The RNC Makes Me Laugh
By Erick Posted in 2006 — Comments (4) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
From their latest email:
We need to refocus on our conservative principles of less government, lower taxes, less regulation, strong national defense, judicial restraint, and fiscal conservatism. We have a very vibrant and strong party and a philosophy that works. We just have to recommit ourselves to better serving the American people.
We need to listen to the voters and hold ourselves and our party to the highest ethical principles.
Dare I point out that had the geniuses done this to begin with, we wouldn't find ourselves in a hole so deep.
So much for Karl's permanent majority.
There is, though, this one tidbit that we should all keep in mind for perspective:
Since WWII, the party of the incumbent President has typically lost more than 30 seats in the House of Representatives and six seats in the Senate during the second midterm. In addition, in the five wartime congressional elections since 1860, the President’s party has lost an average of 32 House seats and five Senate seats.
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I don't think conservatives know what some of these baseline values are - or they have been trying to decide which portion of the GOP they feel is more important.
of the "less government" thing last night.
The tidbit (which I also caught at NRO) is incorrect. In fact, during Clinton's sixth year, his party *gained* five seats.
Here are the number of House seats lost by the President's party in the 6th year of his presidency during the post-war period. I pulled the numbers from the House website and quickly did the math:
1958: Eisenhower--Republicans lost 48 seats
1986: Reagan--Republicans lost 5 seats
1998: Clinton--Democrats gained 5 seats
So only once in the last half century has the President's party lost more than 30 seats in the second-term midterms.
The 1974 midterms, in which the Republicans lost 48 House seats in the aftermath of Watergate, occurred after Nixon resigned.
To echo your sentiment, had they stuck to conservative core values in the first place, we could have killed the 60's liberals once and for all. I am extremely disappointed in this lost opportunity. He knows what he can do with that piece of paper.
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us - Voltaire