You, Rush and Sean, can pump any wild dreamed up excuse you want to but the facts are clear: The culture of the country is much different that it was a decade ago and hard right conservatism lost. The only silver lining I saw in the dark cloud of the election for conservatism was marriage amendments being passed in five of six states. Other than that, it was a complete bust.
I do, however, think libertarian principles of freedom of choice and sanity won and I truly believe that Republicans will have to embrace more of them to get back control of the government.
You clearly need to toke up.