The Republicans lost in '08, because they were trying to hard to act like Liberals.
The real message here is: Americans have rejected the Liberal agenda.
Like Rush, I hoped that the Liberal agenda would be a massive failure and our prayers have been answered. It's time to take our country back.
Are you trying to compete with the ride at Disney, cause you've got some great :spin: going on as well.
You realize that Brown ran as a relatively moderate social conservative comparitive to the type of conservative you are, and what was in office for the past few years. He wasn't running on over turning Roe v. Wade, he wasn't running on a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
The only part of the liberal platform this really points to is the Health Care platform, and even then to say that it shows "Americans" have rejected it when only a single state has, even if that state is definitely a blue one, is questionable.
The republicans also didn't lose in 08 because they were trying to "act like liberals". McCain was actually trying to act more like the archtype conservative during the campaign than he had anytime in the 8 years prior. Palin was far from attmepting to act like a liberal.
People throwing out this ignorant hyper partisan hack spin on both sides about why Republicans lost are at best delusional and at worst purposefully decieving and manipulating information because they don't give a damn about this country but simply scoring their own political points.
Republicans lost because.......
They had an extremely unpopular president from their party leaving the White House.
The economy was doing poorly under the Republican President just prior to it.
A segment of the republican base had became disengaged and disinterested in the party starting in 2006.
A large segment of the base was unenthusiastic and unhappy about a John McCain candidacy.
A extremely botched campaign by McCain that couldn't grab independents, and horrible political strategy after bringing Palin on making it even harder to get independents.
The pop icon status of Obama, becoming not just a political pick but a "trendy" pick for people. It was suddenly "fashionable" to vote and be political interested for the first time in years upon years.
The historical significance of an Obama election.
The striking charismatic difference between Obama and McCain
Etc
People stupidly saying it was done largely because people "rejected the republican agenda" or because "Republicans acted like liberals" are just being intellectually dishonest or lazy in their examining of that situation.