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Originally Posted by golfhobo
This kind of "narrow minded" "exclusatory" RHETORIC from the far right, is EXACTLY why your party is now in the minority in Congress. (and HAS been for all but 12 of the last 50 years!) Clearly 2/3 rds of America is TIRED of it.
That’s utterly absurd. The reasons were most Americans were frustrated with the war and the Democrat Party very smartly went out and recruited some really very conservative Democrats to be candidates. Hence, the real reasons that they won majorities are because the Democrat Party successfully exploited the issue of the war to their advantage and at the same time were very smart to run some very conservative candidates that out conservative[ed] their conservative opponents.
No one is more frustrated by the failure of the war and the horrible way it has been mishandled more than the conservatives. While most conservatives did and still do support the decision to go to war, they never imagined in their wildest imaginations that Bush would send in the Peace Corp and almost immediately start lifting the Afghanis and Iraqis out from poverty instead of fighting a war and defeating our enemy.
When the military was slicing through Saddam’s defenses with the greatest of efficiency, the American people were rallying around the war effort and the President, as soon as we started to play Peace Corp and nation building, support for the war and the President started drifting south!
When we voted for Bush and backed his decision to go to war, at the time we thought he was a conservative like us. Now six years later we find out that Karl Rove not only fooled the conservatives in the Republican Party, but he also fooled the Left too, since as it turns out, instead of being the conservative that he was packaged and sold to us as, Bush is very much a liberal or, in other words, to our chagrin he’s a RINO Republican imposter.
Thus, the real reason behind the reasons why the tables ended up being turned on the Republicans in this last election is because there were no true conservatives in leadership positions, only RINOs and as a result the Republicans in Congress lost their way. Finally, the Republican Party will continue to struggle and remain lost unless it turns and goes back to its conservative roots. If that means weeding the RINOs and other moderates out from the Republican Party, then so be it, because the conservatives are about to bolt from the party as it stands now and especially if it continues its current drift to the Left.