Conservatives need to move past the first 4 stages of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ 5 stages from “On Death and Dying”, and realize that the patient, America, is not terminal, yet. The Conservatives can take the rage and disgust that they and the American people feel over the entire Health Care Reform process and turn it into a positive force for a return to freedom. With a plan and tenacity, Conservatives can ensure that our kids and grand kids have a bright future in a renewed, freer America.

In her seminal work “On Death And Dying” (published in 1969), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross takes us through the 5-stages of grief that human beings experience when they are told that they have a terminal condition (or even when a loved one is given that news). These five stages are famous now, they proceed thusly: First: DENIAL of the facts, Second: ANGER at our self or others, Third: BARGAINING with God or with one’s self, Fourth: DEPRESSION as preparatory grieving, and Fifth: ACCEPTANCE of the situation with some detachment and objectivity. In this whole march toward, and finalizing of Obama Care, I have watched my fellow Conservatives shroud themselves in one or more of the the first four of Kübler-Ross’ stages: denial, anger, bargaining, and depression. Frankly, after 72 hours of Sunday’s vote in the House, I have watched enough misery and depression on the right. Pull yourselves together and lets get a plan. This Health Care Reform is a call to action, not a death of America to be mourned! I have a plan.

The Conservatives need to move rapidly to ACCEPTANCE, to stage 5. Accept the fact that this Obama Care will be law. Do Not make the mistake of hanging your hopes on a law suit or Supreme Court decision down the road. Stop arguing with your fellow conservatives over minutia, get out and continuously spread the word of how awful the reality of HCR is. Become relentless in message. We have to be united in one short term goal: take back the Congress in 2010. When that occurs through all of our efforts, Congress can then refuse to fund, or de-fund all aspects of HCR. This means getting into a budget battle with a terribly unpopular President over a very unpopular program and, if need be, shutting down the federal government; this is a very winnable fight. Be relentless in the message of why the government is shut down. It is closed for business to protect freedoms granted by the Constitution and to protect the American dream for our kids and grand kids. Do not compromise, what is at stake it too valuable to play politics as usual. There can be no more RINOs and no more Blue Dogs; there can be only Right and Wrong. Use the Alinsky rules of political war against the progressives. Isolate them, define them, and then scorn and ridicule them loudly in public at every turn. Be relentless and on message constantly under a united goal to destroy HCR.

The Second Goal is to retake the Senate and the Presidency in 2012. Again, it will require a relentless message that destroys the left and tells the truth about the Democrat Party and President Obama. And, for every negative statement about the left, supply a positive about the right, take back the history of this nation. The United States is a center-right polity, unabashedly reclaim it and then repeal HCR, use Deem and Pass if needed. Get nasty, use the Pelosi/Slaughter tricks that they used to pass HCR. No holds should be barred in this fight. Replace this HCR mess with one or two little gems for now: Massive Tort Reform and allow the insurance companies to sell across state lines.

The Third goal is to destroy the Progressives for generations to come in one mighty blow for individual freedom. End the current tax structure, use the Deem and Pass if necessary, again, use every trick and forceful measure in the book. Be relentless in message and goal. The Progressives love to use the tax code as a way to direct society like a puppet master makes a marionette dance. The tax codes are the strings, an we are the puppets. A tax break makes people act to get the break, a tax increase puts the brakes on an activity. Destroy the entire system; replace the federal tax code with a flat wage tax or a national sales tax , either will do. This destroys Progressive control of American Society. Then, if I may be allowed a fourth goal: cut the federal work force by 20%, get rid of the myth of the permanent government job. Maybe disband the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, and maybe even the Department of the Interior and hand all that accumulated bureaucratic power back to the states where it belongs.

The rage that the American public feels right now over the passage of HCR should not be seen in the lens of the first four stages of Kübler-Ross’ Five Stages of Death and Dying. We need to see it as an awakening of the populace to take back our Constitution and destroy this Progressive movement that is bent on destruction and remaking of the United States as we know it. If we hold fast and still fail, so be it. I would rather that we be rejected by the people, and then be taken away kicking and screaming, than to walk away from this fight in shame knowing that we could have done more.