Perry de Havillandquestions those of conservative ilk in the U.S., and I find his conclusions to be on the money:

Guys, you have been voting for the lesser evil for so long you may have lost sight of the fact that you have been voting for evil, just a tiny bit less than the other guy. Well no more easy options, no more putting the day of reckoning off for some point in the future... the day of reckoning has arrived and I for one am delighted. Do your worst Obama... to quote Lenin's inspiration Nikolai Chernyshevsky, "the worse, the better". Do not think of it as a disaster but rather an opportunity to actually create an opposition worth voting for. Never has there been a better time to destroy the political careers of really large numbers of Big State Republicans.

Exactly. We need to keep the pressure on the Republicans- become agents of radical change or cease to exist as any sort of meaningful political party. What is the point of defeating the Democrats if we get the same sort of Democrat style stuff in Republican clothing?