The election has ended and the sun has set.  Today, the sun once again rose as it will continue to do under an Obama Presidency.  Today, as the smoke clears and we contemplate why we lost and why they won, let's not get drastic.

I've already heard conservatives say that they want to move out  of the country or that they want to leave the Republican Party.  Please reconsider.  If a marriage is broken, we don't just leave it, we try to fix it.  The same should be true of our country.  If we don't like the way things are going, we work to fix it; we don't abandon it.  America has been good to us and we owe it to her to stick this out and preserve her.

On the notion of leaving the Republican Party, some may think this sounds strange coming from me.  After all, I've been one who refused to join Republican clubs, or affiliate myself with the party because so many politicians have ruined it.  But I've awakened to a concept that I didn't get for a while.  It's not those of us who belong to the party that have brought it down.  It's the politicians that the voters have just rejected that have put this black mark on a once great political party.  But it is us who will bring this party from the ashes and make it great again.  This is our time to start over.

This is our time to rebuild the Republican Party with the values and policies that WE believe in.  This is our time to rise up leaders within this party like Bobby Jindal, Sarah Palin, and Eric Cantor among others, who espouse conservative values.  They are the future of this party's leadership. We are the future of this party's base.

Instead of lying down and accepting defeat, we must use this opportunity to start over.  We can use the fact that America rejected the same-old, same-old politicians of this party to our advantage.  We can use this as our mandate to rebuild a party that will be grounded in true conservative values and actions.

Do not take this as defeat.  Take this as redirection.  Right-face and march on.