Turn the Tide

One year after the election of our current socialist president, things are beginning to look up for Americans who still believe in the principles of liberty, freedom, honor, and country. On November 3, 2009, Republican gubernatorial candidates Bob McDonnell (pictured above) and Chris Christie were elected to office in Virginia and New Jersey in what was a clear rebuke to the radical policies of the present regime. Nobody but the most cement-headed Democratic partisan could honestly interpret the results otherwise.

Shortly after last year's debacle, I recalled James Lawrence's words of inspiration to the men under his command as he lay dying after a fatal encounter with a British warship in the Atlantic Ocean during the War of 1812: "Don't give up the ship!" Three months later, on September 10, 1813 at the Battle of Lake Erie, Lawrence's friend Oliver Perry led his naval squadron to an improbable victory over the British, flying a banner with that very phrase from his flagship. The American victory at Lake Erie thwarted a planned British invasion of the Ohio River Valley.

Perry then related the news of his triumph to General William Henry Harrison with this terse message: "We have met the enemy, and they are ours."

So, despite last night's lone setback of Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman failing to win the special election for New York's twenty-third Congressional district (which Robert Stacy McCain has done yeoman's work covering), the fight goes on.

And we will prevail. For as Francis Scott Key wrote following the American victory at the Battle of Baltimore on September 14, 1814: "Then conquer we must, for our cause is just, and this be our motto - "In God is our trust."