I can think of no other word than “disaster.” I honestly do not want to get into extensive analysis tonight of what happened, what went wrong. I think it came down to Iraq.
However, the losses have been terrible. We lost the Senate and the House. It may take us a generation to once again to win majorities such as those we had from 2004 through 2006.
Today the party must start to rebuild. And that means conservatives cannot and must not run around screaming that it was RINO Republicans.
I have long argued that we were the governing party and had to act as such to earn the confidence of the American people. We have lost their confidence. We must regain it.
SadinMO:
I agree. Sen Frist and Rep Hassert were terrible. I’d also add President Bush to the list. At a time when the country needed real leadership, they let us down big time. I’ve liked what Gingrich has been talking about for the last couple of years.
Cubanbob:
Two things are missing for the GOP to come back from this. First, they need to find good leadership. Second, they need to take their principles and turn them into an agenda that Americans can vote for. The GOP failed because they didn’t give anyone any reason to vote for them accept an unpopular war.
Gayle:
I agree. The House and the GOP agenda went into the weeds when Gingrich left.
John:
I agree that Hastert wasted time on stupid legislation and not concentrating on the important things. In fact, from now on the GOP will really regret not working on election reform.
I disagree that terrorists were not cautious around Bush. For one thing, OBL got very upset when the timetable for the 9-11 attack was going to be postponed (again). He was very concerned that the attack would be discovered and stopped, so he pushed hard for the attack to be carried out ASAP. Secondly, I recall that Bush did the right thing in rejecting the initial proposal for dealing with OBL. Specifically, he didn’t want to launch a couple of Hellfire missile attacks to strike back; he insisted on a plan to wipe them out the entire Al Qaeda organization. Kill Bin Laden, and someone takes his place.
Oops: Sorry about that: wrong thread.
Please ignore my previous replies to SadinMO, Cubanbob, et. al.
I hope righties suffer now, by the same methods you employ to hurt those who have the gall to think differently and wish tolead different lives than you.
We’ll always beat you. The union, not the confederacy prevailed.