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Republicans Reflect and React to this Year’s Election Results
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  2006 was a bad year for the GOP, and this year’s elections proved even worse, with Democrats winning the White House and greater majorities in Congress, and state Democrats holding their seats in Congress and picking up a Senate seat. We’ll talk to a roundtable of Republicans about what happened and where the party goes from here. Guests
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I don't believe it! It seems to me you did this the last time the Democrats had a bid victory. The next thing you know it's somehow a story about the damn Republicans. This is a Democratic story, dammit! Enough with the damn Republicans! Their crimes and mischief and efforts to divide America between the privileged and the undeserving has brought this nation to its knees. Good riddance!
I don't think your Republican guests get it. I voted for Reagan, and George HW Bush. I can't even conceive of voting for a Republican while the party has been hijacked by the far right. The only exception is Judd Gregg for whom I will always vote because he focuses on NH and not on extraneous ideological issues.
It seems to me ideology is the luxury of the party out of favor. Once in power, the bid to retain power and the exegencies of the world beyond party headquarters require a continuous stream of compromises. After 8 years in the White House and much of the past 14 controlling Congress, the Republicans had come to personify Washington. No amount of ideological purity was going to save John McCain from the fact he was the Republican candidate running in a campaign defined by disenchantment with a Republican regime.
Bush lost it for many of the Republicans because he didn't know how to LEAD, and didn't lead.
He wasn't engaged in the 2 wars he was "leading".
He didn't ask WE THE PEOPLE to do ANYTHING in 8 years, in spite of wars, energy issues, and financial issues.
He hid during every crisis, and when he did appear, he uttered empty words, showing he didn't have his "hands on the wheel" and clearly seemed to have no mastery of the details of any issues.
He thought we were back in the Eisenhower years, where his people did their jobs and he only had to oversee and "check in."
After 8 years, he "didn't get" that pay for 95% of American jobs have not kept up with inflation for the last 6 years. (Source: Greenspan's book.)
It's clear his people only really did take care of the top 5%. If he felt otherwise, he never communicated it or took actions to try to "fix" it.That goes for most of Congress as well.
TERM LIMITS are the only long term solution to solve the massive "pay off" by the lobbyists and special interests to the Congress. There is plenty of blame to go around for BOTH parties, but no one would ever accuse Bush of being a leader.