In interesting read on the future of the Republican Party

InfraBlue wrote:

The main strength of the Republican Party over the years has always been our unity. Even when we VEHEMENTLY disagree with each other in private, we tend to settle those differences in private before stepping out together and showing a united front.

I may disagree with John and Roy on the topic of abortion, but we find common ground on protection of the 2nd Amendment. Roy may be vehemently against gay marriage, yet even though John and I don't see what the big deal is, we are not going to shun or try to change a fixed mind, we just find common ground with Roy on SS and welfare reform. We speak, we debate and we compromise before setting our key topics and values out for all to see as a united front.

The one thing myself and many of my fellow Republicans have spoken about over drinks and laughed somewhat nervously is the possibility that someday, the Democrats will find a way to quit fighting among themselves long enough to present a similar unity. The day they manage to do that, they will be very dangerous.

Magus wrote:

Only cheerleaders, ideologues and demagogues try to describe a neck-and-neck race as a blowout.

A 2 or 3% margin is not a "mandate"... unless you have a warped perspective.

Didn't you say this about 8 posts ago? Were you trying to add more to the discussion, or do you just like typing the word "mandate"?

"Whatever you say."

The 2/3 majority agreement required to over-ride a veto... is much more so a qualified "mandate".

A piddling 2 or 3 percent majority is just a hairline victory; considering the potential flaws and faults that attend the execution of an election (i.e., Florida, 2000), the "margin of error" usually exceeds the 2 or 3% that so many goose-steppers are crowing so enthusiastically about.

My advice to the brownshirt thugs... enjoy your day in the sun.
It will likely be brief, and then the pendulum will swing... very likely to OVER-correct.

Just my take and I am an admitted left wing fanatic liberal, but really guys if you don't do something to curb the pork barrel/deficit spending that even makes Ted Kennedy jealous there won't be an economy left to argue about at the end of Bush's final 4.