Exactly. Every seat counts.
Given the horrendous arithmetic in the Senate in 2008, every focus should be placed on regaining the House. Therefore, every seat we have now is a plus and brings us one vote closer to the majority.
If we can win the House and the Presidency in 2008 (yes, EVEN with McCain, I know you all hate him) the democrats would be able to do NOTHING to damage our country then, even if they won a couple of more seats.
McCain would be good on judges, he's sound socially, and he can't really do any more damage on CFR as president than he already has done. And he is a fiscal conservative, he opposed the medicare prescription stuff, and while I think he was too hard on the president about what rights he had for fighting the war, I don't think he is wrong in how HE would have fought the war.
I know, we can't trust him, he's a rino, he cost us seats, and he is unelectable. And we wouldn't be able to push our tax cuts through without the senate, but we couldn't push them through WITH the senate.
Obviously having a senate majority now would be better, but we have to look at what we are stuck with.
With good candidates, and maybe a couple of defections in the ranks of democrats who didn't like what it cost them to be democrats, we could take back the house.
Think the moonbats will be energized to go out for their candidates if they DON'T impeach bush, or enact their liberal agenda? And if they DO pass minimum wage and a couple other middle-class "feel-good" things, what will be left for the democrats except liberal agenda? The more they accomplish, the less reason there is to vote them back.
But it is IMPERATIVE that the republicans purge their ranks, push a STRONGER lobbying bill than the democrats do, make it clear that WE have learned our lesson and are going to work for the people, not the lobbyists.