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You get it, how refreshing.

Great post.

Reagan did just that, but as much as I admire President Bush, he's not good at it and the GOP took a beating as a result of it.

This just happened to be a year where all the stars were aligned in the wrong direction and it would have taken a super-human miracle to change it. Americans have every rights to be idiots. I don't see the Democrats as a real improvement and with everything they had going for them, they hold only a narrow majority in Congress. I wouldn't read it as a thumping endorsement of the liberal agenda.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

Actually, President Bush has had congressional coattails unlike any other president in the past many decades, and kept a majority for six of eight years. The party abandoned their fiscal conservatism and the Dems succesfully leveraged a few minor scandals to get a victory in the six year of Bush' term. Presidents almost always experience significant losses at that point in their term. The GOP had nothing to run on in '06 because they had accomplished absolutely nothing in their term.

The country didn't move left. The candidates that won the House campaigned on issues of the right and neutralized advantages such as pro-gun, pro life and fiscal conservative issues.

AZ was a state that seemed to show some signs of moving left, likely due to a popular Dem governor and people moving in state who are farther left than natives. Also, the GOP has all but abandoned small government libertarian focus, which is strong in the western states like AZ, MT, and others.