I agree!
Rove just said that Pubbies picked up something like 500 state legislature seats. And, in some states, such as AL & NC, the Pubbies hadn’t controlled the legislature in years. R’s control the Senate in AL - 1st time since 1938. 20 seats to R in Texas state house. IMHO, those are HUGH accomplishments, too! Those, plus the increase in R governors will certainly help with redistricting!
re: 500+ new state legislators
and as a conservative movement we need to focus a great deal upon cultivating, supporting, improving state legislators and local officials across the land who are the future
It’s hard to win with “outsiders” ala Christine O’Donnell, Sharron Angle, McMahon, Joe Miller etc. Good as they are for their ideas, we need more candidates with those ideas who also have lots of relevant govt. experience. Like it or not, there are plenty of voters who are not going to pull the level or punch the ballot card for someone they think of as a total neophyte in governance.
We can keep running such outsiders to lose, or we can develop more Ronald Reagan allies within the belly of the beast. (of course, Reagan was an “outsider” to the political establishment when he first ran for and won election as Governor of CA)