I have to admit...that makes me feel better. I have been feeling awful alone out here in 'Tester'country, especially with his smiling face plastered all over the newspapers around here.
Why???
It should have been a safe seat!
Enough of this nonsense....We lost and we lost big time...
You want to know why?.........all you need to do is listen, and stop thinking it was some sort of mistake.
Even in a NASCAR race, second place is really the first loser.
A message was sent, yet I keep hearing in the echo chamber, that we just were not conservative enough...Or that Conservative democrats were elected...
What was elected were lying democrats, because the public rightfully came to the conclusion that conservatives, or anyone with a "R" was bad news for the future of the country and they made a change.
In our party we had swindlers, bribers, and sex perverts...
The war was going badly....
Social Conservatives were getting into their bedrooms and Internet yet could not keep their own house cleaned up....
The republican party was running away from their own president which gave them a sense of insecurity!
They correctly understood that the party in control was paralyzed during a time of war and they froze in the red zone and could not put the ball in the end zone.
So now the party assessment is that we were not conservative enough?????? That conservatives did not lose, and the limp wristed moderates did?
Bull Feces!
Conservatives lamed ducked the president in year 5 of the second term. They attacked the moderates and drove them into the enemy camp to purify the party like a bunch of schoolyard bully's. They tried and succeeded to jam social conservatism down the throats of everyone within reach, including passing legislation against Internet freedoms and a host of other issues while the leaders of these movements, the religious right Pastors and Preachers made gaff after political gaff, and most recently one was caught engaging in gay sex.
They got their butts waxed as a result, and this waxing is not complete. The '08 election is just two years away and there is no way without a huge scandal, that we will pick up any seats, and the likelihood is that conservatives will not support the very likely, and actually guaranteed moderate candidate and then they will lose the presidency as well.
The problem is in the mirror......Hypocrites and scoundrels!
We lost the public trust, and we lost it for some time to come.
Burns came on strong, but Tester took the lead early on.
I live in NJ but our township went totally republican. All of the Republicans won who were running here with the exception of the senate race.