Don't trust that these are "conservatives" who won. They're less conservative than even RINOs like McCain. Have you looked at their policy platforms? They read like Lenin and Mao got together to draft them.
Yes, some are pro-life and pro-guns, but most of their economic platforms are outright socialist. Pardon me if I don't find this something to cheer about.
and the insurgency is in its death throes.
I agree with Mary. This election was simply a temper-tantrum that benefitted the Democrats. If they think they won on the "merits," they're even more moonbatty than we think they are.
There's a pony in there someplace. I think her husband has turned her into a Stepford wife.
shutup Mary, just shutup.
I dont give much credibility to mary Matalin. She is married to the Snakehead. That doesnt say much for her .
Maybe it's the last gasp for the "liberals," but conservatives don't seem even to have a party.
Anyone who still defends the prescription drug benefit has no credibility. Bush bent over backwards to appease the Democrats and what did he get in return? A failed presidency.
Last gasp because soon the S will HTF, and liberalism will be both banned and treated as a mental disorder, once we rise from the ashes.
I've been thinking we have too many rats in the white house. Can't help but wonder if Mary is one of them.
I think she's right, except for the part about the Medicare drug plan winning votes. I haven't seen any evidence that it did anything except piss off fiscal conservatives. The Democrats ran against it anyway as not going far enough because those mean, special-interest-defending Republicans didn't give the government authority to negotiate drug prices. We can never take issues off the table by spending more government money, because Democrats will always outbid us.
Let me elaborate on these "conservatives".
Claire McCaskill: Embroyonic stem cell proponent, minimum wage backer, tax hiker, opposes ID for voting, wants campaign donations limited, etc.
Jon Tester: A nutty organic farmer, supports the same sort of stuff. How an pro-choice hippie got elected in Montana (the only thing conservative about him is gun rights) is beyond me.
Bernie Sanders: Socialist. Nuff said.
Need I keep going? Sheldon Whitehouse made Chafee look like Reagan. Sherrod Brown had a liberal rating of 84.2%. Amy Klobuchar, Webb, etc -- these are what you call "conservatives"? Nonsense. It's the same in the house. These people are dyed in the wool liberals. Apparently they've even pulled that wool over some conservatives' eyes.
The Dem "tsunami" didn't even turnover as many seats as the average midterm for a six-year President. They "crawled" across the finish line...literally.
Wow, I need glasses...seeing everything twice again.
Mary Matlin married a geek and she wants us to listen to her?
Lieberman, a conservative...I don't think so! His voting record is the envy of Barbara Boxer's!
And the same may be said for others, but I stopped reading after such stupidity!
Mary Matalin needs a divorce. When that happens, I might trust her.
Mary, like most of the U.S., is clueless about all of Mitt Romney's "Massachusetts Problems". Mitt is finished as a serious Presidential candidate, and Massachusetts Governor-elect Deval Patrick will be attacking the entire Romney administration for all of the future problems with the Big Dig Project that happen during Patrick's entire duration as Governor. Add Romney's failure to create political inroads for Republicans in Massachusetts while also making fun of Massachusetts politics at the same time, Mitt's snubbing of Charlie Baker wanting to run for Governor this year as a strong and serious Republican candidate in order for Mitt to practice some "political favoritism" to allow "weaker Republican candidate" Kerry Murphy Healey the Republican Massachusetts Primary for Governor all to herself, Mitt's failure as Chairman of the Republican Governor's Association this year to truly make some political inroads for Republican candidates for Governor this year all over the U.S.-including Mitt's decision to not heavily and not frequently campaign with Kerry Murphy Healey for her own run for Republican Governor right in Massachusetts where she ended up losing very badly, Mitt's using Massachusetts as just a "stepping stone" for a run for President, Mitt's continued failure to get a Massachusetts ballot question created for '08 that allows state voters the right to vote either "yes" or "no" on both gay marriage and civil unions as well as failure for such a ballot question in the past during Mitt's duration as Governor, and all past, present, and, as I had already mentioned, future problems with the Big Dig Project, Mitt Romney has a lot of questions that need to be answered, and the Democrats have plenty of issues to use against him.
Not as many as she thinks. In fact, I bet there's many more who don't like McCain at all, including me.
If Matalin truely believes those words perhaps she can explain to me what happened in Indiana's Eighth Congressional District race.
John Hostettler(R), six term Congressman with conservative Christian values who chaired the Committee on Immagration was thrown out in favor of local county sheriff who admittedly knew little about the federal legislative process. Hostettler lost by the largest margin of any Republican candidate in this year's election.
If the Eighth District voters were so willing to throw the baby out with the bath water, how can Matalin be so sure of future success for the Party?
If the Democrats become more conservative, then the GOP loses the middle. But that's a discussion for 12 years from now.