Black Tuesday

Disappointing losses:
• Michael Steele didn't make the Senate from Maryland.
• Lynn Swann didn't win the governorship of Pennsylvania.
• Jim Ryun lost his seat in the US House from Kansas.
• George Allen, who some thought would make a good presidential candidate, lost his Senate seat in Virginia.
• Jim Barnett, alas, we barely knew thee.

Points to Ponder:
• How on earth does a conservative state like Kansas re-elect a far left-wing governor from Ohio?
• Speaking of far-left, do we all realize who is in charge of the House of Representatives now? Or the House Intelligence committee? Or Ways and Means? Good grief! Thank goodness for 2008.
• McCaskill won; I'm stupefied.
• I'm afraid we'll spend the next two years looking backward, undoing progress, and repainting honest deeds as corruption – all for political gain. The Democrats ran, and won, on a blame Bush platform. No plans. Just hate mongering and name calling. And it worked.
• It's interesting that several of the Democrats who won are moderate or even conservative. This alone may be our saving grace.
• Cloning humans for research purposes is now a constitutional right in Missouri. Thank you Michael J. Fox and people who don't read the entire five pages of fine print.
• Kansas Secretary of State - perhaps the only office at any level where the candidate I voted for actually won. I'll have to double check, but I've come to expect it, being one of the six or seven token conservatives in Wyandotte County.
• Conservatives should go back to the basics in 2008: smaller government, lower taxes, traditional values, etc. This is the one of two areas in which I would criticize the President, he's been a ineffective moderate on domestic issues. The other area is Bush's absolute inability to communicate. I don't think he's wrong, I just don't think anybody understands where he's going or why.