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I know some people will be mad about my statement, but I personally think that the republicans should drop abortion off the national platform.

I think they should take a really strong stand against illegal immigration and they should take a strong stand for border security.

They also need a few issues that will really galvanize middle class America.

I have to agree with you....ya know...i'm not all that disheartened tonight....i hope FR doesn't get hysterical and implode....gridlock is on its way and the pubs may pull a pair out of the safe they've been keeping them in for the last few years, tie them back on and actually give the dems hell like they did up until about 1998.

I think they should take a really strong stand against illegal immigration and they should take a strong stand for border security.

They also need a few issues that will really galvanize middle class America.

They had the chance, wish we could get some REAL conservatives
in the leadership- oops- too late..

I know some people will be mad about my statement, but I personally think that the republicans should drop abortion off the national platform.

Why? The Dims only won by fielding candidates that are pro-life. And pro-gun too. If these new senators and congresscritters were pro-choice gungrabbers, they couldn't have got elected. And they know it.

That doesn't evaporate overnight, even in Washington. They also know how fickle their voters are because many of thes new Dims defeated very fine GOP congresscritters to get elected, Republicans who actually did a good job for their districts and who were only beat because the voters were restless.

The Dims have a majority. But they have now become a 'big-tent' party. IOW, we'll see some revival of the old conservative southern Democrats. Those folks never did like the "northeastern liberal" segment of their party, no more than we conservative like our northeastern liberal segment. But to be a national party with a majority, you have to compete in those states and therefore the big tent.

It's not time to just abandon decades of pro-life (or pro-gun) policy. Especially when the opposition has completely caved on the issue. Nationally, we have won both those issues permanently and the Dims know it.