LOL you thought wrong.
Social issues should be fought at the state/local level. The 2008 election is all about economic & foreign policy conservatism. The GOP needs to return back to it's Calvin Coolidge economic roots and McKinley's muscular foreign-policy pro-American approach.
Oh really?
Gonna leave Conservatives behind?
Good luck Ross.
EEE wrote: "Social issues should be fought at the state/local level."
I bet a majority of Americans, myself included, agree. It's the liberals who believe in a living Constitution (meaning, we'll interpret it to mean whatever we want).
The Bush people blew this election pure and simple dilberately. Because Bush didn't like the positions those house conservatives took on immigration. Its cheap labor from Mexico that is going to save the Social Security system. Let the house conservatives languish with little or no funds. Where the party pulled some strings was against Duckworth for the Illinois house seat and she lost.
In the Senatorial races because it is PC and the party should be "encompassing" so lets back them. They didn't like Harris because the Bush's don't like Harris, they backed Spector, Chaffee, and when Allen got involved with "Maccaca" they had to be snickering as the MSM week after week smeared a good Conservative Republican and decent person just weary of being harrassed while campaigning. The "Bully Pulpit" remained silent.