Darkness has arrived my friend. Over the past several decades being conservative has been redefined to the point that even JKF would now be considered a hard line Consitutionalist. Most of the people who call themselves conservatives today don't have a clue of what the word means.
The bottom line is it will take the sheeple at least 8 years to 10 years to get sick of the liberal democrat bullshit. When we finally experience the next GOP(conservative?) groundswell (10 to 20 years) the days of GW and the likes of Hassert and the other RINOs will be fondly referred to as "the days when conservatives ruled". No one will remember what a what a real conservative was.
What happened this election was not an aberration by some crafty democrat, or some foolish republicans who simply did not understand the public mood. What happened is the end result of 40 to 50 years of faux conservatives incrementally ceding conservative values. We are now truly on the downhill side and going the way of Rome.
Dark mood stuff, very minor key:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1734935/posts
The most frightening thing about the reset back to the Carter years is the geopolitical result. We are in a dangerously similar situation, and in some ways, have even fewer degrees of freedom. For example, in the late 70s, Europe was still reasonably aligned. But now? Pray for New Europe ... Old Europe is a write off.
Then get off fR and take up knitting. We need fighters right now, and this crap ain't cutting it.