I confess that knowing I’d have to wade through stupidity from Tardo, gillie, boob, and the rest of the mouth-breathers discourages me from reading comments.

Sonic, while you latch on to the idea that people are not identifying with the Republican party, you also forget that THE LARGEST voting bloc in America are people who self-identify as conservative

No, I haven’t missed that detail. I factor that into my political equations. What I do wonder is if your definition of conservative is the same as many of the others who self identify as conservative. Remember too, rightly or wrongly, that most people identify the term conservative as Republican and liberal as Democrat.

Sonic, while you latch on to the idea that people are not identifying with the Republican party, you also forget that THE LARGEST voting bloc in America are people who self-identify as conservative. Indeed, all the Democrats who won in recent years, including Obama, did so by pretending to be conservative. 40 percent of Americans are conservative (as opposed to 20% who call themselves liberal), and they are STILL looking for conservative answers to America’s problems.

Americans have discovered the Democrats’ “conservative” rhetoric was lies, they lost confidence in Republicans commitment to conservative ideas, and will be looking for conservative candidates in 2010.

They are already demanding what they want from the Republican party, rejecting candidates like Scozzafava, Crist and others, favored by the party, in favor of more conservative candidates. And as this process continues, as more liberal Republicans are defeated by more conservative Republicans, the American people will recognize it and those who left the Republican party to become independents will increasingly return.

THAT is exactly what I am talking about when I said that you’re sounding an awful lot like Rove in 2006. – The stats are meaningless, we KNOW that….. blah, blah, blah…..

Again, the Republicans are not leading because everyone is going “WOW, They Are Absolutely Right!!!!. I was SOOOO dumb to ever vote for a Democrat!!!!!”. If that were the case, you Would see more people invest their identity with the Republican party. Right now, everyone is seeing the ineffectiveness of BOTH parties. Thus the poll I posted.

I don’t see any reason at this point that Republicans won’t make some gains in the next election, but it will be more of a negative reaction to the utter incompetence of the Democrats and Obama, not because of a second romance with the Republican party. Anyway, it’s very very early in the election season to make predictions, so I’m just going to leave it here.

I don’t think “The American People” are figuring things the way you think they are.

Thats because you look at meaningless statistics.

If you want to know what party people are going to vote for in 2010, you dont ask them what party they officially affiliate with, you ask them what party they are going to vote for.

And Republicans have led Democrats on the generic ballot question for MONTHS.

You might also ask them who they trust more to deal with the most important issues and guess what? After just 9 months since Obama took over the White House and Democrats took total control of Washington, the American people trust Republicans more on EVERY SINGLE ISSUE including Health Care, Education, SS, Abortion, the Economy, Taxes, Iraq, National Security, Government Ethics and Immigration… Democrats have shown Americans what they represent, and the American people reject you on every leve and prefer Republicans on every single issue.

Indeed, the American people dont seem to like, trust or approve of ANYTHING about Democrat leadership at ALL, in ANY way shape pr form!

2010 is going to be a very good year for conservative Republicans and a bad year for Democrats AND “liberal” Republicans. The American people are finally beginning to figure out that it is liberalism that is responsible for the mess we are in.

I don’t think “The American People” are figuring things the way you think they are. I do think Republicans will make a bit of a rebound, but not on the strength of the “True Conservative” message, but on the weakness and obvious corrupt nature of the Democratic apparatchiks currently in charge. Then what happens in another two years when people figure out they’ve elected they exact same Republicans that they kicked out four years before?

Yes, it’s a long long way to election day, but you guys remind me of Rove et al. during the 2006 elections.

A memo to Steve Schmidt and the other “Republicans” who seem bound and determined to drive the party into irrelevancy; if Americans were frightened of politicians claiming they were doing “the Lord’s work” and talking about how abortion is a “moral and ethical issue”, His Blackness would never have been elected. The vast majority of the candidates that gave the Obama Party its majorities in 2006 and 2008 were elected, not because voters rejected values, but because Obama Party politicians started more effectively lying about having them.

Earlier this week, I was noting that it was unrealistic for conservatives to expect national Republican committees, like the RNC and National Republican Congressional Committee, to do anything but back the Republican in New York’s special congressional election.

But the situation has changed.

In other words, Geraghty was wrong, and conservatives were right, but Geraghty is too arrogant to admit it, so he says “things have changed” instead.

Then he goes on to say that while we must make room for more people who support our opponents positions, there is no room for “this kind of arrogance, this kind of clumsy dishonesty, this kind of reckless hostility to a reporter and a publication that need not be an enemy.”

But apparently there IS room for HIS kind of arrogance, HIS kind of clumsy dishonesty, and HIS kind of reckless, arrogant hostility to conservatives that were right about Scozzafava from the beginning!

2010 is going to be a very good year for conservative Republicans and a bad year for Democrats AND “liberal” Republicans. The American people are finally beginning to figure out that it is liberalism that is responsible for the mess we are in. Poll after poll shows the American people think government is doing far too much — by large margins. Only tiny minorities think government is not doing enough. The very LAST thing Republicans should be doing is running liberal Republican candidates because they fear conservatives cant win. It is cowardice, and a losing strategy. Good conservative candidates will win, and liberal Republicans will lose. Even in “liberal” states.