Reader comments
What others say: An election that rang bells

If Democrats are listening and watching they will see that taxpayers are angry about the oceans of red ink from the Obama admin. If Republicans are listening, they will know that trying to out democrat democrats will get them replaced just as fast! The bell sound the rest of us hear is the alarm warning us there is a out of control spending fire to be put out!

Why would the DN advise a "big tent" Republican party. Let the party stand for its principles of smaller government, fiscal conservatism, self-reliance, free enterprise, strong defense, and the electorate will move toward those positions or away depending on how the electorate sees the future. Right now, the government intervention and the proposed, unfunded entitlements, are not the way to a prosperous future, and even minimal common sense can discern you can't spend your way into prosperity, just bankruptcy. Trying to elect a left winger as a Republican in New York, Scarfuzzi (sp) shows how sillly it is to run RINOs, McCain, Dole, the whole bunch of politicians with out core principles, just political ambitions. The Republicans need to honor their conservative base, (40% self identified) or they won't be elected as Republicans. History has proved it over and over.

If you are still a democrat or a republican, YOU are part of the problem.

I thought the REPUBLI/CONS invented POLITICAL PIXIE DUST?

The media are mostly lagging way behind the electorate. Don't they get it? We don't trust Congress. We gave Obama a chance and he wasted it. Young people were conned into thinking someone was going to change things for the better. They, like us older folks, have now become disenchanted and cynical.

The elections stated loud and clear that we don't trust Democrats any more than Republicans. They show that Obama's personal recommendations do not get anyone elected. They show that even a third party candidate suddenly appearing from nowhere can now seriously challenge the status quo. They show that sticking a Republican label on someone who favors "gay marriage" and abortion will not wash any more.

The Republican plan sounds like it could solve a lot of the problems with the system and is far superior to the mess that the Democrats have given us. So why didn't they come up with this when they were in power and could actually have done something???