Please. Now is not the time for bickering.
Rather, it is time for thoughful analysis.
Which is exactly what this post by NathanBedford is.
And as a 100-percent supporter of the Iraq war, and of President Bush, I thought the post had some brilliant points, many of which seem spot on if the GOP wants to re-energize itself these next two years.
But please, stop throwing vicious words.
No "one" segment of FR is to blame for Tuesday's thumpin' of the GOP.
Last night I spoke to our local Christian Coalition leader, and she relayed to me how a large percentage of her members were totally demoralized over Republican incompetance and arrogance, and they simply opted to sit out this election.
These people make up about 5-10 percent of the GOP base, and that's how much many Republican candidates lost by on Tuesday.
And these people never even heard of FreeREPUBLIC.
Well, they heard of it, but they are not posters.
Then they are immature babies.
Any Christian who doesn't know good from evil is a babe (Heb.5:13-14)
MNJohnnie is correct, all we heard on these threads was how good it would be for the GOP to lose,it would 'teach them a lesson'.
No adminstration is going to please all the Party, it will disappoint because it must deal with an opposition Party as well as Constitutional limitations.
The Democrats are already disappointing their Left wing base by putting a hawk, Liberman in charge of Homeland Security, and by stating that they not going for Impeachment.
You don't attack your President, you oppose him in the Congress, as we did on immigration, the nomination of Meir, AWB, etc.
Bush didn't try to twist arms, he accepted what the other two branches said on the issue.
The GOP is a Conservative Party, but it takes time to move the nation back after decades of Liberalism.
And all we ever heard is how Reagan acted.
I remember one of the battle cries back then was 'let Reagan be Reagan' because the assumption was that legislation was getting past that Reagan did not like but he was listening to his advisors, like Baker.
I remember libertarian Republicans quitting his adminstration in frustration over his acceptance of large spending, agreeing with the Liberal (his buddy Tip O'Neil),to get his own defense spending through.