Posted on 11/08/2006 7:51:29 AM PST by tfelice
Election Day 2006 will be remembered as a turning point in American political history. Twenty-five years after the Reagan Administration came to Washington with a conservative agenda of limited government, the American people chose a different course.
It is the duty of the losing party in a free election to humbly accept defeat and to acknowledge that the people are sovereign in the People's House.
As we examine the results of this election, it is imperative that we listen to the American people and learn the right lessons.
Some will argue that we lost our majority because of scandals at home and challenges abroad. I say, we did not just lose our majority, we lost our way.
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Yes. It was not only the Repubs that took a huge defeat last night --- IT WAS AMERICA.
Well said!!
No.
They chose no course.
We lost our way for a long time. This will give the most Reaganesque person in the GOP power.....Mike Pense.
"As we examine the results of this election, it is imperative that we listen to the American people and learn the right lessons."
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Sorry, Mike, but I disagree with you there. Leaders "lead." That's supposed to be the difference between Republicans and Democrats.
Democrats play to the moral and social weaknesses of the public; Republicans are supposed to lead them past those weaknesses, not succumb to them.
Pence for Minority Leader!
(What the heck was wrong with Denny Hastert these last few years? He's the reason we lost as much as anything else.)
think this might be a result of complacency on the part of several repubs?
Mike Pence for House Minority Leader
Tom Coburn for Senate Leader.
"It is the duty of the losing party in a free election to humbly accept defeat and to acknowledge that the people are sovereign in the People's House."
As Democrats have clearly shown, that concept of "Civility" ended in 2000....
This is POLITICS, you only WIN when you can drive the agenda, and we have allowed the Democrats and thier Islamofascist allies to drive the media agenda for far too long...
Washington corrupts even the most idealistic politicians, that's why we need term limits. This was the "six year itch" biting us in the a$$. When you are the governing party, ideological purity goes out the window. The minority party can be as ideologically pure as they want.
Now it's the Rats turn. What are they going to do with all of those faux-conservative Rats that tricked people into voting for them? The Rat leadership knows how to handle the dissidents in their party, unlike the GOP leadership.
We didn't lose anything.
You really have to listen to the people.
The majority voted for anti-abortion legislation
The majority voted for Marriage between a man and a woman
These were crucial issues for Conservatives and they passed overwhelmingly.
People were fed anti-Bush propaganda for six years and that is why congress changed hands. It wasn't because of our values.
Think about it. If it was about liberalism, these measures would have been also shot down. The Dems were right. It was a referendum on Bush and the people spoke.
The Republicans blew it because they're no longer fiscal conservatives. They've become liberal spenders who just want to bring home the pork. Hate to say it, but it's true.
...which starts by listening...
think this might be a result of complacency on the part of several repubs?
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Several?? You are being very kind.
These mid-term elections were exactly that: mid-terms. Just like in college.
More specifically, a report card. And the American people have clearly given President Bush and the Republicans an "F" in Iraq at the mid-term grading period, based on what has happened so far this semester. No sense sugar-coating the truth.
The Democrats understood that, and made the President's performance in Iraq to date the focal point of the election - not their own alternative "Way Ahead" on Iraq and the War on Terror. The fact is, they don't have one. And for the purposes of the mid-terms, they didn't need one.
But the American people do not want their Government to flunk Iraq. They understand that the stakes are too high to allow a vacuum to be filled by the likes of Syria, Iran, and their Islamofascist radicals as a terrorist haven. Will the Democrats blame Bush for getting us into that predicament? Absolutely, but at some point, I believe the American people are smart enough to realize the "Blame Game", in and of itself, will not be enough to take forward as a strategy to the White House in 2008.
Just as fighting and winning the Vietnam War was not an end, in and of itself, but a means to an end. Once we identified the real threat to the world, and elected a President with the will to define it as the Evil Empire it was, and focused on stopping the expansion of that Communist agression around the entire world, we won the Vietnam War.
There is still hope we hold on to the Senate, although the Dems hold small leads in the remaining two races. We just need to pull one rabit out of the hat there. Perhaps recounts or absentee ballots can change those very tight races.
Total wipeout. We must face the music. We are grownups. Too many corrupt hypocrites, and a President unwilling to tell the American people the truth about the war for survival that we are fighting.
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