What happened last week was this. The American people took away our hockey pucks and told us to sit the penalty box. The public is excited to watch the Communist Organizer play. The only things we can do now is clean house and hope the economy sinks Obama’s approval ratings. (We won’t be seeing signs of that until next fall.)
McCain winning GOP nomination is a sign of how disorganized conservatives are. Back in August 2007, McCain was declared finished. In trade had McCain below 10 for winning the GOP nomination. With McCain a non-factor, Huckabee, Romney, Thompson, and Giuliani teared each other apart. This dragged the approval ratings of the 4 GOP contenders and allowed McCain to slip thru. Conservatives need to get their act together if they are to clean house.
The American public doesn’t even know which party is in control of Congress. They still think it’s Republican. A large segment doesn’t even know who Pelosi/Reid is. We didn’t forcefully educate them. Even if our nominee had lost the Presidency, there was no reason for our not making gains in Congress (reference 1960 after the disastrous 1958 elections).
Another fact is that we did not have our best leaders even running. Our best Governors, current or former, didn’t run (yet we got two of the most unsuccessful, disastrous RINOs acting as though they were remotely qualified). Our best Senators didn’t run (though we had a fairly decent ex-Senator, and the only remotely serious actual Conservative). Our best Congressmembers didn’t run (aside from Duncan Hunter, but he wasn’t that well-known to the public aside from us). The VP didn’t have a go, nor Cabinet members, nor business leaders. Did have NYC’s best Mayor in a century, but aside from law enforcement issues, he’s effectively a liberal Democrat, and that wasn’t going to work.
I derided these terrible choices nearly a year ago as a Felliniesque sideshow. Fred was the giant and virtually the rest were midgets. We deserved a large selection of giants, all of whom capable to obliterate the Dem nominee. This was literally the worst set of choices for President, especially from a Conservative standpoint, for the Republican party in the modern era.