I felt your same enthusiasm in the fall of 1994 when the R's captured the House and Senate. Since then, it's been all downhill.
Dubya is merely the latest (and by far the worst) Republican 'conservative' disappointment. The R's have no chance at taking back the Senate, and even if they did, what does today's Republican party stand for?
The "Third Way" of American politics is nearly complete.
And what is the Third Way? Politics for those that eat their young? Canabals for Buchanan? Clones for Browne?