The election news could not have appeared grimmer in the immediate aftermath. South Dakota's abortion ban went down. Parental notification lost in California and Oregon. Missourians approved the embryonic stem cell initiative. Kansans condoned child rape and illegal late-term abortions by ousting Attorney General Phill Kline.

Add to that the loss of the GOP Senate majority, which means for starters no more conservative judges, and the loss of the GOP House majority, which means for starters a promised bill within the first 100 hours of the new session to federally fund embryonic stem cell research, and, well ...

But as I reviewed and processed, I became angry.

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While Democrats boldly promoted embryonic experimentation, decried parental notification, and argued that privacy ranked higher than rape, Republicans cowered. Missouri's Jim Talent wimped on human cloning. South Dakota's John Thune went silent on the abortion ban.

Meanwhile, the RNC crushed conservative Rhode Island Senate primary candidate Steve Laffey to try to preserve liberal Lincoln Chafee.

President Bush did mention judges during the last campaign week, but doing so only reconjured bad memories of his inexplicable faux pas in nominating Harriet Miers, the Gang of 14, and all the nominees left languishing despite a 55-45 GOP Senate majority.

The greatest factor in Santorum's loss was his support of pro-abortion Arlen Specter in the 2004 primary against pro-lifer Pat Toomey. Pennsylvania pro-lifers never got over it, apparently having had it with capitulating – the start of a national trend?

Conservatives could have handed Republicans no more silver a platter in 2004 to serve us back what we elected them for, but they squandered it. Incredibly, this Senate confirmed the fewest judges in 30 years. No Child Pain Awareness Act. No Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act. These were all gimmees had not Democrats out-cahoneyed Republicans.

Why?

The pieces started to fall together on the following two points.

We learned at the end of the campaign that GOP leadership is peppered with homosexual legislators and top staff. The homosexual lobby is as militantly pro-abortion as the abortion lobby, evil twins with the same goal: illicit sex with no consequences.

We also learned the GOP is corrupt, which obviously leads to breach of ideals.

Now I think I know what has been going on. The current scene is eerily similar to that in Illinois, where not too long ago no one could quite understand the barrier between supposedly pro-life Gov. George Ryan and advancing our agenda, until his administration was exposed as depthlessly corrupt and the Illinois GOP leadership pervaded by homosexuals.

The evidence may be more than circumstantial.

Last week, former Illinois Sen. Peter Fitzgerald dropped a bomb during a speech, saying that none other than Karl Rove tried to stop him from appointing U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate corruption in Illinois.

''Karl … said we will not appoint anyone from out of state,'' said Peter. ''We'll let you pick anyone you want, as long as that person is from Chicago.''

Peter appointed Patrick (no relation) anyway, breaking with both the White House and Denny Hastert. That appointment cost Peter his job.

Why would Rove give Fitzgerald such orders unless he was protecting friends? Was it an isolated event? We may not have heard the end about corruption.

Nor may we have heard all there is to know about homosexuals in GOP leadership. For the first time in my life I read gay websites this week, which I'm sure will amuse them, and if some of the GOP names they're outing as homosexual actually are, wow.

To answer my question as to whether 11/7 was a pro-life day of disaster, no. Rulers rise (Rom. 13:1) and fall (Is. 40:23) at the whim of God. He orchestrates the political landscape. His purpose in allowing evil or good is always to save lives (Gen. 50:20).

I'm actually energized.

They say center-right Democrats won the day 11/7. I say that's titillating.

They say the South Dakota abortion ban failed. I say an incredible 44 percent voted to completely outlaw abortion and to bring it on again.

They say Missouri embryo/cloning backers will now ''focus … on ensuring voters … that everything they have said about Amendment 2 and what it does is accurate.'' I say that will be impossible and lead to its ultimate defeat.

Democrat pundit Mort Kondracke reported the best news from 11/7: exit polls indicated 21 percent of voters identified themselves as liberal, 47 percent moderate (i.e., persuadable), and 32 percent conservative. The rule of thumb used to be 20-60-20.

Of all the points to be made about 11/7, the most important is that in the ultimate battle for the heart and soul of America, pro-lifers are slowly but surely winning.

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