Teaching the GOP a Lesson

Howie Kurtz quotes Fred Barnes in his blog today:

The president and Republicans need to be taught a lesson: We hear that a lot from conservatives. And maybe Bush and company do. But allowing Democrats to take over Congress won't achieve that. It won't lead to a Republican course correction any more than losing the 2000, 2002, and 2004 elections taught Democrats to move to the right. Politics doesn't work that way, and it never has.

Hmmm. The lesson I'd like the GOP to learn is that the politics of polarization, gay bashing, torture, lack of responsibility in governance, incompetence and corruption is a losing one. But maybe Fred is right. Or maybe the lesson the GOP will learn is they need to not make lip service to the religious right and take them even more seriously.

Oh dear.