{"id":4298,"date":"2010-11-05T16:45:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T16:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4298"},"modified":"2010-11-05T16:57:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T16:57:15","slug":"losing-in-retrospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4298","title":{"rendered":"Losing&#8230; In Retrospect."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Losing...%20In%20Retrospect.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Seeing that it&#8217;s only two days into the new political reality, maybe it&#8217;s too soon to make this comparison. But&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>While looking at some of the silly press and pundit reactions to the Democrats\u00a0shellacking\u00a0on Tuesday, it\u00a0occurred\u00a0to me how much different the reaction was among most Conservative writers and bloggers in 2006 and 2008, when their\u00a0supposed\u00a0endless grip on power faded into the bleak inglorious sunset that was the closing years of the Bush administration:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know, we didn&#8217;t deserve to win. We didn&#8217;t do what the voters of this country put us here to do, expected us to do. We lost touch with our core philosophies. We didn&#8217;t behave like Conservatives&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, they recognized it was their own damned fault that they lost. They acknowledged they had become arrogant and drunk on power. They weren&#8217;t doing the peoples business.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s called introspection. \u00a0Now, you may not like the purging of the moderates from the party, and \/ or you may not believe that they&#8217;ve really changed from what they were four years ago, but at least they acknowledge they were the root cause of their own defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Fast\u00a0forward\u00a0four years. Democrats find themselves facing the same power-sapping sunset. What is their response?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4288\">Stupid Racist american Idiots! They&#8217;re simply too dumb and uneducated to understand just how good we are for them!!!!!!!!<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dems, it could just be me, but I&#8217;m thinking that&#8217;s not a great way to start to win back the hearts and sympathies of the American voter. But hey, what do I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Losing...%20In%20Retrospect.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Seeing that it&#8217;s only two days into the new political reality, maybe it&#8217;s too soon to make this comparison. But&#8230; While looking at some of the silly press and pundit reactions to the Democrats\u00a0shellacking\u00a0on Tuesday, it\u00a0occurred\u00a0to me how much different the reaction was among most Conservative writers and bloggers in 2006 and 2008, when their\u00a0supposed\u00a0endless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4298"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4300,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions\/4300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}