Many conservatives have been angry with moderates gaining their party’s nomination for general elections.  Take the Bibray campaign in San Diego as an example. There, conservatives felt betrayed by their party and refused to get out the vote for Bilbray, who went on to solidly defeat a weak Democratic candidate generously backed by the liberal left.

In addition, those on the Right are upset with their policy leaders in DC over ever- increasing government spending and what seems to be an inability to pass common sense immigration reform.  It’s been twelve years since the Republican Revolution and many feel that those they sent to shrink and clean up big government have “gone native.”

Two recent developments, however, demonstrate that a significant opportunity exists for conservatives and Republicans.  First, the House just announced field hearings to guage public response to the two competing immigration reform proposals produced by the House and Senate.  Most conservatives see this as a failure to get something done, but in reality this is a deft public relations ploy to illustrate the anger  outside-the-beltway Americans feel about illegal immigration, shame the Senate, and give Republicans a huge bump right before elections.

Second, Democrats continue to portray themselves as anti-American, out-of-touch, uber-liberals.  John Fund describes how the Democratic party cannot break its addiction to crazy spokespeople.  It started out with Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, then Cindy Sheehan and now John Murtha.  This line-up is a dream come true for Republican political consultants.  All Republican mailers should be required to have photos of the Democratic Gang of Four simply to scare America into the Republican party.

Conservatives need to realize that if they can’t get what they want, the next best thing is to take advantage of the mistakes of their opponents.  The worst thing they could do is continue to aim their guns at fellow Republicans when Democratic targets are SO HUGE!!!