You’re starting to listen, feels like. That’s a good thing. One or two more things to say.

We’ve got to remember what this is all about.

We’re all frustrated and angry. But don’t give into the temptation to play angry, to play frustrated. We can’t make it about hating those other guys and their horrible teams. We can’t let them make this out to be about anger, about fear.

We’ve got to remember what this is REALLY about.

They want to keep on pretending that the cheap ideas they’ve been selling for decades actually work. They want to keep on pretending that Cuba has better medicine than we do. They want to keep on using the tax code to divide us and penalize success. They want to make arguments about education and jobs about the old divisions of class and race. They want to pretend that the definition of family can be anything they say it is, without any consequences. They want to pretend that if our soldiers just stop killing terrorists, al Qaeda will go away. And they keep insisting that government knows best - that if we just give it more money and more power, eventually, they’ll get it right.

We know these are lies. We know their solutions don’t work. And most Americans know that, too. We just have to show them the truth.

You know what this is all about? Just look at two people, and you’ll see what this is all about.

You remember this guy? Almost forgot about him, did ya? Well, he doesn’t forget.

He’s a big damn hero. He went through hell to get to where he is. And then, when the opportunity came to give him some help, we got lucky - we got two great guys in there. You can only win lucky for so long. We can’t count on that again. And we want our heroes leading the charge, not just being brilliant and principled in the minority.

This other guy, you don’t know who he is. But he’s one of my heroes.

He’s going to need some help when he’s over there. He’s going to need our help, because lord knows the tater tots on Capitol Hill who want to play funding games with the men and women overseas aren’t going to give him any help. The nutroots won’t let ‘em.

Let’s be clear about this: If we go off by ourselves, and play against them AND against each other, it won’t MATTER who’s got the headset. It won’t MATTER we get to call the plays. And that big damn hero, and my brother - they won’t get any more help than what they have to beg for from Harry frickin Reid. For god knows how long.

Don’t play angry. Don’t be like they were when they were in our situation. Play like a team, because that’s playing smart. That’s playing to win.