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Wow. What a really, really, really, really disappointing night. I'm young and have only paid attention to politics for the past couple of years, so this is the first big defeat I've ever experienced. The worst part of all will be the gloating of liberals. I couldn't resist my curiousity to take a dip in Dummieland just now to see what they were saying. Of course, they are overjoyed and I suppose they've earned the right to be. I wonder what sort of Dummie Funnies PJ-Comix is going to be posting over the next week, to lift our spirits... But, you know, our circa 2004 fantasies about permanent conservative Republican takeover and the destruction of the Democrats were probably just a tad optimistic. So no worries; they'll swing to right again eventually and, no, I don't believe the doomsayers' prognostications that Pelosi and Bush will manage to import 50+ million Dem voters from Mexico and install the communistic, atheistic One World Government. Historically, things have been going back and forth for decades and decades, but the general trend has been a growing conservative political movement to counter the Left. The new media is on our side, demographics are on our side, truth is on our side! The USA will shift to Right again; indeed, it already is: this midterm was only lost through a combination of MSM anti-war propaganda, the administration's inability to communicate it's agenda, endles squooshiness and RINO botch-ups from the Congressional leadership, scandals real and manufactured, and the fact that the King of the Hill is always most in peril. And, even then the Democrats still thought it best to throw up a bunch of moderate or supposedly moderate "blue dog" type candidates to lure the middle to their side. But who knows what the next two years holds? It will be entertaining anway; you can bet on that. We can still pray that the we hold on to the Senate by the skin of our teeth. I hope and hope for that especially because of the Judiciary, but even if worst comes to worst and Bush is forced to throw up an O'Connor type to replace Stevens it's still not the end of the world. It will just maintain the status quo and take some time longer to get a majority in the Supreme Court --if America survived the Borking of Bork, it can survive that. In any case, the state of the government is still the symptom of the state of American society. What matters most isn't elections, it's what's going on at the grass roots. It's reforming the culture from the bottom up. I still wager that the future will go to the conservative Christians, the homeschoolers, the entrepreneurs, and the exurbanites. They are the ones with the dynamism and vitality to inherit our civilization, not a bunch of old hippies, their starry-eyed, over-pierced acolytes, and their perpetual victim groups. So we can and shall and ought to be disappointed, but we must never despair!

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Wow. What a really, really, really, really disappointing night. I'm young and have only paid attention to politics for the past couple of years, so this is the first big defeat I've ever experienced. The worst part of all will be the gloating of liberals. I couldn't resist my curiousity to take a dip in Dummieland just now to see what they were saying. Of course, they are overjoyed and I suppose they've earned the right to be. I wonder what sort of Dummie Funnies PJ-Comix is going to be posting over the next week, to lift our spirits...

But, you know, our circa 2004 fantasies about permanent conservative Republican takeover and the destruction of the Democrats were probably just a tad optimistic. So no worries; they'll swing to right again eventually and, no, I don't believe the doomsayers' prognostications that Pelosi and Bush will manage to import 50+ million Dem voters from Mexico and install the communistic, atheistic One World Government.

Historically, things have been going back and forth for decades and decades, but the general trend has been a growing conservative political movement to counter the Left. The new media is on our side, demographics are on our side, truth is on our side! The USA will shift to Right again; indeed, it already is: this midterm was only lost through a combination of MSM anti-war propaganda, the administration's inability to communicate it's agenda, endles squooshiness and RINO botch-ups from the Congressional leadership, scandals real and manufactured, and the fact that the King of the Hill is always most in peril. And, even then the Democrats still thought it best to throw up a bunch of moderate or supposedly moderate "blue dog" type candidates to lure the middle to their side. But who knows what the next two years holds? It will be entertaining anway; you can bet on that.

We can still pray that the we hold on to the Senate by the skin of our teeth. I hope and hope for that especially because of the Judiciary, but even if worst comes to worst and Bush is forced to throw up an O'Connor type to replace Stevens it's still not the end of the world. It will just maintain the status quo and take some time longer to get a majority in the Supreme Court --if America survived the Borking of Bork, it can survive that.

In any case, the state of the government is still the symptom of the state of American society. What matters most isn't elections, it's what's going on at the grass roots. It's reforming the culture from the bottom up. I still wager that the future will go to the conservative Christians, the homeschoolers, the entrepreneurs, and the exurbanites. They are the ones with the dynamism and vitality to inherit our civilization, not a bunch of old hippies, their starry-eyed, over-pierced acolytes, and their perpetual victim groups. So we can and shall and ought to be disappointed, but we must never despair!

Your words are very wise. I am in quite the same position as you, being young and counting tonight as the first big political defeat - except I had to suffer through Her Highness claiming victory in 2000's Senate race! That was unpleasant. But given all the unlikeliness of our historic wins in 2000, 2002, and 2004, it was all but inevitable to run out of steam eventually. The biggest shame is that we could not get past Iraq and, IMO, pretty much squandered the last two years of political capital (except for the Supreme Court nominations - that was damn good). But you are right, there is only the future to look to, and we only damn ourselves by doing otherwise.