If you would, please participate with me in a little mental exercise. Try and pinpoint the exact moment the Republicans lost the 2008 elections. When you think about it, anyone who follows politics, can site multiple examples of election cycle blunders and outside influences that contributed to our sizable defeat, but when did we really lose?

The markets tanking is first example often stated and the premise that it set the stage making it impossible for our side to win. Others site the unpopularity of President Bush and his polarizing personality. You might even make the argument that it was when Obama decided to forego public funding and went on to spend over half a billion dollars, from private donations, during the campaign. Some might think it was when the Mainstream Media unabashedly decided who they wanted to be the next President and relentlessly promoted him without doing their jobs and researching him. Maybe it was when Obama made his national debut at the Democratic National Convention in 2004. You could even reach all the way back to 2000, when President Bush was first elected and the Bush derangement syndrome was born.

All of these points are valid and some have more weight than others, but they are singular parts of the defeat not the reasons for the defeat. The reason we were soundly beaten is simple, when there is not a distinguishable difference between the Republican positions and the Democrats positions, the people will choose the Democrats every time, they have held their liberal positions longer.

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