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Even with over 15,000,000 copies sold, Dale Carnegie’s guide to lasting influence, authentic rapport, and must-have communications expertise How To Win Friends and Influence People is as powerful, valuable, and useful as its ever been.

I thoroughly sympathize with the frustration, anger and even rage that people in America and abroad are feeling towards their politicians these days.

It’s often a sad and stark reality that we face after being swept up into the campaigns and slogans of our eleceted lot only to later find that they’ve sold us out.

This emotional whiplash, fervor for change and desire to better this country’s existence now drives many people who consider themselves to be libertarians and/or among a new breed of conservatives with organizations like Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty, GOOOH (Get Out Of Our House), and Tea Party Patriots, among others.

Demonstrating incredible devotion to their cause, authentic love of country, Constitutional character and–for better or worse–righteous indignation at our elected officials; these hardcore Tea Party contingents of modern libertarians and conservatives are forces to be reckoned with.

We are also a force in need of refinement, restraint and respect.

In order to successfully step out from the debate halls, back room bars and wild eyed verbal contests that many libertarians are used to inhabiting and into the complex, fragile and difficult realm of modern politics we must act accordingly and adjust our actions so that despite incredible disagreements, we can maintain the rapport necessary to make change.

Until the day “we” out number “them” by massive margins, this is a must.

I have a lot of respect, admiration and faith in Campaign for Liberty and its President John Tate, and as much as his speech at CPAC made me swell with pride, passion and purpose, it also made me cringe at times when I heard the somewhat belligerent nature of his message shine through.

“We have taken CPAC by storm!” Tate proudly declared during his speech at CPAC.

Despite the truth, power and inspiration of that statement, are we really wanting to seem that divisive?

“Honor your father and mother.” Gotta pay respect to get respect…

Granted, outbursts like this one at Cheney do bring a rebellious shine to my eye:

And Rumsfeld getting booed did make me smile:

These moments probably get us no where and rather make progress all the more difficult for the movement at large.

In the same Liberty Forum presentation, Jack “The Southern Avenger” Hunter calls out Donald Rumsfeld for getting the “Defender of The Constitution” Award and celebrates the poor response he got from the crowd at CPAC.

Remember, even the world’s greatest products need a good sales pitch. And yes, we are liberty salesmen and saleswomen.

I believe that their speeches were made in a private forum, but the point remains the same and the soundbites are just as easy to edit out for later finger pointing and tools of manipulation, strategy and avarice by the powers that be.

Are Cheney, Rumsfeld and a pile of other “neo-conservatives” probably war-criminals for what’s happened on their watch? A lot of people seem to think so–heck, Cheney even admitted to it on ABC News.

At the moment they’re not on trial, but in the meantime, we should probably be more be mindful, appreciative and understanding that many people–who in time might just “join the movement” and support the beliefs of freedom, non-interventionism and honest money–currently have a great affinity for these people and would likely be so offended by our approach that they’d never, ever, again entertain “libertarian” ideas like auditing The Fed, ending the warfare/corporate welfare system, and eliminate market-wrecking, corruption-breeding, economically worthless vacuums of the human spirit organizations like The Department of Education, Department of Agriculture (click to think about why we should end both of them) or Department of Homeland Security.

Is the only hope for change in the wild-eyed madness that scoffs at caution, patience and tolerance and climbs the Capitol building wrapped in an American flag and a “9-11 Was An Inside Job” t-shirt?

I hope both his strategy and slogan are incorrect, and I don’t think Big George would quite approve; but I know we should all follow his example a little more attentively.