I have also participated in the political process as a volunteer, writing letters to the editor, etc. I am a retired bureaucrat who worked in the USG for 36 years as a naval officer [8 years] and a diplomat [28 years]. I am very concerned about the future of our country and the impact a Dem controlled government will have on me and my family. We are in for a long, hard struggle and I am under no illusions that we will get back the House any time soon. I will certainly not sit back and tend to my own garden while the country is going to hell in a handbasket.
I assumed as much about your devotion, and that describes a good many people here. My first post to you was sort of sarcastic and perhaps a little rude, but I genuinely noticed a huge amount of discouragement and pessimism in your statements and I'm horrified at the thought of people giving up in disgust and leaving the Democrats to perpetrate their version of socialism on America relatively unopposed.
We "conservatives" didn't really have much to vote FOR yesterday in too many races and had to resort to voting AGAINST the democrats something the left is comfortable doing, but which we aren't very good at. I hope a similar choice is not presented to us again in 08.