[Batrachian]

This article is representative of clever liberal spin which sounds reasonable but is actually a subtle attempt to marginalize and decrease our victory and render it null. I don't think we're fooled by this anymore. The problem is that Republicans have shown a talent for rendering our victories meaningless by "reaching out" to Democrats, which simply means giving them what they want. It's already starting with this Specter business.

What makes me happy is the firm tone that President Bush used when he said that he had earned political capital and was going to spend it. I hope that also means kicking butt in the Senate and not letting them betray us in the name of "bipartisanship".

[doctora]

"A man who would have lost in 2004 if 9/11 hadn't come along, was lucky 9/11 came along,"

NOBODY was lucky 9/11 came along. Jerk!!!

[mondonico]

""If you want to pass something legislatively you've got to get 60 votes in the senate that means you have to reach out to Democrats," Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania told CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday. "

There goes ol' Scottish verdict/magic bullet again.

[traumer]

Yup - and ?

[Paleo Conservative]

I'm so tired of Kevin Phillips.

[Paleo Conservative]

"If you want to pass something legislatively you've got to get 60 votes in the senate that means you have to reach out to Democrats," Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania told CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday.

There are several Senate DemocRAT incumbents from states W carried. I don't think they'll want to be the next Daschles.

[VaBthang4]

""It's unprecedented," said historian Joan Hoff, who fears the United States could be heading for a period of regressive policies similar to the 1920s, a decade marked by Prohibition and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan."

Stopped right there.

[dr_who_2]

Progress! The FUD's in the middle instead of in the headline.

[whodeani]

"If you want to pass something legislatively you've got to get 60 votes in the senate that means you have to reach out to Democrats," Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania told CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday.

This statement means we will need another Democrat on our side to cancel out this damn RINO.

[KC_Conspirator]

"It's unprecedented," said historian Joan Hoff, who fears the United States could be heading for a period of regressive policies similar to the 1920s, a decade marked by Prohibition and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan.

The 1920's saw the rise of the new American ecnomy, strides in civil rights, and great leaps in women's rights. It was not called the "Roaring 20's" for nothing. This Joan Hoff person is not much of a historian.

[mercy]

I've been wondering for about twenty years when the Boomer generation was going to grow up. Demographicly we cannot be challenged. We have ALL the money and if we would exercise some common sense ... ALL the power. Folks becoming conservative is a natural progrssion of getting older. It just took the boomers a looooooooooong time. We were so busy extending our adolescense as far as possible. Clear into our fifties for some.

If Bush can turn Iraq into a shining success our dominance for the next thirty if not forty years is assured. Surely Carl Rove understands this. Come on Mr. President SMASH Faluja and crush with extreme prejudice all resistance in Iraq. Then push Iran into revolution. DO IT !

[DoughtyOne]

This article title is one more example of the liftist idiology trumping their calls for the right to be uniters. The 2004 presidential campaign by the left, was an amazing thing to watch, now realizing they are now calling for unification from the right, and trashing Bush for not doing so before this. LOL, the left is just plain looney!

[bert]

Lets see..... an era is a period in history of considerable duration.

It is reasonable to assert that the 2004 election occured during the current era, the Conservative Era, that began in 1980 and was pubescent by 1994. The Conservative Era is nearly a quarter century old in 2004.

Goldwater was "moving toward.

[boris]

In the long run the illegal invasion spells doom for Conservatives and the Republican party. All victories now will be rendered null and void if we do not wake up and control the borders and round up and expel illegals.

--Boris

[Ol' Sparky]

Chief Bush adviser Karl Rove said Republicans could become the governing party for decades. "The country is still close but it has moved in a Republican direction," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.

The only way that won't happen is if the Republican party lets the Arlen Specter's of the world prevent conservative judges from being appointed. Another David Souter, Sandra Day O'Connor or Anthony Kennedy and the morale and enthusiasm of the base will reach the lowest point since before the Reagan era.

Specter has to dealt with.

[Ol' Sparky]

Kevin Phillips, a former Republican official and political analyst who has become an outspoken critic of Bush, sees no evidence that Bush's 51-48 percent win over Kerry will lead to a significant new chapter in American politics.

Another pre-Reagan era loser that doesn't have a clue. In case Mr. Phillips missed it, the shift to a permanent Republican majority in the Senate occurred in this election. There are still nine more Senate seats in red states that could easily go Republican in the future IF the Republican's don't make a major era (like failing to appoint conservative judges to the court system)

[King Prout]

"A man who would have lost in 2004 if 9/11 hadn't come along, was lucky 9/11 came along," said Phillips, referring to the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. "It gave his whole brand of simplistic politics a hook."

ah, a bitter man's way of spinning the truth more accurately stated as "right man in the right place and time when the world dropped into the toilet"

[farmfriend]

The book The Fourth Turning predicted this. It is an interesting take on history and the future.