One Hundred Seats

The conventional wisdom seems to be settling in at an estimate of about a 50 seat gain by Republicans in the House of Representatives in next Tuesday’s election. We believe it will be at least twice that.

The 9/12 march on Washington, D.C. in 2009 is as vivid a leading indicator of what these election results will be and why they will be far in excess of what conventional wisdom is able to grasp.

We know a lot about the 9/12 march because we were there. We marched along Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House to the Capitol, with barely a few feet between marchers for the entire distance. The mainstream media did not cover the march, and in its aftermath devoted most of its reporting to discounting the size of the crowd. Their consensus was to settle in on a crowd estimate of around 70,000. It was at least ten times that.

What does this have to do with an election more than a year later?

The 9/12 crowd was comprised of Americans from all over the country, of all sizes, shapes and skin color; it was an America-loving crowd; it was a crowd made up entirely of volunteers who paid their own way; it was a deeply passionate, peaceful but resolute group of people. Think the words of the “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, and you’ll have a feel for the event.

Since that time, absolutely nothing has happened that would temper the passion and determination of that crowd, and the millions just like them throughout this country. On the contrary, almost every day since then there have been more outrages and offenses from the Obama/Reid/Pelosi government in its all out assault on the America of the founding. The ranks of 9/12 sympathizers have expanded exponentially in the intervening months. So has their passion. And on the other side—there is nothing. Not a single reason to vote ‘for’ a Democrat; not a single ‘accomplishment’ of the past 20 months to speak proudly of; nothing to feel passionate about.

In the simplest of terms, there is a spirit of truth animating the turnout of this election, and it is all on one side: the anti-“D” side.

Conventional wisdom, however, is built on an entire edifice of government, media and academic elites who are experts in every realm but the spiritual. These elites know everything but truth, because they know everything but God. To them, the words “His truth is marching on” represent a crass and ignorant rallying cry for the bitter clingers, who are believed by them to be no more than a 15% factor in elections.

That’s why they cannot grasp the movement of truth when it is right in front of them. They turn to each other and to the polling operations and media operations they control, and poll each other and write columns for each other to read, all to reassure themselves that everything remains under their control. Races are reported as tightening; selected Democrats are shown as widening their leads against these kook tea party candidates; and their elitist worldview is holding together. In the worst case, their thinking goes: a mid-term election is just a mid-term election, and the party out of power typically gains a decent number of seats—and presto, 2010 can be fit into their worldview without shattering it. Maybe it will be a bit of an outlier, but that’s just because the economy is in a rough patch.

This is hardly just another mid-term election. There has never been a national tea party movement—the original tea party movement in 1773 wasn’t as big as this is. This is not about a political party out of power gaining a normal number of seats. It’s about a political party in power—the Democrat Party—that has gone so far left as to be natural home of not more than 15% of Americans. And it’s about a political party out of power—the Republican Party—which may find itself out of business as a result of this election. The Republican Party will only nominally be gaining seats in this election; it is the tea party that is substantively gaining seats.

This is also not about election results skewed by a tough economy. It’s about the heart and soul of America feeling an existential threat its God-given heritage and freedom, and rising to destroy that threat, political parties be damned.

Love of God and country have never gone out of style in America; they never will. No amount of evil and fraud has ever been the match of Americans once awakened and determined. And once awakened and determined, Americans don’t fight for a draw. They fight to win. November 2nd will be their unmistakable win.

Paul Gable

October 27, 2010