I am cautiously confident about the House but pessimistic about the Senate. However winning even one branch of congress will be a big step to halting Obamaism. I agree with Goodwin “just because the Democrats deserve to lose does not mean that Republicans deserve to win”. We need strong, winnable candidates out there, not someone like Carl Paladino. By the way “gridlock” is fine if it means slowing down a runaway liberal agenda. Obama would have been better off doing nothing then what he did with the stimulus and Healthcare and his arrogance in the way he treated opponents and foreign allies will surely come back at him in November.
by Michael Goodwin
At the 2008 Democratic convention, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick issued a warning to his surging party. “Democrats don’t deserve to win just because Re publicans deserve to lose,” he said.
It was my favorite line of the campaign, and we now know it was prophetic. Dems clearly didn’t deserve to win all the power in Washington, as they prove almost every day.
Their failure to govern in a responsible and responsive way is wrecking the nation’s finances and costing them the trust of Americans. They have sparked fear and loathing toward government institutions unprecedented in modern times.
So the temptation arises, as we get ready to go to the polls again, to issue the same challenge to the GOP. Just because Democrats deserve to lose, do Republicans deserve to win?
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. By default, but not just default.
The 2010 midterms are not the flip side of 2008. This is an emergency election, as vital as any in memory.
Forget what the parties deserve. The nation deserves a major change in the balance of power.
President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have presided over an outrageous plundering of national wealth and power.
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In fairness, they inherited a bad situation. In truth, they made it worse in nearly every major respect.
The country is broke and divided, with the exposed fault lines multiplying. The president who pledged to heal the nation instead brought a gas can to the fire.
He has exacerbated an us-against-them culture, routinely demonizing any who stand in his way. His use of personal invectives diminishes the Oval Office.
He is a bully at home, but weak and uncertain abroad. Iran is two years closer to a nuclear weapon, yet America’s resolve is in doubt.
Our troops fighting and dying in Afghanistan are being undermined, our Marine commandant says, by the president’s public determination to begin exiting next year. And still the president persists in his timetable.
Republicans began his term defeated and demoralized. Only because Democrats overreached so egregiously did they find common purpose with legions of independent voters.
For their trouble, they are derided as obstructionists and the party of no. But no, as it turns out, is the absolute right answer. No more Obamaism is the best medicine.
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Carl the Snarl needs to nix the nastiness
Unless the GOP nominee for governor, Carl Paladino, finds a gear other than nasty, his Tea Party roots could become tea for one.
His and his team’s habit of name- calling — George Pataki is a “degenerate idiot,” and Gov. Paterson is a “whoremonger”– is cheap theater. He wants to put welfare families in former prisons to teach them “hygiene” and sends campaign literature that smells like garbage.
It’s all a head turner, and a turn-off.
Read the rest here: A welcome right turn
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