Oh, it’s not a moral victory for the party. It’s a loss, and maybe a big one. But I don’t see it ushering in wholesale values changes, and in fact those issues still cut against the Democrats. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.

Bryan on November 7, 2006 at 10:46 PM

Bryan, you are kidding yourself. The Conservative Movement just got frelled with barbed wire, and we have a minimum of 2 more years of that to look foreward to. Any items that won will soon be litigated in the courts, and there remains enough liberal activist judges to kill any supposed gains we won. Indeed, I expect the Hush Rush bill to be brought to the table again, and it wouldn’t surprise me if it didn’t extend to the net.

We didn’t win a #%$! thing!

Democrats dance in the street, Republicans nurse their hangovers, and Donny Rumsfeld departs….

Bush turned our government into a criminal enterprise, started an unwinnable war, and polarized the nation – do you suppose the wingnuts think these things had just a little bit to do with the defeat of their beloved GOP? Ace…

Personally I hope they pull their heads out of their collective butts before 08

or we’re all in serious trouble.

One Angry Christian

We’re all in serious trouble anyway. I don’t expect to have a job in 2008–the work I do depends on people having enough money to travel and to buy things that need to be shipped, and the tax hikes and cost of energy hikes are going to destroy the economy. And that’s without Islamofascist attacks on the U.S. mainland or Middle East oil fields…

As Michelle Malkin reminds us, Conservatism did not lose.There are always…

So the party that swept to power on a conservative agenda in 1994 is getting swept out because of an unpopular war and because that party has to some extent abandoned those values that were once its core.

Republicans–come back to those values and you’ll come back to power.

Somehow I don’t think the Republican party is going to see it this way.

Two years ago they backed Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey in the primaries because they said that a true conservative couldn’t win the general election.

Last night, the voting public proved their theory.

Over the past 6 years, we’ve had a House that passed a lot of good bills. We’ve also had a Senate that was extremely wishy-washy, with RINO’s frequently siding with the Democrats making the Republican majority essentially meaningless. So how did we “punish them” for their liberal behavior? By handing the House (which had done quite well by conservative measures) over to the Dems and kicking out the most conservative members of the Senate!

The only lesson I can see for the Republican party is this: True Conservatives can’t be elected. Only Centrists and outright Liberals need apply.

are you serious?

Bryan, I love ya man, but the republicans have just about tossed them as a whole out the window.

Consider that we’ve spent billions more than we should ASIDE from the war in Iraq (which is a justifiable expense) on medical care for people who shouldn’t even be with in our borders. We’ve spent tons of tax payer dollars filing lawsuits to destroy the rights of the republican base. The aclu IS government funded. We’ve watched the republicans do NOTHING about the NYT and the LA Times as they’ve spread our national secrets across their pages, and sat idly by as citizens call our president a war criminal, a nazi, and a war monger with out so much as a peep.

Why would we respect a group of people who will not only shirk off their campaign promises of smaller government with less beurocratic layers and a secure nation (hello! MEXICO has practically moved IN!), but also keeps getting caught in the middle of scandals and corruption?

The republicans beat themselves.

Personally I hope they pull their heads out of their collective butts before 08

or we’re all in serious trouble.

If Capital Hill is flooded with calls/emails/faxes that are opposed to the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ – they will not bring it back. (Remember, such a move will also limit the ‘nutroots’ as well.)

also, look around your area, and identify your next Congressman, now.
Start on 2008, with your congressional district

Hey folks, don’t blame me, I live in Alabama, a RedState. I voted Republican.
The only positive thing I can say, is that the majority of the “vote for change” Dems who got elected appear to be “Kirsten Powers” Dems.
If th…

Brian Maloney and Bryan Preston find some…….

As for the war in Iraq, we’ve been using the ‘make nice’ strategy for waaaaay too long. Mookie al Sadr should have been killed years ago. But no. He just takes a few American lives every day. The people want victory but instead we get the drip, drip, drip of American blood with no end in sight. No wonder people are disillusioned. The only way you win a war is to fight it with vigor. After total victory you can start making nice.

As for the corruption issue, both sides are corrupt but MSM only focused on Repub corruption. And Foley really takes the cake. Never mind about William Jefferson, Harry Reid and his crooked land deal, Bob Menendez, etc. Those stories didn’t even get covered by the drive bys.

I’d like to agree with BP, but this morning I see no such silver linings. Once again the American people look like the paper tiger Osama said we are. Pitiful. Just pitiful. Now all of those lives lost will be in vain and the troops on the front lines know they have been abandoned once again. Hello Viet Nam.

After the rain indeed!

Ok, the conventional wisdom is that the Democrats have taken the House by at least 30, maybe more, maybe less, seats. It all depends on a few possible recounts and whether there will be any lawsuits.

The Senate is basically tied right now with the …

So the party that swept to power on a conservative agenda in 1994 is getting swept out because of an unpopular war and because that party has to some extent abandoned those values that were once its core.

Republicans–come back to those values and you’ll come back to power. You have a couple of years to spar with the Pelosi wing of the Democrat party, which should be useful training.

I agree 100%. It is for this reason that I’m relieved that Republicans lost tonight. You can’t have new (Conservative) growth until you clear out all the dead wood. There is no way a return to Conservative issues was going to happen with the current batch of socialism-friendly power-hungry Republicans at the helm. In that sense, I’m voting for the fire because ultimately I want the forest to be stronger.