Posted on 11/08/2006 11:54:25 AM PST by Ol' Sparky
Conservatism didn't lose if you were not reading any posts. Dems had to run as such to get elected. Liberal ideas, the war notwithstanding here in California lost out. We stopped massive oil taxes and tobacco taxes that would drive a pack of cigarettes to nearly 7 bucks a pack. Republican complacency was the idea behind this thread and that was my point. Conservatism lost because virtually no candidates embraced this. If Reps had been harder about immigration, the war issue could have been a lesser issue. I believe the war was the right thing to do and I still do, but no conservatives voiced this as there were none running to be found, hence a party lost, not an ideology.
Kind of a low blow from Rush. No Republican candidate turned me off as much as Rush when he gets into a cronyism groove: "I know Don Rumsfeld. I like Don Rumsfeld. Don Rumsfeld's a nice guy." etc. Rush, we needed to win over the people who weren't so crazy about Rummy.
Ah yes, the elephant in the room that nobody wants to admit.
America seems to be moving back to the center---and the extremes of BOTH parties should better start paying attention.
btt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1734745/posts
Point number 3 in the 3 things Republicans learned last night according to Mehlman.
Perhaps you could elucidate on what issues the Republican party need to "moderate" on in order to avoid these conservative defeats.
Good point about RINOs, they do serve a purpose. Anybody doubting that need look no further than AZ8, RINO Kolbe retired and the hard right GOP lost to the lefty Dem. Now I'm not sure the GOP could have gotten somebody RINO enough to replace Kolbe, but they certianly would have had a better chance than they got with a non-RINO.
Can't blame the Libertarians though. The job of a candidate is to get the votes, successful politicians pull in those non-hardliners (like Reagan did with the Libertarians), for the same reason that RINOs are occassionally necessary too.
"Scott McClellan should have never been hired for such a visible position. There had to be someone other than Ari Fleischer or Tony Snow who could present a cogent counterpoint to the MSM and not just stand there like a punching bag."
I got that impression as well. He just stood there and took it and 'well, yes, well' them (the lib media) until he just looked like THEY WERE RIGHT with their badgering because he didn't offer any counterpoints!
A whole new breed of Conservatives like Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, etc. is needed for the R's survival in power position!!!
I wouldn't say that. Many of the democrat candidates were running as conservative democrats. Hell, in some cases they were MORE conservative than the republican candidates!
Conservative America hasn't, but the Repubilcan congress did for a decade.
Doubling the Dept of Educations budget?
Bridge to Nowhere
A Toilet Museum!
The list goes on and on and on and on.
95% or more of the Bush administration and the GOP congress has NOT been conservative in any way, shape, or form.
Bravo! Blackbird.
I agree with you about the press. One of their guys estimated that the press is worth about 10 percent to Dems, and that sounds about right. But it is a fact of life, like the sun coming up. You can complain that the sun blinded you when you looked at it, or you can wear sunglasses. And the GOP failed to don sunglasses.
Maybe he was trying to stave off FBI raids on more and more congressional offices because of the rampant corruption.
This is true...........LOL.
Exactly, methinks the raid hit a little too close to home for Hastert's sake.
He lost because of the same hate machine that has been targeting W since 2000. They succeeded this time.
Sure makes more sense to take that approach...'cause telling conservatives to "hold their noses" and vote for pro-abortion, anti-Second Amendment, pro-amnesty, pro-gay-marriage liberals sure ain't cuttin' it, now is it?
Ack-pfft!
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