America has rejected their ideas and more importantly, the things that liberals "value". The country has seen the effects of earlier liberal ideas and they don't like the results, not because they are mean, but because of exactly the opposite. Because they DIDN'T work.
To paraphrase the slogan of the left, "Support Taxes, Reduce Them Now!"
"in 2006 we will hear liberals piss and moan about how "our message didn't get out". "
You are a true soothsayer Raoul.
This is already the message The Screaming Blue Messiah a.k.a. Howard Dean is preaching to the party faithful.