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The article is stupid, foolish and wrong.

Limbaugh is 100% correct.

Conservatives didn't lose, they just didn't VOTE. They didn't vote because the Congress ran from Conservative issues for the past two years and what the Congressional Conservatives finally did near election time was not enough to overcome scandal and the MSM drumbeat.

Democrats ran as conservatives, and now moderate idiots want us to think that Conservatism is dead, so they can sneak McCain into office and govern from the squishy middle. One only need look at recent comments by Lindsay light-loafers Graham and Christy Todd Whitman to understand what is going on here.

Just as with the other side, we are now in a war for the soul of the Republican party. If it chooses moderates, it will be another 40 years before they regain power (and moderates don't care to lead anyway) but Conservatism ACTED upon never loses.

Being Conservative is not enough, if your party doesn't ACT conservative in front of media cameras and in the halls of Congress. Too many Republicans wanted Cocktail party status instead of remaining faithful to the Conservative ideal.

Why did Santorum lose? He supported Arlen Specter over a REAL conservative, who proceeded to almost kill our chances for Conservative Supreme Court justices. Santorum checked his standards at the door, as did those who gave money to Chaffee.

Conservatives stayed home.

The article is bull$hit.

Conservatives stayed home.

From what I have read it's the independents/middle that the Republicans lost. We had high turnout here in my area (Western Michigan) and the Republicans candidates running for Governor and Senate lost by more votes than Bush did in 2004. As for Limbaugh, I turned him off when he said he was liberated. The man inserted himself into the national media as the ugly face of conservatism with his remarks and antics about Fox.

Horse hockey. The base did vote. It just wasn't big enough to do the job. When the base realizes there's a difference between making the message palatable to the moderates and independents, then in times of change or close elections they still can win. They didn't lose conservatives. They lost the middle.

Conservatives didn't lose, they just didn't VOTE.

Either,

A. Conservatives stayed home.

B. The electorate isn't as conservative as we wish.

C. A combination of the two.

Any of those scenarios isn't good.