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Call me cynical Al, but I find much of the alleged "need to compromise" to be based on fabricated reasoning. Every time I read that social issues or Terri Schiavo or the electorate moving to the left was the cause of the mid-term defeat I get a bit suspicious.

After all, how could reasonably intelligent people take an election in the midst of a highly unpopular war led by an extraordinarily unpopular president with a GOP controlled congress beset by a variety of scandals and the predominant media acting as the PR wing of the DNC and conclude that it was social issues that hurt the GOP?

I have a theory Al. Those who expound this line of thought do so not because they believe it, but because it furthers their ultimate goal, to expunge those unsophisticated rubes otherwise known as social and Christian conservatives from the Grand Ol' Party. The Christie Whitman "It's My Party Too" wing has been looking for an opportunity to seize back control of the party from the great unwashed for some time now and have concluded that the time is ripe. Think how much nicer it will be for them at all the cocktail parties when they don't have to spend all their time distancing themselves from those awful pro-lifers, I mean for God's sake Al, those people actually stand in front of clinics and pray! Or those NRA people, they own guns! Not just fox hunting guns, but handguns!

Now, maybe I'm cynical, but pushing a pro-abortion, anti-gun, pro-homosexual former mayor of NYC seems like a very good way to marginalize all those "fringy" social conservatives and return the party to the glory days of Rocky and Jerry Ford.

If they (notice I didn't say you, because I'm being nice) succeed you can expect the same results at the voting booth.

Every time I read that social issues or Terri Schiavo or the electorate moving to the left was the cause of the mid-term defeat I get a bit suspicious.

Every time I read someone say the Republicans under George Bush have been advancing the culture of death, I begin to wonder how they arrived at that conclusion. George Bush and the Republican party fought on behalf of Terri but yet they get blamed for her death.

The Republicans swept themselves into the minority, while the Democrats ran on a "vote for us and we'll tell you what we'll do" agenda.

"If they (notice I didn't say you, because I'm being nice) succeed you can expect the same results at the voting booth."

Well that's good because I am a 'fire-eating' conservative, but a pragmatic one with a keen survival instinct.

Remember the joke when Ah-nold ran first: "Arnold to CA GOP: 'Come wit me if you vant to live!'"

Its a similar situation. You don't see that the iceberg we hit in 2006 is just a prelude to THE BIG ONE floating out there in the darkness....and she has vampire teeth out for your blood and mine.

All I am saying to the captain around here is:"Skip, time for a little course correction. Skip?"

P.S. I will respond to the Whitman reference with the same statement I have given since 1990, when she almost upset Bill Bradley: "I would go out on a date with her in a heartbeat - but I'd never vote for her for national office."