“So now, when Conservatives (I mean the REAL ones) aren’t showing up, it is somehow going to be our fault once again. You made your bed. Now go lie in it.”
Real conservatives understand that in order to govern, in order to get your ideas into action where people can see that they work - instead of a mere philosophical discussion - you have to get elected.
I don’t know and never did “blame conservatives” for 2006.
I do blame GOP members who call themselves conservatives, as I am, who thought they would punish someone in the GOP for not being conservative enough - and helped give us Pelosi and Reid. I don’t call that a “conservative” accomplishment, no matter what I think of RINOS, whom I can’t stand.
Sorry, but as a Conservative, in the Bill Buckley tradition, starting out in Young Americans for Freedom, I will take the 200-2005 “compassionate ‘conservative’” GOP led Senate that confirmed Roberts and Alito, and yes, be glad I worked for the GOP members to be able to do that. I didn’t have to reject that leadership because they might have started-out willing to accept Meires. I could work with them and they could see we were right. Some that came our way were RINOS. None were Democrats. So, you can work with no one, because your not there, or you can work as a conservative who is there.
It is not a matter of punishment. Conservatives vote for Conservatives. That is not going to change. To be in power, the Republicans must serve honorably, and Conservatively... Else, they will cease to be in power. It is that simple.