Well, OK - I do need the silver lining. Thanks for trying. I still despair for the home of the free and the land of the brave, however.

No it´s becoming the home of the entitled and the soon-to-be-enslaved.
Now that a crash is inevitable, the only bright spot I can think of is that when they blame the crash on Republicans, it will still have taken place during the term of a Democratic president.

Always heard if you don`t know history you are doomed to repeat it....think I understand what it was like in 1861...

Yes, a very few bright spots, but is better than nothing. And this idea that the youth vote dropped 6% in its support for obama is nothing to celebrate. The article thinks the youth are ´slowly catching on´ to the evil that is obama. But if they haven´t learned the lesson from the past 4 years, then another 4 years isn´t going to matter either. Nice try though.

Note that the list forgets to mention Ted Cruz who was about dead in the water this time last year, but because of a groundswell of tea party and conservative support rose to become a Senator.

These are merely spin stories of a Pyrrhic victory

The LSM are aiding the abetting a dictator.

Impeach will we still can.

Lining #2 a mere 50.5 % of the popular vote is what is scaring them. That is why there is a cacophony in unison asking the GOP to compromise its core principlea, enter the group grievances cesspool. This is a game they can beat us handily.

I learned that we can blame Sarah for the one Senate seat we did pick up. I told you she was trouble and the party should continue to distance itself from her.

Demographically we are now outnumbered. With inconsistent voting rules and expanding class of selfish and ignorant looters and moochers, the GOP may never win the presidency again. However, a new goal of controlling the House and Senate, along with as many state governorships could make holding the Oval Office irrelevant. Expansion and promoting of the Tea Party may be worth a look as well.

Popular vote still close? Indications of monumental vote fraud across the country would blow that number out of the water. Even more troubling was the electoral massacre -- what, 332-206? -- the left´s vote stealing monster gets bigger the more it devours.

I´m thinking the bright spots are dying embers.

I agree with #10 that Bush may be the last Republican president for many, many years. The idea that the GOP may be left with no alternative but to contend for the House and
Senate is interesting, but, even here, the odds are not in its favor. The real problem is that, over the past five decades, the progressives have successfully managed to infiltrate and overwhelm our society. They "own" our education system, K thru the doctoral thesis; our entertainment industry and its complete rewrite of what is right and wrong; union management everywhere; the main stream media; the great majority of the votes from our welfare society; and most of the local government bureaucracy responsible for managing the polls and counting votes. (Does anyone believe there will be any prosecutions in the Florida county where %141 of the voters turned out and practically everyone voted for Obama?) At present, the GOP does not appear equipped to comprehend, let alone contend with, how our country has evolved. The best it can hope for is to be occasionally allowed to rent a little space in the world of policy making and other governance. Conservatives are up against both a powerful Democrat machine and a Republican Party that has, for too many years, gone along to get along, and it is going to be a long, long time before we might hope to see any light in this current tunnel.

Nothing like a good dose of Pollyanna.

The GOP better act in the states they control to tighten up voter ID and cut out the voter fraud.

Stop putting lipstick on a pig! We have lost a number of our God given liberties and will lose more if we don´t find a way to stop that monstrosity in the White House. I am beginning to despair that the GOP will do it. These tiny pinpricks of light do not change the fact that we are no longer the Land of the Free.

The GOP has a major responsibility in the loss of the Senate. They refused to support in any significant way Scott Brown and gave scant or no support to Mourdock and Akin because of their supposed gaffes that the demns were allowed to blow way out of proportion to the point of lies.

The Tea Party needs to pour on the coals and work out a plank that will not be a single issue and can be accepted by a wide spectrum of voters. Romney and the GOP narrowed the issues that scared independents off the plantation.

IX, very nice!

Pete Stark got tossed out? How did that happen?
How did that get overlooked, that is HUGE.

All this shows us is that millions and millions of fraudent votes occurred.