[FreeReign]

From what I can see, Rush ain't wrong!

Rush said this:

"The Democrats could not have won the House, being liberals,” Rush said. "Liberalism didn’t win anything yesterday; Republicanism lost. Conservatism was nowhere to be found except on the Democratic side.”

Rush thinks that conservatism is found on the Democratic side. I think Rush couldn't be more wrong.

[srmorton]

He did not mean that the Dems as a whole are REALLY conservative. He meant that they recruited conservative candidates to run against Republicans in marginal districts. At least, their candidates sounded conservative enough so that conservative Democrats and (alas) many Republicans felt comfortable voting for them.

[TChad]

Rush thinks that conservatism is found on the Democratic side. I think Rush couldn't be more wrong.

He just meant that the Dems followed Pelosi's strategy to achieve a Dem majority by running moderates (e.g. Jim Webb) instead of true liberals in key states.

As Thomas Sowell wrote Tuesday,

Democrats have learned to avoid admitting to being liberals and this year are running a number of moderate candidates. If these new moderate candidates are elected and give the Democrats control of Congress, that control will be exercised by senior Democrats who will hold leadership positions -- and all of them are liberal extremists, whether people like Nancy Pelosi in the House or Ted Kennedy and John Kerry in the Senate.

Getting people to vote for moderates, in order to put extremists in power, may be the newest and biggest voter fraud

It worked in Virginia...

[kuma]

***Rush thinks that conservatism is found on the Democratic side. I think Rush couldn't be more wrong.***

You pay attention enough to know that but a great deal of the electorate does not. So in the sense that they claimed conservative credentials (pro-life, pro-gun) Rush is right.