Don´t betray us Boehner! Do not raise the debt ceiling - it is our major leverage. You will be vilified no matter how "bipartisan" you are. So for once, act on conservative principles, not your alcohol addled egotism.

2014 has a reasonable opportunity to be a repeat of 2010. The conditions and quality of life will be, as the article says, measurably worse. Also, there will be no single standard bearer who is at odds with the grass roots. Time for the Tea Party Nation and Sarah to step in.

A quote from the always good Instapundit---

"Republicans needed more Lee Atwater and less Karl Rove."

Just so, dontcha´ think?

fta: "Obama has ´inherited´ a national mess from himself."

I think he is right about the 2014 election and I also think that the Democrats will never ever find a candidate like Mr. Obama again. Certainly not Hillary! I think it´s a mistake to look at this last election as a repudiation of conservative values, we have to look at it as a popularity contest because most Obama supporters were ill informed, superficial and media hyped and he was just so hip and cool! They won´t have their savior next time because they´re are going to discover to their disappointment that he can´t run again. And after all his policies bring us to the brink of disaster, they probably won´t vote.

I am not so optimistic. Nothing has changed in the blue states and open borders are rapidly eroding Texas. Florida is gone. Conservatives may be right on principles, but they do not matter with classes, or ethnic groups. California was once blue, and is now a one party state. Without some change, just waiting for election is a false hope.

Agree with above posters. By Nov 2014 when Obamacare has already taken hold and the mandates hit the 99% crowd (who think everything is free), we will take the Senate big time. Hopefully by 2016 with a GOP prez we can repeal Obamacare like Prohibition was repealed. Or will it be too late?

The weight has shifted to the looters. How do you beat candidates whose slogan is vote for me and it is all free.

Count me among the pessimists. By 2016 ObamaCare will be a permanently entrenched bureaucracy, as untouchable as the Departments of (so called) Energy and Education. People may be dissatisfied with it but they´ll be DEPENDENT on it, which will be all that matters electorally. The other side understands this. And a newly elected 2014 Republican senate will have no power to influence or counteract that developing dependency.

And by 2016 the courts will be gone, and all of you should know what that means. Any measure passed by a conservative president and congress from 2017 on which imperils the socialist status quo will be shopped through the courts and eventually up to a left wing SCOTUS, which will have its majority decision written beforehand.

It´s tempting to want to be hopeful, but we need to face the fact that we´ve past the point of no return.

Don´t double down on Sarah Palin "Let´s keep the primary going until the convention" idiocy. Mitt couldn´t define himself while he was fighting the class warfare of Newt and the strict anti abortion and gay marriage issue of the hard right.

Keep up the Mitt blame, that RINO monster, and you destroy Paul Ryan by association.
Moderate the absolutist position on abortion which was in the platform even though Mitt was not going to go into social reform. Akin and Mourdock loss needs be kept in mind.

Keep up the no gay unions and you will see gay marriage put in place which will intrude on your own rights. Instead we should go gung ho on finding common ground on gay unions--the only way to avoid gay marriage. The young do not feel anything against gay marriage and their feeling trumped any thought or reason.

Voter fraud, voter ID a major issue as is the power to sue the Constitutional law breakers of the GOP governors. Work locally to get more republicans OF ANY ILK into Congress. Look at the post election maps--vast land area is red. Gop governors and Congressional reps are doable and can be shown by their individual states economies (if survive obama)

obama maybe more interested in his jet setting, transnational legacy than in turning us commie which he in frustration said couldn´t be done from the inside and the national secrets he has not already revealed? He has to remember bin Laden´s fate if he is too blatant?

I absolutely agree with #6. We won´t do any better in 2014 than we did last week. The reason for that is there will be MORE "takers" by then. Those people are the reason Obama was re-elected. There are more of them than us and as long as they continue to get their FREE health care, housing, phones and everything else in their lives, they will continue to vote DEMOCRAT. They could care less what happens to this country. To them, they´re living large! Until THEY feel some PAIN, nothing is going to change...ever. Democrats will see to it that those "Takers" are happy and comfortable. Get used to Democrat Rule!

I´ve come around to thinking that it will be better to let the fiscal cliff happen now, rather than agree to some half-a-loaf deal with Obama.