We were speaking of the House, correct? Which means we are speaking of congressional districts, not overall states. In which Republicans have the edge even in "blue" states.
I resent the implication I'm a purist. My posting history indicates otherwise.
The REALITY is that conservatives aren't getting their fair "cut" of this compromise with the RINO's for a working Majority. We're getting screwed. GOP members are talking of tax hikes, no ANWR, GOP voting for a bill to protect terrorists, it's an uphill battle to get a GOOD judge on the Supreme Court, no fixes to social security....etc...we've gotten a few bones like limited tort reform.
For all the heavy lifting CONSERVATIVES do to elect Republicans of all ideological stripes, the sacrifice of time and money so far isn't worth it.
The REALITY is that if Reps don't shape up soon, look to what happened to 41 in '92 to occur to the GOP in '06. Do I want that to happen? NO. If I did I wouldn't be screaming for the GOP to shape up.
I will NOT deny the obvious truth, though, that conservatives feel shafted and a brewing trouble is on horizon for the GOP in '06 that they have brought on themselves.
No, we were speaking of the House and Senate combined - Additionally in plenty of Blue States the DEM's have the overall congressional delegates coming from those States -
Furthermore on the whole great progress has been made since GWB has been in office. He has moved America and the World in the right direction. This has been greatly helped because the GOP (RHINO's and all) are in control of both chambers.
Lastly, I think it is somewhat foolish (at times) for the base to get so overblown upset at the GOP leadership about RHINO's who come from States that GWB couldn't even carry!.
If someone like GWB (one of the most popular Republicans ever with the base...in terms of support) can't get enough votes to carry States like WI, NJ, WA, OR, VT, MA, MI, IL, etc, etc - How do we expect a lesser type true conservative to win an election in those said States?? - We can't, and therefore at times we have to swallow hard and take the RHINO that will at least conference with the GOP majority.
Where we can put more pressure on these RHINO's we most certainly should. I am in full agreement here. But we can't simply scream and yell that the GOP is awful, etc, etc because in reality it is the BASE in these Blue States that can't get a true conservative / non-RHINO elected.
Regards,
Absolute intellectual hogwash (with all due respect) - For way too many reasons to list - And plenty of others on here, myself included have already listed the great number of true accomplishments that have taken place over the last 5 years.
At the current time I do not have the time to re-list all of them - But your notion that having the GOP in control has not been worth it so far, that having GWB in office has not been worth it so far is utterly wrong.