[jla]

f you want conservative votes, be conservative. I didn't vote for a single Democrat last night. All of my votes went to conservatives, but not all went to Republicans... I won't vote for a RINO. My vote has to be earned by the candidate NOT being a liberal. That isn't too much to ask.

How dare you think independently from the herd.

[Dead Corpse]

How dare you think independently from the herd.

Sorry. Bad habit. Comes from actually using the grey matter holding my ears apart.

[ConservativeDude]

If Bush had not done prescription drug entitlement, would he have lost the independent/libertarian vote last night? Not as many, I think. (Oooh, but just think of all the Democratic votes he picked up by creating a new entitlement).

Like it or not, there is a percentage of people in this country who don't want larger government. Period. They will vote against the party that expands government. Last night, at least some GOP (talking state house candidates here, especially, but, could probably apply to those verrrrry close Senate races) candidates lost b/c LP candidates took a few hundred votes. In a different era, those votes would have gone GOP.

Obviously there are many, many other factors at play in this country of 300 million people. But...in at least some races, the GOP lost b/c it was deemed by independent libertarians to be the party of big government.