Benjamin Franklin's "Join, or Die"

What do you do when you are confronted with a superior force and your own is scattered hither and yon?

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How does that compare with the current situation?

The superior force has

1. More money
2. Control over the media
3. Control over the government
4. Control over the culture
5. More unity amongst themselves

The Tea Party and the conservatives, which may not be one and the same in all its facets, are like the colonists in colonial times.  They are divided amongst themselves and this division will be fatal if it isn't stopped and stopped very, very soon.

With unity, victory is possible.  Without it, it is impossible.

If it isn't stopped, everyone will be able to see it for what it is.  If you are too weak, you cannot control.  You cannot win.  You have no chance for victory.  None.  Zero.  Nada.

If unity isn't achieved, the outcome, which is defeat, is a sure thing.  More of the same thing that is running this country down into the ground is the certain fate of this country and civilization.

There is no leadership because you cannot decide amongst yourselves who the leader will be.  In such a case as that, the decision will be made for you.  And you will not like it.

As of the moment, the leader of the not-Romney faction is Santorum.  Like it or not, he won that part of the vote and nearly won outright.  

I don't trust Romney.  I question his honesty and sincerity.  He has taken, in the past, positions that are at extreme variance of most, if not all of, the best known conservative positions.  Maybe he fell off of his horse on the way to Damascus and his conversion is sincere.  But I have my doubts.

How do you know when you are being deceived?  I think I will trust the outcome of the Iowa caucus.  I think that is how you can as sure as it is reasonably capable of your being assured.  You can refuse to accept this outcome and fight on under another banner, but there are risks of this choice.

One problem from this lack of unity is that one leader of the not-Romney faction after another gets torn down.  As a result of this, there aren't many others left to tear down and there is no more time.  No time to rally around somebody else.  People fear that this will happen again to Santorum.  But if there was sufficient unity, it wouldn't have happened in the first place.

You either unite now, or you go down to defeat.  Then Romney gets the nomination, and chances are, you won't like it.