I agree -- conservatives lost -- because the current vehicle for conservative change in the USA is the Republican Party and Republicans lost. Republicans showed that once they were in power they weren't interested in enacting conservative agenda, but in preserving and enhancing their own power by any means necessary. The attitude exhibited by Republicans was one of "it's our turn now." That's not why we elected them.
Fact of life
GOP voters do have standards
Democrats don't and will vote for anybody
What's sauce for the goose is good for the gander.
Is it unfair that when conservatives do things liberals do, that they, the conservatives, are labeled as hypocrites? No.
According to that great conservative thinker Russell Kirk, the first tenet of conservatism is the preservation of the moral order. True conservatives don't look at government as a plaything by which they can impose their latest ideas on the country;
Like Bush Jr's invasion of Iraq when all the evidence points to the Wahhabi Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as the custodian, financial sponsor and spiritual advisor to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001!
TERRORISM FINANCING: ROOTS AND TRENDS OF SAUDI TERRORISM FINANCING
Does this include amnesty?
I think he is exactly right. Conservatives weren't defeated by liberals. Conservatives beat themselves. Only a blind man could fail to see how corrupt it had become. These earmarks are really just outrageous in the extreme. This is not Republicanism. This is not even Democratism. This is gross irresponsibility and greed.
I agree with much of what Chuck Colson says, but I also find it very strange that with Chuck Colson as one of the major players in the Watergate Scandal that he should be the one talking all about one's "character"! It's just like Senator Ted Kennedy discussing all about the wrongs of "water torture".
According to that great conservative thinker Russell Kirk, the first tenet of conservatism is the preservation of the moral order. True conservatives don't look at government as a plaything by which they can impose their latest ideas on the country; they look at political power as a guardianship, what Chesterton called the democracy of the dead. In other words, we have a debt to those who have gone before us, and the primary debt is to preserve the moral and constitutional order that our forebears fought to defend.
Moral order is too vague a phrase, it is weasel words. It isn't moral order that conservatives should preserve, but the specific order, the folkways, laws and traditions of the culture. Communists have moral order. Conservatism is irrelevant in the face of immigration so vast that it will make the "natives" a minority in their own homeland. It's a change so big that it makes conservation impossible.
If we are to survive in an age of Muslim assertiveness, is is only Conservative and Christian principles that will win the battle. Multiculturalism's a loser.
I like this reason better why we didn't win:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/HughHewitt/2006/11/08/the_road_not_taken__forfeiting_a_majority
And then sit back and say republicans deserved to lose.
I see hypocrites here, but not the people who voted republican, the ones who sat home and are now gloating.
Conservatism is principle. Republican is a party.
Placing party over principle is a practice of those with weak character.
Bet no one outside of Indy will hear that there are 18 voting machines still missing. Might have a little to do with the Carson- Dickerson race. Baglady supposedly won. HMMNNN Wonder where they went?
in a sound byte, "DINO trumps RINO"
democrats ran as communists in conservative clothing and won.
republicans ran as conservatives in moderate clothing and lost.
the end.
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Conservatives did not lose. Obstinate Republicans lost. If one bothers to research the Dems that won, they ran on a more conservative platform. Es tut mir leid.
Conservatives didn't lose because of moral issues or corruption. The danger to many Americans is too far removed and they're tired of hearing the same message. Sometimes voters want a change but Democrats will fall on their face although they may lie to cover it up and buy votes through handouts. Republicans today tend to look back at Republican losses with horror because there is so much at stake and Democrats have a record of holding power for far longer than Republicans through cheating and deep corruption that is hard to fight because it exists on so many levels. Yet we have new tools like the bloggers and the shadow of Nixon is a distant memory that can't dog us anymore. Republicans just need to find the truth about Democrats and themselves. Republicans need to ask themselves, "why do I believe what I believe". New answers need to be given to the public to preserve some of the traditional values that are endangered. We need clarity and we need spokesmen to proclaim it.