Introduction

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Hello, everyone! My name is Lonnie, and I have been invited to contribute to the Pundit Press. I want to thank Matt and everyone at Pundit Press for giving me this opportunity, and I want to assure everyone I will do my very best to make this a better blog for everyone.

As many of you know, Pundit Press put out an invitation for writers. I was compelled to apply because of the truly historic times that we are experiencing right now.

I don't know about you, but the election of 2008 really dispirited me. I spent a lot of time sitting in stunned disbelief when Obama was elected President. Just as in 1992, when my own state of Arkansas sent Slick Willy to the White House, I wondered how people could be so gullible as to vote for Obama. I questioned myself and my beliefs, wondering if maybe the voters knew more than I did.

I wondered if the Republican Party in general and conservatives in particular were headed for the dustbin of history. Nobody likes to be on the losing side, and losing to a party that put up a ticket of inexperience on one side and inept on the other was a particularly bitter pill to swallow. I thought maybe the tide of history was just going to sweep our boats right on out to sea, never to be seen again.

Well.

Here it is, two years later, and a coalition of Republicans and Tea Partiers have pulled off the biggest reversal of congressional seats in a century or so. (If I remember correctly off the top of my head, the last such change of such magnitude that happened in Congress was in 1902 or 1904, but I could be wrong about that.)

And it didn't just happen in Congress. Many states' legislatures flipped from Democrat to Republican. Ditto for a few governorships. And I'll bet a number of you saw your county or city or local elected boards do a similar flip.

Has a flip of such magnitude ever happened anywhere before? Not to anyone's recollection.

Truly historic times.

And, I think, things are just beginning.

But we need to help these things take root, so that they can flourish.

I realize that writing a post every now and then isn't world-shaking.

It may not even qualify as Jello-shaking.

But it is doing something.