[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Republicans have looked closely at the election results. The country hasn't so much moved left as it has abandoned a GOP that abandoned its own principles. In Ohio, Barack Obama actually won about 40,000 fewer votes than John Kerry did four years ago. Mr. Obama took Ohio only because John McCain pulled 350,000 fewer votes than George W. Bush did in 2004. Republicans and Republican-leaning voters stayed home.

Money quote.

[Ingtar]

Yes, and from the exit polls and other data collected, the Fiscal Conservatives stayed home while the Religious Right held their noses and voted. Amazing how that turned out after the complaints ahead of time were that the voting would be the other way. McCain has no one to blame but himself for running off the Fiscal Conservatives. His Palin pick helped with all but Catholics. His bailout antics sealed his defeat.

[JoJo Gunn]

"But Tuesday was not in fact a rejection of those principles -- it was a rejection of Republicans' failure to live up to those principles."

And there were several McCainiacs on this very board who attacked others for having unwavering principles. A shameful period. 

[farlander]

Hear hear.

RINOs will not be tolerated any longer. No principles ? Go register as Democrap.