[pgkdan]

I agree. I voted Republican, and I'm upset with those Repblicans who stayed home, but I understand why they did. And I fear that the more we blame those "teach a lesson" conservatives, the more likely it is that our Republican leadership will do nothing to fix the problems of the party.

Spot on! It's damned presumptuous to assume that Republicans were 'owed' votes from voters who stayed home. I voted GOP and donated to the GOP and worked the phones for my candidate but nobody owned my vote. We need to spend our efforts encouraging elected GOP officials to live up to our conservative principles and insist that they remain accountable to us. They're the ones who lost the election...not the voters. And calling those people names and villifying them is not the way to get them to the polls for the GOP the next time around!

[Wallace T.]

If the Bush Administration had not been so weak-kneed on border control, if the handcuffs of political correctness were taken off our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan so that we could smash the enemy strongholds, and if the Republicans in Congress had avoided pork barrel spending and expanding entitlements with regard to Medicare, conservatives would have supported the Republican congressional ticket with enthusiasm. If the Republicans want the strong support of conservatives, they need to govern in a conservative manner.