Posted by
Anticontrarian on Friday, November 10, 2006 2:29:08 PM
One of the
most common memes on the right hand side of the blogosphere over the past three days has been: Conservatism didn’t lose, the Republicans lost. The voters didn’t reject the conservative movement. The GOP rejected conservatism, and then the electorate rejected the GOP.
So let me get this straight: It isn’t that the party which represents conservatives’ principles lost, it’s that such a party doesn’t even exist*. And this is supposed to be the silver lining? As Arnold begged in True Lies, “Stop. Cheering. Me. Up.”
*Okay, it exists, but not (yet) in any electorally meaningful sense.