Make no mistake... America IS a center-right nation and election night 2006 confirms this!

No I'm not smoking anything...

And yes it will come back to haunt democrats in the days to come.

Look at the strategy they masterfully employed: Go district by district and seek out socially and morally conservative "moderate" democrats to run. (Casey, Ford, Webb in Senate races, and even a born-again Christian Heath Schuler in House races)

During the campaign it didn't matter to the voters how these guys would caucus once in Washington - all they had to be was the moral conservative on the campaign trail - or just enough so to take down some of the GOP's true believers i.e. Santorum, Allan.

When you couple that with another seven states that solidified marriage amendments you see an overwhelming understanding in the Emmanuel/Pelosi camp this year that the screeching liberals couldn't pull it off for them.

That's why there was no Pelosi, Dean, Reid on the campaign trail in the closing days... As you heard in the analysis ALL NIGHT last night - the terms "moderate democrat," even "conservative democrats" - kept getting invoked far more than in the last six election cycles leading up to it.

The real question will be - now that the Democrats have "figured out" that the moral radar screen really does count - what will they do with it?

I'm not as confident as my friend Hugh Hewitt who seems to think the Dems will self destruct in six months. Oh they may - and they are perfectly capable of it.

But I think a more important question for GOP voters this morning - and more importantly GOP leadership is, "Will the GOP return to its social conservative strength on issues?"

The GOP has to stop being whimps on the social stuff... and since Campaign 2008 is now underway they had better make that adjustment rather quickly...