Now that it is obvious that Norm Coleman has lost the Senate race in Minnesota I have come out of hibernation.  I made several diary entries last election cycle, but when it became painfully obvious that we were going to get a butt kicking I decided to pull back and watch.   On election night I was astonished at how badly and thoroughly we were defeated.

If we are going to take the majority ever again we have to know and fully understand what transpired over the past four years.  We have to understand that the opposition was smarter, tougher, meaner, more disciplined, and richer then we were. Above all we have to understand and come to grips with the indisputable fact that liberals, Ivy league graduates and Democrats hate us with a passion.

We have to understand that the media hates us with a passion.  That we have no voice in the media the absolute best we can hope for is fair and balanced.

We made so many mistakes commencing in 2005 that I am amazed that we have anyone left in Congress.  The first major mistake was made by George Bush in placing Karl Rove in the White House.  The mindset that makes someone a great campaign strategist is not suited for advocating policy within the White House.

Rove should have been placed as the head of the RNC.   President Bush should have followed is father’s example when Bush 41 placed Lee Atwater as the head of the the RNC.   Every Democrat in Washington was terrified of Atwater.  They knew he would fight.

The next major mistake was for some reason known only to God and the idiots that made it was wanting to fix Social Security.  Only Nixon could go to China, and only a Democrat can fix Social Security.  I told friends of mine at the time that was a terrible decision and would kill his Presidency.

Third for some reason known only to the White House and the people there they absolutely refused to respond to the accusations and charges being leveled at them by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.   Where I come from anyone calls me a liar and that beceoms an automatic invitation tp go outside and resolve this behind the building.  When you don’t respond the accusation becomes fact.  Worse if you don’t respond you appear to be weak and guilty.

The RNC and the White House over the past four years became the most cowardly organizations I have ever witnessed in my 40 plus years of being involed in American Politics.  They took the “Rope a Dope” strategy of Muhammad Ali to all new lows.   I know this much if anyone came to me with a CV that said they worked in the communication offices of the RNC or the White House over the past four years I would never hire them.   The sad thing is that they will all find employment and they shouldn’t.

Hubert Humphrey, the happy warrior, in an unguarded moment said, “I hate Republicans”.  It is time we came to grips with this fact.  I have people that I know who are Democrats and I have even worked with them.  They will when queried say, “present company excluded, I just don’t like Republicans”.  Democrats hate us and they will do whatever is necessary to defeat us.

I am a Conservative when it comes to foreign policy and national defense.   On domestic issues I know them, understand them, and have thoughts on them but to me they do not stir me as foreign and defense issues do.

I do know this if they have an R behind their name I do not care if they are pro or con to abortion.  I do not care if they are for or against gay marriage.  I do not care if they want us to unilaterally disarm.  I care if they have an R.   I also care that they vote for a Conservative Speaker of the House and a Conservative Majority Leader of the Senate.  That is all that matters.  That is all that counts.

We lost because we spent too much time “eating our young.”    Some of these talk show hosts who were not going to endorse John McCain and sat on the sidelines such as Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity until Sarah Palin was announced might as well have been on the payroll of the DNC.  It was a stupidity beyond measure.  When the first Supreme Court Justice is appointed by the Messiah I hope Mr. Limbaugh and Mr. Hannity will be very proud of their creation.

I am retired from the Army.  If I had a subordinate officer come to me who suffered defeats as the GOP did in 2006 and 2008 I would hand him my sidearm and tell him to do the honrable thing.

How John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are still the leaders of the GOP in the House and the Senate are beyond me.  They are two incompetents who do not have the backbones to fight.  They are way too comfortable in the roles of going along to get along.  No one has ever won a campaign of any sort, military, political, or marketing with cowards in their leadership.

The worse thing that Boehner and McConnell represent is that even if they had the nerve and backbone to fight they have no credibility.   They both voted for the worse piece of legislation to come out of the congress in the past 100 years, the bailouts of the financial industry.   Has anyone else noticed that everytime either of them speak of the bailouts being proposed anyone quoting them finishes up by saying how they both voted for Bush’s bailout.  They do not have the moral, or ethical standing to criticize anything proposed by the Messiah’s administration.

The most egregious of them all is Mike Duncan.  How can anyone who did such a misrabale job as Chairman of the RNC still be in contention to run it again.  What is his campaign slogan, “vote me because I am not finished destroying the RNC?”   How about, “vote for me so I can finish my job making sure there are no elected Republicans in the Congress.”

These criticisms to me are not eating my young.  These criticism are made because I am Republican and I do not wish to see the party that I suppoted, and worked for over the past 44 years destroyed.   These three men will do just that.

What amazes me is that we have no voice in the media.  MSNBC and CNN are completely decicated to destroying the Republican party.  The same goes for the Tribune Company and the Times Corporation.  They have one single mission and that is to place the GOP in the trash bin of history.   If Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh want to do something for this country then put together the money people to buy these media outlets.   Each of them are bankrupt or soon will be and can be bought.  We have the ability to literally deny billions and billions of dollars worth of free advertising to the Democrat party.  We can level the playing field.

I will do a post tomorrow in regards to FOX.  They are accused of being a Conservative network, but I don’t see it.  More to come on FOX and its coverages.

If you have read this far thank you for tolerating my rant.  I am going to have more to say in the future.  I had somewhat retired from politics, but that was a mistake.  It is time to get back into this fray.