[FreedomNeocon]

How many years were Republicans out of power and not able to do anything?

40? More?

Then we win for 8-12 and suddenly all you people get spoiled.

The democrat party is running 'conservative' democrats in effect to elect an ulta-liberal leadership, while at the same time Republicans are running around putting all kinds of effort to rule out even thinking about voting for a possible presidential candidate in a national election because he only shares some of their conservative values.

With attitudes like yours, and few others around here perhaps we need to settle in for another 40...

[flashbunny]

You know why the republicans gained power?

They ran as conservatives. Unapologetic conservatives with an agenda and a plan.

You know why they lost power? They stopped being conservatives and tried to be warm and fuzzy and outspend the liberals. They lost their way.

"With attitudes like yours" - is a great way to hand over power to the liberals.

You just countered yourself in your post: Democrats are running "conservative" candidates. Why is that? Because in most cases, conservatism WINS elections! The problem comes for republicans when they say they're going to be conservative and then end up breaking the promise. Even worse is when they run a liberal republican - look what happened to gerald ford.

So you're saying democrats are running conservatives to win elections, but the solution for republicans is to go more liberal. Do you people even notice the disconnect when you say things like that???

[penowa]

"How many years were Republicans out of power and not able to do anything?

40? More?"

It's possible that you are too young to know why the Republicans were out of power for 40+ yrs. Because they ran Republicans for office that were nothing but "me too Democrats," Bob Michel Republicans, Gerald Ford Republicans, Rudy Giuliani Republicans. If you want to return to the bad old days pre-Reagan, you can go there without my help or my vote and you have no one to blame but yourself when you elect a Democrat president. The great unwashed, dumb as they may be, are able to discern a real Democrat from a wannabee one and will vote accordingly.