This rightwing triumphalism is bizarre. The Republicans won by planting anti-gay marriage amendments on swing state ballots and pushing the issue relentlessly. IOW, fear of guys kissing won this race. God knows it's not any sort of extremism by the Democrats. The party run by Daschle? Hello?
Interesting question: how can the GOP gin up enough fear of gayness to win in 2006? They've already got the marriage angle covered. God knows they can't run on any real issues. I see Hastert waving a list of fifty - nay five hundred! - names of card-carrying gay people working in the federal government. Maybe a push to keep gay teachers out of public schools. Heaven knows, once you start demagogueing a vulnerable minority the possibilities are endless.
BTW, Daschle isn't running anything anymore. 
