The new media meme seems to be that "Republicans are poised for a comeback" Since they won two out of 4 elections this year.
I beg to differ.
It is about time we had more Strong Dems and Liberals correct the "conventional wisdom" of the "inside the beltway crowd" The only way we will do that is to prove them wrong, over and over and over again.
What is the Republican't party actually offering the American people as an alternative to Democratic ideas?:
We Can't possibly afford health care for everybody because that would hurt the insurance company profits if we did it right, plus we can't actually have the "government" come up with a plan because we know that the Government can't do anything right.
We can't cut the defense budget in a time of two wars. Speaking of which, after screaming "cut and run" at anyone who dared even come up with a nuanced solution to Iraq, we now have decided that we can't win in Afghanistan so we should just bring the troops home.
Everyone knows that the government can't create jobs, only the private sector can. So we can't possibly do anything about a 10% unemployment rate (except cut more taxes for the rich and hope it trickles down), but it's President Obama's fault that it is so high. Nothing is the fault of the Republican't party because we told you ahead of time we can't do anything
We can't do anything about global warming because we don't believe it exists. If we are wrong about this, it won't matter to us because it will be our children who have to deal with the consequenses.
We can't possibly improve our image in the world because that would mean that we'd have to admit to having made some mistakes. Everyone knows that this country is perfect and the best country in the world so they either like us and bend to our will or not. We can't convince them otherwise.
We can't do anything about the giant mega banks that are too big to fail, because they fund our campaigns and if we did anything about it, we would be socialists.
I think you get the idea. The Republican't Party is going to run on their own ideas next year. They will run on tax cuts for business and the top tax bracket. They will tell us that the market always works best, government is the enemy, can't do anything right and we should let them Run it!
I'm not too worried about next year.