I think the more important question is: can we re-energize the party, or will we wallow in self-pity? Will we end up looking around at what is left of our Conservative movement, and call it “not enough” or will we call it a Starting Point?

We Can Not allow this to mess continue to dampen the conservative spirits. It is what lost us the last TWO elections.

We have what we have. Let’s MAKE something out of it.

Cornyn will stand up to amnesty. And when Cantor gets on fire, watch out.

Personally, I think a group of them should hold weekly press conferences and be on the Sunday shows screaming at the top of their lungs about every GD travesty Barack, Nancy and Harry tries to foist upon this nation. And every single one of them had better vote a resounding NO on everything that any right minded conservative would oppose.

I say elevated Mike Pence to minority leader in the House. Make him more visible, get him on more talk shows and TV. I think Pence can make a capable Presidential or VP candidate down the line.
In the Senate, I don’t really have an issue with McConnell, but I think John Thune and Jeff Sessions would be great #2’s in the Senate. I think Thune especially is the future conservative voice in the Senate.
You’re right. We’ve had two “purgings” and we need to make sure we don’t point fingers. Let’s get fresh ideas on how to get to the soultions, get younger, and fight to make more inroads with minorities. Don’t abandon conservative principles, but make sure we have people to convey how our solutions reach those who vote against us just because we happen to be the “white person” party.

Did anybody happen to see his interview on Fox last night where he talked about how the Republican party needed a house cleaning(those were his words not mine)?

Let us start build these leaders.

I HAVE ENOUGH OF BUSH, MCCAIN, Boehner, Snowe, etc. who think bi-partisanship will be good for Republicans and the country.

Let the fight begin. No honeymoon.

The old guys in the party, they have proven to be worse than failures. We will get no where with them.

I support the youngest members for leadership and I call upon the party to begin immediately to search for young, attractive CONSERVASTIVE candidates.

It is not too early to pave the way for the house elections. Here in Texas, we can find a lot of good candidates, many of which are good conservative and minority candidates.

The party spend huge amounts of money in the past trying to keep a lot of old fossils elected, who were not even very good Republicans.

ONE THING IS CERTAIN, we do not have to run from conservatism. Because, the Democrats will move so far to the left there will actually be some real noticeable difference in the parties.

It is important that we offer a real alternative.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am ashamed of my country!

in 2006 and 2008 was the non-leadership of George W. Bush. He fatally damaged the GOP brand by passively letting himself be whacked like a pinatta while “reaching out” to those visciously attacking him. Perhaps the silver lining to this dreadful election is that we can move on from “New Tone” to actually articulating and fighting for our princicples.

Let them resign from their post and allow new, young leaders to fight the Democrats!

We need to do like the Dhimmicrats and purge the mushy moderates out. Those who ran as conservatives did pretty much okay. Cornyn easily won (even though I didn’t like his vote for the bailout bill) while Liddy Dole lost. It’s time we demand that unapologetic conservatives are our candidates.

No exceptions!

I’m tired of compromising my principles for the sake of “party unity” and to “protect” Republicans against an admittedly Leftist media. I know many of the RedState Directors were for it but anyone who supported either bailout package has proven themselves to me to be unworthy of leading the GOP.

I dont trust anybody that hs to run in 2010. That should be an automatic disqualifier. Little less skeptical of 2012, but those who are safe until 2014 are best postioned to focus on the Hill.

Kyl may be an endangered species. Coryn and McConnell fit the bill. The leader needs to be focused on tactics 100% of the time. Not on courting hispanice vote in Arizona.

Our 44 senators are all that stand between the American people and Pelosi/Obama policies. It will be that leader’s job to decide when to stand on principle, somehow hold their caucus together, and take their case to the American people.

We need somebody really, really good in this spot. It is our only chance to begin our comeback in 2010.

Our 44 senators are all that stand between the American people and Pelosi/Obama policies. It will be that leader’s job to decide when to stand on principle, somehow hold their caucus together, and take their case to the American people.

We need somebody really, really good in this spot. It is our only chance to begin our comeback in 2010.

I have always liked John Boehner. Unfortunately, he hasn’t been as effective as we need in taking on the Pelosites. As for Blount, he’s a dinosaur.

We need some fresh faces and voices to lead our team. We can start taking back house seats in 2010 if we play our cards right.

Jason Chaffetz (UT) should be a good new voice in the party. He won his first term last night. I have already written him, pleading him to stand up for conservative principles while in congress. I have every reason to believe he will do so.

For R’s to compete in the future and win, we have to do a better job of attracting Latino and African American voters.

Ironically, one of the outcomes of the Obama victory may be that there is a feeling of the battle being won on the racial front and there may be an opportunity to appeal to people on an ideological basis - not just a racial basis.

95% of the African American community voted for Obama & 2/3’s of the Latino community - I simply don’t believe the percentages are anywhere near those levels on a ideological basis.

“Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires”, (John Madison- Federalist Papers #10). Bi-partisanship merely for the sake of bi-partisanship is a masochistic and painful fetish. It must be excised from our elected Republicans’ psyches. The Democrats always insist on us being bi-partisan, but they seldom ever practice it themselves. Having differences and fighting for unwatered down conservative causes is GOOD. Being proud and unapologetic for being conservative is what most of our leaders have seemed to lose. We will win again if we elect leaders that understand this or force the ones that are there to have a comin’ to Jesus moment. If we can’t accomplish this, we’ll wonder in the desert for 40 more years.

The first pick is who will be the Chairman of the Republican party. My choice is New Gingrich he has more gravitas then anyone the Dims can put up and he will attack.

There’s more to it than that — but the comity, compromise, and surrender model has failed for the last time.

No more compromise.

I’ve promised not to write my feelings in much detail until I consult more with absentee, but let me preview for you guys: in the wake if this epic disaster, there better be a new wind blowing at RedState, or this place will dry up like a raisin while the conservative opposition coalesces and marches into the war to save our nation without you.

52 years old and I think it is long past time to either ask or, if we have to, push these old “reach across the isle” dinosaurs out of the way.

Look at who had the most trouble getting elected. Right her in Minnesota Norm Coleman hasn’t won against Al Franken.

I want to see people like Gov. Palen, Rep. Bachmann and Rep. Kline in there, both of them won big in their districts, even after national news went after Bachmann, she still won by 5%. This is in liberal Minnesota.

For the sake of the party, we need good articulate, principled, telegenic, candidates. We should be concentrating on getting 435 candidates to run for congress and 100 good candidates for Senate and start grooming them now.

DeMint, Kyle, and Coburn have my votes in the Senate.

Flake, Lamborn, Hensarling, Pence, Broun, or Shadegg would all make fine leaders in he house.