not disheartened here

[franksolich]

Hey, I'm not sure why my fellow Republicans and fellow conservatives seem so down-hearted lately.

It seems as if this side sometimes apes the primitives, and forgets history.

A little story here, and a true one.

As recently as six months ago, the Bostonian Drunkard on Skins's island alleged the current Republican seat in the U.S. Senate from Nebraska was "more than likely" to turn Democrat in the elections of November 2008.

That was no particular insight of the Bostonian Drunkard, who copies ideas rather than creates ideas; that was the opinion of political professionals, including Charles "Joe McCarthy" Schumer (D-New York), head of the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee.

And also the opinion of disheartened Republicans here in Nebraska.

It was going to a Democrat for sure; one could bet the farm on it.

This speculation was based upon that while the incumbent Charles Hagel had the trust of diehard Republicans in Nebraska, he had lost the trust and goodwill of the vast majority of the general public in Nebraska, because of his aberrant change-of-mind about the War for the Liberation of Iraq.

So it wasn't expected Hagel would be re-elected here in Nebraska, and if he chose not to run, there wasn't a first-tier Republican candidate to take his place; plenty of first-tier-and-a-half Republicans, plenty of second-tier Republicans; good people all, but who would be mauled by the Democrat candidate.....if the Democrat candidate happened to be former U.S. Senator Joseph R. ("Bob") Kerrey or the current mayor of Omaha, Michael "Richard Daley" Fahey, both of whom make U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Connecticut) look like a wimpish dove on the matter.

It looked pretty bleak to everybody.....excepting franksolich, who chose to sit back, relax, and watch.

Well, where are we now, six months after those dread dire predictions?

I suppose it's reasonable to say that Senate seat is safely Republican; no doubt about it.

In fact, the Democrat party here can't even get a Democrat to run for the seat.

No Democrat in Nebraska wants to touch that race with a ten-foot pole.

Things change very quickly in the world (of course, they can just as easily change for the worse.....but they have an equally-good chance of changing for the better, too).

So my suggestion is that if anyone feels "down" about Republican and conservative prospects this autumn--"down" for whatever reason, any reason--he should sit down, relax, get mellow, and watch with an open and clear mind as unanticipated, unforeseen, unexpected opportunities spontaneously arise.

Anything can happen. 

And it's just as likely something good could happen, as something bad.

[Lord Undies]

I'm happy.  I think the Republicans have never been in better shape.  The democrats don't have a candidate who can win the White House.  Our own bastard liberal child, John McCain, is going down the proverbial tubes soon enough.  The "democrat" congress is a duster with history-making ineptitude.  The liberal media is in constant disarray.  Antiwar fever is a myth.  Berkeley, California stands up to the Marines and expects the nation to applaud their stance, and the exact opposite happens.  Defenders of liberalism are the new Baghdad Bobs. 

Liberals are miserable.  I'm happy. 

[Uhhuh35]

Hey, I'm not sure why my fellow Republicans and fellow conservatives seem so down-hearted lately.
It seems as if this side sometimes apes the primitives, and forgets history.

What's disheartening for me Frank is that it looks like McCain is going to be the presumptive nominee. I know he's strong on defense and he'll probably nominate conservative judges but there are those things about him that make me think he's really not all that conservative.
I won't list them as I'm sure you've already read them a thousand times but McCain has a Liberal bent and seems willing to subjugate conservative values in order to "get along" with the primitives. They won't do that. In fact if they could, they would outlaw our party.
It seems this election we're gonna' have a choice (again) between Democrat and Democrat Light which doesn't really inspire the conservative base.
There still is plenty of time for McCain to change voters minds but it's gonna' be quite an uphill battle for him.

[Chris_]

Hey, I'm not sure why my fellow Republicans and fellow conservatives seem so down-hearted lately.
It seems as if this side sometimes apes the primitives, and forgets history.

What's disheartening for me Frank is that it looks like McCain is going to be the presumptive nominee. I know he's strong on defense and he'll probably nominate conservative judges but there are those things about him that make me think he's really not all that conservative.
I won't list them as I'm sure you've already read them a thousand times but McCain has a Liberal bent and seems willing to subjugate conservative values in order to "get along" with the primitives. They won't do that. In fact if they could, they would outlaw our party.
It seems this election we're gonna' have a choice (again) between Democrat and Democrat Light which doesn't really inspire the conservative base.
There still is plenty of time for McCain to change voters minds but it's gonna' be quite an uphill battle for him.

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Right now, McCain is the MSM's pick -- they know he is a democratic liberal posing as a Conservative, so they are hoping it will be him and are carrying his water like they did billary. But Ann Coulter is wrong -- McLiberal is still a little better than billery.  Hopefully Romney can pull this mess out and make it a bit easier for all of us.

We are truly at the least bad of a lot of bad scenarios point.

[Duke Nukum]

I think for me it was the willingness of conservatives to abandon the conservative candidates while they were still in the race and claim the guy they were supporting, Huckabee, Romney, McCain, were conservative, making the word "conservative" somewhat meaningless.

If there had been some intellectual honesty, perhaps saying, "I'm supporting Romney because he has the best chance of winning even though he isn't really a conservative" I could deal with it. I had much more respect for Rudy when he said, "This is what I am and this is what I'll do" because I felt I had a basis to believe he was a man of his word, unlike the three remaining who will say anything to anyone depending the day.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind, according to Emerson, and sometimes I look at the world of conservative commentary and conclude that nothing is, at last, sacred.

But then instead of focusing on that, I chose to focus on things I can actually control and feel much, much better.

I'm thinking the great lesson I can take out of these current horrible choices is that whoever wins, I am ultimately in charge of my life and just because the world wants to cower underneath their collective mother's apron at the mere mention of CO2, I don't have to.