“First, we took a pounding during the election for standing up and doing the right thing.”

I responded:

You should take the claims of the media with a grain of salt. The blue states are against the war in Iraq which is no real surprise. Iraq was probably a factor but not necessary the overwhelming one the media makes it. Of the Senate races the victories of the Democrats can be traced to other causes. Lincoln Chafee was against the way and still loss. He probably loss that race because the cultural conservatives voted against him. In Connecticut Lieberman who is pro Iraq war won by a land slide against anti Iraq war opponent. In both Ohio and Virginia low wages and high unemployment played a role. Other factors are that conservatives are angry about Republican unfaithfulness and did not vote or voted against them in order to punish them. Missouri was probably the stem cell amendment because the candidates lost and the stem cell loss was roughly the same margin. In Montana the Abramoff scandal probably played a large roll. In Pennsylvania, Sen. Rick Santorum’s loss had voter anger going against him because of GOP dominated state politicians giving themselves a raise and his support of the RINO Arlen Specter in 2004.

The details the media forgets to mention are very interesting.

I do not know enough about the House losses to say why the occurred but I am not taking the anti war media’s over generalization and the reason.

That is my opinion.

The necessity of having the Reserves on the ground when there is any warfighting to be done is a necessity created by first, a democratic congress, then by a democratic president, after the end of the Cold War. The force drawdown intitiated under Bush, and then continued under Clinton, left us without the Active Duty component Soldiers necessary to fight a war. And so far, the Republicans have not been able to convince their opposites in congress that any kind of strengthening of the Active Duty component is necessary.