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posted at 10:30 pm on November 5, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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“Nationally, the Republican Party is going to go through a Dr. Phil, self-analysis moment.”
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Dr. Phil? That’s it, we’re doomed then.
zerosheep on November 5, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Wow, look at that amazing navel. I shall gaze upon it for a spell.
askheaves on November 5, 2008 at 10:33 PM
LOL. Now that’s a quote of the day!
lorien1973 on November 5, 2008 at 10:34 PM
Onward and upward 2012
Capital Mess on November 5, 2008 at 10:34 PM
So is anyone EVER going to count the Acorn votes?
christene on November 5, 2008 at 10:34 PM
I live to serve, lorien.
askheaves on November 5, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Not the kind of piece I like to buzz up, but did it anyway.
Connie on November 5, 2008 at 10:35 PM
I want you to start living as a gay woman.
OneGyT on November 5, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Sen. Jim DeMint is gold. Proud to have been able to vote for him before I moved out of South Carolina.
SouthernGent on November 5, 2008 at 10:35 PM
I don’t want any of these pre-election issues to disappear.
Connie on November 5, 2008 at 10:36 PM
Heh. I remember that!
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on November 5, 2008 at 10:37 PM
I think it’s amazing that there was absolutely no voter fraud!
Every time a Republican wins, there is voter fraud. But when a democrat wins, there is not.
It’s quite stunning, when you think about it.
lorien1973 on November 5, 2008 at 10:37 PM
Neither do I but I think we’re hosed…
liquidflorian on November 5, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Who the hell is Mike Duncan? Has anyone ever seen him? Does he really exist? I have never seen the guy, but his name pops up in articles every now and then. It’s kind of like when you see “Kilroy was here,” and you don’t know who Kilroy is or if he is even a real person.
Mark1971 on November 5, 2008 at 10:39 PM
So the Republican Party is going to go through a a pompous alcoholic philanderer moment?
Lehosh on November 5, 2008 at 10:39 PM
well…..
dangitt on November 5, 2008 at 10:41 PM
Even more stunning when you have real video of people with nightsticks attempting to intimidate voters at the polls, an admitted 200,000 mismatched voter registrations, the Dallas Cowboys front line being registered by ACORN in multiple states, and a candidate who set up his campaign system to accept donations from anyone with no verification (again verified and documented).
Folks, this isn’t about sour grapes or being gracious in defeat — this is an attack on the very foundation of our country. It is critical that these incidents being investigated and the perpetrators prosecuted. The sad thing is that the unfounded bleatings of the Koskiddies and Huffpos from the 2000 and 2004 elections have made any calls against real voter fraud only appear to be petty and whining.
AZfederalist on November 5, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Sounds like good name for a poster.
Fortunata on November 5, 2008 at 10:45 PM
I WAS considering continuing my pompous alcoholic moment. (10 years strong!)
askheaves on November 5, 2008 at 10:46 PM
The GOP Needs to Get Real.
Tzetzes on November 5, 2008 at 10:47 PM
We need action, to many things don’t add up, take Indiana,
they elect a Republican Governor, a Republican Mayor to Indianapolis and then for POTUS they elect obama? 105% of Indianapolis registered to vote!
Acorn in Ohio, Florida and every state (swing) that obama won!
McCain is a chump for not calling out voter fraud!
christene on November 5, 2008 at 10:47 PM
Bush never led the republican party after 2004. He simply feel asleep at the wheel one day and never woke up.
csdeven on November 5, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Hell with the navel gazing! We need some old style Soviet Purging of the party!
Dr. Dog on November 5, 2008 at 10:49 PM
and the guy who admitted to cnn that he voted twice in philly!
i’m glad there wasn’t a lick of fraud.
lorien1973 on November 5, 2008 at 10:49 PM
The MSM is trying to tear the GOP apart. They’re going to cast blame for the loss of the election. They want us to point fingers at McCain or Palin or Bush or Conservatism. They want to see a rift grow and completely disintegrate.
Don’t buy into their BS. America led by the three stooges is headed for waters that no living American has had to experience. We must fight them with everything we have to steer the ship towards safer waters.
El_Terrible on November 5, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Who’s going to do it? Dem governors? Dem state judges? Bush-who-cares-if-NYT-leaks-state-secrets Justice Dept? Dem SCOTUS? “journalists” (aka DNC p.r. machine)?
Nobody cares! Illegal immigrants…who cares! Free gas! Free mortgages!
Sheesh…..okay, deep breaths.
ex-Democrat on November 5, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Can I buy one of his books or tapes instead?
Assorted Dr. Phil-isms….(seem appropriate)
“Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.”
“Awareness without action is worthless.”
“Failure is no accident.”
“If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.”
“It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.”
“Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.”
“Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.”
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on November 5, 2008 at 10:56 PM
2010
We have some congressional seats to reclaim.
Elizabetty on November 5, 2008 at 10:56 PM
I’ll tell you something. The biggest issue for us is education. The reason conservatives are outnumbered is because of the indoctrination going on in the schools from preK right through higher education. They are spinning out little Marxists. From that black Obama teacher browbeating the little girl whose Dad was in Iraq, telling her that the man she wanted for president would make him be there for 100 years to people like Ward Churchill, Bill Ayers, etc.
It’s time to really address this problem.
Connie on November 5, 2008 at 10:56 PM
“How’s that workin’ for you?”
Elizabetty on November 5, 2008 at 10:57 PM
They have already been counted, grasshopper.
JustTruth101 on November 5, 2008 at 10:57 PM
Yeah, there was fraud. There are several anecdotal stories, pretty solidly founded… but it doesn’t account for the difference.
This was NOT a stolen election.
askheaves on November 5, 2008 at 10:57 PM
You are correct. We conservatives MUST start serving on local school boards. We have to lay out a plan the way the ACLU/Alinksy/Ayers laid out a plan to infiltrate all the important institutions, except we will do it for the good of the country whereas they did it for evil.
JustTruth101 on November 5, 2008 at 10:58 PM
I just can’t believe with so much pointing towards fraud, that the people of America can do nothing? No voice?
And yet more,..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JESZiLpBLE
christene on November 5, 2008 at 10:59 PM
A bold new direction?
How about the direction back to the ideology of true conservatism instead of reinventing the wheel?
And to hell with reaching across the freaking aisle.
tru2tx on November 5, 2008 at 10:59 PM
What does this outcome say, if anything, for the libertarian prospects for the future? Does the fact that Ron Paul still gets TV face time mean anything. The clearest losers this time around in terms of demographics, turnout, and result, are evangelicals/social cons. Their interests got hammered all over the country. Maybe its time to say goodbye to the Palins of the world not knowing Africa’s a continent but being “real” and “believing”. “real” means nothing if you dont know jack.
Romney/Jindal 2012
Jindal/some young libertarian ron paul with war hawk street city slicker
ernesto on November 5, 2008 at 10:59 PM
Just noticed this on Drudge. I don’t know if anyone posted it or not. I think I’ll go join up. ;)
‘Impeach Obama’ groups pop up on Facebook
Connie on November 5, 2008 at 11:00 PM
Yep, odd how when the Republicans lose there are no instances of voter fraud or lawsuits.
carbon_footprint on November 5, 2008 at 11:00 PM
True dat. The man creeps me out. Must be the Oprah connection.
baldilocks on November 5, 2008 at 11:01 PM
Interesting Dr.Phils name is mentioned,
especially I hear that Oprah had a hand
in Obama’s productions,as in Harpo productions!
Maybe I’m misinformed!
The last thing the Republican Party needs,
is Dr.Phils ‘Touchy,feely,and all around
hugs-can’t we get along approach!!
Me thinky,the ‘Dr.Phil’approach should be
in the form of a swift kick in the #ss by
General Patton,
oh wait,were talking politics,sh#t,scratch
that,okay I got it,
the approach should be calculated,how about
Margeret(Iron bottom)Thatcher kicks the left
cheeck,and Ronald(SDI-RayGun)Reagan kicks the
right cheeck of the Republican Parties ass,
thats better,a hem!!(Snark!):)
canopfor on November 5, 2008 at 11:01 PM
Educational “indocrination” is, as i told brian here again and again when he blogged for HA, a red herring. A bogus outrage claim that does little to help conservatives advance their agenda. Its kind of like the “whitey’s keeping us down” mantra of certain black cultural organizations. Its actual effects are never truly measured, conservatives only look at the fact that liberals run these institutions and assume they have some giant impact. Your average college student barely pays attention to the substance of the courses they take, you think some crackpot professor can make radicals of them in this day and age? please
ernesto on November 5, 2008 at 11:03 PM
Turtles? Or sluts?
Y’all be the judge.
Ugly on November 5, 2008 at 11:05 PM
We need conservatives to go into teaching. It’s not enough to be on the school board. Kids are not getting exposed to both sides of the issues. Liberals started addressing this long ago, we need to catch up.
El_Terrible on November 5, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Nope. And I just knew McCain wouldn’t even challenge them. I’ll bet Palin wanted to, though.
I’d love to somehow find out what the real popular vote would have been, once all fraud votes were removed.
ErinF on November 5, 2008 at 11:10 PM
Oh really? Let’s see, in California, the marriage amendment passed. In Arizona, all of the social conservative issues passed: 1) Marriage amendment, 2) limit pay-day loans, 3) Not absolve employers from hiring illegals, 4) Turning down a referendum that would have made possible wide-ranging lawsuits on sales of homes.
Doesn’t really seem like your premise is holding water here, at least in those two states.
AZfederalist on November 5, 2008 at 11:13 PM
Another,..
http://www.rallycongress.com/constitutional-qualification/1244/
christene on November 5, 2008 at 11:14 PM
republicans need a come to Jesus moment. otherwise, why bother?
anti-boomer on November 5, 2008 at 11:15 PM
What BS!!!
The GOP isn’t “in tatters” tonight. It is rightfully questioning the leadership that thought pandering to the great unwashed middle made more sense than building on the social conservative and evangelical base. McCain lost the election because he never ever really connected with those who could have helped him at the grassroots level. That’s a leadership problem.
Were I to make these absurd popular culture references, the GOP doesn’t need Dr. Phil and self analysis, it needs Dr. Drew and rehab to ween the GOP off the idea that they can spend and act like Democrats.
highhopes on November 5, 2008 at 11:19 PM
We don’t know that. Who knows how many fraudulent vote there were. 200,000 we hear in OH with BHO winning that state by 70,000 (count from last night, haven’t checked in today). We have no idea how far the ACORN activists went; they’re Marxists and Marxists are hard-workers.
I don’t know who will investigate this, but I’m hanging my hopes and prayers that before 1/20/09, someone blows the lid off this scandal and implicates ACORN leader-trainer, Obama, in it. I’m praying that something happens in the next 11 weeks to stop this national nightmare before it begins.
If not ACORN, then the illegal foreign donations. *If* and that’s a big *if*, ACORN didn’t cast all the votes that were the margin of victory (and I believe that they did), then at least we can agree that BHO used illegal cash to sell himself to the American people. Without that cash, he wouldn’t have been able to buy all his ads and hoodwink half the voters.
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on November 5, 2008 at 11:20 PM
I agree with you!!
Also, speaking of Daily Kos and HuffPo… why don’t we all go slumming for a few days and rain on their parade. Let’s go throw every bit of dirt we have on Obama right at them. Let’s go over and call him an empty suit… radical terrorist thug, unvetted, you know… the whole nine yards. Oh, and be sure to ask about brother Bingo Obama in the hut and Aunt Patooti that’s being shipped back to Kenya. I know it’s truly beneath us, but just for fun! Kinda like a belated Halloween prank! HAHA
Let’s start quoting Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Fr. Pfleger the wannabe, Rezko, Ayers/Dorhn, etc.
Oink on November 5, 2008 at 11:20 PM
You are definitely showing lack of knowledge. This goes beyond college professors indoctrinating incoming students and goes all the way back to grade school. Liberal agenda are promoted in broad and insidious ways. The textbooks my son is using are rife with a liberal bias. In his English book — the grammar and sentence structure exercises to diagram sentences contain such sentences as (not direct quotes, it’s been a few months since I read these, but the gist is there): “Becky is attending the ecology march this weekend for Earth Day”; “Joan has written to the electric company to encourage the use of more earth-friendly means of generating electricity”. Same kind of theme is there in his spelling book, in his science book (chapter closers talking about man’s adverse impact on the world, etc.).
This stuff is insidious, pervasive, and one-sided. A teacher doesn’t have to be attempting to indoctrinate students, the curriculum is sufficient for that purpose.
AZfederalist on November 5, 2008 at 11:23 PM
Amen!
AZfederalist on November 5, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Obama is more Dr. Jekyll …while the media made him Mr. Hyde.
profitsbeard on November 5, 2008 at 11:24 PM
That’s a lot to ask. The liberal mindset is so a part of academia, conservatives in that wasteland need to be strong and willing to work in a hostile workplace.
I have a passion for public policy and would love to go back to school and get my doctorate in public administration with the aim of teaching. What is stopping me is the fact that people in academia who teach public administration are liberal to the core and hostile to my perspective. I guess I should be more courageous but the effort would take a whole lot of money to put up with a bunch of rabid socialists.
highhopes on November 5, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Somebody on the other side did something quite clever not too long ago. They wrote a seemingly innocuous piece. I forget about what. But they hyperlinked every “W” to the movie “W.”
Maybe we should do something similar when writing about Obama.
Connie on November 5, 2008 at 11:26 PM
ernesto, you would do well to read Ayers’ book that was linked to on Little Green Footballs in PDF the other night. Eduacational indoctrination is *exactly* what Ayers successfully advocated for in order to brain-wash kids into Marxism. This is *NO* red herring, this is the truth! The admitted truth from Ayers himself. I think your comment might point to the fact that it is indeed working.
-Aslan’s Girl
Aslans Girl on November 5, 2008 at 11:27 PM
That doddering old fool just doesn’t have it in him. If he had that kind of spirit he would have run a much better campaign and we never would have been in this dismal situation to begin with.
So, not only WON’T there be any repercussions for ACORN, there won’t be any investigations into the online donations scandal, or the sealed birth certificate, or the Black Panthers threatening voters at the polls (the Feds should have been on that like stink on sh*t) or anything that would bring into question the legitimacy of our new king.
ACORN will probably get an increase in federal funding as a reward for the brilliant job they did in this election cycle.
UltimateBob on November 5, 2008 at 11:28 PM
I tried prior to the elections to get someone at HA to discuss Rethinking Schools, a publication that was funded by the Joyce Foundation when Obama sat on the board. This is not simply a college course issue. Read through some of their material for our grade schools and tell me again about our “centrist” president.
Here’s one of the several articles by William Ayers.
WaltDakota on November 5, 2008 at 11:29 PM
ACORN will soon be well-funded enough to staff each and every voting precinct in the country, doing their entirely non-partisan work.
ddrintn on November 5, 2008 at 11:30 PM
Anyone here realize “Dr.” Phil lost his license to practice psychotherapy about 19 years ago? For unethical behavior.
rlwo2008 on November 5, 2008 at 11:30 PM
Forget navel-gazing, it’s time to start planning strategery for Stevens’ and Ginsburg’s inevitable SCOTUS retirement. God help us.
/sorry to be a downer if you forgot, but it’s gonna happen
bamapachyderm on November 5, 2008 at 11:30 PM
Actually, I feel more like we’re going through a Dr. Ruth, self-analysis moment, since were all about to get royally screwed.
fogw on November 5, 2008 at 11:31 PM
Give me a break. When an elected Republican doesn’t grasp the concept of “fiscal conservative”, what left is there to say? We “spent” and didn’t deal with known problems in a winning way into this mess. 9/11 and the response to that cost a lot, which I am fine with. But 18 Billion dollars a year in ear marks from Congress?
Yes, not a lot of money on the national scale. But $18 billion dollars a year is still real money to us regular folk.
$3 million for a overhead projector? Money for hippy museum in Woodstock? And all the rest.
If you are an elected Republican and still need Dr. Phil, then resign and make an appointment immediately.
If you are a Republican and understand the money you spend is REAL, there may be hope for you.
Hog Wild on November 5, 2008 at 11:31 PM
I went there before and didn’t do it. I’m in NYS. I don’t care anymore. Did it.
Connie on November 5, 2008 at 11:33 PM
Everyone should read John Taylor Gatto.
Connie on November 5, 2008 at 11:35 PM
I am tired of people on forums spewing out demeaning and diminishing name of our candidate. Just as much as I do political aides doing the same about Sarah Palin. As for Obama, I won’t, nor will I ever, respect this totalitarian thug.
rlwo2008 on November 5, 2008 at 11:42 PM
It’s hard to be the party of ethical standards. We are always cleaning up after ourselves and admitting our faults. The dems just keep on sliming their way through things with no accountablity and … by God! who gives a crap, they keep getting elected. Fannie and freddie, ACORN, illegal contributions, Charlie Rangel tax fraud, Franken fraud etc. Why do we always forget their election scams and then 3 days before the next election we are craming to investigate the same sh-t from 4 years ago. OY FREAKIN’VEY
katy on November 5, 2008 at 11:43 PM
Yep, what the Republicans (and especially the RINOs) failed to realize was that those who want that kind of statism aren’t going to vote for Democrat-lite when they can have the real thing and that solid conservatives are going to be conflicted in supporting someone who is barely, “just better” than the Democrat candidate so they often aren’t motivated to bother to participate.
AZfederalist on November 5, 2008 at 11:43 PM
Unfortunately, I’ll wait for the movie.
WaltDakota on November 5, 2008 at 11:50 PM
Yes. I addressed this issue many years ago by refusing to put any of my kids in the public schools. The older ones have now put themselves through college and the rest will likely follow.
Other things we can do to address this is to be very involved in school board elections and PTAs. Also it is time parents start refusing to pay for their kids higher education in liberal colleges, if we create a market, decent colleges will appear. A great portion of the parents in the country are coping out of their responsibility for the education of their children (and that responsibility is not just financial) and leaving it to the state to take care of it.
neuquenguy on November 5, 2008 at 11:53 PM
“The party just simply lost its way,”
No Sh*t Sherlock!
What was your first clue Dick? Scooter might have some input too.
Rove wanted to invite everybody to the party, including the percentage of Americans that have DNA liberal disease.
A lot of people can appreciate conservative ideology when presented by the right candidate but are liberals any other time.
Base broadening causes party death from dilution of principles.
Not everyone has what it takes to be Conservative.
Speakup on November 5, 2008 at 11:55 PM
You’ve got that right!
rickster on November 6, 2008 at 12:02 AM
What you are watching is the proof of what I posted from the beginning. John McCain isn’t a maverick, he’s a frustrated Democrat elected from a conservative state. He threw a huge temper tantrum in 2000 when the party chose a real republican. He almost bolted the party in 2004 and would have if Kerry had made the right offer.
Yet, Republicans were supposed to ignore all of this and support McCain in 2008 because he was the candidate. McCain only got the nomination because the cards were stacked in his favor by the GOP “leaders” who thought the party needed to veer away from social conservatives and evangelicals. The engineered the process to give Rudy the nomination but ended up with McCain instead.
What these so-called leaders never got was that the GOP base wanted to get behind a real conservative. They barely tolerated McCain simply because he was the candidate but they didn’t go out and do the grassroots stuff that put B. Hussein over the top. This was predictable and preventable. It’s time to return the party to its roots and that really doesn’t include liberal “Republicans” like McCain.
highhopes on November 6, 2008 at 12:03 AM
Either you got them mixed up or you’re out of whack.
OneGyT on November 6, 2008 at 12:03 AM
I couldn’t have said it better! I’m tired of voting for wishy washy nonad repubics wishing they were Dems.
It’s time to stand up for our principles!
rickster on November 6, 2008 at 12:12 AM
Go back to shining lew rockwell’s shoes with your tongue, rino. Your kind is not wanted around here.
Darth Executor on November 6, 2008 at 12:15 AM
No sh%t?
Maybe it started at the beginning……….
When the Clintons left the White House only leaving used condoms on the floor, taking everything that wasn’t bolted down, and still no accountability from the the Republican Party………
The farce of the 911 Commission, and letting Jamie Gorelick and the rest of the Clintonistas getting away with murder…….
Sandy Burglar getting his “hand slapped” by the Bush Administration’s Justice Department and still retaining his National Security Clearance after stealing documents from the National Archives………..
Letting Ted Kennedy write the the Educational Reforms that funded groups like ACORN and La Raza………….
Kicking and Screaming against the base to Secure the Damn Borders……….
Giving up on Social Security Reform……….
Not slapping down the Democrats from the beginning when they turned the War against Terror into a Political volleyball…………….
Letting the Democrats get away with the whole Global Warming/Climate Change hoax……………..
Letting K Street run wild and not putting the kibosh on Government Spending like there was no tomorrow………..
RINO’s picking our Presidential Candidate for us……….
And the back breaker, when it was known as FACT that the cause of the Economic Disaster of 2008 was due to Democratic laws, policies, and officials covering it up…………. NOT A FU%KING WORD…………..
Good God……….. these are just one’s off the top of my head……………… and people ask “WHY THE REPUBLICANS LOST IT’S BASE???????”
Rush is right, time to rebuild, and if you aren’t in it for us, you are on the sideline until you can prove to act and govern like a Conservative if you want to be in Politics………
Obama, I fear, will help us out in this, but by that time, it may be too late………..
Seven Percent Solution on November 6, 2008 at 12:22 AM
It’s doesn’t help us much when the MSM is in the tank for the other guy. So there’s nothing much you can do about that except:
Back up your message by actions. If you’re going to call yourself a conservative, then live by your values. You cannot be a conservative and vote for earmarks for your district. That’s like a sailor on liberty promising not to spend all their money while in port.
You need to have ideas that help people help themselves. See teach a person how to fish. You need to back it up with examples of success and how government needs to get outta the way of individual success. [See Joe the Plumber]
You need to allow the free markets to weed out businesses that don’t work and allow businesses to thrive without government intervention. Consumers make the best value based decisions.
You see it everyday when you go grocery shopping.
Take personal responsibility for your actions. Examples are not relevant, but apparent.
Must I go on?
Kini on November 6, 2008 at 12:30 AM
Apparently………………… yes, like a drum beat, for at least the next two years.
Seven Percent Solution on November 6, 2008 at 12:33 AM
I believe that you said it all.
Johan Klaus on November 6, 2008 at 12:38 AM
Must I go on….
Kini on Nov 6,2008 at 12:30AM.
Kini: Amen! Yes!:):):)
canopfor on November 6, 2008 at 12:38 AM
Thanks for reminding us of Gorelick and Burglar.
Ya know? I’m starting to feel tin-foil hattish about everything.
baldilocks on November 6, 2008 at 12:50 AM
I had a nightmare that included Dr. Phil and a large egg.
mylegsareswollen on November 6, 2008 at 12:54 AM
I was persuaded back when Obama beat Hillary for the Democratic nomination, that he was going to self-destruct.
I indulged in wishful thinking. I underestimated the intensity of the Bush hatred (which spills over to Republicans in general, and conservatives in particular). I thought the media would pick up on the facts about Obama as they began to unfold instead of covering for him.
Mostly, I sat back and let others do the talking and the acting.
I was wrong.
Confutus on November 6, 2008 at 12:55 AM
Dr. Phil? LMAO! Dream On AP.
Only Obama-voting “Republicans” and loser apostles of ‘The Oprah’ looking to score a free car and book on her show (that I’m sure will make their miserable ****ing lives all better) need self-analysis moments.
Conservatives Don’t! We’ll Be Back And Stronger Than Ever in 2010 an 12′! So Enjoy Your First & Last Term as President, Barky.
Teddy on November 6, 2008 at 1:03 AM
I repeat, Rule Number One
You do not shop for clothing for a Woman. – It is presumptuous to do so.
Except on holidays, etc…
Besides, Sarah stopped at a WalMart…. you cannot get anymore conservative American than that.
Kini on November 6, 2008 at 1:05 AM
One thing I have not seen on the radar……..the 2010 census.
We need to make sure that the count is accurate and not tainted.
This will shift districts, and could bring a shift from the northeast to the south.
Too bad it will not be complete by the 2010 election.
scruplesrx on November 6, 2008 at 1:13 AM
join me and join the new conservative movement.
eventually some one here is going to ban me for this…
Kaptain Amerika on November 6, 2008 at 1:27 AM
Lots of sad here (and a lack of classy). To really believe the election was “stolen” by some silly voter fraud scenario belays the real point. This has been a long time coming.
Republicans haven’t been acting like conservatives… that’s clear. As much as I don’t want to navel gaze, I want less to go through the next 4/8 years like the democrats have, blaming everything on, and starting with, this president’s original sin. Let’s let his in-office decisions be the basis of our arguments.
Please, let us be better than the liberals on this. If we start this next era blaming ACORN, and BS credit card systems, and whatever else… it will make us look and feel petty. The future offers more opportunities for real, substantive arguments.
askheaves on November 6, 2008 at 1:37 AM
Oh I donno about that….
You may get a big hug outta me. Except for …
Act IV – Fight the Occupation Propaganda Wing
You left out HotAir and Michelle Malkin…. Dude!
Kini on November 6, 2008 at 1:40 AM
Thumbs up. I said the same to one of my daughters last night. She’s a dual income family. I said get your kids out of public schools. She said she can’t. I told her to be prepared for mini-Marxists. She knows it’s true, but can’t make the break. She is an anti-Obama gal and voted McCain, but this is what we’re up against.
Connie on November 6, 2008 at 1:45 AM
don’t think I didn’t consider it… but they are more commentary than news… however they are the places I go to for the most current headlines of the day.
My 5 required readings every day?
HotAir.com
Ace of Spades
Malkin
JawaReport
Drudge
I may just take your advice and add those…
Kaptain Amerika on November 6, 2008 at 2:07 AM
Republicans, Duncan said, “are going to take a deep breath and listen to the American people.” The party is creating a new online forum that will allow people to explain “how we let them down” and “what we can do to restore confidence in our party,” he said.
Darn if that doesn’t sound familiar.
N4646W on November 6, 2008 at 2:08 AM
Oprah sure knows how to pick em.
msmveritas on November 6, 2008 at 2:53 AM
Oh no! Please don’t tell me that Dr. Phil is a Republican? I cannot stand that man. He is another false Dr.
sheebe on November 6, 2008 at 3:08 AM
I’ll tell you what frightens me: I have brought up on HA a number of times the need for conservatives to support conservative intellectuals, and each time someone responded that I was either insecure, arrogant, elitist, or something in that vein. This anti-intellectualism in certain conservatives does not bode well.
True educational reform is needed to save this country, and that begins with conservative academics–as a college professor, the stupidest and most thoroughly indoctrinated students I get are going into education, journalism, sociology, or “women’s studies.” (I happen to also believe it means complete privitization of schools, but that may be a discussion for another time). That won’t happen if conservatives cry “elitist” every time someone discusses higher education–even if it is only a minority doing so, a loud enough minority can drown out other voices.
DrMagnolias on November 6, 2008 at 5:24 AM
I think that sometimes people over act to a loss. I am not saying we should ignore it or not question or change tactics or something like that, but we need to remember that we will lose sometimes, it is inevitable in a two party system.
I also think that there are times when events beyond our control pay as large a part in the way things happen as the things we can control.
So perhaps a reaffirmation of basic principles and a search for new faces are good things to do after a loss, but this does not mean the party is fatally flawed in any way.
Terrye on November 6, 2008 at 5:46 AM
DrMagnolias on November 6, 2008 at 5:24 AM
you’re on the money… visit my site and join the cause.
Kaptain Amerika on November 6, 2008 at 6:28 AM
Seriously Ed, what were you thinking?
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CyberCipher on November 6, 2008 at 7:42 AM
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