Jeb Bradley, Charlie Bass, Nancy Johnson, Rob Simmons, Lincoln Chafee, Mike DeWine and many others that I wouldn't call conservatives lost too.
It's not a left shift. It's an anti-Republican shift.
Everyone, right/left/middle is sick of the GOP for their own unique reasons.
The GOP overestimated the power of pork and incumbency combined with what's going on in Iraq.
Then again, we lost many "true conservatives", people like Rick Santorum, George Allen, Conrad Burns, John Hostettler, Jim Talent, J. D. Hayworth, and now Henry Bonilla. We're not doing ourselves any favors if we live in denial, writing ourselves notes that we didn't really "lose" anything, just like we did before the election when the polls were telling us what was going on but we all "knew" they "just had" to be wrong. If we're going to bounce back from this disaster we're going to have to start with seeing like it is and telling it like it is, and get focused on coming up with a winning strategy for '08, or we'll be writing posts to each other then about how it isn't so bad that we're looking at inaugurating President Hillary or President Obama in a few months.