The California Revolution Begins by Russ Stein

Or rather, the silly season continues. Not a day goes by that I don't hear about yet another call for the Kerry States to secede from the United States--excuse me: "Jesus Land."

Now I repeat: Jesus loves you, and would like nothing better than that you join your lands to His.

That aside, I don't believe for one picosecond that this secession talk is anything more than that: just talk. In fact--and here I'm letting you in on a few more insights from my NJFPC meeting last night--while silly people like Russ Stein's distraught cell-phone caller are talking about secession, real political operatives--cold-hearted, deadly serious planners and movers and shakers--are already planning the Presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton and even how to make her look like a conservative. (The only thing that will turn her conservative is for the Light on the Damascus Road--excuse me, the New York State Thruway--to shine on her limousine. But I digress.) Aside from Lawrence O'Donnell, who is famous for losing his marbles on television, no serious Democratic Party or allied politician or operative is seriously considering secession. Instead, they're talking rematch--or, as I said, Hillary, who is likely the one Democratic Party politician who wasn't sorry to see Kerry lose. (And frankly, I agree with Rush Limbaugh, who stoutly maintains that Hillary and her spies and moles and disinformation artists made Kerry lose.)

Sure, it's fun to see how crazy people will talk about secession, and how other people tell them, as Russ Stein did, "You don't need a lawyer; you need a guerrilla commander." (Actually, any latter-day William Clarke Quantrill who dares operate in New Jersey will answer to me and some of my fellow churchmen, but again I digress.) But a latter-day Quantrill isn't the problem. If you want a good laugh once in awhile, at least the "secessionists" will make better laughingstocks than the stock characters on modern sitcoms, none of which are at all wholesome or edifying. But they are not serious, and no conservative should take them seriously. Very likely, by the time next January 20 rolls around, the talk of secession will have long ceased, and the liberals will be back to saying that when a conservative wins any election, he either stole it or got incredibly lucky. (Well, we might say that God has blessed us with miracles, which is not quite the same thing.) And if we don't want to lose, then let's not prepare to fight the wrong war. Secession is the wrong war; the right war is the next election, and the next, and the next...