[Kenny Bunk]

Everyone s looking for 'lessons learned' from this debacle. IMHO, there probably aren't many.

The Democrats evolved a brilliant and very simple strategy to deal with any Republican, Conservative, RINO, Values, etc. candidate: on a head-to-head basis. They simply matched our candidate with one who was ideologically equal or better, and then they backed him up. They recognized that the average voter tends somewhat rightward on most issues, so that's where they ran. Our team wasn't smart enough, tough enough, or courageous enough to deal with the old "all court press." BTW, our coaching squad really was out to lunch.

The Democrat party, under this truly scary Rahm creep, and the equally shifty (note polite placement of the "f") Schumer are only wedded to left-wing loser socialist ideology after they win elections.

A damned shame that no one on the RNC reads ... or more likely ... believes what's on this site. There are at least 50 posters here who knew the score better than the RNC, Rove, Mehlman, Liddy, et al. These clymers should be benched immediately. Not only did they waste hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign funds, but they, quite needlessly IMO, put a group in power that could very well deliver ruin to our republic. Apparently they failed to notice we are in a death struggle with 200 million Muslims who want to kill, enslave, or at the very least convert us and make us live under their laws.

One could be forgiven for pointing out that a cataclysm of such historical proportions should at least get their attention. Pardon me, but it's a little like not showing up for the Siege of Vienna, or The Battle of Lepanto. They are that stupid.

Sure, It's a tradition. Every 8-year president seems to get shellacked 6-years out in the "Lame Duck" Mid-term. But this time, it's a lot more serious because we are in a World-Wide War our leaders were afraid to spell out. Finally we can join the chorus: "It's Bush's Fault."

[LS]

Good points. Part of the problem, though, is when you win three consecutive elections with a "play" from the playbook, the old maxim is that you keep running it till they stop it.

There was no evidence prior to this election that Republican turnout could be beaten. We can debate why, and you are right that the Dems ran a bunch of "conservatives." And no, we can't blame the public for choosing the "conservative" who hasn't voted yet over the "conservative" who has voted badly, for the most part.

The problem for the Rahm strategy now is that those "conservatives" will absolutely not be able to govern as such, so they, in turn, will have a record in two years, and it won't be a good one.

Now, a good coach would already anticipate that. But it does suggest that the strategy you see as so brilliant is a one-shot opportunity---provided, of course, the Republicans get sensible candidates.

[IamConservative]

They simply matched our candidate with one who was ideologically equal or better

Corker in Tennessee was the only candidate I heard call this out about Ford. Something to the effect of "how hard it must be for Ford to get up everyday pretend to be me."

[hosepipe]

[ But this time, it's a lot more serious because we are in a World-Wide War our leaders were afraid to spell out. Finally we can join the chorus: "It's Bush's Fault." ]

Good analysis... WORSE....
Bush actually looks like Alfred E. Nueman..
America has become a Madd Madd place because of it..

Somebody someplace is laughing at us.. Can you hear them?...

[oldtimer2]

note polite placement of the "f"

Also note the yiddish definition of Schmuck: as in the nickname Schmucky Chucky