[goldstategop]

I think with a lot of the country turning Blue... we'll be out for a generation. I don't think we will see another Republican President elected again my lifetime. Ditto with Congress. The GOP is in a shambles and the conservative movement has hit rock bottom.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[ubaldus]

things will turn. The Dens will now own the shop, and things will not go smoothly for them all the time.

2010 will be tough - we may lose another 3-4 Senate seats, but the House survivors will probably hang on. If the economy does not completely stink in 2011-2012, Obama will get reelected.

But 2012, 2014, 2016 cycles should be favorable for us, with Dems defending all their gains from 2006-2010. Perhaps the GOP will have to refashion itself (like the Tories in the UK), but it will be back.

[rwfromkansas]

I wouldn’t go that far. We will be in the woodshed for awhile, but it only took the Dems six years to take back everything.

Back in 2002, we thought the Dems wouldn’t be back in power for ages to come.

Politics changes a lot, and despite demographic changes, most voters are fickle.

We will be back.