In the past 3 weeks many words have been written about what this election has meant in regards to the future of conservatism and the Republican Party. I have read everything put in front of me from conservatives, liberals, and anything anyone wants to call themselves. Anyone reading this will find I'm a pretty simple observer seeing the world in mostly black and white while allowing for the occasional shade of gray. That being said what happened November 4th was very simple and inevitable. The party and the candidate didn't advance one idea that we could take to uninformed voters and overcome this mysterious and meaningless message of change. We advanced an agenda of change without explaining what we were changing. Obama's message of change was full of fluff but his campaign, with the help of the majority of the media, succeeded in limiting what was known about the change the President-elect spoke of. I have no idea how many times I have asked people who voted for Obama why they voted for him and I got the same sad mantra: "He's going to change things" or "He's going to lower my taxes". It never struck most of them when I told them that paying less of the nothing you pay on your income tax is meaningless. Don't even get me started on the responses I received when I asked them what exactly Obama was going to change. That being said though they advanced ideas and we didn't.  It may be safe to assume that right now the American people were willing to try bad ideas over nothing.
    With that in mind we have a little over two years to get to work on selling to the American people why conservatism is right. How do we do that? Simply put it starts with each of us as individuals since we know the Republican Party as it currently stands cannot do it for us. As individuals we need to take it upon ourselves to learn the issues. We need to be objective and when we see a good idea from the other side we need to take it, improve it, and advance it as our own. Conservatives cannot be afraid to have a bad idea but learn from it, find out where it went wrong, and again improve it. It is time as individuals to start talking to our neighbors and have an open objective dialogue and point out how our point of view is better. As individuals we need to advance beyond the party and do our own outreach to minority voters and show them where we are coming from. The best way to do this is a one-by-one approach. If you can show minority voters what conservatives and our idea of how every individual can attain their own American dream if they just put the effort into it themselves is more beneficial than depending on big brother every step of the way then they will in turn spread the message. It will not be an overnight process and we cannot be discouraged if the results don't show in the next election or even the one after that but eventually it will flip our way because we are right. Not all the time of course but as conservatives we need to show that our ideas are the ones that will continue to keep this country as the greatest on Earth.
    I know this is brief but I'm trying to open a dilaguoe and hopefully we can come together as individuals and advance the agenda if the party won't for us. I will add and expand to my ideas the more I write as well as cover events that affect us. This is my first post so of course constructive criticism is welcome. We are all in this together!!