I said it was a number of factors. We keep winning more and more seats every year.
1)Ronald Reagan was not part of the Conservative Movement
yes, he was.I would actually say that Reagan started Modern Conservatism and is the founder of the modern Conservative movement.
""2) the 1994 Congressional elections weren't part of the Conservative Movement ""
With Newt Gingrich and the Contract of America, yes that too.
""3)Bob Grant et al had nothing to do with the Conservative Movement,though he/they predate Rush by decades ""
I have never heard of Bob Grant. Maybe so. All I can tell you is Rush has the worst time slot in talk radio and pulls in the biggest audience.
4) history only began since you were born?
No, but the Internet as we know it began after I was born. And it allowed more people to become involved in politics.
The Internet is an integral part of the Grassroots movement. You cannot dispute that we won these elections because of grassroots too.
Lauralee,you claim to live on Long Island (though you have also claimed here that you're a New Yorker who lives in the city...by inference/implication) and you're telling me that you have
NEVER heard of Bob Grant?
Either you're lying about living in N.Y. state,or you've been living in a cave since birth!
Even Rush has talked about Bob Grant and Joe Pine (who I didn't mention,because he's a bit more obscure and from an even older era)as being THE originators of CONSERVATIVE talk radio and in the forefront of the Conservative Movement;not to mention the fact,that without them and several others,Rush would NEVER have had such a show nor made it in radio.
You're now backpedaling,since I pushed your nose in your own mess. Just give up,now,because this is now ennui inducing in the extreme, so far off topic,as to be beyond hope, and I'm weary of being your teacher cum babysitter.