[jwh_Denver]

It's so sad the Republican Party is dead, and who cares right, I mean they just a bunch of commies in sheep skin anyway. So I guess I'll just vote for Pat B. or another Ross P. maybe I'll switch it up this time and vote Libertarian and then when all the Dems are in office then they'll see, those bad horrible Republicans will really feel it then. Oops but I can't say that anymore because then I'm talking against the The United Socialist States of America, the new government. But hey I stood up for my rights.......didn't I?

From the wishy washy moderate to the strict Constitutionalist the only common ground we have is we no longer have the luxury of voting what we stand for but AGAINST that which is our common enemy. As much as this sucks, this is the way it is. You could have 4,000 threads trying to figure out what we have in common and they'll all end up like this one - no common ground. Until we all see that we all have a common enemy, that is our common ground.

[habs4ever]

That common enemy is the lesson of the 1994 election win.Not a victory for conservatives,as some have wrongly thought, but a vote against Clintonism.It was a diverse coalition against all things Clinton.Trouble was, Newt never could figure out what most the public wanted from the Republicans.Not the base, but those that had to be won over.Through incrementalism, and PJB was right on this.

I think Bush learned well the lessons of Newt.