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Virgina Losses Spell Trouble For Blue Dog Democrats

by Phantom Ace ( 194 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2009, Elections 2010, Liberal Fascism, Progressives at November 4th, 2009 - 7:41 am

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The Progressive machine suffered a blow yesterday as the Republican Chris Christie defeated Radical Totalitarian Progressive John Corzine. It is in Virginia that the warning signs for the Progressive controlled Democratic Party are. Republican Robert McDonnell won Virginia by huge margins and the rest of the GOP ticket swept other state races. Just a year ago Barack Hussein Obama won Virginia by 5% and the Democrats picked up 3 House seats as well. Experts were saying Virginia was going Left, however last night shows that the gains made by the Democrats are in danger in Red States.

CHRIS Christie’s gutsy win in New Jersey puts the arrogant big spender Jon Corzine in his place. But it is the election in Virginia that probably has more to say to marginal Democratic congressmen considering how to vote on health-care reform.

Obviously, Christie’s victory is a body blow to Obama after Corzine outspent the Republican by five-to-one and the president put on a serious push for the incumbent. Corzine’s defeat sends a message that the nation is moving sharply against Obama.

But Virginia results are the most important. More than 80 Democratic congressmen and twenty senators come from states that John McCain carried in 2008. For them, the sudden switch in Virginia, a swing state that Obama actually carried, heralds tough political times ahead.

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The Blue Dog Democrats represent Districts that normally would be Republicans. They made these gains in 2006 and 2008, thanks to the Progressive Alinsky style attacks on Bush and the Republican Party. They also claimed to be fiscal Conservatives, but their record in Congress shows that is not the case. The Blue Dogs voted for the Debt-Porkulus package, thus exposing them as Progressives in disguised.

A vote for Obamacare will spell the end of their careers and loss of their seats. Virginia is a warning to the Red State Democrats that if they continue down the Progressives Path, they will be voted out in 2010.

It’s Reality Check Time for the Republican “Leadership”

by tqcincinnatus ( 324 Comments › )
Filed under Politics, Republican Party at November 2nd, 2009 - 5:00 am

Uh oh, the right wing fanatic at Renew America isn’t at all happy with the present “leadership” of the GOP,

To state the blindly obvious, the Republican Party establishment — by which I mean the network of advisers, elected office-holders, Party organs, and higher-level Party officials who primarily determine the direction in which Party policy and Party money goes — is politically tone deaf. All across this country, you have Tea Parties and town halls bursting with the frustration of the common man who is seeing himself becoming the victim of a political class that has absolutely no concern about his wants and desires. Poll after poll after poll, on every issue imaginable, show that the American people are opposed to, well, pretty much everything that Obama and the Democrats in Congress are trying to do. There is clearly an opportunity being handed to the Republican Party on a golden platter to utterly destroy the Democrats on health care, cap-and-steal, the Porkulus spending, the deficits, the war in Afghanistan, and any number of other pressing issues. For the first time that I can remember, voters have told Rasmussen that they trust Republicans more than Democrats on all ten of the “trust issues” that Rasmussen tracks — including Democrat-friendly issues like health care, education, and social security. That’s without the Republicans even really doing anything — that’s a sign of how badly people don’t like the way the Democrats are handling this government.

So what has the GOP leadership done with this extremely favorable political landscape? They’ve let it grow weeds through their inaction, and have sprayed Roundup on what little green grass remains left. Many of the Republican elected officials in Congress seem to trip over themselves in their zeal to “reach across the aisle” to accommodate Democrats, thereby giving the Evil Party bipartisan cover with which to defuse voter anger when election day comes. Instead of distancing themselves from this Obamacare monstrosity and attacking it at every turn, they’re silent (at best) or quietly finding ways to add enough stuff that they want so as to justify voting for it — witness the evil twins from Maine, one of whom (Olympia Snowe) recently voted to move one of the more egregious versions out of committee so that it is one step closer to becoming a reality.

Establishment Republicans have also taken pains to loudly and arrogantly distance themselves from those leading figures — like Sarah Palin — who speak for the conservative base and aren’t ashamed of it. For example, we see Steve Schmidt and other former McCain staffers doing their level best to pin every ill of the poorly-ran McCain campaign on Palin, accusing her of being a “drag” on the ticket. That’s a tin ear, folks. If it weren’t for Palin, McCain would not have merely lost badly, he’d have been blown out roundly. She was the only thing that even came near to salvaging that catastrophe. No, the blame for McCain’s poor showing rests with McCain himself — with his reaching across the aisle, with his telling the voters not to be afraid of an Obama presidency (???), with his out-of-step position on illegal immigration and so forth.

Yet, this leadership caste in the Republican Party looks down its nose at conservatives, viewing us with disdain. We’re not “respectable.” We don’t fit into the good ol’ boy network of backslapping, backroom deals, compromise, PAC-funded vacations, $1000-a-plate fundraisers, and nice words from the media elite. Conservatives are “scary” because they hold to moral values which would go against the way the Republican elites live, and our views on fiscal issues would hinder the elite from successfully playing the “go-along-to-get-along” game of buying votes and favor out of the public largesse.

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Another One Under the Bus

by tqcincinnatus ( 109 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Elections, Politics at October 24th, 2009 - 2:00 pm

Another friend of Obama goes under the bus, this time in the Virginia gubernatorial race,

Virginia Democratic candidate R. Creigh Deeds said Friday that he was confused and frustrated by statements from senior aides to President Obama that Deeds had rejected their advice in running his campaign for governor as some state party activists denounced what they saw as a betrayal by advisers to a president they helped elect a year ago.

Deeds said he was puzzled by the comments from unnamed Obama administration officials who said that he had virtually no chance to defeat Republican Robert F. McDonnell and that such a loss would reflect on Deeds’s failings rather than on Obama’s popularity.

They said that Deeds, who has been trailing in the polls, coordinated poorly with the White House and failed to adequately reach out to the constituencies that helped Obama become the first Democrat in 40 years to win Virginia.

“It is frustrating to read, because that’s not what we’ve been hearing from anybody over there,” Deeds said. “I’m just not sure where the talk is coming from. It just doesn’t make sense… There’s been no disagreements between us of which I’m aware.”

The Democratic National Committee, under the leadership of Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D), has invested heavily in the race, and Obama will rally with Deeds in Norfolk on Tuesday.

Kaine called the remarks “not helpful.”

“You don’t do this for as long as we’ve done it and for as long as Creigh’s done it without having your own internal sense of having good days and bad days,” he said.

The “unnamed officials” are probably panicking over the latest poll by Survey USA which has conservative Republican Bob McDonnell leading Deeds – who has successfully been associated with Obama in the minds of Virginia voters by McDonnell – by a whopping 19%.

At this point, the Obama team is trying to do damage control. Virginia was considered a bellweather for the Obama sweep last year – a state that had been reliably Republican for the past two decades, but which has taken on a much more purplish tint in recent years due to many liberal northeasterners moving into the suburbs around Washington D.C. The fact that Obama won Virginia pretty handily (52.6% to McCain’s 46.3%) showed Obama’s popularity with “moderate” parts of the country.

Conversely, the fact that Deeds is now being smashed by McDonnell, and much of this due to the Republican’s successful campaign to cast Deeds as an Obama-style fiscal whackjob, scared the daylights out of the Obama team. Virginia, once the new wave for Democrats, is now the rising tide for Republicans, where not only is McDonnell easily besting Deeds, but the two other big ticket races are seeing Bolling (for Lt.Gov) and Cuccinelli (for AttyGen) best their respective opponents by similar margins.

As a result, the Obama team seems to be trying to distance itself as much as it plausibly can from Deeds, since an Obama-approved candidate getting roundly thumped in a purple state would be the proof in the pudding of the unpopularity of Obama and his policies – unpopularity that the MSM tries to hide with softball questions, puff pieces, and cooked polls engineered by MSM outlets. But you can’t hide election results (at least not yet) – and those results will make a lot of thinking people think that Obama is definitely past his prime. It’ll be interesting to see if Obama’s rally with Deeds next Tuesday gets cancelled due to some “emergency” that requires the President’s immediate attention.  When Virginia goes solidly conservative GOP, expect a lot of overflow for conservatives in 2010 – especially if Hoffman in NY-23 upsets the left-wing GOP candidate and the Democrat and takes that district for the Conservative Party.

Which can only be a good thing.

Cross-posted at the Baby Seal Club

Democrats still planning on running against Bush

by Phantom Ace ( 64 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Elections, George W. Bush at June 8th, 2009 - 12:01 pm

This would be too funny if it wasn’t also pathetic. Democratic candidates are still sticking to the anti-Bush script from 2006 and 2008.

Democratic candidates adopt anti-Bush strategy

WASHINGTON — Many Democratic candidates are planning to run against two Republicans in the next election — their GOP opponent and former president George W. Bush.

When former U.S. attorney Chris Christie, a Bush appointee, won the Republican nomination for governor of New Jersey last week, Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine welcomed him to the race by attacking his former boss.

“I’m not about to put my trust in the same people who gave us George W. Bush, Dick Cheney or John Ashcroft,” Corzine said, throwing in Bush’s vice president and first attorney general for good measure.

The Corzine-Christie contest is this November. Other Democratic candidates will likely bash Bush throughout the 2010 election season, predicts Stuart Rothenberg, publisher of a non-partisan political newsletter. “You’ll hear Democrats say, President Obama is still trying to clean up the mess of the Bush years,” he says.

Bush is gone and I hope this strategy doesn’t work. The sad part is that there is a chance it might work since Bush is hated by the majority of the population. The Republicans should remind people that Bush is gone and not coming back.