O.k. So he was two-four years ahead in his warning. Maybe he saw the writing on the wall...maybe.
“O.k. So he was two-four years ahead in his warning. Maybe he saw the writing on the wall...maybe.”
Could be.
But in American politics, two years is a long time, and four years is nearly eternal.
A more likely explanation is that the Republicans didn't do the CONSERVATIVE things for which they were elected, and folks gave up on them and figured, what the heck? We'll try the other brand, now.
At the end of that stretch of Republican congressional dominance, the Republicans had become just as big spenders as the Democrats. They didn't lose elections in 2006 and 2008 because they'd reined in spending, or defended marriage from the homosexuals, or anything else.
They lost those elections because they'd run out of gas as conservatives, and folks couldn't readily tell the difference between them and the Democrats. And folks decided to elect the real thing rather than the plastic copy.
After folks saw the difference between even the broken-down, barely-conservative Republicans and the spend-on-anything, regulate-anything, control-every-aspect-of-everyone's-lives Democrats, folks voted for the more conservative alternative in 2010.
In record-breaking numbers.
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