In regards to Tuesday's election, Jed Babbin said it best on Friday's Hugh Hewitt Show: "That's past. Let's look to the future."
I worked for John Kerry and his 2004 presidential campaign. I know what it was like after he lost in 2004, and the conspiracies and paranoia that enveloped left-leaning media after his defeat. If you were to listen to Air America Radio, you would hear hosts talking about Ohio being "stolen" and voting machines rigging the elections as if it was fact. They even wrote books about it, expecting the same thing to happen in 2006. They really believed that garbage.
Now since the Dems now have the majority in the House and the Senate, all one has to do is listen to conservative talk radio, go to the blogs, or go right here at Townhall.com to see that none of that is present on the right. We certainly could. Conspiracies are a very good way to keep yourself from accepting what is right in front of you.
Hell, a known leftist leader who openly hates President Bush is currently suspected of having ties to a software company involved in voting systems:
The federal government is investigating the takeover last year of a leading American manufacturer of electronic voting systems by a small software company that has been linked to the leftist Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chávez.
That's not the problem, though. And we know it. The Republican Party has had a falling out with parts of its base and with moderates. It's not all doom and gloom, since we have good men like Lieberman and Webb among the Democrats, who may annoy the Pelosis, Murthas and McDermotts of the party with their hawkishness. But it wasn't them that won, it was the Republicans that lost.
The GOP needs to look at what went wrong and how to keep it from happening again in 2008. I may not fall in to the Republican platform on many issues. I'm strongly opposed to the death penalty, for instance. However, I know that it is those that describe themselves as "conservative" in the United States that have any credibility in the fight against militant Islam. I'm not even sure that Speaker Pelosi acknowledges that radical Islam is at war with the entire western world.
(Originally posted November 13, 2006 at Deschamps Blog)
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