Reply #25: How and why did that happen?

[depakid]

Clue: not by following any of the "advice" that you're setting forth.

Nope- you're setting out the loser theme- the very same set of deals that caused Dems to be out of power and lose election after election- and now policy battle after policy battle.

I know I've hammered you pretty hard- and that emotions are on edge, so let me just add that I get why people still seems to cling to the "conventional wisdom." It;s been ingrained and reinforced so long that it's hard to break out of.

And in the rank and file level- quite impossible for Republicans to do unless and untill they experience both a major personal tragedy AND some input that ties their own tragedy into policies and actions by those who they've supprted.

Sometimes even then the rationalizations continue.

Seen it up close and personal in the states more times than I care to count.