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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That is the ticket. We must be able to show that we are controlling wasteful spending. The Republicans enlarged government so much that my conservative friends could not tell the difference between Rep's. and Dem's.
it's amazing our defeat wasn't much worse.
Chin up. The Democrats aren't going to suddenly become responsible, centrist, reasoned leaders. They are going to give vent to their true nature, and ordinary Americans aren't going to like what they see. Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, and Leahy are going to go completely ape-excrement, and the Presidential Veto Pen will come out of its sheath.
It's bad, I'll grant you. But not nearly as bad as it could have been.
(steely)
"I want to see which Republicans are going to be willing to pull every parlaimentary trick to be as obstructionist as possible. I want to see which ones are going to be unafraid of being called names by the liberal media."
Newt left Congress many years ago.
I would love to see Congress start meeeting ONLINE....decentralize it.....THAT would help.....if we have to vote "electronically"....so can they.
In general, however, if only 40 % vote in midterms it did come down to turn-out and was a test of true believers, not the general public. They just wanted it more than we did, and I think that is because all we got was "stay the course" in every area.
"Compare how conservatives are reacting this morning to how libs reacted in '00, '02, and '04. The contrast couldn't be more obvious. I'm still proud to be on our side."
So true. The sounds of silence/acceptance from voters who accept the rule of law are deafening.
Every politician hates pork, except their own.
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"This election was about accountability."
Exactly. I don't think these results had much to do with the Dems at all.
Well, it seems to me that the way to win back power is to go find dirt on opponents, exaggerate it or lie about, and pay to have it plaster all over the place.
That's all I saw at work here.
Where I vote we all have been assign a # they don't tell you but look at the book you sign and see the card they give you it has a number along your name in the Book and also the same Number appears on your card along with another number, that relates to the number you are, when voting in the machine!
So why can't that assign # and the # you are when you voting, be you reference to look up on the computer in you district of how you vote was record?
Only you will know and those at the voting place who assign the Number think about it, they have known your # for years who you voted for.
We just want to make sure our vote was recorded accurately!
Also we should all insist for the next election that all have photo ID and be legal!
Yikes! What happens if this "new group" makes them legal with in the two years?
Well, I didn't loose my way.
I'm still a conservative American living in the greatest country ever.
I remember sitting up all night on election day 2004 eating Halloween candy and gloating well into the next day.
This loss doesn't hurt (yet) as bad as that win felt good.
Those who think we've lost our way as a nation might take a look at how many pro life , conservative Democrats won. No, I don't trust any of them but at least people will have a basis to judge them on come next election.
Maybe a lot of people weren't as totally against the war as they were against appeasing the Islamofacsists. I don't know.
But I know that I haven't lost my way. As a matter of fact I'm about to make my way to my favorite trout stream right after posting this. I can do this because I'm a self employed, small business owning, conservative who will find a way to survive and prosper regardless of what happens in Washington and because I ate too much Halloween candy last night and I'm a little sick in my stomach.
"That's because her party won, not her ideology"
No, that's not my point. This was typical of Pelosi and the Dems. Her entire statement was nothing other than pandering to the media because NONE of what she said was true. From this point forward, it will be her way or the highway. Cooperation? Reconsiliation? Non-partisan? Forget it. We will see the most one-sided legislation rammed down our collective throats.
Everything she said was a lie. It's going to get ugly.
I don't think so. I think you'll see a rush by moderate/RINO Republicans to cooperate with Dem's like never before. It bodes well for McCain and Graham... but even better for Hillary.
It's times like these which will seperate the real conservatives from the collaboraters. And thats what we need to call any Republican who tries to appease the Dems and uses "bipartisanship" as an excuse.
Collaboraters.
Now we see who fights.
It's amusing to hear them all talking about "The people being tired of the partisanship in Washington," isn't it?
As if they didn't have a thing to do with it.
These were crucial issues for Conservatives and they passed overwhelmingly.
Another issue that I think won everywhere it was on the ballot was anti-eminent domain laws. If the Republicans were truly the "party of small government" instead of the party of "barely smaller government than the Dems" they would have made that a national issue.
Until the GOP realizes that politics with Democrats is a war, that they have to fight them tooth and nail, on every issue, and treat them like the enemy they are - they'll lose.
Well, nationally the Republican party had targeted 22 races that were crucial races. They won 14 of the 22.
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