were other factors that helped him. But if the downturn had not happened he would be a footnote in American history by now. ThomasBeach | 11.12.10 @ 11:01AM Howard | 11.12.10 @ 11:02AM I always enjoy Bob Tyrrell's writings. Unfortunately I live in deep Blue Massachusetts. There were several GOP candidates, specifically; Auditor and Treasurer who were far superior to the Democrats who won. Wasn't it Barry Goldwater who suggested sawing off the Eastern Seaboard? Nunya | 11.12.10 @ 8:00PM Al Adab | 11.12.10 @ 11:04AM Unless the GOP realizes that this election was in effect a spinal transplant and begins to act with courage and commitment (we can dream can't we?) the future is no better than the past. Twice before in 1994 and 2000 we citizens turned to the GOP and both times they failed us. The message here is simple: DO NOT FAIL US AGAIN. It fall to each of us individually and to our several states to pursue actions designed to Preserve and Protect our Constitutional government. The price of failure is beyond conprehension. All our voices and our organizations need to be firm and of one voice. Right the ship. American voters will not support, "a party whose main idea is slashing government. The Reformers propose new policies to address inequality and middle-class economic anxiety." Economic "anxiety," he says. Of course he wrote this before a single-dip recession threatened to morph into a triple-dip depression. Oddly, honest-to-goodness economic dread focuses the mind of the typical