[Gondring]

Four bright FReepers wrote:

• I'm becoming convinced that the GOP operates better when they are the minority party.
• Six basically wasted years; six years of missed opportunities.
• The "moderate" Republicans are especially clueless. They are playing checkers while the Marxists are playing chess.
• The first six years of GWB with a GOP Congress gave us... [depressing list snipped]

The GOP used to have a strong philosophy of smaller, limited government. I see the abandonment of this principle as the biggest problem with the GOP today. "Compassionate Conservatism" has turned out to be "Nanny-State Socialism."

Of course, Always Right is correct in pointing out...

Gridlock is better than the crap that went on when the GOP was in the majority.

Somehow, though, I don't want to hope for a GOP minority...I'd rather a re-energized conservative GOP, one that fights against neoconsocialism and returns us to a government that does what it needs to do or should do, not what it can or could do.

wolfpat pointed out:
I think we all are [annoyed at GOP majority lack of progress], and that's why in 2006 enough people voted with their butts to let the RATS in.

Do we think that the GOP got the right message from it all? At what point do we stop believing the "I'm conservative" mantra that is often unfulfilled once the candidate gets into office?

[samtheman]

Good post, Gondring. If only we could get as organized and energized behind a good conservative candidate (there are only 2, Hunter and Thompson) as we did to stop the MexicoAnnexationOfAmerica bill pushed by McCain, Kennedy and Bush.

If only.