"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Why did Rick Santorum (rock solid conservative) lose?
I tend to agree.
Glenn Beck has a similar take on his show tonight. Reruns at 9:00 and midnight (Eastern Time).
Finally Rush is making sense. Unfortunately, he basically admitted he's been whoring for the RNC and Bush for 6 years. Now he's been "liberated" (his word!) from his duties.
I don't know about this. A lot of "true conservatives" got clobbered yesterday, candidates who were not shy about espousing their conservatism and offering it as a choice between them and their opponents. They went down to defeat.
We ran a "true conservative" for governor in Ohio and he got slaughtered by close to 20 points. Ohio sent a "true liberal", Sherrod Brown, to the Senate in place of a conservative-moderate Mike DeWine. Brown offered nothing other than "hate Bush" and "retreat from Iraq". Those two things won it for him.
A lot of other "true conservatives" got creamed as well. Santorum in PA for one. Others lost, not by much, but still lost. Northrup in KY, Talent in MO, Burns in MT, Allen in VA, Hayworth in AZ (I know these last three are still in dispute, but I don't have much hope). I don't know that Rush is right on this one. A lot of "true conservatives" ran as conservatives, and were rejected. My guess is that the overhang of an unpopular war, which is always a huge liability for the incumbent party, did them in.
Listen up, all you McCain and Giuliani campaigners here for the last 6 months!
Amen, Rush.
Bill Frist is/was a disaster, he let the Senate be controlled by the RINO's because he is one. And W never explained the death cult we are up against because he too God damned PC.
Yep, Rush is a fart smeller, I mean a smart feller. I think he's got it right. Conservatism first, principle before party. I actually voted straight R yesterday all the good it did. I had to offset the damage my mother (the former Republican) did. We've tried to tell some of these "Bush above all" people here but they don't listen. Principle first!! If they had only listened, we'd be in a far better position today. This will be the only negative post I make on what happened last night. Hopefully the one's who think the R behind the name is all that matters will also learn something from this.
Three of the Republican seven of the Gang of 14 were up. One won re-election handily (Snowe). Two went down to defeat (DeWine and Chafee). Both basically sent the message that they were just as good as a democrat... their electorate decided to call them on that.
Weak and vain, even by New England standards, Chafee in particular won't be missed. DeWine was as much a victim of Taft's corruption in Ohio, as he was of his own feeble attempts to play both sides of the court, but corruption cost the republicans lots of seats last night.
I keep coming back to Dennis Hastert's indignant attempts to protect William "Freezer Queen" Jefferson, and Trent Lott's rude savaging of the "so-called porkbusters." Then there was the whole idea of naming "Mr K Street," Boehner, to the leadership (cha-chingg!) and telling us it was reform. (Stop while I check my birth certificate for wet ink). Many Republicans, including these and the pocket-stuffing "Bridge to Nowhere" impresario, Ted Stevens, truly resented any citizen interruption of their all-you-can-swill porkfest.
Now they get to see if the Democrats are as gracious about sharing the graft as they were to the Dems. I suspect not.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
The GOP needs to get behind Mike Pense.
Our side doesn't hunger for ideological leadership. We hunger for leaders who follow our ideology!
As usual, Rush is right on!
Nancee
Seems to me the base was out and voted yesterday while some folks went weak at the knees or sat things out pouting over their own issues.
One problem was an unwillingness to acknowledge public sentiment over the last year, and getting stung a bit in the 2005 elections.
It was amazing how both of those factors were minimized and dismissed on FR. The electorate has been telling Dubya and the GOP that they stink for about 15 months or so. They never seemed to care.
There you go.
To: kristinn
For what it's worth, there's absolutely nothing to gain politically from piling on to Michael J. Fox.
The old ladies love him.
5 posted on 10/26/2006 12:04:27 AM PDT by soupcon
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Rush wrapped up Missouri, put a big bow on it and handed it to the Dems. So he liberated himself.