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McCain Losing Ground to JD

by Deplorable Macker ( 116 Comments › )
Filed under Elections 2010, Polls, Republican Party at April 18th, 2010 - 1:00 pm

Methinks Senator McCain is starting to panic. His bulls**t ads flood the airwaves all over Arizona, as Rasmussen’s latest poll has him only five points ahead of former Congressman and former talk show host JD Hayworth.
As things stand right now, McCain leads Hayworth 47% to 42%, with 8% undecided, and 2%  preferring some other GOP candidate.  This should fire up the hearts and minds of every conservative in the 48th State, as well as those from the rest of the country who despise Senator McCain for his constant efforts to reach across the aisle.
I met JD at the Tea Party Express rally in Phoenix a few weeks ago. I spoke to him for a few seconds, and he didn’t shake my hand like, say, for example, Президент Оба́ма would. He shook hands AS A MAN! He is confident and he is ready to fight for Arizona and, more importantly, for the USA. Keep this man in your prayers and thoughts.

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What are Some Take Home Messages from Yesterday’s Election Results?

by tqcincinnatus ( 413 Comments › )
Filed under Elections 2009, Politics, Republican Party at November 4th, 2009 - 12:30 pm
Well, yesterday certainly was an interesting day, wasn’t it?  Things generally looked good for conservatives and Republicans – even in the small set of races that we didn’t win.  I’ll explain why this is the case below.  First, to recap the results of the important votes: In Virginia, the Republicans swept the “Big Three” races – Governor, LtGov, and Attorney General.  And when I say “swept”, I mean just that.  McDonnell, Bolling, and Cuccinelli thrashed their Democrat rivals in what really was a bellwether referendum on Obama and the Democrats in Congress.  Remember, Virginia is now supposed to be the quintessential “purple” state, with blue cores in the urban areas, surrounded by a reddish exterior.  By all accounts, the blue areas were not so blue last night, and Obama was handed a huge personal rejection.  There was some definite buyer’s remorse in VA last night, as Obama’s appearances with Creigh Deeds leading up to the election seem to have done absolutely nothing for the Democrat – and quite possibly helped to drive more voters to McDonnell. 

 The big news, however, was in New Jersey, where Chris Christie, the (conservative enough) Republican defeated über-liberal Obamanista Jon Corzine by a margin wide enough to make Democrat vote fraud efforts ineffective.  Again, this race was a “win one for the Gipper” type race for the Democrats, where Obama’s personal and political popularity was on the line.  And New Jersey just isn’t that into him anymore. 

 Unfortunately, Doug Hoffman in NY-23 wasn’t quite able to pull it off – this time around, at least.  Still, you have to admit that a come-from-behind push by an insurgent third party conservative who came within three points of defeating the Democrat – and that with a lousy “Republican” acting as a spoiler –  is impressive.  While I’m sure the Dems and other lefties will be spinning it today as some sort of crushing defeat for insurgent, “Tea Party” conservatism, this is simply not the case, though it does send a few messages that the more hard-core third party supporters may not like to hear (more below).

 Granted, there are roughly 11,000 absentee ballots left to count, and the electronic voting machines in Fulton County (which went for McCain fairly strongly last year) broke last week and were impounded, which means those votes have to be tallied by hand, so are yet to be counted.  Still, I doubt these will be enough to pull it out for Hoffman, especially as most of the absentee ballots were cast before Hoffman really started to surge, and when Scozzafava was still viewed as a viable candidate. 

 In the CA-10 race, unsurprisingly, John Garamendi staved off a strong challenge from conservative Republican David Harmer to win the race by ten points.  This district does lean pretty heavily Democratic, and Harmer got basically no support from the national GOP apparatus at all (yet another failure on the part of the GOP “leadership”).   Who knows what could have happened had the NRCC and RNC not wasted a million big ones on Dede Scozzafava in NY-23, and focused their monies on helping a REAL Republican instead? 

 All the same, the result in CA-10 ought to be a bit unsettling for Obama and his minions.  Garamendi won 53% of the vote.  Obama carried this district with 60+%, and Tauscher (the Dem who previously held the seat) routinely won it with around 65% of the vote.  The fact that a big name statewide Democrat like Garamendi (who was previously California’s LtGov) only took 53% in a Democrat gimme-district shows that the “Obama effect” was in play even in CA-10.  The only problem is that the district starts out so much further left that even this wasn’t enough (yet) to push it into the Republican column. 

 Some other results from last night?  In Pennsylvania, the state Supreme Court is now in Republican hands, with the victory of conservative Republican Joan Orie Melvin over her leftist Democrat opponent, Jack Panella.  The court now sits 4-3 for the GOP.  Also, in bright Blue Maine – a state that Obama carried 57.7% – 40.4% – gay marriage was handed a crushing defeat, as 53% of state voters chose to reject it.  Once again, we see that even neon blue states, when given the opportunity, reject the radical social initiatives of the Left. 

 So, now for some analysis.  What can we take away from these results?

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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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