Stay In The Fight
A long time ago, in an ice-encrusted 3rd world country far, far away, the illegitimate socialist government thought it would be a good idea to include pdb in their junior airman program, and sent him to glider school. (This turned out to be a foolish decision after pdb sprouted to 6′7″ and quickly became too tall for further flight training).
Anyhoo, first day of school, first flight, pdb has performed the prescribed maneuvers with aplomb, showing great promise as an unpowered aviator.
Except for, the landing.
After slightly mucking up the pattern entrance and keeping too much altitude after a short downwind, pdb finds himself and the instructor too high and too fast on approach. pdb further compounds the problem by being stingy with the spoilers and is still too speedy as his touchdown point passes. pdb finally applies way too much spoiler and the Schweitzer drops through ground effect and bounces off the grass landing strip and back in the air.
It will be a long walk back to the tow line.
pdb is dismayed.
“Oh, geeze, sir, I’m sorry, I totally screwed…”
The instructor’s cap comes flying forward and smacks pdb on the head.
“Fly the fucking aircraft. We’re still in the air!”
An important lesson, but what does this have to do with the price of tea in China?
I share my fellow blogospherians dismay that the Republican primary has weeded out the constitutionalists, libertarians and real conservatives. I do not look forward to November 2008. I will enter the poll booth with a mix of great reservation and dread, and scant measure of enthusiasm.
But I will still show up.
In January 2009, one of four big-government, gun-hating socialists will enter the White House. That is now unavoidable. However what is still undecided is the makeup of the House and Senate. We all have local candidates we need to research, fund and lobby. In NC we will be getting a new Governor, which may very well have more effect on local freedom than the President. There will be local referendua to decide on and bond issues to vote against. If you were considering stockpiling some magazines, AR lowers, AK receivers or other shooty goodies, now would be the time.
We may be sick of politics, but it is not yet sick of us! The cause of liberty can always be advanced. We all need to stay in the fight. We still need to fly the aircraft.