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Fine. Step aside and go off to work on your gardening or something and let people with some ideas and ambition have some room to work.

LOL. And what are your ideas? The Reps have some soul searching to do, but the political reality is that we must now deal with a Dem Congress. It took us 40 years to get control of the House and it will take more than just two years to get it back. Moreover, changing demographics are going to make it more difficult to hold on to what we have. When people like JD Hayworth and Rich Santorum lose, there needs to be some discussion as to what the Party stands for and how can it prevent becoming the permanent minority party.

We can expect the passage of "comprehensive immigration reform" [amnesty and a guest worker program], which will involve the granting of legal status to 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants and open borders for many more. The Dems will have them and their children as part of their core constituency in the future. By 2050, more than 1/4 of our population will be Hispanic.

Unless I actually become a politician (and my background and temperament makes it unlikely that will happen) the only route I have available to me to change government for the better as I see it is to continue to do what I've been doing ever since the late eighties. Try to convince as many people as possible to vote for the candidates I think will implement the ideas I believe in. I typically spend more than ten hours a week engaged in some aspect of political activism, and that's tough to do for a person who has a full time and a part time job, family, and other activities I find important, but I think it's worth the continuous effort to try to effect real political change by influencing as many people as possible week after week, and year after year, and I'm not going to stop anytime soon. On the other hand, if I thought that it was pointless because it was foreordained that a bunch of socialist Democrats were going to control the government for the next ten or twenty years then I'd probably take up gardening instead, but I don't. :^)