[perfect_rovian_storm]

I don't accept the premise of the title of this piece. Conservatives as a whole did not lose here. Republicans did. Conservatives have suffered a setback, but nothing that can't be overcome.

[outofstyle]

I agree.

[cripplecreek]

I don't feel that I lost. We ousted an RINO and replaced him with a conservative. 3 of 4 ballot proposals went my way (Including the important affirmative action ban) I'm still stuck with the same democrat Governor and senator but I feel that I've gained in some ways.

[Balding_Eagle]

You're right.

[TheLion]

"I don't accept the premise of the title of this piece. Conservatives as a whole did not lose here."

Have got to agree with you. Had Republicans been conservative all along, they would have had no problem. This all started from the top of the Administration. It turned off a lot of voters, who just didn't bother to show up. The Democrats won nothing. They even ran as conservatives. Republicans have not been listening to their base for sometime. It cost them!

What will be interesting now is how the Democrats are going to govern. Will they expose who they really are?

[Rembrandt_fan]

You wrote, "Conservatives as a whole did not lose here. Republicans did."

I suppose had the Republican Party held its own in the recent election, you would've been celebrating a conservative victory.

The Republican Party is the party of conservatism--or, better defined, the only means by which conservative thought may be implemented into national policy. Whatever else they might be, Libertarians are not conservatives, Pat Buchanan 'paleocons' are not conservatives, and those right-leaning third parties who garner maybe 2000 votes nationwide? Who knows, they may be conservatives, but are too inconsequential to matter.

[The Worthless Miracle]

That was my take as well. By definition, the reason that we lost is that we were not conservatives.

[WalterSkinner]

I don't accept the premise of the title of this piece. Conservatives as a whole did not lose here. Republicans did.

..very well stated...

[apackof2]

Conservatives as a whole did not lose here. Republicans did

Agree and because they weren't conservative enought

[TAdams8591]

"I don't accept the premise of the title of this piece. Conservatives as a whole did not lose here. Republicans did."

I was thinking the same thing. You are exactly right.

[q_an_a]

Your tag line forgets one thing - then the people tired of war and sacrific kicked Churchill to the curb - and his ideas too for 40 years.

[EverOnward]

I am a conservative. I have never considered myself a Republican. I vote Republican because it is the lesser of TWO EVILS. President Bush is a politician first and a Republican second and frankly, I do not consider him a conservative at all. So much for definition of terms....