More hand wringing and reflection oh my! Julian Sanchez:

“Since the humbling results of the November election came in, the conservative movement has been scrambling to assess what happened—and to figure out how to prevent it from happening again. Much of this effort, in light of the Obama campaign’s much ballyhooed online operation, has focused on closing the technology gap with the left, and getting conservative candidates and activists to make better use of new media. Hence we see sites like Top Conservatives on Twitter, meant to publicize co-partisans on the popular microblogging service and encourage others to sign up.”

Thus more blather on how to get more “tech” and how to “get hip” and “with the times”, and so on.

Let’s review folks. Of the last eight presidential elections we’re 5 and 3 (Regan won twice, Bush I once, Bush II twice, vs. Clinton Twice, and Barack Obama once).

From 1994 until 2006 we ran the table on Governorships, Congress and held our own in the Senate.

So all this talk about “remaking ourselves” is utter stupidity. Remember that it was 2004 when Bush won - in the middle of a war I might add - kept majorities in the congress and liberals throughout the land were threatening to move to Canada. For the numerically challenged that’s four years ago, hardly

So what happened? Simple, Bush and the Republicans lost their conservative values and exchanged them for populist centrist values and ideas that muddied the brand and told the American public that we stood for nothing. It’s just as simple as that. Yeah there were scandals - mostly concocted by the liberal media, but mostly the loss of that conservative grounding that did it.

It’s not that we can’t use tech, but remember it did squat for John Kerry in 2004. What Obama did - and this is often forgotten - is lie to the American people when he backtracked on taking public funding and instead through his operation out to the world, where God knows where the money came from.

It’s yet to be determined if even some of that money was legal, the Normal Hsu trial may yet shed light on that.

But getting more techie aside, we simply need to rekindle core conservative values. They are the only answer for the problems now facing the country, and instead of sitting in sackcloth and ashes we should be identifying core conservative candidates while at the same time ridding the party of the impostors.

Don’t let the media and naysayers detract us from this important task.

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