Posted on 11/08/2006 4:50:12 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
It wasn't the RINOs. It was cause Republicans didn't show up in the polls and vote.
Yes, Santorum, Allen, Talant and Baucus all lost, El Rushbo. All were pretty good consrevatives.
Allen's mistakes went far beyond an epithet.
And yes, some conservatives went down last night, but so did liberal republicans like Chafee, Leach, etc.
What happened was that there was a general discontent with the Republican congress (which hasn't really been all that conservative), and it manifested itself in districts where the demographics made it possible to happen.
Here in NJ, the Kean for Senate signs contain no obvious references to the party that nominated him. His opponents signs proudly proclaimed "Democrat."
How can anyone possibly win if he is ashamed of his principal supporters?
ML/NJ
I am looking at it as a whole,and individuals races add up to the whole. The whole I see is an incoming House and Senate controlled by 'Rats. Abortion ban rejected in SD. Parental notification rejected. Stem cell research and cloning based on embryo destruction approved. Sure, a few gay marriage initiatives went down, but we're pretty much scraping bottom to find solace in that, kinda like saying, well, my kids still love me.
Look, we're not doing ourselves any favors by kidding ourselves. We did plenty of that leading up to this debacle, starting with the string of losses in the '05 elections. This was a blowout, and if we think it was anything other than that, we're setting ourselves up for a harder fall in '08, and we'll be back here writing each other posts about how "it ain't so bad" that we've got President Hillary or President Obama.
Conservatives now have two years to define themselves.
My guess is that he kooked himself out with that comment to the effect that homosexuals have the right to exist and move about freely in our society, as long as they don't actually have sex (not that there's anything wrong with that).
And what we threw out were some good conservatives who were trying to prevent all of that.
>>Plus, actions speak louder than words, and neither the Senate nor the House did anything to advance smaller government or cut spending.
I've seen a lot of young lefties (leaning left, not moonbat left) hammering the Republicans over spending.
We missed a lot of swing votes over this issue.
You have alot more faith than I do.....I see them defunding the war and we end up with Viet Nam all over again!!
The GOP has become a socialist party, next up, nationlaized healthcare and open borders and Bush will sign both bills.
I think I speak for most all of us here when I say that we can do without that kind of psychic cartography at this juncture.
Republicans lost because they didn't tie Iraq and Terrorism to Conservatism.
Values voters voted Conservative. They just didn't vote for the candidates. What no one is mentioning here is the numbers who went to the polls and the disparity of how many went to the polls compared to how many actually voted for a candidate..
I voted and if there was a candidate I wasn't happy with or didn't know, I didn't vote for them. None were Republicans. However, how many did the same thing I did, voted for the issues, but not the candidate.
There was a protest. It was a no-vote, not a vote for the Democrat. It has always been my contention that if Hitler was running as a Democrat, they would still pull the lever for him because of the "D" next to his name.
Conservative voters do not do this. We lost for the same reason we will lose in 08. If the candidate is not a Conservative, we just won't vote for them because those are our values. We abandoned the Republican party last night because that's what they did to us over the last 6 years.
Now is the time to regroup and start promoting conservative candidates for office over the next couple of cycles. Like Rush said, we are liberated.
Word!
Word!
"The root of the problem, Rush said, is that "our side hungers for ideological leadership"
Yep, there was Newt G., but I guess he was booted out, after HE got the House majority for the GOP!!!
Look at Hasters etc... with these guys you can only scare young voters.
Good points.
'bout sums it up.
And elephant being gored by a rhino, while a donkey looks on and says, "Thanks". (No puns on "gore", please.)
By the way, this is how Hillary wins in '08. She can't beat 40 per cent. That's her ceiling. She'll need a RINO to go the Independence route and siphon 11-12 per cent of the vote.
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