I knew a country once. It was called "America"

[TexasPatriot8]

Don't get me wrong. I'm not giving up. I don't quit. I'm just well and truly p*****d off and don't like being stabbed in the back by people who claim so loudly to be conservatives. That's like a virgin having a one nighter and saying she just had a temporary lapse but she's much better now and forget about it. I think not. Ironically, thanks to McCaskill and Michael Fox's blatant lies to get the cloning amendment passed, the Democrats have another way to create brain dead mind numbed obedient voters. First there was wellfare, then scare tactics about lynchings and no school lunches and dog food for elderly people, now, cloning to just make good loyal Democrats from scratch. Not that they need them when they can feed a steady stream of bronzed s**t to conservatives and they take it hook line and sinker and give away the Congress.

[CSM]

"They think things like individualism, freedom, liberty, and independence are republican dirty tricks. (Yes, I'm talking about you, Detroit.)"

And at the same time they voted the ammendments down conservative lines. (excluding the dove hunting one) It is truly amazing that they voted conservative policies in and socialists politicians in. I just don't get it....

[William Terrell]

You're prabably not old enough to remember America. It's been gone a long time, and only now is the mask slipping enough to reveal what it has hidden for many decades.

[aligncare]

Repubs ran on, Don't vote for the dems, and lost, rightly so

Actually, it's the other way around. The 'rats ran on, "Vote for us...we're not them."

[TexasPatriot8]

Urban legend my butt. I've seen the numbers. The important races were just close enough that most of them would have gone Republican with half or less of Libertarian votes, and those that didn't vote out of "frustration with GOP weakness". You believe it's a myth all you want. But those here who protest so much about it prove otherwise.

[SheLion]

Hey She, the Dems will not be held accountable as long as GWB is still in office. There is no positive angle to these results. The "conservatives" that allowed this to happen are in the same camp as JFnK, they have stabbed the troops in the back.

I'm betting that you weren't in that group.

Oh my gawd no!  Need you even ask?

I am devastated.  I can not believe (actually, I can), believe that our own split their tickets and voted Dem.

Does the majority really hate our President that much???!!!

[CSM]

"The American voters are the same disloyal, feckless, spiteful, and ungrateful bastards who sent me to Vietnam, and then threw Baggies full of s*** at me when I came home. They are the same ones who say they "support the troops but oppose the war" and talk down to my son, my nieces, and my nephews who wear the uniform. They are the ones who elected the Congress that voted to cut and run in 1974, and they have now elected the next cut-and-run Congress in 2006. They have chosen to squander the lives of our children and waste their heroic sacrifice. The only thing I can say good about them is that they only sacrificed 3,000 of our children to no end instead of 52,000. This country has shown itself to be truly unworthy of its defenders. They deserve the jihadist attacks on America that will inevitably follow our withdrawal from Iraq. To those who voted yesterday: f*** you, you're on your own dealing with al-Qaeda. My family will not contribute one more drop of our blood to your defense. We will no longer do your dirty work. You've always hated us. Fine. We hate you, too."

I agree and wanted to ensure that it was re-iterated!

[meandog]

With a 15 or so seat House Majority and a basically two seat Senate Majority, the country is well and truly f****d for the next two years. The war, forget it. Might as well run up the yellow flag, pull our guys home, and grab and kiss our butts good bye.

My, my how you do resemble your profile's "Americans we have an obligation to uphold those Biblical ideals taught by Jesus"! Glad you weren't around in Texas circa 1836 at the Alamo...there a band of between 183-250 "real" patriots held off an opposing army of 6,000 for almost two weeks, in allowing Sam Houston time to win the eventual Battle of San Juacinto! TexasPatriot8 indeed, LMAO! Travis, Bowie and Crockett (none of them Texans incidentally) would have had you shot for cowardice.

[TexasPatriot8]

And cram your smug comments. I've been into politics since I was 12. I don't get played by the MSM I don't even listen to the MSM. I've seen the numbers. So called "conservatives" that didn't vote or voted libertarian had a part to play in this, and the Senate races were so close, that was enough. And if it was such a myth, there wouldn't be those here getting so bent out of shape about it. They're defensive because they know I'm right. And most here agree with me.

[sono]

"The path was worn and slippery.
My foot slipped from under me,
knocking the other out of the way,
but I recovered and said to myself,
It's a slip and not a fall."


Abraham Lincoln

[TexasPatriot8]

Bend over and I'll give you that kleenex back in the box. There is a difference between crying and being angry. Get a dictionary.

[ConservativeGadfly]

Not unexpected, frankly. Many of us were out there screaming at the top of our lungs about running on an issue that united all Republicans -- judicial nominations. Worked quite well in 2002 and 2004 and for whatever reason, it was abandoned in 2006, on the verge of what could be the most
important nomination to the SCOTUS in our lifetimes. Foolish.

Spending like drunken sailors certainly didn't help and further abandonment of conservative principles added fuel to the disenchantment of economic and social conservatives alike. Face it, my conservative brethren -- we were ALL
disappointed and frustrated at the complete lack of motivation to champion conservative ideas despite having majorities in both houses and the Presidency.
So sure, the most diehard of us voted, but it wasn't enthusiastic.

But notice something interesting here -- ALL 8 marriage amendments passed. The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative passed. An "English Only" initiative passed. And the Democrats that won? They ran as conservative, blue dog democrats. They didn't win, folks. We lost, badly,
because they took up the conservative mantra that Republicans had abandoned.

Just like Bill Bennett said in 1996 or so...."We were so afraid of standing for something and losing that we stood for nothing and lost anyways." Boldness has its cost to be sure, but it also has its benefits -- like folks know definitively where you stand.

Unlike the wailing and gnashing of teeth that rebounded through leftists communities after the thrashings of 2000, 2002 and 2004, I actually feel more determined and dedicated than ever. I can't look into the eyes of my children and say, "all is lost, so let's give up!"

No, no, no. Lick your wounds if you must, fellow conservatives, but resist the temptation to form a circular firing squad.

We lost. It happens. Toughen up. Daylight is burning....and there is much, much work to do.

Let's roll.

[aligncare]

...If the muslims chose to kill each other after that, it's not our fault - or our problem.

Wrong. It is our problem, if we give al Qaeda a state from which to regroup and attack us.

Their stated goal is not just to 'kick us out of the Middle East...Their stated goal is to 'kill Americans'. Let's not give them a foot hold or the chance to accomplish that--with a nuke perhaps?

[TexasPatriot8]

That's an old tired excuse. That is what the primaries are for. The weak GOp with RINOs was nothing compared to this liberal flaming Democrat Congress we're strapped with now. Anyone who's too shortsighted to understand this simple fact is a liability to the conservative movement if they're that easily swayed when they don't get exactly what they want when they want. And a few people here talk about I'm crying and need to get over it. Being angry and crying aren't quite the same. How about the whiners who don't like the weak GOP? How about THEY get over it! Welcome to the REAL WORLD!!! WHere you don't get all of what you want when you want it or how you want it!!! You take what you can get when you can get it, and how best you can manage it. THAT is the real world of politics. The conservatives that changed or didn't make their votes because they're fed up with a weak GOP are among the stupidest voters in the country.

[BlackbirdSST]

When Hitlery is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, we can look back on today as the day it all began, and thank those "conservatives" who stayed home.

My tagline rightfully belongs to folks with your attitude. Feel free to copy and paste with every post. Blackbird.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

"I share your anger at the so-called "conservatives" who didn't vote. "
I declare a fatwa on those so-called "conservatives" who didn't vote.

[TexasPatriot8]

Also, I think you're missing my point. I'm not defending the GOP leadership. They've been neutered at best and when Tom DeLay left, he took the only set of testicles in the House. The Senate already was pretty gentile. I've railed quite a bit about how wussy the GOP Congress leadership is. I lived in DeLay's district for over ten years, know him and his family, and when the Democrats picked him off for a non-crime, that was the start of this. It was down hill from there. What I didn't expect was that just enough conservative voters would give in to the liberal media koolaid and cost the Senate majority, especially with Steven's time on the SC numbered. I am wondering if any real conservative had a single short thought about the Supreme Court and what would happen if they didn't vote for their Republican Senators and they lose. That's my biggest problem with last night. The loss of the Senate and the guarnateed chance to make the SC constructionist with a fifth firm conservative like Scalia and Alito is gone. And it was a sure thing. If conservatives had just voted Republican just one more cycle, then fight to clean up the RINOs and get real conservatives in the primaries, the PROPER place to voice displeasure with weakness and RINOs. Too late now.

[TexasPatriot8]

Yup, exactly. The assumption that we can win back the House or Senate is some kind of major huberous. Democrats controlled Congress for over 50 years. Makes me wonder if most voters just have no memory before 1994 or what it was like before the Contract with America. The contract is dead. All that hard work. Down the toilet. All because thousands of conservatives couldn't stick with the party for the good of the conservative movement. I haven't been happy with the GOP leadership or their weakness on the border and the like, but I didn't go gutless or jump ship and let the liberals take over. I just don't understand that way of thinking.

[rottndog]

While I appreciate your passion and share in your disappointment over last nights election results, I am neither shocked nor overly concerned about it, and I would NEVER refer to American Citizens who vote their conscience (or choose not to vote at all) as TRAITORS (although I will have no sympathy or tolerance for their complaints about the government they will now have)! These kinds of shifts in power are historically cyclical in nature, and it was inevitable that the Rats would reclaim control of one or both houses of congress. Considering how far the GOP leadership has allowed the party to stray from its' message of 1994 that brought it to power, it is not at all surprising.

Now is not the time for wailing and gnashing of teeth (although the urge to do so is natural and understandable)--Now is the time for serious and honest introspection about where we are as a party, how we got here, and what we have to do to demonstrate to the American people that our ideas are superior. Ideas matter--Ideas brought the Republicans to power and ideas will bring us back to power.

In the mean time, I for one am looking forward to watching the Dems fall flat on their faces again. These people are loons. Now that they are in charge, they will have to run the show. Since they didn't have a clear vision of what they were going to do when they got power, they will be forging ahead rudderless running into disaster after disaster. We have to be prepared to take advantage of this and show America that Dems simply aren't capable of governing.

So buck it up, hunker down, and let's get back to work!

[Marathoner]

Good rant, mirroring much of my own thoughts.

Ditto and BTTT.