[OldFriend]

The same folks who thought it would be a good idea to punish the President and the republicans in the mid term elections will be bragging about their power when the democrats take over the white house.

After all, it was said that it didn’t matter if the dems took over the senate because both parties were the same anyway.

That logic sure showed our troops and our allies, didn’t it?

That pretense of supporting the troops is no different than the dems insisting ‘they’ support the troops.

[Hawk1976]

So it is perfectly acceptable to completely and totally ignore the electorate (notice not necessarily just your base) and not expect to take a hit, then yes the Republicans didn’t deserve to lose. Viewed from the perspective that a national political party should actually listen to what the public tries to tell them, the Republicans got what they deserved served up in Spades.

The Republicans originally went to Washington, D.C. as a small government, anti-welfare, pro-defence, free market party. In 2006 they went to the polls looking like a corrupt, big government, scandalized, pro-illegal, pro China, pro mega corporation party. Much of this view was deserved.

Demmocrats had nothing in 2004 and 2006. Neither did the Republicans really, and it finally caught up to them in 2006. The Republicans have no one at all to blame but themselves. They haven’t learned a thing, unfortunately.

[Bob J]

“That logic sure showed our troops and our allies, didn’t it? That pretense of supporting the troops is no different than the dems insisting ‘they’ support the troops.”

Nail -—> Head