My memory of the post-defeat party in Des Moines is Fritos and the kind of dip you make with dried onion soup mix.
But one of his explanations offers false comfort to the defeated party.
This became apparent last September when Mr. Tanigaki, 65, defeated a younger opponent, Taro Kono, 47, to lead the defeated party.
We are seeing a defeated party caught in a round of retributions.
It was just enough of an opening for right-wing strategists to further their overhaul of a deservedly defeated party.
Mdala made it forcefully clear that the ANC had come to Kempton Park not as a defeated party but as a proud participant.
When Jefferson defeated the Hamilton-Adams Federalists to become president, he famously said, "We are all Federalists," to absorb the defeated party.
The Tories defied the opinion pollsters' predictions of a hung parliament by winning an overall majority of 12. On a dramatic day, three defeated party leaders resigned in the space of just 52 minutes.
Since the election, as Republicans have confronted Obama in a series of budgetary battles — another will unfold this week — few have tried as hard as Cantor to reposition and redefine the defeated party.
Shut inside the hot confines of a house in Jaffna, located in the former northern war zone of Sri Lanka, the nine men are busy drawing the future plans for their defeated party.
