Over 200 years ago, with flint and steel, Tom Dalton started a fire in his Blue Ridge Mountain cabin.

Requiring a cord of wood a month, the fire has been watched from one generation to another, moved from one cabin to another. It has become the oldest man-made fire in the United States — perhaps in the world. His descendants have kept the fire burning.

Now, that’s commitment!

Now-a-days, we don’t hear stories like that. No, we hear stories about spies who sell out our nation and her secrets.

We have to watch politicians get elected and promptly “forget” campaign commitments.

Political corruption and “politically correct” nonsense somehow became “the norm”.

The country turned its back and elected a Marxist. A muslim who apolgizes and declares we are NOT a Christian nation.  Balderdash.  We always have been and hopefully, always will.  That asinine statement was just further proof that that man doesn’t have a clue what made America work for over 230 years. What made us the most powerful nation in the world…

We weren’t looking. We weren’t committed. But last night it was quite clear that the conservative commitment seems to have new life breathed into it – thank God, literally.

Tying politics and religion together is often a fire in itself; yet, the cold hard truth is that the conservative movement is by and large Christian.  As such, we are often subjected to hate and vitriol from unbelievers, those who just “don’t get it”.  Let them knock themselves out. Never “let the bastards grind you down“.

In fact, let’s put a torch to that fire and keep it burning!

More importantly, let’s look to our best example of commitment: Jesus. His commitment to saving souls had Him misunderstood by men, betrayed and denied by friends, and crucified by the people He had come to save.

Now obviously we can’t be savior’s like that, but we can honor His commitment with a conservative commitment of our own.

Jesus stayed the course. We must, too. For our faith, our families and our nation’s future.

Sarah Palin was amazing last night as an example of conservative commitment – another voice that speaks for so many of us who can only sit out here and “squeak” in our humble but heartfelt and well-intentioned way. Some people wonder, “Why do you do it?” – in a word: Commitment.

Because… “The squeaky wheel gets the grease…“