Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Monday, November 13, 2006
More Conservative?
You may have been hearing the GOP talking point that they may have lost the election, but there's plenty of other evidence that the conservative "movement" was still alive. Nevermind that the electorate turned out some of the most conservative members of Congress, replacing them with liberals. How about this:
Yes, seven ballot measures banning same-sex marriage passed, albeit by smaller margins than has been the pattern; but one, in Arizona, was defeated—the first time that has happened anywhere. Missourians voted to support embryonic-stem-cell research. Californians and Oregonians rejected proposals to require parental notification for young women seeking abortions, and the voters of South Dakota overturned a law, passed by the state legislature and signed by the governor eight months ago, that forbade abortion, including in cases of rape or incest, except when absolutely necessary to save the mother’s life. Rick Santorum, the Senate’s most energetic social conservative, went down to overwhelming defeat—man on dog won’t hunt, either, apparently.
An anti-same sex marriage amendment failed in Arizona?! I didn't hear about that on the liberal media.

The evidence is in. The election clearly signaled a move from the far right toward the middle. How far leftward that move actually is will be the subject of much debate, particularly in the Democrat party.
Written at 9:41 AM by Greyhair.
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