[fieldmarshaldj]

Check my post in the MS thread. Virtually every Republican Senate incumbent and open seat is imperiled. This could be like 1958 all over again. It took 22 years to recover from those losses.

[Clintonfatigued]

That’s a scary thought. I’m not thrilled with John McCain, but he’s seen as not a continuation of Bush/Cheney, and the GOP needs to capitalize on that.

[LS]

I think you're right, and I came around to this position last year. It's all over the map, too, because no one can possibly say that "conservatism wins every time," when we had Blackwell, DeWine, Burns, Hayworth, Santorum, and Allen all lose; or that "the Republicans need to be more 'moderate,'" when a boatload of moderates lost.

I don't know what the solution is, except that the GOP desperately needs an identity, and since the Dems have their, we would be wise to not be them. Take that identity, take those core values, and then begin fighting for them---not just cloaking them in Dem terms like Gingrich and McCain do ("we believe in Global Warming but we want to do it right").

Now, in the short term, yes, we might lose some. We're likely going to lose some anyway, so you might as well be RIGHT, then later you can, like Churchill, Reagan, and Thatcher, point to how right you were and earn the trust of the public.