What happened to Karl Rove's strategy for a lasting Republican majority?

[DeepModem Mom]

LAT: ANALYSIS
GOP ceded the middle and paid the price
By Ronald Brownstein, Times Staff Writer
November 7, 2006

For six tumultuous years President Bush has provoked intense opposition while mobilizing passionate support for an ambitious conservative agenda.

On Tuesday, that perilous strategy crumbled — and triggered his party's abrupt fall from power.

Republicans lost control of the House, and at best face a weakened grip in the Senate. The widespread losses will present Bush and the GOP with a sharpened challenge from congressional Democrats eager to command attention for their policy priorities, such as raising the national minimum wage, and to investigate the administration's performance on Iraq, global warming and other issues.

In the long run, the results raise fundamental questions about the viability of the strategy Bush and his chief political advisor, Karl Rove, have pursued to build a lasting Republican political majority.

Bush and Rove placed their main emphasis on unifying and energizing Republicans and right-leaning independents with an agenda that focused squarely on the goals of conservatives.

But Tuesday's broad Democratic advance underscored the risks in that approach: In many races, Republicans were overwhelmed by an energized Democratic base and a sharp turn toward the Democrats by moderate swing voters unhappy with the president's performance....

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-assess8nov08,0,366908.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[bluestateguy]

1. Looks like his Voter Vault was jammed shut tonight

:rofl:

[DeepModem Mom]

4. LOL!

[RummyTheDummy]

2. It went the way of Hitler's thousand year Reich

NT

[Carla in Ca]

7. Yep, twelve years for both. Amazing

n/t

[rodeodance]

3. the true 'evil' is being recoginzed by the MAJORITY!

[gr8dane_daddy]

5. Must have been a lobotomy recently...

so much for bushie's brain.

[Jade Fox]

6. He tried to inflict it on a country whose majority disagrees....

with the idiocy of the last six years.

[truthisfreedom]

8. he just couldn't hear it coming...

too much oxy... fried his ears.

[DinahMoeHum]

9. Like "Jonah's Gourd", grew up in a night, withered the next night.

:nuke:

[soothsayer]

10. So the Oct surprise was.....Haggard? LOL! Thanks kkkarl!

[Kolesar]

11. GOP overplayed their hand: labeling the peace vote as unpatriotic

That broken hawser snapped back and ripped their legs off. Impeachment would be too good for those guys. We should be in the dock with Saddam