Gil Smart: Conservatism is Dead (in for a rude awakening)

So moderate, conservative and populist Democrats won 6% of the Senate and 7% of the House and now they have delivered a "death blow" to Conservatives, according to idiot columnist Gil "not-so" Smart.

How laughable.

If Conservatism died on Nov. 7th, so did liberalism, because as I remember it - anti-war liberal Democrat Ned Lamont sunk like a stone against Joe Lieberman, a pro-war Independent. He lost just as much as Santorum did.

Even here in PA, populist Bob Casey Jr., who is against same-sex marriage and is prolife, is hardly a shrill left wing liberal. He is quoted last year stating that we "should finish the job" in Iraq. In other words, Santorum did not lose to liberalism. He lost to propaganda and name recognition of Bob Casey Jr., who most people didn't realize is still involved in the illegal payraise scandal.

As a right-leaning populist myself, I am not disappointed at Santorum's replacement, although I would have liked to have seen him win. But I don't consider it a defeat of conservatism, just another prime example of the left reducing its argument to making it personal rather than actually debating any issues - pushing me farther from my position as right-leaning populist toward conservatism.

I can only imagine that others in my position are being pushed that way, too thanks to Election 2006. So I am thinking that Gil and other libs who misguidedly think "they won" just might get their wish - an angry wave of Red come November 2008. I know of at least one Democrat seat that will probably go - Troopbasher Kerry.