Brian Maloney over at The Radio Equalizer offers us 6 reasons why we conservatives have reason to be optimistic after this mid-term election. They are pretty good points, and I thought I would share them here with you.

• For several years now, conservatives have grown exceptionally frustrated with the GOP leadership on a number of issues, especially illegal immigration and out- of- control government spending. We’ve seen so little progress on these pressing matters that the loss of Republican Congressional control doesn’t sting nearly as much as it should have.
• Rather than being won by Democrats, this election was lost by Republicans. Neither party made a good case for itself this year, but anti- GOP sentiment was strong enough to toss them out.

  Quick: what issues did the Democrats run on this year? Other than on the idea of opposing Republicans, there were almost none. In the long run, that doesn’t bode well for their party.

• This defeat finally gives the Republican grassroots a chance to be in the driver’s seat. Pressing for new leadership will be easy now. Over time, the GOP will be much stronger than it is today, through elected representatives who are more principled than what we have now.
• The real race is in 2008. It’s going to be much easier to get a Republican elected in the presidential contest than it would have been had the party prevailed last night.

  And the Democrats aren’t going to control Congress by much, so it won’t be especially difficult to overturn that result in two years if the party gets its act together. Some of the seats lost to scandals last night are in districts that will be hard for Dems to maintain beyond one term.

  The 2008 election cycle officially begins today!

• We’re not going to miss some of those who were booted last night. Will any tears be shed for Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee? No, he’s been a sad joke for years.

  Note that Ocean Staters re-elected GOP Governor Don Carcieri, who is fairly conservative, but rejected the Senate’s most liberal Republican member.

• Conservative talk radio should get a real shot in the arm from these losses, as will the blogosphere.

Good points, thanks for the bit of an uplift Brian.