Posted on 11/10/2006 7:24:07 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
>>The worst defeat for conservatives yesterday was the loss of Rep. J.D. Hayworth in Arizona.
It's not clear that he lost- votes are still being counted. The race was called by the media, not by any qualified authority.
* Do you think the Republican establishment will FINALLY have learned not to put its fate in the hands of a Dole? Bob Dole gave Republicans the embarrassing 1996 presidential defeat, and his wife Liddy, who was put in charge of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) this cycle, coached the team to the crushing Senate losses a decade later.
(or a BUSH)!
Amen!
I've been doing a lot of thinking these past 2 days. It came to me that my party had gone too far left..(they abandoned me about a 2000 miles to the right) passsing these massive spending bills, playing hot potato with illegal immigration.. etc.. now the Dems hold power.. let's see if they can capture OBL, let's see if they can win the Iraq War, and WOT. too long the did posturing and finger pointing, now they have to get serious and make tough decisions.
YOu forgot to mention Bob Ehrlich as a loss(MD Repub).
He was fiscal conservative, but a social lib.
He lost to a free spending mayor Omally.
WE also had a black candidate (Steele) who got 20% of the black vote. ANd now Dean is criticizing the MD Dem party for
not having enough black candidates. The MD dems will complain about not having blacks represent them and the
dems will promise them that next time it will happen.
MD is a big loser in the election.
And recent ACU rating much, much lower.
Can we please stop this charade that this election was somehow about Repubs being "too far left"?
It was about Iraq. Period.
Why did you post this article by this moron?
Nussle married a lobbyist? So what?
If they love each other, I don't care.
The type of people who wrote this article need to be purged from the party. And for good.
I will take the loss of Kean,Chafe and Dewine.
I will never understand why the GOP supported them
anyway. And supporting Spector cost Santorum his seat.
Did we have the Senate anyway?
Time to clean out our ranks. Let; just hope
there is enough of the country left to save once we do.
Bedroom politics.
Sometimes a good colon cleansing is what we need with the sh@* begins to pile up. We will all feel better as a result.
Making a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
You forgot one huge thing: If there's another Supreme Court vacancy, the only kind of nominee that will get through now will be an O'Connor/Kennedy/Souter type. That's the end of a chance to put a conservative majority on the court for maybe 10 years or more - maybe a lot more. The conservatives who didn't vote will blame Bush for the non-conservative nominee, claiming it proves he's not conservative after all, because frankly they're not very bright.
Not to mention the victory for Al Qaeda, the foreign fighters and the insurgents - they effected regime change within the US.
I'm proud to have had the honor of being able to (a) vote against that carpetbagging son-of-a-peanut farmer, and (b) cast my vote for a real, no-nonsense conservative republican senator, John Ensign.
Everyone's talking about republicans returning to their conservative roots; just look at John Ensign as an example. He walks his talk, and his talk is plain, simple, no-nonsense conservatism. And he won handily.
Whatever the country meant or didn't mean; we're now headed for socialism. Does the writer actually think they care what the people want ?
Until they get the real reasons for the losses into their thick heads, we will never regain any sort of majority status....
It certainly was not spending, and this was his entire reason for failure on Tuesday.
Spending may be a inside baseball issue, but it had no national implications...
What did, was Conservative Hubris....A bunch of it....
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