By Glen Bolger and Neil Newhouse
After stinging defeats in the 2006 midterms and the 2008 presidential election, we Republicans were supposedly condemned to a lengthy penance in the political wilderness, searching for our souls and groping for big ideas to rival the new Democratic juggernaut.
Well, that didn’t take long, did it?
Resounding GOP victories in New Jersey, Virginia and, most dramatically, Massachusetts have invigorated the party and revealed the perils of Democratic hubris. These were states where Democrats controlled all the levers of power: the governors’ offices, the Senate seats, a majority of House seats and five of six state legislative chambers.
Apparently, the Democrats thought people had voted for them because of their agenda — an agenda they really hadn’t bothered to share with the electorate in the first place. And now, the party’s bungling has resulted in the highest disapproval rating in Gallup polling history for a president after his first year.
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