I think he has a shot. Or at least another pro life a conservative does. TO be honest we had no business losing some of these elections. Its not because conservatives stayed home either. I think in many of these races despite being warned by the RNC that they were in trouble some people refused to believe they had a race on their hands.
National Review stated the Northup race as one of the prime examples of Northup losing a race because of that. I also think despite all this analysis of why the GOP lost we neglect to consider some of these folks had not had a tough race in years. Some have never had a tought relelction fight since 94.
I think Northup and Hart can get back in. I am optimistics because besides Northups district(that I think went to Kerry) most of these districts went to Bush.
On the pro life issue I think we pro lifers need to see we have a big problem that goes way beyond the Congress. The fact that we lost the stem cell resarch issue in Montana and the Abortion Referendum in South Dakota shows us we have a way to go in educating the public. In all this rush to blame the gop and politicians those votes make me think that some of the blame lies with us. I hate to say it but I don't feel the intensity among our pro life forcs on educating the public like I used too
He should have run for Governor.
I think you are right about right to life - I think we have been afraid to press while we were ahead and now we have more pro aborts in congress! I believe in incremental gains and now that we have lost Rick Santorum, Jim Talent et al., it will be much tougher. I know that Democrats for Life has sent out a letter claiming that many of the new Demos who won were pro life but I will believe it when I see their voting record. I think only a handful are really pro life. As for South Dakota, had they put in the rape/incest exceptions, the bill would have passed - without a doubt.