The Conservative Resurgence Begins

The Conservative Resurgence Begins
By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown

The American people have spoken, and a wave of change has begun.

After last Tuesday's election, Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi tried to claim victory.

The left-wing media tried portraying the Republicans as a party at war. But the American people, specifically moderates and independents, swung towards the Republicans in significant numbers.

The electoral tides have shifted, and if the Republican Party doesn't waste this opportunity they will ride the wave of economic discontent to major victories in 2010.

Specifically, the Republicans swept the two governorships up for election in 2010. Although the GOP lost a competitive House seat in NY, the loss was a result of a corrupt nominating process, not conservative ideas.

As C. Edmund Wright writes in American Thinker,

"The Democrats did not lose a 2-1 squeaker last week.
They lost two huge races, saw an overall evaporation of 25 basis points of support -- and lost by nearly 500,000 cumulative votes in the three high-profile elections." The best news of the day came from Virginia. Republican Bob McDonnell, an outspoken fiscal and social conservative, trounced Democrat Creigh Deeds by nearly 20%.

The Republicans also defeated at least six incumbent Democrats in the House of Delegates and won the important Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General's races by comfortable margins.

All three of the statewide candidates in Virginia -- Bob McDonnell, Bill Bolling for Lieutenant Governor and Ken Cuccinelli for Attorney General -- are outspoken conservatives.

The left-wing media tried downplaying Obama's involvement in the Virginia rout, but Obama had personally campaigned for Deeds, and over the weekend Obama signed a personal letter urging 300,000 of his supporters to support the Democrat. Evidently his calls fell on deaf ears as independents broke two to one in favor of the Republican candidate.

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