The great danger in trying to water down any movement to incorporate all opposing ideas, worldviews, and fighting factions is that the movement itself risks losing its core identity, focus, and objectives for the sake of immediate, but not permanent, goals and concerns. This applies to any group or movement and not just this one.

Our Founding Fathers were extremely careful to not lose sight of their goals and ambitions for America -- and rather than watering down their principles to suit the few, they enshrined them in our Constitution, laws, and American way of life. When someone once asked Benjamin Franklin what kind of country he helped to create, Franklin replied, "A Republic, if you can keep it." It is our challenge today to keep and preserve this constitutional Republic that was entrusted to our care and protection.

We must be careful to do the same for there are many here that do want us to water down our message, objectives, and values to suit their very narrow interests alone. We must be very careful to identify and preserve all of the values, ideals, and principles that actually were passed down to us by our Founding Fathers and the Framers of our Constitution (yet, for the sake of narrow interests and expediency, too many here seem to care less). But I do care!

Our arguments should not focus on our opinions and viewpoints but on theirs alone (the Founding Fathers and the Framers). This is why I dare to resist and challenge those few here that demand the rest of us to follow their narrow interests and definitions alone. I believe our Conservative movement got into its current troubles because it stopped focusing on the broader interests and greater definition of Conservatism passed down to us by those that actually created this Republic - and this must change if true Conservatism is to ever regain its prominence in this country. These are desperate times, and tyranny is knocking at our doors!

For over the past century have Conservatives allowed this great Republic to move away from the high ideals, values, and heritage of our Founding Fathers and the Framers. As a whole have we moved so far away from their intents and desires that many today no longer recognize or cherish what they passed down to us.

My sole focus and purpose on TCUnation is to restore the original Conservatism that our Founding Fathers and the Framers passed down to us. Any other form or brand of "Conservatism" (no matter how you label it) is ultimately a cheap and, dare say I, worthless copy. True Conservatism encompasses a very broad, and not narrow, range of issues dealing with economics, politics, social and spiritual issues, ad infinitum.

While some want to unite around fiscal concerns or social concerns only, I want this great movement to reunite around all of the concerns that impacted the existence and survival of this new Republic - as passed down to us by those that risked their lives, fortunes, and honor to give us what many of them dared only dream. This is why I cannot and will not give up the good fight to restore our Republic and our Constitution for all of us and not just a few.

So please pardon me for not reserving most of my posts to short and meaningless 30 second soundbites and platitudes that really say much of nothing. True Conservatism deserves much more than that from all of us!