Re: “Then explain how Republicans now control 26 states...”
Please note, I said “Conservatives,” not “Republicans.”
To my eye, “Republicans” have corrupted state government almost as thoroughly as they have corrupted Washington D.C.
Examples - Texas, where the Speaker of the House is a RINO despised by many Freepers.
Washington state - where my “Republican” state senator co-sponsored our gay marriage law and just voted for a new 12 cents a gallon gas tax because the price of oil has gone down.
Re: “In the mid-term elections, rats were annihilated.”
Rats are always getting annihilated in mid-terms. From memory - 1994, 2002, 2010.
Why?
Because they can’t motivate their Black and Hispanic voters to go to the polls.
Example - New Mexico, where almost 40% of voters are Hispanic. In 2010, 61% of Hispanics voted AGAINST Susana Martinez, the Mexican-American, Republican candidate for governor, but Martinez still won because Hispanic turn out was so low. If she had run in 2008, Obama’s first term, Martinez would have lost if 61% of Hispanics had voted against her.
The voters pulled the lever for Republicans, thinking they were conservatives. But they were betrayed. It’s not the voters’ fault that they were double-crossed by RINOs. So, conservatism is far from dead, as proven by the overwhelming numbers of Republicans voted into office. Voters need to get involved in precinct, county and local politics to be certain that conservatives appear on the ballot.
As I noted earlier, state conservatives are expanding 2nd amendment rights, defunding Planned Parenthood, castrating unions and voting into place state laws that will nurture conservative principles.