You know, I don't quite see why folks here on FR cannot understand that the country moved to the Right on Tuesday night.
The Democrats who won those seats ran as anti abortion, pro gun conservatives. They are now what the Democratic Party did not have -- a conservative wing. Simultaneous with this, the GOP lost many moderates in the Northeast, moving the party consequently to the right.
So stop complaining and wasting your time on philosophy and spend it creating spreadsheets with which to track the votes of these Democrat conservatives. Any time they stray from conservatism, send notice to their district's local newspapers. Flood their districts with notice of their act. Their office will get wind of this and realize that they have to walk the talk they talked.
At that point the Democrats will realize they have moved rightward and lose the support of the left wing, who will do a Nader.
The only thing the GOP needs to change is what beat them -- and that is corruption. The candidates put forward need to be squeaky clean and nothing else needs to change.
Bump!
I think conservatives are over stating this....how many real conservative Dims won? Webb is about all I can name.
And they accomplished their goal, they got elected. They now stand arm-in-arm with those who will actively seek to confiscate our guns, force us to bankroll the UN, suck up to Islamic terrorists, look to the ACLU for legal advice, and well, booger things up. Hopefully, if there are any resonable dems in the group, they might want to raise their voices amongst the braying.