And it's not a pretty picture.

Here's more on precisely what social conservatives who stayed home, voted Democratic, or wasted their votes on third party candidates actually accomplished on Nov. 7.

HT: Real Clear Politics

ADDENDUM: Cal Thomas says that it was a full 12 per cent of the Republican base that defected. While I shall answer his remarks on the subject anon, suffice it to say that- assuming an ounce of common sense among them- they should have known better.

Comments

Anonymous said…
For all the political damage that will occur to this country in the next congressional session and beyond, the Republican leadership in Congress, and even in the White House, has no one to blame but themselves.

The GOP has squandered an opportunity that may not arise for some (long) time.
As wrong as you can be. Those who stayed home or voted Democratic cannot pawn off responsibility for their own short-sightedness on the White House or the Congressional leaders. None of them
pulled the lever or punched out the chad.

It's just as much the fault of those who chose to remain passive and then to bail rather than fight for the Republican party as much as anyone. If they choose not to fight for their point of view, they are as much to blame as anyone when some other point of view prevails.

Secondly, the people you mention are not the ones whose wildly unrealistic approach to immigration threatens to make the Hispanic vote solidly Democratic, and virtually guarantee the liberals control of both Congress and the White House, for a generation or more.

Thirdly, if the bozos who stayed home or voted Democratic on Nov. 7 had done otherwise, Republicans might well have retained the Senate- and we would now, with the rumored Stevens resignation from the Supreme Court, be on the cusp of modifying or overturning Roe v. Wade, Cruzan v. Director, and the other pieces of constitutional amendment by judicial fiat that activist liberal courts have foisted upon the American people in the last generation. That Roe will probably now stand until the next time- if ever- we have a Republican president and a Republican Senate at the same time is nobody's fault but that of the the complainers- the self-destructive take-my-ball-and-go-home conservatives who speak of "the Republicans" as somebody else, and prefer making themselves irrelevant by leaving the party than achieving their goals by fighting for it.

Sorry, Carl- but don't blame the people in the Republican party with whom you disagree for the self-destructive political ineptitude of those with whom you do agree. By abandoning the Republican party, conservatives simply render themselves utterly powerless and irrelevant- and guarantee that the liberals will run the show. And they need to take responsibility for the consequences of their own childish sulking.

No amount of rhetoric will wash the blood of all those unborn children whose preventable deaths were assured by their votes (or lack of them) on Nov. 7 from their hands.