[quote]Brad61 wrote:
ALDurr wrote:
BB, so far you are the only one on the republican side on this board that hasn’t pissed and moaned about the loss and hasn’t predicted nothing but doom and gloom for the future. Thank you for being one of the few that realizes that change is just part of life and that you have to adjust, adapt and overcome. All this election has done is shift the balance again. It will shift again in a few years when the democrats screw up.
Yeah BB always has something intelligent to offer, even if I don’t agree. He’s not typing regurgitated drivel, like some of the dumber right wingers here.
How they handle that will, in my opinion, tell a lot as to whether this is a blip or a run. Side digression: Dems ran the House for 40 year before – Republicans just had it for 12 – does anyone predict that long of a run until another change in control? I think it’s just too close for that these days, and there hasn’t really been a sea change of attitude – interesting to see how population shifts will affect things though.
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I think it all depends on what they do in the next two years as well as what happens in 2008. If democrats put forth some initiatives in the next two years, work to enact some good, moderate, centrist policies, they are much more likely to be around for the longhaul.
And a Democrat is much more likely to be elected to the presidency in 2008. If that happens, and they effect some positive changes, they’ll stick around. If they don’t, they won’t.
Hopefully this refocuses the Republicans on conservatism – and has torpedoed “compassionate conservatism”, aka big-government conservatism.
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Yep. Since the budget battles with Clinton, it seems like Republicans forgot they were the party of smaller government. Whatever happened to actually cutting spending? Remember overgrown social welfare programs, corporate welfare, and pork-barrel project spending? Yeah, throwing out some puny tax cuts doesn’t hack it. They absolutely blew it on cutting spending.
Get back to the small government and tax-cutting/reform agenda. Oh, and stop worrying about what adults do in their personal lives. If they’re not infringing on the rights of other human beings, it’s not your business.