[Sloth]

The importance of getting 60 seats in the Senate is that it is the political equivalent of driving a stake through the heart of the Democrats. We just don't want to beat the Dems, we want to pulverize them into powder, and then sweep the powder onto the ash heap of history.

Yes -- and that is a worthy goal -- but we should not delude ourselves into thinking that the GOP is going to pursue any real progress on conservative issues even after that is accomplished.

[My2Cents]

Think of it this way....We succeed in consigning the Democrat Party to the dustbin of history, a new conservative party can rise up to take on the GOP! Then the two main parties in America can be a center-right party, and a hard-right party.

[F16Fighter]

"We should not delude ourselves into thinking that the GOP is going to pursue any real progress on conservative issues even after that [60 GOP seats in the Senate] is accomplished."

This is what is disturbing.

I'd like to see a definitive platform of goals and agenda of the "new" Republican Party, but I'm afraid that it will forevermore be a "work in progress," contingent upon polls and demographics.