There is a small, but significant amount, of selfish, cut and run, short term thinking idiots who call themselves conservatives (and at least one big whiner is on the radio) that would rather put their country at dire risk by getting Dims elected by their actions.
These cowardly little piss ants should disappear and start their own party. They can call it the Perfect Party since they all expect perfection and evidently think they are perfect.
Republicans need to remember this and know they need to win by at least 5% in any race to overcome the 1-2% that these little peons represent. Republicans also must remember that these selfish little punks are never happy, they expect perfection, and will put you and me at risk just because they do not get everything they want.
Not to let the Republicans off the hook. They really screwed things up by going away from conservative values in a number of things. However, there will be much talk about that in the coming months,
But now, our country is at great risk. If any of these cut and run cowards start to bitch and whine about how things are going in the coming months, they should be flamed, slammed and banned.
***...But now, our country is at great risk. If any of these cut and run cowards start to bitch and whine about how things are going in the coming months, they should be flamed, slammed and banned.***
Amen!
They may not get everything they want from the Republicans, but the chance to change that was in the primaries. Under the Dems. they'll get NONE of what they want. And... Congress will think they've been taught the Dem. way is what America really wants.
That's spelled Weiner, right?
Taking the Virginia Senate race as a good example of how badly things went tonight, compare the 2004 and 2006 exit polls.
Registered Republicans composed 39% of voters in both elections. 95% of them voted for Bush in 2004 and 93% for George Allen today.
Self described conservatives made up 38% of voters in 2004 and 36% today, and broke for Allen even more heavily than they had for Bush - 85% for Bush, 87% for Allen.
Registered Independents composed 26% of voters in both elections. In 2004, they favored Bush by 10 - today, they favored Webb by 9. A quarter of the electorate swung 20 points in 2 years. That's huge.
I looked up Missouri and the numbers are just about the same. More self described conservatives turned out, they broke for the Republican even more strongly than in 2004, and it didn't matter because moderates swung 22 points towards the Dem.
It looks to me like when it came down to it, the turnout machine worked, conservative voters held their noses and held up their end of the deal pretty damn well. But swing voters don't owe Republicans anything. They don't agree with us on every issue, or necessarily even most of the issues, so the threat of Democrats winning doesn't scare them. Give them sleazy politics as usual without an overriding message to vote for and they will vote for someone else. We did, they did, and let no one say they didn't see this coming years ago.