Here's what confuses me.
1) Some people blame the conservatives for staying home for the "loss".
2) Others claim that republicans lost and conservatism won because the democrats ran conservative candidates.
3) The country-club republicans (open border crowd) claim that republicans lost because conservatives put national security above the american dollar.
I dissagree with number 3. So, between 1 and 2 which is it?
We have to know this in order to plan out victory in 2008.
If republicans lost but conservatives won (yet many conservatives didnt vote) is it because democrats vote for the D no matter if they're liberal or conservative?
I think the normal likely conservative voters voted. They didnt stay home. They just didnt work on getting out the vote in the months and weeks leading up to election day. Not because they are "arrogant" but because there was no spirit for it this time. You cant blame them for that. When you have a President calling the Minutemen "vigilantes"... it just does not exicite the base. Im sorry.
And finally...
We lost because of the GOP's failure. While Pelosi, Murtha, Kennedy, Kerry, Gore, Clinton and all the others were out there with their attacks and their defining the republican party for the American People
Where were the republicans? Zip! Nada! Zero!
Dems knew to stick together and not voice hardly any complaints
Notice how NOW and NARL didn't protest Bob Casey for running a pro-life campaign
Look .. I understand why many were upset with republicans .. they did a lousy job in congress
But there wasn't much wiggle room to do the 92 election all over again
We are in the middle of a war
We can recover from the Dems spending and tax hikes .. that we all know are coming
But I'm not sure we can recover quickly from another terrorists attack
Because we all know what the dems are going to try and do with our military and intelligence agencies
Heck .. back in October .. Diane Feinstein was trying to get a ban on cluster bombs .. before that Kerry was trying to get a ban on bunker buster bombs ... and the Dems hate the missile defense shield program
As for USSC Judges?? ... it would the 1980's all over again .. the dems will Bork any conservative judge if there are retirements on the bench