[deannadurbin]

However if she truly wasn’t important to the process she wouldn’t have gotten over 5000 votes and been a spoiler.

Who knows? Maybe the weather was cold up there and once again conservatives sat on their fannies and didn’t get out to help save their country.

[Gondring]

Not singling you out to contradict you, deannadurbin...it's just that your comment makes a good jumping off point for mine, and I want to second what napscoordinator has posted.

Maybe the weather was cold up there and once again conservatives sat on their fannies and didn’t get out to help save their country.

Or maybe, just maybe, conservatives can't take it for granted that the electorate is inherently conservative anymore, and we should expend our effort in getting the message out to voters rather than trying to force the issues against the tide or just pretending that everything is great if we just stay optimistic (though admittedly that latter approach has cut way back after 2008, even though it hadn't after 2006).

But such a suggestion is heresy to many here (thus the origin of my tagline).