Yes. It was not only the Repubs that took a huge defeat last night --- IT WAS AMERICA.
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.)
"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.
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.
It was the Republicans who chose a different course from limited government. This election was about accountability. The scare tactic of voting for the lesser of two evils did not resonate. To many conservatives, gridlock is better than what we have had over the last few years. The Republicans better hear the message loud and clear and get their house in order by 2008 because a Dem controlled Congress and executive branch would be a true disaster.
Don't start fitting your wives and daughters for burkhas just yet. Our country survived Carter and Clinton, and, God willing, we will also survive the coming debacle.
Of course, the good news is that Nancy Pelosi said today that she is not interested in partisan bickering. She will fight to bring both parties together for the good of the country. Now is the time to put out differences behind us and move forward, blah, blah, blah....
(Sarcasm/off)
November seventh in the year aught six. A day of infamy.
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)
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.
"Twenty-five years after the Reagan Administration came to Washington with a conservative agenda of limited government, the American people chose a different course."
Limited government? Have you been paying attention? That ship sailed a long time ago.
I think we have just voted ourselves into sodom and gomorrah.b'shem Y'shuaL-rd come quickly !
Yeah. It will be remembered as the second time in a generation that America stabbed the troops in the back.
Anyone got any ideas for an Iraq War memorial? It'd look really nice right next to the Wall...