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I am going to re-post my thoughts on a few of these vanity threads....I posted this on another thread. Take it for what it is worth.

Look, folks, we took a major league shellacking last night. People did not repudiate the ideals of the Republican Party but the actions of the party. We certainly need to get our actions back in line with our ideals.

Republicans also suffered the NORMAL PARTY IN POWER LOSSES for a sixth year administration. And it was Republicans all over the idealogical spectrum: liberal jackball Lincoln Chaffee and Constitutionalist J.D. Hayworth both lost.

So I don't buy this "all is lost" mentality. We've got to regroup and start targeting the vulnerable liberals in the House and Senate for '08.

Politics is the art of the possible, so our strategy should be to look for the possibilities and exploit them.

I am reminded of the Jewish patriarch Joseph: his story is a remarkable example of success, failure, success, failure. In all circumstances he stayed true to his God and his ideals, whether things were going GREAT or if he was utterly rejected. We would do well to follow that example.

My piddle FWIW..

IMO, the Reagan conservative movement officially died when Newt Gingrich was ousted during the Clinton impeachment. Even in this election cycle, Newt offered a visionary 10 point plan for the Republicans to run on and the leadership did nothing. After years of spending like drunken sailors, all the former majority leadership offered was "we suck less than Nancy Pelosi."

What was left after Gingrich? We called them RINO's, but they were Democrats that ran as Republicans. What will be interesting now is that a significant number of the newly elected (D) House members ran on positions that are to the right of the current/former Republican majority. Are they DINO's? Or, did they lie to get elected? If they are socialists disguised as moderate dems, i.e. they lied, they will be in the street in 2 years with the RINO bums.

Our most urgent issue - who is the next great conservative leader? The media is already annointing McCain and that doesn't work for any/many real conservatives. Mike Pence? Mitt Romney? I don't know at the moment.

I agree with you, however, I really do have to vent. In most instances, it really is healthy. And I'm not planning a metamorphosis into a lunatic lib. (Although their "script" is a super easy memorize.)

All I can say in my defense (and its a more than adequate excuse): I remember Jimmy Carter. It is truly amazing how fast a healthy economy can go in the shitter. But the thing I remember most about his reign is the utter despondency, fostered by his idiotic "reign". How truly demoralized the public was, listening to an "anti-American" spew from the White House every day.