Thoughts on the 2006 Midterm Elections

I still find it hard to believe the Republicans managed to lose the House of Representatives despite the fact that they had gerrymandered all the states to give themselves safe districts, polls show that more American's consider themselves conservative than liberal, they had financial deep pockets, and the Democrats, with all due respect, are pretty disorganized and vague about what they stand for.

It was the Republican's game to lose, and they managed to lose it.

It seems to me that if you had to pick one factor that doomed the Republican's to defeat it was the war in Iraq. Its the only thing that is going really poorly for the US these days.

And I don't think it was just the fact that things were going poorly in Iraq that turned voters off so much as the White House and Republican leadership constantly trying to pretend like things were going great. Insisting that you are actually doing great when you and everyone else knows you are doing terrible doesn't make you look resolute and strong, it just makes you look weak and dumb to boot. Not only are you not strong enough to admit to your failures, you are not smart enough to realize that everyone sees through your pathetic denials.