For a moment let’s forget the Democrats, lets think about us, us alone. Why should we always have to define ourselves in the context of Democrats; cant we not examine why we failed rather than spending all our time in exploring why they won! Let us be honest to ourselves and seriously examine our shortcomings. No spinning, no tap-dancing, let us pragmatically analyze why we failed.

IMHO, here is what we should do, if we desire to get to the bottom of our mess:

1. Let us drop the lame duck statement “although we lost, conservatism won”!
2. Let us drop the myth “most of us stayed home, and that’s why Democrats won”
3. Let us drop the sour-grape statement that “Rick Santorum lost because most of the electorates are old in that state, hence they don’t care about his vision”! (this rationale leads to either he didn’t have any vision when he won in 1995, or all who elected him became “senior citizens” during his tenure! lol)
4. Let us drop the wishful thinking that the “Mainstream media has become the Drive-By media or the Dinosaur media, hence they don’t influence the population anymore”! They do, and much more than the democrats, they are more qualified to assume the victory this time.
5. Let us drop the myth that “there is no such a thing called Moderates, everyone is either a conservative or a liberal”!
6. Lets drop the damage control slogans such as “everyone is a fallen creature, hence people tend to make mistakes”! (if so, calling the left “culture of death” becomes a joke)

The bottom-line is this, that if we comfort ourselves with our own lies then we are deceiving no one but us. Hence let us do a honest stock-take of what happened on November 7th; no spinning, no bias, no talk-show style con-job or what so ever, let us try to assimilate what really went wrong against us (or what went in favor of democrats). Once this clear substratum is laid, then we can come-out with a plan to fix the mess.

I think, we should gather all points of view, even from the winners shamelessly, to help us understand and do a through analysis quantitatively. Sadly, I don’t see it happening now-a-days, instead I see everyone panicking and arriving at all sorts of stupid conclusions and plans in haste!!!

Hilarious enough, we haven’t even gone through the aforementioned exercise formally, not yet, nevertheless, 2008 presidential candidates are being lined up!!! For a change, can we all think?