We did have a few in ‘06 who were convinced that the Senate should have “gone nuclear” over judges and spending and argued and fought to convince the rest of us into voting 3rd party, not voting, or actually voting for the socialists in order to “teach them a lesson,” “save the Republican Party,” “kill the Republican party once for all,” etc.
That worked spectacularly, didn’t it? Someone forgot to tell Pelosi, Reid and the media that it did not mean a mandate against the war. We never heard that the low turn out was due to the fact that the Republicans were not conservative. All we heard about was the Democratic mandate for whatever they wanted the mandate to be about.
Remember that the Dems said that Bush won the first time on “moral” issues. Notice that abortion and stem cells aren’t brought up much by the Dems.