From The Seattle PI
By Marianne Means

I almost feel sorry for conservative Republican true believers. Almost, mind you. They were so cocky and self-assured that it didn’t occur to them they were going to lose, and their figureheads still can’t accept it.

Rush Limbaugh, among the worst, is insisting that the conservative movement is alive and well because the new Democratic majority is stuffed with non-liberals who are against abortion and favor the right-wing playbook’s cultural constraints. Dream on, Rush.

The new Democrats may not be clones of the old Franklin Roosevelt liberals, but they are not your ideologically-obsessed GOP brothers and sisters either. This is a new era, one marked more by pragmatism than ideological rigidity.

The country wants to move on. And ahead.

White House genius Karl Rove is still in denial, giving interviews in which he says the Democratic victory is no big deal. His battle plan of concentrating on a right-wing base and ignoring moderates, independents and Democrats, worked for three elections. But finally folks got wise. Nobody likes to be ignored.

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