I love it when Repubs insist they lost because they weren't 'conservative enough'....

[Blackhatjack]

Nothing will push Repubs over the proverbial cliff quicker than them taking even more 'conservative' positions and refusing to allow Government to help those who are hurting. Becoming 'fiscally conservative' again after 8 yrs of doubling the national debt, and rewarding their friends and campaign donors, is not going to fool the American voting public.

So by all means go 'further right' Repubs .... and watch your voter base continue to diminish, and your Repub Party become even less influential. RIP.

[bluestateguy]

1. They've been doing that since 1992

Dust off the same old tired playbook: "return to Reagan principles, bla, blah..."

Conservatives never want to admit that sometimes, maybe just sometimes, voters reject conservatism. I have no problem admitting that voters in 1972 and 1984 rejected McGovern and Mondale's liberalism.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. That's like taking a good dump and saying it didn't stink enough.

No different.

[JaneQPublic]

3. They made the same complaint about Chimpy...

...not conservative enough. Apparently, doing what Uncle Dick told him to do only 99 percent of the time made him a raging liberal.

[treestar]

4. One of the more delusional Republic themes

They would have lost bigger had McCrook been more conservative. They are on the fringe now and this is the evidence that they refuse to accept that.

[Happyhippychick]

5. Even better: they're beginning to rally around Alan Keyes. This should be entertaining.

[KharmaTrain]

6. Part y Discipline...Lemmings All

The moderates in that party don't stand a chance. I expected a blood letting after the election and sure enough the inmates have now taken full control of the asylum. This party has NO leadership...except either Rushbo or Zombie Raygun. Those trying to pick up the void are the most verbose and corrupt of the group. But ya gotta give these people credit, their brainwashing is total...complete...totally detached from reality. It helped them create the big lie in the 90s that is now a national joke, but they don't know it.

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. That's right GOP... double down on a losing hand.

Cognitive dissonance:
"An early version of cognitive dissonance theory appeared in Leon Festinger's 1956 book, When Prophecy Fails. This book gave an inside account of belief persistence in members of a UFO doomsday cult, and documented the increased proselytization they exhibited after the leader's "end of the world" prophecy failed to come true. The prediction of the earth's destruction, supposedly sent by aliens to the leader of the group, became a disconfirmed expectancy that caused dissonance between the cognitions, "the world is going to end" and "the world did not end." Although some members abandoned the group when the prophecy failed, most of the members lessened their dissonance by accepting a new belief, that the planet was spared because of the faith of the group.<5>"

GOP as doomsday cult.

[Blackhatjack]

8. The Alan Keyes Experiment is worth watching .....

Keyes has been going further and further to the rightwing nuthouse fringe, and yet there are elected Repubs who are promoting much of Keyes rantings.

I wonder if there is a voter group that is so isolated, out of touch, and alienated that no other candidate has been able to reach before -- which Keyes is trying to reach?



Just amazing really ....