Early one mornin’, the sun was shinin’
I was lyin’ in bed
Wonderin’ how it came to be
The “CONSERVATIVE” Party got called “red”
.Wonderin’ how the Democrats
who said Karl Marx was true
and who always talked like the Soviet REDS
winded up bein’ “Blue”
♦
And more than that I wondered why
My Party would usually lose
But if they got in office
turned on everything they knew,
and they do;
Tangled up in Blue.
♦
Consultants said, the grassroots base
Was sure gonna have it rough
They never did like our beat up old cars
And Christian bankbooks wasn’t big enough♦
We all was standin’ on the side of the road
Waitin’ for the back of the bus:
All decisions made back on the ol’ East Coast
They never listened to us.
An’ every direction they took us in
Was the opposite of true
They seemed to like the other Party best
Lord knows, we paid some dues gettin’ through
They was tangled up in Blue
♦
They seemed to have principles when we first joined
(Soon to be divorced)
They were dumpin’ em out of the platform, I guess
And they used a little too much force
.
And they drove us out just as far as they could
Abandoned us out west
Left conservatism on a dark sad night
They were claimin’ it was for the best
We took a moment to look at them
As Rove McRomney walked away
We said, “This won’t be the end
We’ll meet on another day, knowing you…”
Are tangled up in Blue
We did a job in the Neighborhoods
Knockin’ doors for a spell
We got a majority to audit the Fed
‘Til the establishment axe just fell
From Seattle to Kentucky, down to old L.A.
We wore out a lot of shoes
Workin’ in the precincts on a wing and a prayer
and our candidates were true
But all the while they were trackin’ us
And their lies were close behind
They’d tied up all the Party money
And they smoked the public’s mind, although we knew
They were tangled up in Blue
A
A
A man was standing in the front of the room
in front of the stars and stripes
I was actually shocked when he began to speak
He had looked like the silent type.
.
♦
Clint was runnin’ for the Senate that night
He made every point so clear
I just kept listenin’ to the sound of his voice
And the clouds all disappeared.
.
♦
He started out with the Founder’s words
And the sky opened up for me
Like thunder bolts from the Hand of God
In the eighteenth century.
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And later on as the crowd thinned out
I was just about to do the same,
He saw me sittin’ in the back of the hall
And he said “may I ask your name?”
.
♦
I muttered somethin’ underneath my breath,
And he came back to my place
I must admit I felt a little uneasy
As he looked right in my face.
.
♦
“Are you ready to fight for freedom?” he asked,
as if it was a natural thing.
I hesitated, but when I said I would
he put my finger in one of his rings.
.
♦
And when he told me it had never been about
Just changing Blue to Red
It felt like water in the desert
And like waking from the dead
♦
He said how we could turn it all around
And all the things we needed to do
How to overcome the Party hacks
And their twisted point of view I already knew
Was Tangled up in Blue.
♦
I went with Clint on the campaign trail
A grueling, long affair
There was music in the rallies at night
And R3VOLUTION IN THE AIR.
♦
And every one of Clint’s words rang true
And glowed like burnin’ coal
Igniting every Patriot’s heart
And written in our soul
And written in our soul
♦
Some say Clint lost in August
‘Cause not enough knew his name
That fourteen million dollars was
The price Judas was paid
.
♦
And when it all came crashin’ down
I became withdrawn
The only thing I knew how to do
Was keep on keepin’ on
.
Some said burn the Party
Some said start one new…
Clint just cut alfalfa crops
And knew just what to do, he stay’d true.
Not blinded by the Blue.
♦
He said we’re goin’ back again,
We’ve got to start again somehow.
The Senate race we used to know
Is in the rear view mirror now.
♦
Some quit on America
And some froze up inside.
But Didier was like a rock
Like he saw the other side
♦
He said “We clash on life or death;
Our sword is truth and light
We’ll never act on bitterness;
Or turn to left or right.”
♦
And now we’re on the march, again, Patriots are in the street
I hear a thousand voices and a hundred million feet
Some are mathematicians, some are carpenter’s wives.
But every one’s a Patriot, fighting for freedom with their lives.
The politicians hate us, all the autocrats and thieves
Their lies are fallin’ all around, like a forest of autumn leaves
But they can’t stop a freight train
And nothin’ that we do
Can save them from their evil selves, or make their dark hearts true
All they pursue Is tangled up in Blue
..
But Clint is back out on the road
Headin’ for another town.
Unchanging whether liberty
Gets voted up or down.
.
.
.
They slandered him where lies are told
That’s really all they do
But Clint, answering not a word,
made sure his aim was true.
Inviting me and you to join him too.
I think that’s what I’ll do.
AWESOME to know at least one will be standing August 8. GO TEAM!!!!!
It will be great for Liberty to have a Lands Commissioner who listens to the People and operates the lands for their benefit, not eco-freaks!
Clint really lays it on the line in this speech. He’s the ideal candidate for the position of managing public lands.
Doug, I wholeheartedly endorse Clint for this position. I think he will do a fantastic job! Lets not stir the pot over past disagreements. Let’s work together to get Clint elected to this position!
Looks like we’ll have another four years of Peter Goldmark as Public Lands Commissioner. Is Clint still collecting farm subsidies out there in Eltopia?
Thanks for dropping by, John; it’s always interesting to entertain visitors from the GOP Left. Not surprising, either, that you didn’t follow the the “subsidies” attack closely enough to know what happened and are privately rooting for the Marxist. Well, enjoy it while you can. Liberal Republicanism’s days are numbered.
It’s a simple statement of fact that Clint Didier won’t be our next Commissioner of Public Lands. I voted for Clint in the primary and I’ll be voting for him in the general, but that doesn’t mean I’m laboring under and illusion that he can beat Goldmark.
But of course it’s not good enough that I’ll be voting for Clint, is it Doug? Absolute purity of belief is what’s most important for you and others who spend more time trying to drum heretics out of the party than doing what your hero Reagan did — build coalitions and win elections.
Fact.
Right. You begin by asserting absolute knowledge of the future… as has your side for decades… as a means of destroying conservatism. You assert that a current lead based almost entirely on temporarily superior name recognition is a guaranteed future win pursuant to convincing voters that a candidate cannot win pursuant to getting them to abandon that effort. Your approach is standard, boilerplate dissimulation. It is patently dishonest and evil. Conservatives have to overcome not only the Democrats, but their own party leadership, deeply invested in “Mainstream RW” which works to defeat them as you, in this instance, amply demonstrate.
To the contrary:
GOP Kingmakers’ Direct Assault on Tea Party
“Electability” is KILLING America
The Four Rossi Lies
The “ANOINTING” (Presumptive Nominee Scheme)
You say, “But of course it’s not good enough that I’ll be voting for Clint, is it Doug?”
You claim to vote for Clint (which, of course, cannot be verified), but campaign to convince voters he can’t win. That’s not only “not good enough” it’s not GOOD at all. It is disingenuous, lying evil.
MORE LIES:
“Absolute purity of belief is what’s most important for you”
We have disproved this lie over and over again. We want Republican nominees who will return us to Constitutional government at ANY speed and make government smaller than it is by ANY measure. That is a broad spectrum of candidates. You, by contrast, work for candidates for whom the Constitution is a “living document” and whose version of “smaller government” is smaller INCREASES than the Democrats are proposing. It is you and your allies, more than any other faction in American politics, who are destroying the Republic by deception, by preventing Republicans from fighting back against the socialists by controlling the nomination process, by working against conservatives (as you are doing now against Didier), by championing RINOs who, on the rare occasion they win, bargain away our freedoms for self-advancement.
“trying to drum heretics out of the party”
You really don’t have a clue, do you, John? We just want
truth in labeling.
We want your pro-abortion, gay rights, tax and spend, radical environmentalist, pro-illegal immigration, anti-Constitutional wing of the Party to actually express itself to the fullest.
“your hero Reagan”
Reagan is not our “hero.” He is the man who established, both, that the GOP was a majority conservative party AND that it could win by standing for its principles in contrast to your midstream philosophy that the party should be a mindless venue for anything and can’t win by standing for its principles.
“build coalitions and win elections”
Buy a clue. Reagan’s winning coalition combined the people who really believed in Life and Liberty and National Defense. He really stood for those things. Winning coalitions are NOT built, as you apparently believe, among people who don’t disagree with you, by standing for nothing,
Doug,
Thank you for calling John on his disinformation attempt. Good job.