November 7, 2006.
Republicans spent all their time digging dirt and buying stupid commercials, and advanced no ideas at all. The Democrats were no better, of course, but at least they could run as outsiders. It was incumbent on the Republicans to explain why they deserved re-election, and they wasted their time on nonsense instead.
We deserved the plastering we got. We richly deserved it.
True enough, but a platform of "the Repubicans have totally scrwed up, let us try for awhile" is not exactly an election won on the "strength of ideas."