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11.10.08 @ 6:01AM

Republicans were doomed from the start. Healing, hopefully. Klein's forecast: mostly cloudy. Plus more.

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-- Holly Bodine
Denver, Colorad

The first task, Mr. Klein, is to complete the selection of new leadership in the Congress. There is absolutely NO political basis for keeping John Boehner as minority leader in the House. We don't need another Bob Michels. He should follow in the steps of Roy Blunt and give us a fresh start. Of course, they should have done it after the 2006 election, but now there's no excuse. Not only the Republican party, but the country is at a crossroads, and whether we even have a future as the United States of America is at stake. Mr. Boehner is simply not up to the task for the fight ahead. Likewise in the Senate.

This is the time for new leadership, for those who understand, "there is still a remnant left in Israel", a large one, but it will not follow after duplicitous, triangulating leaders blinded by ambition, who have forgotten their mission, if they ever knew it. It will take a shaking out, and those who understand why we even have a constitution and still love the country for why it was founded must come to the fore and pull us out of this pit. Now, that's real audacity of hope, for a change that makes a difference. And, yes, you're damn right we can!
-- Mike Showalter
Austin, Texas

This message (direction) has got to flow down to the state and county levels and everyone needs to be on the same page. Here in the county, we’re looking for directions. We all feel we’ve got to get back to our basic beliefs but we must get support at our State GOP leadership level. If these leaders can’t lead then they must be moved to the side.

Right now, we haven’t been seeing that.
-- Bill (Doc) Dockery
Hickman County GOP
Lyles, Tennessee

ENCORE!
Re: Quin Hillyer's McCain's Best Argument:

Bravissimo to AmSpec for Quin Hillyer's brilliant "McCain's Best Argument." (I also note RushLimbaugh devoted his post-election autopsy to this article).

Since I vastly preferred the McCain 2000 Model, I take issue with several of the author's points. Moreover, I believe Senator Obama to be a Clintonesque pragmatist likely to put paid to Mme Pelosi's DummyCrats As We Know Them.

All the same: with this remarkable essay, Mr Hillyer has penned the most eloquent screed to come my way since opening day of the 2008 Silly Season: one eerily reminiscent of a certain late great publicaton proud to call Bloomington, Indiana (rather than Greater Washington, D.C.) home.
-- Noel E. Parmentel Jr.
Fairfield, Connecticut

FOR THE RECORD
Re: Mark Tooley's The FBI at 100:

My compliments to Mark Tooley for his excellent Hoover article! Will history ever accept a true account? Will America ever acknowledge her great debt to this dedicated public servant? Mark knows what it is to be vilified. His article on Hoover showed an empathetic desire to set some of the record straight.

We wish him Godspeed.
-- Joe Bartlett
McLean, Virginia

VOTE FOR PETER
Re: Peter Ferrara's Catch a Falling Flag:

This is a very smart article. The author’s foresight impresses me.
-- R. Philips
Corrales, New Mexico

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Joseph Baum| 11.10.08 @ 2:38PM

I have been telling everyone who would listen for the past year that if we got an Obama presidency with a liberal congress, we would become Venezuela times ten. It is happening already. With his views on energy, labor, capitalism, and unionism, it is obvious that anyone who works for a living is going to suffer and those who don't work (and don't pay taxes) will reap the rewards of the Obama victory will profit.

I remember when my liberal friends were lamenting the exodus of jobs after the passage of NAFTA, that they seemed to be blithely unaware that NAFTA was the centerpiece of the presidency of one William Jefferson Clinton, the almost unanymous choice of the liberal union members. I'm wondering how long it will take before the 'workingmen' who supposedly make up the democratic party realize that they have launched a strike at the heart of the goose that laid the golden egg.

Jim C| 11.10.08 @ 3:34PM

I have this theory that the Republicans let the Dems win...we lost the election on purpose.

The campaign was stagnant, and they thought Sarah Palin wouldn't do much to help their cause. When it "backfired" and she reenergized the party, McCain states that the economy is fundamentally sound and puts the campaign on hold to help with the bailout. (A loss of momentum) They were losing ground until Joe the plumber asked the right question and McCain started gaining ground. Then the stuff about Palin's clothes is released to cloud the issues.

They never attacked his spending plan or his job creation plan (which consisted of investing in government). They never pointed out when Obama or Biden lied. They didn't make a big enough deal how Obama was wrong about Russia, or how he was being endorsed by terrorist and communist nations. At the debates, he never fought back. Three debates and 4.5 hours on national TV face-to-face with Obama, McCain never mentioned Obama's "bitter clingers" comment; he never mentioned Jeremiah Wright's incendiary sermons; ne never mentioned Obama's breaking his word to use public campaign financing; he never mentioned Obama's plan to "bankrupt" the US coal industry; he never mentioned Obama's "price of arugula" comment; and he never cited the Clinton campaign's many tough arguments against Obama...he could have just quoted Hillary.

Could it have been run this poorly by accident? Conservatives like you and me were saying all the right things and bringing up all the right arguments, and the campaign did virtually nothing until it was too late.

But why would we throw an election? Well, in order to win the war, we had to lose this battle. How much better do you think the economy will be in 2 years? There may be some improvement from where it bottoms out, but I don't think it will be that good by the summer/fall of 2010. Who will the people blame? If McCain is in the White House, he's an easy target. Dems will say, "See, more of the same Bush policies that don't work. More big profits for the oil companies and the middle class is still hurting." We will lose more seats in the House and Senate and the Dems will have a filibuster proof majority. In 2012, a Dem would win the White House and they'd be unstoppable for years and years to come.

By losing, we can be critical of everything Obama does, without his television ads and Hollywood movie sets. The new faces of our party will need to get on all the major networks and be critical of everything, while offering solutions and pointing out how the Conservative approach would have been better. And we must point out that the blaming of Bush ends now. Unlike poker, Obama knew what cards he was being dealt and still decided to play his hand. What happens on his watch is his responsibility.

Republican speculators are betting that he will fail and we'll be there in 2 years to regaining some seats in Congress and hopefully get control back in 2012 when we also retake the White House.