Wasn't the time for that a year ago? Now, it's on to 2012...

The problem with the prognostications of a GOP comeback presume is the assumption that they've hit bottom, while ignoring that troublesome "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

The Dems won big in 2008. But what is fascinating is that they won in many areas that were methodically and deliberately redistricted into hardcore Repub enclaves. No doubt some of the concentrations will be broken up by Dem redistricting, so the idea that a strong Repub comeback from watered down districts seems kinda slim.

You - always looking to the future and not paying attention to where you are!

Possibly the country would be better served if the political elites payed more attention to governing the country instead of pulling power plays and making points.

He implies it was all due to tax cuts!

He ignores (at least in your excerpt) the effect of 9-11 on the 2002 midterm elections. This was a singular event, and combined with the "traitor-hunting" done during the 2002 Republican campaigns, it was a very tough year for Dems.

the Republican strategy of obstructionism which seem be at play over the Holder nomination shows that both pundit wannabes selling last century memes, and operatives of the GOP understand that stuff that hasn't worked for the last four years,

will not work now, either.

Comeback? The GOP doesn't have a marketing problem. The problem is their product. What they have to sell doesn't work, is ugly, and is utterly useless.

And enabling pundit wannabes who constantly refer back to their rolodexes and connections simply don't understand they aren't a very successful product, either.