I wrote previously of the apparent enormity of the obstacles facing us as we attempt to restore the republic, and tried to offer some realistic comfort regarding our ability to prevail nonetheless. I suggested that people like me (previously politically passive) are now off the couch and learning--often mastering--tools hitherto used most effectively by the left. I hoped as I wrote those words my optimism wasn't running ahead of my discernment.

My experiences of late have convinced me that my assessment may have been, if anything, overly pessimistic. I truly believe the left's attempted takeover of this country will fail, primarily because they waited about a decade too long.

Consider an Obama presidency elected in November 1999. There is no Fox News, no Facebook, no Twitter, no meaningful online social networking. Rush is out there, but he is isolated and easily dealt with with some back-door form of the Fairness Doctrine. There is certainly an Internet but it is neither fast nor particularly interactive. "High-speed" for the vast majority of users is a 56K modem and anything beyond simple forms entry is still in the future. Even e-mail is by no means ubiquitous.

In this context Obama's Blitzkrieg techniques, already formidable, would have been more effective by orders of magnitude. I think the American people would still have responded but the response would have been delayed, communication would have lagged behind events, and, like the French confronting the original Blitzkrieg, effective coordination of response would have been all but impossible. Add to this the wholesale collusion of a near monopolistic mainstream media and it is easy to envision BHO running the table before the rest of us knew we were in a game.

Happily for us--unhappily for the left--non-ideologues know how to use computers too, and have quickly turned their own weapons against them. If we are willing to pay attention, and do the work, we can use the technology to stay informed, organize and respond, as fast as they choose to try to overwhelm us.

My only caveat is the importance of the Internet is not lost on the left, and the appointment of an Internet Czar should be seen as nothing but ominous. It is altogether likely that in the name of "security" (the seeds of which have already been planted through the MSM) this administration will seek to control key elements of the IS infrastructure such as the DNS super-servers or regulate bandwidth and/or downloads. Again, I think they are too late and any such measure would meet with the fiercest resistance but that doesn't mean we don't need to be vigilant.

For now, however, I think we can all be grateful Al Gore didn't invent the Internet ten years later.