You make some great points. I don’t want the “Tea Party” movement, or the Conservative movement, to make heroes out of the politically abused. I want us to make SMART choices, as well as conservative ones. I think we can go forward and use what we have learned here in the future, I hope the GOP has learned as well. We can have good, electable candidates that ARE conservative as well, we shouldn’t have to settle. The next elections may not be as “easy” for Republicans as this one was, with this historic wave. We have to be smart.
The key phrase.
If we lower our standards, we have no business bitching about the left's pandering to the laziest impulses in our citizens.
We have tons of talent and the best ideas. We have the luxury of being choosy, or will if we make the party welcome to the best of our nation's people. What a message to send to the country--we're the party of the best, and look at our candidates for proof of that.
What can the party of Barney Frank and the community organizer put up against that? Nothing but fear and pandering.