All it took was for a few of us to go soft--Boortz, Savage, wacky Pat,Rush-- attacking Michael J. Fox near the end and we did just enough to lose.
We need to have our act together next time and we will be unbeatable, but we cannot afford major dissension in the ranks.
We have to struggle to get conservative candidates whenever and wherever we can and take what we can get when a conservative candidate is not in the cards, if sending a message means losing, lets thinks twice about hitting the send button.
This election was a treatise on organization and control of the media.We were beaten by an opponent who mimicked us when he needed yet stood for nothing and were so weak they could not even elicit a party platform. Lets don't let that happen again.
Thanks, Rod. We lead them by 30 seats in the House. Now, they lead by 29 seats. Out of those 29 seats, 23 seats were won by 1000 to 2700 votes. If our candidates stick to our party & President without "distancing" themselves, the results would have been different.
Did you ever wonder why Clinton continues to get high approval ratings? Earlier I talked about movie stars, etc. influencing the vote. The Clintons knew this, and they made use of that quite well.
During the Clinton years I quit reading news magazines and avoided shows where I thought he might appear. I read a lot of decorating and cooking magazines, non-political stuff.
I was astounded when Clinton started showing up in every place...House Beautiful carried Hillary on the cover (first time ever they carried someone's photo and not a room), they showed up in the movie magazines at the beauty shop, guested on TV comedies, and (my favorite) in an antique price mazagine which had currrent prices on cast-iron banks, the FEATURED photo was a BILL CLINTON PLAYING THE SAXOPHONE bank (which of course was not an antique)!
Those people who couldn't recognize a photo of Cheney when questioned on the street by Leno, knew who Bill CLinton was and had a vague impression he must be "cool."
And their votes count as much as ours.
Good morning Rodguy! As much as I hate too, I'm going to watch MTP and eat my humble pie.
I honestly thought that enough of the nation would realize what was at stake and vote to keep the Republicans in control. I was wrong.
I think a lot of conservatives forgot the awful consequences of losing the majorities.
So let's concentrate on straight up stories that are biased. And of course, The Sunday shows, when their questions are biased, wrong, misleading, or plainly lies, need our most carefull scrutiny!
As I understand it, Rush actually tightened that race. At least the cloning advocates in MO believe Rush is why it barely passed. They had been seeing overwhelming support until the Rush/Fox kerkuffle. I assume that translates fairly well to the Senatorial race, too. Do you know differently?
Looking from the outside I personally think one of the main reasons you lost were that a lot of people were convinced by the DBM that the Republican Party was too radical right wing and that where it was not it was divided so it could not achieve anything.
What was with that? I almost felt like I was in a time warp. It was all too two-faced for me. What does it take for people to realize a third party cannot win and if they do this in 2008 we may not like the outcome.