{"id":36,"date":"2006-11-09T10:48:31","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T16:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/11\/09\/the-way-back-from-the-cold\/"},"modified":"2006-11-09T10:51:19","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T16:51:19","slug":"the-way-back-from-the-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"The Way Back From The Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hugh<\/a> knows:<\/p>\n

Tuesday was part Foley fallout and part GOP fatigue. But it was mostly disgust with the Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight on the Hill. The country expected a lot from the majorities it gave the Republicans in 2004, and it got very little. The long explanation is here<\/a>. Team Pelosi is a high price to pay, but two years is a very short time. If the Republicans elect the right leadership<\/a>, recruit the right candidates, and select the right nominee for the White House in ’08, they will be back in the majority two years from now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All, of course, depends on the party having its “Come to Jesus<\/strike> Reagan” moment. As Limbaugh among many others noted yesterday, conservatism didn’t get smacked on Tuesday (as, indeed, we saw here in Minnesota, where Gil Gutknecht’s race to the center was rewarded by ejection, while Michele Bachmann is measuring the drapes in DC); overt conservatives generally fared better than the party at large; and let’s not forget that while the polls showed generalized frustration with the way things are going in Iraq, the same polls also showed that people oppose cutting and running by nearly 2-1.<\/p>\n

I’ll forgive Tim Pawlenty for taking an accomodationist stance against a hostile (and deeply silly) DFL legislature. Politics sometimes requires pragmatism.<\/p>\n

I will not <\/em>forgive the GOP runnig to the center now. Going Beltway – acting like a ruling party, like the Dems did from the thirties through the eighties – was what killed the GOP this week.<\/p>\n

Nationally? Dump Frist, Hastert and the whole gang that squandered two years of political capital. Neuter McCain (or make him act like a Republican).<\/p>\n

In Minnesota? Well, it’s clear that something <\/em>at the MNGOP needs to change; Minnesota has gone from “Purple” to “sickly, cyanotic Blue” inside of two years. Who screwed the pooch?
\nWhat do y’all think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hugh knows: Tuesday was part Foley fallout and part GOP fatigue. But it was mostly disgust with the Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight on the Hill. The country expected a lot from the majorities it gave the Republicans in 2004, and it got very little. The long explanation is here. Team Pelosi is a high […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}