[PeterFinn]

I agree. We did deserve to lose. The GOP was arrogant before the election in assuming that they had so many "safe" seats like Richard Pombo's only to see them taken away handily. That and we have a President who takes conservatives for granted with his immigration policies and foreign trade policies that benefit everyone in the world except America. The debt and the deficit are higher than ever. Then there's the war. What a mess. Bush is INSANE for allowing the media access to Iraq so they can foment insurrection at home by consistently representing our troops as baby-killers & etc. We can't win a politically correct war when the other side has no such constraints on their actions. We deserved to lose the election because we abandoned the principles that brought us to control in 1994.

[prophetic]

TRUER WORDS WERE NEVER SPOKEN!!!!

Although these remarks wont garner you any new friends on this board but you speak true (though it hurts).

[avacado]

So the corollary to yor post is that we deserve the Democrats?

[samm1148]

"We can't win a politically correct war when the other side has no such constraints on their actions. We deserved to lose the election because we abandoned the principles that brought us to control in 1994."

I deride the drama queens on here but I served in the Mideast for years prior to 9/11. This is one enemy you don't turn your back on--I know. They'll be here in this country after we cut and run in Iraq. They'll show us no such tender mercies as President Bush directed our generals do for them.