THE UNDERREPRESENTED CONSERVATIVE BASE

Edward, are you still around?

In 2006 you wrote, "Maybe losing the House of Representatives for a couple of years is exactly what the Republican party needs..."

I'll bet you don't think that anymore.

What actually happened is that in the 2006 elections the Democrats took over BOTH the House AND the Senate, and yet (thanks, in large part, to the leftist slant of the Press) the public STILL blamed the Republicans for everything that subesequently went wrong. So, 2 years later, the Democrats, despite already being in control, with breathtaking dishonesty & confidence in the electorate's widespread ignorance, sold themselves as the outsider/reform party of "change," and the American public elected even MORE left-wing Democrats to Congress, and the most extreme left-wing President in American history.

Do you still think that is what the GOP needed?

In FY 2007 (the last Republican budget year), we had a $160 billion deficit, amounting to about 5.9% of federal spending. We're 2/3 of the way through FY 2009, now, and the FY 2009 deficit is estimated at $1.8 trillion, amounting to 46% of federal spending...

...and the public is STILL loving Obama and STILL blaming the Republicans!

It isn't surprising. There is precedent. FDR managed to stretch a severe recession into a decade-long Depression, and at the end of it the public STILL loved FDR and STILL blamed the Republicans. It was nearly 50 years before we had another Coolidge-quality conservative American federal government.

If it takes that long this time, I won't live to see it.

These are grim days indeed for the republic.

Dave Burton
Cary, NC