[SmoothTalker]

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Yep, biggest blunder of the year was those who believed that average Republican supporters would continue walking behind blindly as Republican leaders marched off the proverbial cliff."

Very true. Republicans missed a lot of opportunities in the last six years. Spending was out of control, oversight was lax, nothing was done about the borders and the base was poked in the eye many times. The party was arrogant enough to believe that they could continue to win not by pointing to a stellar record but to pointing to the Dems and saying that "the other guys are worse." Are they worse? Sure, but it is hard to get people excited about voting for your guy when you can't give them a better reason than that and have no coherent message. The few elections before this we had a more unified message and ran a smarter campaign.

[skinkinthegrass]

Very true. Republicans missed a lot of opportunities in the last six years.that "the other guys are worse." Are they worse? Sure, but it is hard to get people excited about voting for your guy when you can't give them a better reason than that and have no coherent message...

no real reason to comment....Pogo had said it, "We have meet the enemy, they are us" :/

[Ronin]

Your post -- ditto!

[KC_Conspirator]

Yep, biggest blunder of the year was those who believed that average Republican supporters would continue walking behind blindly as Republican leaders marched off the proverbial cliff." Very true. Republicans missed a lot of opportunities in the last six years. Spending was out of control, oversight was lax, nothing was done about the borders and the base was poked in the eye many times. The party was arrogant enough to believe that they could continue to win not by pointing to a stellar record but to pointing to the Dems and saying that "the other guys are worse." Are they worse?

I would add some more to that, but that is pretty much the jist of it. Thats what precisely Rove and the leadership thought - they would just try to point to the democrats and say "the other guys are worse". What a bad, bad, strategy.