[AntiGovernment]

Bush 41 created his own problems. Perot made them worse during and after the elections. And republican voters who thought about teaching the republican leadership a lesson learned that it was them, the voters, who were being taught a lesson. However, it seems like a lot of republican voters don't learn their lessons well.

You don't say? I thought the Republican leadership did learn a lesson, leading to the conservative resurgence in 1994, and the first budget surpluses since who-knows-when.

I don't think we should be so paternalistic to say that the voters should learn a lesson. Just nominate someone for whom conservatives can vote, maybe even while holding their noses, not another big spender like president Bush.

[adorno]

I don't think we should be so paternalistic to say that the voters should learn a lesson. Just nominate someone for whom conservatives can vote, maybe even while holding their noses, not another big spender like president Bush.

Let's not conveniently forget that the person in power had to go through primaries where the people voted. And the person that leads a party's ticket in the general election is the person selected in those primaries. If the person elected, Bush and the RINOs in congress, are not exactly what we expected, then the errors can be corrected though the primaries. It is in the primaries that republican voters need to make sure that conservatives are selected to run in the general election. If by chance RINOs get elected, then we have to wait for the next primary to correct the mistakes. But, you don't correct the mistake by making an even bigger mistake and electing the opposstion by default, because you feel angry at the current crop of republican representatives or the president.

And, what happened in 1994 is probably never going to happen again. If democrats get control again, then expect them to do whatever it takes, including illegal means, to keep that power.