Dvorak wonders if the Republican leaders have lost their way and their base, and if the Democrat leaders truly understand what their recent gains mean. The recent Democrat gains, as Dvorak points out, does not necessarily equate that our country is moving from center-right to an all out shift to the left.
From RCP --
So it's natural to wonder: Have we just witnessed another revolution, what historians will one day call the "Obama Revolution"? Barack Obama and the Democrats have certainly won a resounding victory on par with, if not exactly equal to, Reagan's 1980 triumph. What's not so clear -- and likely won't be for some time -- is whether America has made a shift to the left, heralding a new liberal era, or if Democratic dominance of the last two elections is merely a corrective -- a sign of displeasure with the party in power but not an ideological paradigm shift.
The electoral evidence at least suggests that something big is happening to America's ideological moorings: Factor out Obama's victory for a moment and consider: Since 2006, Democrats have won 51 House seats and 12 Senate seats, giving them a hold on Congress not seen since the 1970s. They have pushed the GOP out of the Northeast; made inroads into the Republican-dominated South; and are well ahead of the GOP in winning the West. Demographically, Democrats have put their mark on the fastest growing minority in the country, Hispanics, and seem to have won the loyalty of an entire generation of younger voters.
And yet, despite this, RNC Chairman Mike Duncan, among others, still insisted the other day that America is a "center-right" nation. But then Duncan has some evidence on his side as well. There's a reason no one talks about the "Clinton Revolution" these days, or, jumping ahead, the "Bush Revolution." Electoral victories, even two-term administrations, don't a revolution make. In fact, it was the failure of each respective administration, and their allies in Congress, to appreciate this small point that led to 1994 and 2006.
Conservatives have exit polls on their side also. Thirty-four percent of the electorate still identify as conservative, compared to 22% liberal and 44% moderate. That breakdown is roughly unchanged from 2004. Considering what's happened to the GOP brand since, it's says something about public sentiment that a third still call themselves conservative, even as fewer call themselves Republican.
Throwing some actual weight behind these numbers are the many states that have banned same-sex marriage in recent years -- currently, every state that has brought the question to a vote. Several of those voted for Obama this year and two -- Florida and California -- voted to ban same-sex marriage even as they pulled the Democratic lever. Obama's own opposition to same-sex marriage need not obscure the reality that its acceptance is a liberal tenet. More...
In my not so humble opinion - I believe the GOP leaders have lost their way. I look at myself more as a conservative than I do a Republican. I believe the leaders of our party, have lost the confidence of our base, keep trying to hang their hat on moral issues to prove their conservatism, and have completely hijacked our party. On the other hand while our party has been run into the ground by Washington Bureaucrats and RINO's wanting to move to the middle - the Democrat party has been hijacked by the far-left liberal nut bag so-called progressives.
I believe our country is made up of more center-right individuals than center-left. The gains made by the democrats are the result of years of indoctrination (60's to current) through the use of our educational system.
Obama being elected is proof that the liberal & socialist indoctrination of our youth over the years has worked for the socialist left. Through the use of our educational system, from kindergarten to college, our children have been subjected and brainwashed into buying into the left's liberal & socialist concept.
I have said before - Obama's election was a culmination of several factors that combined together & became the perfect storm....
Because of Obama's mastering of Alinsky's thoughts and agenda, and his skillfully delivered message that struck deep in the minds of the empty-headed, brainwashed masses that have been programmed over the years - he was elected president.
Obama developed his cult-like status because these brainwashed masses among the radical left - again after years of being programmed in our schools - were looking for a "leader." Thus - he was anointed president.
The silver tongue he developed over the years as a community activist and the well-planned delivery of his message, which he acknowledged in his book, enabled him to masquerade in a Kennedyesque fashion which allowed him to dupe the union democrats into voting for him.
The other factor was the obvious hate of President Bush. Voters, regardless of party affiliation, were blinded by this hate and were hood-winked into voting for Obama. Why? Because the GOP label attached to Bush hung around McCain's neck like an anchor. This GOP label is a label that we, the conservatives, through bad government, have allowed our leaders to define for us. For most of us, this is not the GOP and conservative values we believe in!
The GOP leaders, from Duncan down to county leaders, ALL need to be purged from our party. The last several elections have been disastrous and our leaders have not learned anything from these Democrat delivered ass-whippings.
This so-called movement, revolution and subsequent turn towards socialism is not because of gains by democrats or a shift to the left - but because of failures by Republicans.
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