[ClearCase_guy]

The two big topics are always economic and social. The Republicans have clearly dropped the ball on economic issues and they now spend money like drunken sailors.

Perhaps they seek to make up for this lapse by becoming much looser on social issues, and adopting an "anything goes" approach.

Yeah. That will help.

[Mr. Blonde]

I think these wrap-ups of the election are only partially right.

They blame social conservatism because the Republicans lost running on it. They forget that social conservatism was all they could run on. Certainly, running on economic conservatism would have been a joke after the last 8 years.

It isn’t that social conservatism is bad, just that it isn’t enough to win elections alone. It takes the whole conservative package.

[Retired COB]

The Republicans have clearly dropped the ball on economic issues and they now spend money like drunken sailors.

PLEASE....As a drunken sailor of vast experience, I resent being compared with these vile Congress Critters. At least I was spending my own money, not the taxpayers!