Last week, I wrote that conservative activists are tired; as Gary Miller wrote, they’ve been ridden hard and put away wet for five straight election cycles now.  It puts a strain on people, their finances, their families, their real lives.

My article sounded downbeat.  It probably was. 

Of course, I knew there was more to come.  The good news and the bad news: the future of this state once again depends on it.  We’ve seen exactly how stark this state’s choice is; the last legislative session, the DFL’s “your money or your life” hysteria, the bridge collapse and DFL’s schizophrenic response (lurching drunkenly from demanding more money to trying to indict Tim Pawlenty for murder), the miasma of Minneapolis show the mistake the voters made.  And like the morning after a dumb one-night-stand, the state is starting to wake up to the mistake it made last November.

My job – our job – is to make them want to chew their arm off rather than wake them up for the next session.

In my homage to the “Class of ’04” – the raft of great bloggers that got into the racket about this time  three years ago – I noted that this city is blessed with the most vibrant, intelligent, on-the-ball center-right blogging community anywhere in the country.  Anywhere in the blogosphere.  And like most groups of conservatives, it is an organic, self-forming, un-directed mass – a free association of equals.

And so it should stay.

But as we approach yet another “Must Kick Ass” election, we – the Upper Midwest’s center right, freedom-loving, hard-working, blog-for-the-love-of-blogging independent alternative media – need to roust ourselves from our weary hibernation.  And maybe focus just a bit.

Because this year, there is more Ass to kick than ever.

And like Bill Millin on Sword Beach, a group of us are going to start moving toward the breach. 

More – much more – on that next week.

This entry was posted by by Mitch Berg on Friday, August 24th, 2007 at 5:30 am and is filed under Blogs, Campaign '08, True North. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.