Oh, cut me a friggin' break.
The GOP spent money like druken sailors, cavorted with K-street lobbyists, and come September of this year, all they could run on was that they weren't as bad as Democrats, but the GOPalogists point to a principled stand against illegal immigration as the reason they lost? This is the biggest bunch of hooey I've seen since Bill Clinton claim he didn't diddle the intern.
And the democrats are going to be miserly with the Fed. budget.
If anything the democrats will be miserly with tax cuts, but will be like drunken sailors with tax hikes.
None of that caused this as much as those demos. They fired up the Pro-illegals and undermined the GOP support.
No other reason a party defending the nation and growing the economy would have been rejected by rational people. The Hysteria here was incredible as you well know since you were fanning the flames with both hands.