. . . . . . . not abortion issues, not the revival of the GOP, not the return of faith-based partners to the national care system.