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Agreed - c'mon folks, this was an across-the-board whoopin'

1994 was an across-the-board whoopin'. This was a moderate yet pivotal setback that we can recover from in 2008 if we act in a principled and disciplined manner.

"we can recover from in 2008 if we act in a principled and disciplined manner."

Agreed. Eating our dead will only make us sick. We need to decide to move now to get this fixed. If it means following a new Republican or conservative who holds our view.

But we need to start now to work to make it right. What ever did not work we need to be rid of. Trying to appease the MSM and the dems did not do work. Getting away from our small government, smaller spending roots did not work.

Fighting the war on terror was the right thing, fighting it like Johnson did Vietnam (lawyer and pollster in every targeting meeting) was wrong.

Getting constitutionalists on the Supreme Court was the right thing, not seriously fighting illegal immigration was the wrong thing.

According to polling on ideas right up to today the country was mostly in our camp, our camp did not seem to offer them enough to stay.

In other words, our core roots that we almost all seem to believe in by participating on FR are valid and in line with the majority of Americans.

We just need a way to reaffirm what we stand for and find those who really believe as we do. We also need to find someone to present it to the public..

We also need to start guick and work hard. Two years passes fast.

I read Krauthammer and Steyn. From what they say, this is a "normal" mid-term response.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/02/AR2006110201597.html

From the article:

What to say about such a victory? Substantial, yes. Historic, no. Before proclaiming a landslide, one has to ask Henny Youngman's question: "Compared to what?" (His answer to: "How's your wife?") Since the end of World War II, the average loss for a second-term presidency in its sixth year has been 29 House seats and six Senate seats. If you go back to Franklin Roosevelt's second term, the House loss average jumps to 35. Thus a 25/6 House and Senate loss would be about (and slightly below) the historical average.