Peggy Noonan writes this week toward the end of her column about the need for Republican officeholders to speak up for the president and on the issues that matter to Republicans:

“GOP senators and congressmen seem to me to be acting not like they’re excited by this moment in history but intimidated by it. As if they’re thinking, “Oh no, we’re in charge now and everyone will blame us when things go wrong!” They need a little spirit of 1994: “We’ll make the very dome of this Capitol vibrate with our energy.”

I agree. Where are the Republicans who are speaking out on the issues of “gay marriage” and immigration reform and how we are winning the war against terrorism and also how the events in Spain prove that Bush was right about this being a long war with many fronts and . . . Either I’m not reading, listening to and watching the right media outlets or the Republicans are strangely quiet. Are they afraid to take a stand now that they are in the majority in the Congress? An of course, it is an election year. Maybe an unpopular stand would mess up their majority. Or maybe we elected them to do what’s right whether or not it gets them votes. Maybe their vocal, articulate stand for what they truly believe in WOULD get them votes. Contrast Republicans knowing what they believe and where they want the country to go with Kerry’s cluelessness. Might be a winner. But it doesn’t matter whether it is or not. Do it because it’s right.