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It wouldn't be to far to speculate that Lott is the author of this current defeat.

LOL! This is too much for my laugh meter!

The defeat was engineered by something known in Congress as "Base Politics".

This definition of Base politics is when the elected representatives of a political party ignore common sense, legislative calmity and responsibility, and then begin knee jerking in different directions to the blaring music of their political base that is often acting irrationally and emotionally.

When this happens, the average Joe blow voter goes into what is known as "Throw the Bums out Mode!"

This is what happened, and you, as well as others on this thread may well have participated by threatening your politician with your vote, if he/she did not kowtow to your demands. As a result, a series of decisions and actions followed that cumulatively pissed off just about everyone in the country, at one point or another. Even if they were not active in politics, the talk at the dinner table was "what have those crazy Republicans been smoking!" They keep going against their own president and dozens of members of their OWN party on issue after issue and then maintain that the Democrats don't know what they are doing and are wrong. Worse than that, they appear to be unreliable, unrepentant, and totally lame! (not to mention crooks!)" "We cannot afford to have them in charge of this country any longer" "They are dangerous, and they appear to have no direction or leadership."

Compared to Pelosi, Republicans appeared to be acting like a bunch of unruly children with no self control.

That's why we lost, and why we will continue to lose.

You may be right, but Base Politics worked up until 2005. What happened in 2005 was the Gang of 14 which demoralized the folks who worked so hard to elect Bush and the Congressional Majority. This group of RINO's essentially attempted to exercise a veto over any Judicial appointment and the folks who have given their lives to defeat Roe were demoralized.

It took the uproar about the Harriet Miers nomination to get folks on the right track but this was at the cost of 10% of the Presidents popularity taken right out of the Base. (translated to 20% of the base checked out.. never to come back)

George Soros is the other engineer of "Base" politics. He has been quietly funding the most radical of the Left to provide a nemesis for the Right. He does his thing by causing a Hegelian divide so that he can bring a coalition of "moderate populists" to power who are beholding to him. Soros has been on this scheme to manipulate the US ever since his name popped up on our national political screen.

Its a Amazing what a billion dollars can do in the US political system. Cheap for the results.