[Majic]

"The Republican Party sent them and their 52 colleagues to Washington D.C. to implement an agenda which could have been accomplished but that opportunity was frittered away."

And there you have it: the Democrats didn't win, the Republicans lost.

I'm making a point of coming out of hiding as a Libertarian -- who has voted straight Republican in almost every election for 26 years -- that the reason the Republicans lost is that they didn't run as Republicans.

Want to win big in 2008? Here's a radical idea: run as Republicans!

Stop lying and start doing what you promise to do, then you'll win.

It's a dark day when you need to have a "Liberdopian" explain that to you.

[Casaubon]

they do run as repubs....to bad they forgot how to govern as such.

[EagleUSA]

Stop lying and start doing what you promise to do, then you'll win.
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At the end of the day, that was the undoing of the Repubs. Bush made some serious campaign pledges, which if he had performed on, would have tipped the scales away from the Iraq War and still won back the Congress.

Those were notably: Social Security reform, illegal immigration solution, reduced size of government, and squelching radical government spending. He failed MISERABLY on all these counts. IMHO, the attitude of the voter would have been vastly different if he had delivered AS PROMISED.

He didn't and we lost.

[calljack]

They did run as Republicans
maybe they should of run as conservatives

[George Smiley]

I declared myself after Campaign Finance Reform.

I was accustomed to seeing Democrats propose and support legislation which blatantly contradicted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

But when Republicans gleefully joined in, it became too much for me to stomach.