Posted on 03/22/2011 7:37:19 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
Conservative Republicans are rightfully giddy about the results of the midterm elections. The enormous Republican wave washed away hundreds of Democrats at all levels of government, giving Republicans their highest number of seats in the House of Representatives since 1946, and their largest number of state legislators since 1928. More important, the currents that caused the wave clearly work to Republicans' benefit: Voters were expressing widespread opposition to the liberal direction in which President Obama and the Democratic Congress have taken the country. This has led many conservatives to argue that, on November 2, 2010, America returned to its normal equilibrium as a "center-right country"--one in which conservatism is the natural inclination and in which Republicans are the natural governing party.
This view is supported by considerable evidence. And yet it fails somehow to account for the continued difficulties that Republicans (at all levels of government) have had after past wave elections--principally, difficulties in implementing small-government agendas and in establishing lasting electoral majorities.
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I was disappointed with them long before then.
2010 was just a pressure pad over the arterial bleeding. There are years of very hard work ahead to set things in the right direction.
I wonder if Americans have the soul to desire a free country and to move toward it.
yeah about 1989 started my decades long disappointment with them.
That depends on the leadership we elect.
If the article is correct in it’s assertion that white working-class folks are THE primary voting bloc, Sarah Palin should be a shoo-in during the 2012 election.
Forgive me if that doesn’t fill me with hope. She doesn’t even support the elimination of the unconstitutional Dept. of Education, which is step one in any sane plan to get this monster under control.
Can you point me to any other major pieces of the federal behemoth that she has advocated doing away with?
You’re looking too far ahead. We’re not talking policy specifics yet. It’s much like getting a job: first you gotta have a resume that’s interesting. Next you gotta get an interview. At the interview you have to avoid being eliminated. Once you make the final round, the employer decides. In terms of 2012 Presidential politics, we are at the resume stage; the primaries will be the interview stage.
Yeah right.
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