Posted on 11/07/2006 8:02:25 PM PST by Philistone
The most important thing that Republicans should learn from tonight is that America is a representative democracy.
This does NOT mean that your congress critter shares ALL your beliefs, or that he is a perfect human being, but rather that, in general, he votes the way you want him to.
It's like hiring a lawyer. You may despise his personal life and his principles, but what is important is that he WINS YOUR CASE.
Democraps could care less about the morals of their elected officials as long as they win.
Republicans could learn a lesson here...
No, he won't.
He will continue his ridiculous approach of trying to work together with the Dims, to reach concensus, to achieve true bipartisanship.
Nope, Klinton lost the house for the Dims in 1994, Bush lost the House (and maybe the Senate) in 2006.
You have to represent and have the support of the majority of those who show up and vote. You must build coalitions. Otherwise you will lose the election.
"I am 34-and I doubt I will see a Republican majority again in my lifetime-Socialism and Godlessness can't be stopped."
I hope it can and we can do better, but conservatives are going to have to *GET REAL* about what it will take to make a majority coalition for us to have a majority again.
I am thinking of supporting Newt for President.
He is the one man who care about ideas and the one thing the GOP has lost sight of are those conservative ideas that can win back a majority.
Definitely Newt for President.
"He will continue his ridiculous approach of trying to work together with the Dims, to reach concensus, to achieve true bipartisanship."
My biggest fear ... 'bipartisanship'. That means a Republican gets shellacked in the polls for agreeing to a dumb Democrat idea. (LIke GHWB on the 1990 tax hike the Dems foisted on him).
WE could do well in 2008 if the Democrats started passing liberal bills and Bush started vetoing them.
Newt will be torn to pieces in the media with his marriage issues. Social conservatives will not back him. He has good ideas, but I think he is toast.
If the public didn't like the "bridge to nowhere", then why did they vote FOR the Socialist, liberals, and Communists?
Could it be that they have no idea who they voted for? Are they ignorant of the platform of those they voted for?
And if so, why are they uniformed about who they voted for?
On the war, they did the first two, but many candidates failed on the third point.
On immigration, they failed utterly. They managed to alienate (no pun intended) both sides by first taking a soft approach, then switching to a tougher approach.
Let them be guided by principle, and let the chips fall where they may...I think they would be surprised at how much better received they would be by the voters. I think people respect someone who is clearly guided by principle, even if they may disagree with him at times.
"It might be time for some serious consideration to be given to forming a national Conservative Party."
OH JOY. A splinter 3rd party to drain whatever conservatism remains in the GOP, rendering conservatives irrelevent completely, the GOP a minority and the liberal leftwing Democrat triumphant...
All Hail President Hillary and Speaker Pelosi.
NUTS.
"It might be time for some serious consideration to be given to forming a national Conservative Party."
Say hello to Comrade Clinton my friend.
Forecast for Dallas, Atlanta, etc: 10,000 degrees and cloudy. At least we'll understand the "root causes" of terrorism, namely, us. /s
Uh, maybe because they just lost their ass??
It seems the public wants them more liberal, since they voted for all liberals tonite.
The reason the Republicans lost tonight is precisely because they started drifting left. Just enough of the voting base either stayed home or cast a protest vote to cause this fiasco.
My God, get back on your meds, will you?
Agreed. It's going to take vision, and he's the only one on the radar who has it.
OR ....
“Rove you (*&)(*&^% bastard!”
There will be so much trash flying around when Hillary enters the race, Newts problems will pale in comparison.
"Compare this to other sixth-year midterm elections, and then call it a tragedy."
It's a tragedy ... for the nation.
"I now expect things to REALLY heat up there. The Iraqis, Iranians and others... of all stripes, friendly and otherwise... have just learned that America won't finish what it started; can't be trusted; and can be defeated by inflicting minimal casualties. They will learn from this that the West is nothing but a bunch of paper tigers."
Correct. the Jimmy Carter quisling weakling anti-American blame-America-first cut-n-run easy-on-terrorists-but-tough-on-Bush leftwing liberal Democrats are having a field day ....
But America will suffer for it.
Look on the bright side. Instead of acting like paranoid freaks the Dems will now act like arrogant drunks. We'll see if America likes what it bought in two years.
Then how did Santorum win his last three elections? I remember, do you?
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