The Midterms: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward

Now that the dust has settled on the 2010 midterm elections, it’s slowly becoming clear just how monumental the results really are. We saw an extreme left-wing agenda suffer a crushing defeat. At the ballot box, voters took Obamacare and the stimulus and wrapped them right around the necks of those same House members and senators who had arrogantly dismissed the concerns voiced in countless town halls and Tea Party rallies up and down the country. Voters sent commonsense conservatives a clear mandate to hold the line against the Obama agenda.

Does that mean Republican candidates can look forward with greater confidence to the 2012 elections? Yes and no. Yes, objectively speaking the next electoral cycle should be even more favorable than the one that just ended. A large number of red-state Democratic senators will have to defend their seats; and since Obama will be at the top of the ballot that year, they won’t be able to hide from the fact that their party leader is a detached liberal with a destructive tax-and-spend agenda. Whether Republicans will do as well as they did in this cycle depends on whether they learn the lessons from the 2010 election.

http://tinyurl.com/2vjdlla

From the same article:

"In the next two years, if all we end up doing is adopting some tax hikes here, some Obama-agenda compromises there, and a thousand little measures that do nothing to get us out of the economic mess we’re in, the same voters that put the GOP in office will vote them out in the next election. If that happens, the story of 2012 may well be that of the GOP going the way of the Whigs."

Pineguy,

First, I will pay $ 25 to put a Palin in 2012 bumper sticker on your car! I challenge my conservative friends to match my offer. It's really hard to believe that you really advocate Palin for President, and if you do then I think you should "man up" and put the bumper sticker on your car so your media cohorts can gain a whole new level of respect for your opinion.

Second, Republicans are on probation. Americans (not a single sided issue) want meaningful change in healthcare not a takeover. Americans want spending cuts - now! Americans want less government - now! Americans want the borders controlled and closed - now! If the Republicans can complete those tasks, the Democrats are doomed in 2012. If Obama and the Democrats fights these tasks, they'll get a thrashing again.

Third, I expect the Democrats to use the Colorado blue print in other states. Unless the Republicans create strategies that thwart the blueprint, I suspect Democrats could pick back up their historic blue states.

Fourth, Unless the liberalism coupled with socialist tendencies are rooted out of the Democrat Party - it simply is stuck in the mud. The Democratic Party will render itself useless. The radicals who control the Democrat Party just got their agenda "wiped out" or "shellacked."

Fifth, with some stability and trust in the government by the private sector leveraged wtih lower taxes, balanced federal and state budgets the economy will heat up. This will create new jobs and most voters will vote for status quo.

...it's too early to call a race in 2012....who would have thought a conservative wave would have taken back so much so quick. Americans are not comfortable. They don't want more government, they desire more freedom. Freedom from worry, from anxiety, from taxes, from government over regulation, freedom to live when they want to, and freedom to do more with their families...etc. Obama and the Democrats didn't deliver.

I don't put bumper stickers on my car, so I put one on my sig line.

What I advocate is Palin running for President in 2012.

What are your comments concerning the opinions expressed in the article I posted?

Pineguy,

You are advocating Palin to run, why is that? Aren't you being greedy?

I did skim the article. I can tell you that the GOP doesn't have a good tactical ground election strategy. She is correct when she says that "a winning conservative message must always be carefully crafted." Libtards seems to confuse fiscally conservative with social conservative. It appears social issues died on the vine this election cycle.

For some wacky reason, social progressive libtards want more government control in their own lives. They want the government sanction marriage, they want political figures to define marriage, they want government to bless their immorality yet the people say "hell no." "Hell no!" We don't want government to define marriage; but, we must we will. Because, if we don't, the perverts will end up defining it for us. The topic of homosexual marriage is a social conservative issue - yet until a fiscal conservative on a Republican ticket can tackle the topic without alienating his/her base, progressive libtards will continue to use it as a political weapon (see Buck/Bennet debate). It's an issue that plays well for those negative ads. However, this issue only plays when Americans are comfortable. When discomforted, as they are now, they could care less. They want government to address the pressing issues that affect them - now. They don't want government to contribute to the discomfort.

A convenient excuse that you don't put bumper stickers on your car. The reason is that you don't have the conviction you espouse therefore they are just words on the bottom of your posts.

Since it is still early in regards to the 2012 Elections, anyone who learned anything from this midterm, specifically the Maes debacle for the Colorado Republican Party and the Evergreen Tea Party Group, won't get on board anyone's campaigns just yet, so your advocating Palin this early is an attempt on your part IMO to just cool down our attitudes towards you specifically. For my part, it probably won't happen!! Just saying!!

As usual, you've got both of your points figured wrong.

Re: #1: So anyone who doesn't have bumper stickers on their car lacks conviction?

Re: #2: I want Palin to run so she will have to face other Republican candidates in the campaign. I couldn't care less what your attitude is about me, or whether you cool down or not. You're a hot head. I doubt you will, anyway.

As a rule, I won't put any stickers on my car until it completely paid for.

If your political philosophies will fit on one bumper stickey, you probably need to re-examine your beliefs.

Pineguy wrote:

Now that the dust has settled on the 2010 midterm elections, it’s slowly becoming clear just how monumental the results really are. We saw an extreme left-wing agenda suffer a crushing defeat. At the ballot box, voters took Obamacare and the stimulus and wrapped them right around the necks of those same House members and senators who had arrogantly dismissed the concerns voiced in countless town halls and Tea Party rallies up and down the country. Voters sent commonsense conservatives a clear mandate to hold the line against the Obama agenda.

Does that mean Republican candidates can look forward with greater confidence to the 2012 elections? Yes and no. Yes, objectively speaking the next electoral cycle should be even more favorable than the one that just ended. A large number of red-state Democratic senators will have to defend their seats; and since Obama will be at the top of the ballot that year, they won’t be able to hide from the fact that their party leader is a detached liberal with a destructive tax-and-spend agenda. Whether Republicans will do as well as they did in this cycle depends on whether they learn the lessons from the 2010 election.

http://tinyurl.com/2vjdlla

HEY, that is too many sentences. Did the TOS change and no one told me or are you just above the law? rofllol