[LibLieSlayer]

As an interesting side note... A MAJOR cause for our loss, and one that I hate because it was an obvious setup... was foleygate. No one seems to remember that we were polling ahead of dims in every segment except that of marxism... before that story broke.

That scandal brought back abramoff, who brought back the "culture of corruption"... tied into Delay due to Sekula-Gibbs write in candidacy... Republican Leadership brought into the center of a non-sexual Sex Scandal... dbm harping it non-stop... add that to immigration and spending... and you have the result that is the 2006 mid term election!

LLS

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

vERY ACCURATE. I still fault the Repubs for not doing enough due dilligence on Foley. You can't tell me that they can't get the scoop on their own BEFORE the Dimmies do.!!

[Fishtalk]

A MAJOR cause for our loss, and one that I hate because it was an obvious setup... was foleygate.

Indeed it was and I agree with you that it was a crying shame. Add to it that Haggard thing and hey, I know he wasn't part of the campaign but that guy was a homo and this info got released at the most opportune moment.

Then we have Bob Ney and how long has this guy been on the take and no one in congress knew about it? Oh, and Cunningham had a fine "menu" of legislative items for sale.

Please don't tell me the Dems are much worse. I know they are. But the Dems are so much better at opposition research than the Pubs and by me, it's almost as if the pubbies sat back and figured that so long as the Dems were doing it, they could too. A literal "good old boys" club it became. Abramoff....hey, the pubs need to clean house first, THEN go after the corrupt Dems.

Maybe now that they're a minority party they will. We can hope.