More correctly what explains the shift of the Senate back to Democrat control after the 1986 election did not have to do with amnesty voters, but conservative voter apathy and failure to vote. Fat, dumb, and happy from the prosperous Reagan tax cuts, and a sense of well-being at <$1/gallon gas, conservatives got lazy and self-assured all at the same time.
Conservative apathy abandoned Reagan right at the peak of his success, just like some on FR would have us do for Bush. Such conservatives fail to see the big picture and like spoiled little kids who don't get their way IMMEDIATELY, they pick up their marbles and go home in a self-righteous huff. Then they'll pretend to impress us all here with how they vote their "conscience," even if it happens to result in Democrat victory.
Here's what voting their self-righteousness got us:
I'll just continue to thank every last one of them for the Iran-Contra investigations (1987), Reagan's subsequent inability to get Bork on the SC (1987), Bush 41 forced to compromise the No tax Pledge with a HOSTILE Congress (1990), the DEM. Senate Maj. leader Mitchell-delaying-Capital-gains-Tax-reduction-induced recession of 1991, and lastly the 8 subsequent years of the Clinton presidency which began with conservative abandonment to Perot or not voting for Bush (1992). Big thanks to the lot of you!
I hope you are all proud of yourselves and congratulating yourselves on your personal efforts to promote morality at the ballot box.
Constitution Party = founded by Howard Philips and a pack of digruntled John Birchers. The same Howie Philips who called Reagan a "useful idiot" on Crossfire following the Rekjavik summit where Gorby blinked and the USSR was dead 3 years later. Oh yeah. THAT guy.
Shame be upon you.How dare you point out reality for the True and the Pious conservatives, you know the ones spouting pap from DNC talking points, the ones who are thinking Wesley Clark might be their savior, the ones who would not be satisfied if Bush walked on water, having just cured cancer and strangled Bin Rotten .How dare you, sir, even suggest their newest messiah might be a crapweasel,You might damage the fragility of such delicately superior beings, so high on the evolutionary scale they look up to toasters.
Really> CONSERVATIVES did that?
I think you are blowing smoke.