Listening to conservative commentators this morning, I think they have no idea, yet.
You have to admire for its audacity the sidestep in which, when Liberals take the reins, they are expected to ... cooperate. When the Conservatives take the reins, they announce, as Newt did, 'we have the rules committee, we have the House ...', implying that discussion was "nice", but not necessary.
Then there is Joe Scarborough, appealing for epistemological humility (for himself?).
THE AGE OF NON-TRIANGULATION
With some luck, the new generation, the net-roots, do not look set to be innately ashamed of being in charge and more likely than not to have their own ideas, not just responsive opinions to a Conservative-fed agenda (and certainly - certainly - more than the old-world, machine politics).
Put another way, Conservatives have yet to prove that they can be a constructive partner for change, right?
As for the rest, if American Conservatism wants a "comeback", one can come up with the formula in just four words: give integrity a chance.
The whole approach of spinning frequently bogus narratives that can be sold to fifth-grade-average educated voters ... could well be at the end of its rope, if the Democrats do the right things to consolidate their recent gains.
