[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Apart from the demoralization of our troops, the abandonment of John Bolton, Nancy Pelosi as speaker, Dingy Harry in charge of the Senate, an impending amnesty for illegals, and a victory for the obstructors and cut-and-runners, the Republican loss was a good thing.

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (from Monty Python)

[oblomov]

>>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.

[US Navy guy]

* 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)!

[Cinnamon]

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.

[KarlInOhio]

As did conservative voters in Ohio, where Sen. Mike DeWine (ACU Lifetime Rating: 80)

And recent ACU rating much, much lower.

[dinoparty]

Can we please stop this charade that this election was somehow about Repubs being "too far left"?

It was about Iraq. Period.

[republicanwizard]

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.

[bella1]

Sometimes a good colon cleansing is what we need with the sh@* begins to pile up. We will all feel better as a result.

[lasereye]

Apart from the demoralization of our troops, the abandonment of John Bolton, Nancy Pelosi as speaker, Dingy Harry in charge of the Senate, an impending amnesty for illegals, and a victory for the obstructors and cut-and-runners, the Republican loss was a good thing.

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.

[Sam Cree]

"Apart from the demoralization of our troops, the abandonment of John Bolton, Nancy Pelosi as speaker, Dingy Harry in charge of the Senate, an impending amnesty for illegals, and a victory for the obstructors and cut-and-runners"

Not to mention the victory for Al Qaeda, the foreign fighters and the insurgents - they effected regime change within the US.

[MaineVoter2002]

There's a new Conservative Petition out there to sign.

[randog]

* One bright light in the Senate contests: conservative Republican Sen. John Ensign whupped Jimmy Carter’s kid’s butt in Nevada.

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.

[Red Boots]

This wasn’t the country saying it wanted to go further Left; it was the country saying Republicans had already taken the country too far Left. This wasn’t about taking the country in a new direction; it was about correcting the GOP’s course.

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 ?

[Cold Heat]

Yeah, the answer he came up with was more of the same crap that lost the election....

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....

[I_be_tc]

later

[goldstategop]

We purged the RINOs and time-serving hacks. Too bad thumb-sucking Chris Shays is still around together with weenies Lindsay Graham and John Warner - Gang of 14 Sellouts. They're living on borrowed time. And McCain is the last of 'em to deal with and nothing is more apopros than the trite and true saying revenge is best served cold. DOWN WITH RINOs!

"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

[Alex Murphy]

Ping to read later

[NeoCaveman]

Deborah Pryce (ACU Lifetime Rating: 79) in Ohio lost.

Last I looked, Pryce won.

[Tanniker Smith]

One of the lessons that people forget is this:

It may not be in a conservatives best interest to vote against the Republicans; however, ...

If you push someone -- anyone -- too far, they may forget just what exactly is in their own best interests when they take action.

[Tanniker Smith]

* 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.

Every GOP Presidential ticket since 1976 has had a Bush or a Dole on it.

It's time to change that.

[Tzimisce]

It's good to see so many RINOs have been trimmed away.