While there's a fair amount of denial going on in the righty blogosphere (it was the media's fault!) there are some examples of refreshing, head-not-buried-entirely-in-the-sand, honesty:
We lost because nobody in their right mind would trust us to run a government.
Why? What did you do wrong?
We've long been the Party of fiscal restraint, but when we had all three branches we went on a spending binge that would embarrass a drunken sailor...... In seven years we demonstrated to the American people that we really didn't mean what we'd said for all those years; we weren't against spending, we were against Democrat spending. We weren't against big government, we just wanted it big in the places we like. The people caught us in the lie and held us responsible for it.
But wasn't it just the media's fault?
I know, it wasn't right, wasn't fair, was a media lynching of GWB; all of that is true, but we laid ourselves open for it. When you run as the adults of the group, you don't put the former general counsel of a horsebreeding association in charge of a high profile federal agency.
Picky picky. But what should be done? From the comments:
Who pushed us into the suckosphere?
I know you don't like this question, but if we don't get rid of those who lead us here won't they just lead us back to sucking after they again gain power?
The cancer of suck isn't cured by just acknowledging the suck...I think at this point maybe a regiment of suck killing chemo might be in order. Otherwise we will just see a remission of suck until it comes back more powerful. And that would really suck.
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