I'm very much afraid that they are already taking the opposite tack--blaming the defeat on the conservatives.
Bush has already fired Rummy, and is talking about sitting down with the Democrats to talk about raising the minimum wage.
RINO is as RINO does. Nothing new there. Look at how he started, kissing Ted's enormous ass and throwing a vast amount of money at "education" which really means federally funded illiteracy and multi-cultural gayism/Islamism.