[WestVirginiaRebel]

Well I hate to say this, but the Republicans have nobody to blame but themselves for this. The GOP catered to the Fundamentalist crowd to the exclusion of all else they once stood for, and this is what happened. Combining a message of moral superiority while getting stuck in scandal after scandal eventually wears thin. Ignoring spending while handing out so much pork it makes Robert Byrd look like Ebeneezer Scrooge also doesn't cut it.

The greatest lesson that the GOP could take from this as it licks its wounds is to remember the words of the Great One: "Government is not the solution to the problem-government is the problem." Sadly, they forgot that in their zeal to please the Christian Socialist idiots who took over the party and pretty much drove everybody else away. At the very least, let's hope that as the loyal opposition, they will actually start acting like Republicans again.

[roostercogburn]

Bullshit. The majority of these election results are the fault of the terribly biased reporting of the MSM.
No matter WHAT the GOP had done the last few years, MSM would have twisted everything to help the RATS.

My anger is at the media first, then the GOP and their inability to fight their twisting of the news.

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>Well I hate to say this, but the Republicans have nobody to blame but themselves for this. The GOP catered to the Fundamentalist crowd to the exclusion of all else they once stood for, and this is what happened. <<<

That is the biggest pile of BS I have read in a while. The truth is G.W. Bush has not acted like a true Christian. He "turned the other cheek" to the Party of Satan -- which the Devil encouraged him to do -- rather than resisting the Devil (as in, "Resist the Devil and he will flee from you"). I have been saying for years that George Bush was just like his father -- a wimp.

[Howlin]

Good post.

[mhking]

Well I hate to say this, but the Republicans have nobody to blame but themselves for this.

Indeed.

I hope that we can learn from this, and emerge in two years even stronger, but I fear I may be hoping for too much.

The finger-pointing has already begun...

[unsycophant]

BTTT!

Schiavo, Harriet Miers, Dubai ports, immigration, etc--all concerns of the fundamentalist crowd, with people like Malkin, Limbaugh, Coulter, Levin and Vannity pandering to them daily, yearly.

Armey and Danforth have been two of the only Republicans I know of willing to oppose the Christian idiots publicly, and they've been called every name in the book for it. Hopefully the GOP leadership will get some clues. For starters, they need to install some new pundits, because the current crop has been useless.