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"Where you and I disagree is whether the President has gotten across why the Bush doctrine is important."

He has done a good enough job explaining it to you and me. However, in the face of a hostile media and a soft culture, he has not done a good ENOUGH job. The elections are proof of that. Too few people understood the consequences of dem control. I respect the president and I will keep doing what I can. However, it is hard to be optimistic.

[James Ewell Brown Stuart]

I think it is easy to say However, in the face of a hostile media and a soft culture, he has not done a good ENOUGH job. This elections does not prove your thesis. All I have to do go back to 2002 and 2004 and say that he was just as outspoken then as he was now. He didn't change the message. Your answer is an easy out, an easy blame.

There were many, many reasons why the elections turned out the way they did. There are historical reasons (they can't be discounted), there are political reasons, and there are cultural reasons.

We are doing a lot of scape goating on these threads. Blaming everyone and everybody we can think of - most of the time unjustly.