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[LibLieSlayer]

If the Republican party returned to just the center it would require a HARD RIGHT TURN!

LLS

[DBCJR]

That’s what the “Right” needs, consultation from the Post. NOT!!!!!!!!!!!

We need a message, and to get on it. WWRD?

[WellyP]

We screwed up and got punished. Now we have two clear choices, We can listed to NEWT and rebuild a political machine that can win or we can live in the past with our heads in the sand (or other places) and lose.

[Perdogg]

The GOP needs to get rid of homos like Rich Lowry.

[cripplecreek]

Sick of wandering in the wilderness?

Jump off a cliff.

[Bahbah]

Chipmonk Cheeks Lowry can just shut up, for all I’m concerned.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

I had respect for Lowry because of his conservative leanings, but he apparently has gone so far left that a move to the right would make him a moderate.

[SumProVita]

“The Right Needs to Get Centered”

Translation: Give up your principles, Conservatives.

[richardtavor]

Turning to the left was their demise, they need to become conservative again..Interesting that wapo is giving advice when they barely can printer their newspapers—I hope they go down totally..

[counterpunch]

John Boner's 'leadership' in the House played a huge roll in the GOP's defeat on Tuesday.
Since taking over the House GOP Leader position from Tom DeLay on February 3, 2006, Boner has over seen a 20% loss in Republican members in the House. This has been an historic loss in under three years.

Such a dramatic partisan switch has not been seen since the Republican Revolution of 1994, and has not happened to the GOP since the election of 1948.

Consider this. Under Boner's 'leadership' of the past 33 months, Republicans have had a 20% decline in the House. That means that the stock market has actually been a more sound investment than John Boner over the last couple years.

It is absolutely insane that the Republicans would keep John Boner in a leadership position after two back to back historic defeats. We must STOP THE INSANITY! Now!

The American people stopped trusting Republicans, because under the 'leadership' of Boner the GOP has had no ideas, no vision, no principles, no direction, no leadership, and no ethics. Neither the facts nor the perceptions will change so long as John Boner remains House Minority Leader.

Boner has been soft on earmarks, soft on ethics. He opposed the earmark moratorium and refused to call for Ney's resignation. He supported the bailout. He's looked the other way on both ethics and spending, and because of this, Republicans are now lost in the wilderness. The man who lead the GOP into the wilderness is not the man to lead them out.

Everyone must contact their nearest Republican representative and demand they push John Boner aside for Mike Pence!
 

[itsahoot]

Another temptation will be to blame John McCain: He was a maverick and not a conservative, and if only one of the faithful had run, Republicans would have been spared this defeat.

This is a fantasy. It's hard to imagine any Republican running ahead of McCain this year. Besides, even if no one ever mistook him for an emblem of modern conservatism, McCain's campaign nonetheless reflected some of its failings.

Aw shucks, Little Richie is afraid he won't get invited to the parties.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Put a real conservative on the ballot and WIN!

[ChicagahAl]

“conservatism has no clear national political leaders:

It’s difficult to argue with that, at this point.

“The question is how to appeal to the center again.”

Wrong. The question is, when will the Republican party stop trying to appeal to the center, and once again try to appeal to conservatives?

[Natural Law]

Tuesday’s election was not a failure of the right, it was a validation of the right. The American people rejected the squishy middle.

[Onelifetogive]

The president the public recoiled from has had the strong support of conservatives...

Thought, what the hey? I might learn something. Stopped at this point.

[truthguy]

I love all this Monday morning analysis that we have seen seeing in these blogs. Some of it is accurate to a degree. I don't think the American public is smart enough to punish a party for corruption because of some of the scandals. There will be scandals as long as there are politicians.
Here's my take on why McCain lost. I think it's a valid as any of the professionals.

1) Economy is bad. Yes most of the knuckle-draggers out there will blame the economy on the party in power. Or who is in the White House. It's strange that they never seem to take it out on Congress with the possible exception of 1994.
Most people are completely ignorant on economics. They have never studied economics in any manner. The rise in gas prices and the financial meltdown had specific causes that aren't the fault of Bush but the public or a large share of the public blamed it on him.

2) The War in Iraq- yes most of us know that things are much better in Iraq. The “Surge” advocated by McCain and fought against by Obama worked. The fact that Obama was completely wrong didn't impact the voting at all.

3 )McCain was a very weak candidate to begin with. McCain was a candidate because of the stupidity of the Republican Primaries. The way Republicans arranged their primaries allowed McCain to win despite the fact the 2/3 of the Republicans didn't want him. This was a recipe for disaster. NO MORE OPEN PRIMARIES.

4) AGE. McCain was foolish to run at his age. This worked against him with the much younger Obama. As for me I had no problem with his age but I a lot smarter than the average American.

5)MSM wanted Obama to win and did everything in their power to make him look good and McCain bad. We have got to figure out a way to deal with this. It has been a problem for a very long time but now it's so bad that they didn't even try to hide their bias. Oh how I hate the MSM.

6)Stupidity of American Public. Americans have been getting dumber for the past 40 years or more. A fraud and charlatan like Obama could never have been elected until very recently. Let's be honest. The average American is as dumb as a box of rocks. I've confirmed this myself by doing my own little nonscientific surveys.

7)Third World Immigration. The change in the immigration policies sine 1965 has resulted in a massive wave of poor people from around the world coming to the US. These people WILL vote Democratic because it is in their nature to want “goodies” from government. Just because you are fleeing tyranny and oppression or you are looking for a better life doesn't mean that you know what it takes to be a citizen of a democratic republic.

[right way right]

The biggest problem as far as Conservatism goes is that there is not much left to conserve.

Our Government is Niagara Falls and we are trying to paddle a canoe up it and shut off the spigot!

Massive opportunities have been blown!

Now there will be a period of suffering.

After suffering will come a need.

Question is how much and in what ways will we suffer? And, what will we need to do?

[aimhigh]

We just didn’t get our message out. Isn’t that the line that the Dems always use?

[annieokie]

This report is just BS, This election was about having the first black man in office, PERIOD. Very little of what this article states mattered to the masses for O, as they are simply too ignorant to fully understand currant events. Anyone think the Katrina victims can think for themselves????? Enough said.