Republicans and conservatives who voted at least have a clear conscience, we did our duty.
The Dems turned out their people, they wanted to win, you can't blame them for that.
But Republicans and conservatives who didn't bother voting are directly responsible for the current Dem Congress.
"But Republicans and conservatives who didn't bother voting are directly responsible for the current Dem Congress."
It is too easy to simply blame the voters when the Republican leadership deserves a great deal of the blame. Yes, I did vote for a straight GOP ticket. Although I did not agree, I understand why a significant number of conservatives abandoned the GOP. Those voters will be back if the GOP gets its act together, in the meantime blaming them simply turns the focus away from the real problem.
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Wrong. The Republican party as a whole abandoned conservatism and conservatives. They want conservatives back, it's time to start behaving like a conservative party.
I disagree. The Republicans and conservatives who didn't bother to vote were, in reality, accessories after the fact.
The primary perpetrators of this particular kettle of fish is the GOP Congressional caucus & leadership and, to a degree, President Bush.
Had they done the jobs they were elected to do, they would still be in the majority.
Like you, I was a vocal supporter of casting a conservative ballot in this election -- despite the GOP's miserable performance on the issues. But the fact is, our guys failed to perform sufficiently well as to motivate their base to support them.
The Democrats, for sure, didn't deserve to win. But the 'Pubbies deserved to be fired. And they were.
The Republican pols were their own worst enemies this time around. They're going to have to work to re-gain the bases's confidence.
The situation is more complicated than that. A political party must provide leadership that doesn't take party members for granted as if they will vote no matter what. Republican members of Congress and President Bush took the party members for granted. Party leadership mush assume responsibility for losses at the ballot box, not us disobedient robots.
At the same time, the party in the White House often loses seats in Congress during a non-presidential year. All the more reason for Republicans in office to act like Republicans rather that shallow imitations of Democrats.
Yep.
The excuse some Republicans used that their current GOP reps weren't one hundred percent perfect was an idiotic one. In an election, the voter ALWAYS!!! chooses the best candidate available. It will be rare that any candidate is one hundred percent perfect. Thanks to millions of pouty Republican non-voters, we will see a raft of socialist, defeatest legislation emanating from Washington for the next two years. Hey, pouty, simon-pure, non-voting Republicans, thanks for Pelosi, Rangel, and the rest of the lib idiots.
At least we've proved we're better than the RATs at handling defeat; unlike the dems, we didn't throw a temper tantrum and cry "VOTER INTIMIDATION!"
If things had been the other way around, we'd have to listen to the dems once again grasp at straws, trying to find ways to make a Republican victory void.
You notice no Republicans are saying the elections were stolen? We are taking responsibility for this loss.
Do you think the same would be true if we had kept control of one or both houses?
I think the loss should be blamed on the Leader of the Party. Now tell me who is that? In the question lies the answer.
Wow...
I'd like to see the numbers on who voted absentee. I'm sure the rats have got this system down. I think we need a force of people going door to door in some areas and helping republicans get their absentee ballots in!
We are now in the position that the Dems were six years ago. At that time the left wing extremists such as the the abortionists and the socialists were striving for ideological purity. They disenfranchised a portion of their voters by calling them "DINO's". These people then stayed home or became Republicans.
With their following diminished they then became the minority party.
After six years of losses they reached out to the conservative democrats while the "true" republicans were striving for ideological purity on the conservative side and driving off the people they considered "RINO's"
MUST be all those Legal and Illegal aliens VOTING..
The reason Republicans lost was W's plan to spend his way to Republican dominance using other people's money never was a good idea.
Republicans stayed home in statistically significant droves.
How does anyone conclude from these statistics that to win in 2008 Republicans must move to the left? Does anyone really think the Republicans who stayed home did so because the Republican candidates weren't liberal enough?
I voted. But I live in Seattle....I was pretty much pissing against a hurricane.