[goldstategop]

I'm unbowed and defiant. I owe the Democrats nothing and I feel liberated. Its great to be a conservative!

"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

[MadIvan]

I'm unbowed and defiant. I owe the Democrats nothing and I feel liberated. Its great to be a conservative!

That's the spirit. Ride toward the sound of the guns.

Regards, Ivan

[JamesP81]

Its great to be a conservative!

You know, it's what I keep telling people, but they just don't seem to listen.

It is hard, grinding work trying to police your own party. I spent so long trying to explain to libertarians that abortion and euthanasia were not only immoral and unlikely to play with most conservatives, but that they aren't consistent with protecting people's rights either. I spent so long explaining to people I'm in church with that any kind of censorship (internet or otherwise), education spending, and govt charity are bad things and that those things are rightly within our purview as messengers of the Gospel (especially the charity part). It surprises me how many so called conservatives will support censorship of speech to promote 'peace'. They told me I was nuts, and that I was completely wrong. They didn't listen to a thing I said.

But they're listening to me today.

I hate trying to deal with the wrong headed ones in my own camp. But I don't have to now, because they all just got smacked down. Politically, thing have gone into the toilet, but interestingly enough, this is when I'm at my happiest best. I have a large, strong, but inept left-wing enemy facing across me just begging for a fight, and the nanny statists in my own party are going to shut up for a while so I don't have to worry about them.

We lost this one, but I tell you the truth: today is a good day to be alive, and to be a conservative.

[af_vet_rr]

I'm unbowed and defiant. I owe the Democrats nothing and I feel liberated. Its great to be a conservative!

Exactly. I'm the same Conservative I was 30 years ago, and I make no bones about it. While I hate that Democrats won office, I'm glad to see more than a few RINOs go, as well as to see the RINOs remaining realizing that they had better start acting like Conservatives or they could be the next ones to lose office.

Now if we can just work on putting Conservatives in office to replace the RINOs that lost, or the RINOs that should be booted, then 2006 will be seen as the starting point of the GOP getting back to its roots.