When you see something like this, someone who’s still spinning the “it was anti-incumbent, not anti-Democrat” canard, just show them this.
Losing 2 of 178 does not an anti-incumbent wave make.
Losing 61 of 255 does an anti-Democrat wave make.
When you see something like this, someone who’s still spinning the “it was anti-incumbent, not anti-Democrat” canard, just show them this.
Losing 2 of 178 does not an anti-incumbent wave make.
Losing 61 of 255 does an anti-Democrat wave make.
I’d tell them to do the math, but these are the same people who believe in borrowing their way out of debt.
Thesis destroyed in 44 words. Nice
It don’t matter kate they don’t care about fact’s or reality they just don’t get it !!
Another public service announcement Kate?
It don’t matter kate they don’t care about fact’s or reality they just don’t get it !!
No, they don’t.
Our Dear Leader himself today said people voted against the economy, not his agenda…
…which is why the economy still stinks.
Denial ain’t just a river in Africa, folks.
It is not that they don’t get it, they just don’t want to believe that the gravy train is about to come to a stop. When that happens they’ll all have to get off and start hauling their sad asses over to the EI line and we’ll see then how much a MSM jourNOlist or common-tater is worth.
pwned
And one of those Republican losses was an open seat.
Was that another public service announcement?
When will Progressives learn that their ideolgy is not progressive?
You bet it was anti Democrat … it was also anti socialist and anti entitlement.
Plenty of people who swung to the GOP side of the picture would be perfectly happy to live with the status quo…. but Obama and Pelosi… Reid…. Frank ….. Boxer…. and a host of RINOs that all seem to have held onto their sinecures …. were out of control and took down the majority of their team.
Iain … never … when they succeed in destroying the perception of the term as they did with Liberal …. they will latch on to a new euphamism to hold out as their banner.
Illiberal and regressive … the only place they have to go is under new cover … our job is to keep them exposed.
This was a “just in time” election, as was proven in California. Once a large enough portion of the population becomes dependant on Nanny, either through wages or aid, it’s impossible to get rid of the bastards. California, and perhaps NY State, are doomed as a result. Even cities suffer from that magic demographic tipping point, where they simply keep voting themselves more handout until the whole thing breaks down.
A few more years of Pelosi, Harry, and Bo, and you couldn’t rid America of them … that’s what Obamacare is about … increasing dependence to secure progressive votes.
As Dennis Miller pointed out today … they’ve got 22 year old punks marching in France over pension reforms … now that’s a progressive death grip.
I’d say 600 sends a clear message, wouldn’t you?
… … …
Republicans won more than 600 state legislative races
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI – Los Angeles Times
DENVER — The massive gains by the GOP this election weren’t limited to congressional and gubernatorial campaigns. Republicans won more than 600 state legislative races, taking control of at least 18 chambers across the country and positioning themselves for years of electoral advantage through control of redistricting.
The GOP now holds more state legislative seats than it has since 1928[…]
Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2010/11/03/1509039/republicans-won-more-than-600.html#ixzz14HqzGr2P
Remember, that Obama, with his insistence that the election was about ‘fear’ about the economy, insists that the bad economy is due to…Bush. Not him. Not the Democrats who took control of the House in 2006. heh.
Obama is pathological. He will never, ever, admit responsibility for any problem.
Oh, it’s not just anti-incumbent fervor that unseated them, Kate.
According to Alan Grayson it was bad weather and Gerrymandering that did him in.
According to Obama, he just didn’t do a good job getting the message out about all his successes.
According to left-wing pundits, the legislation they passed was far too moderate. They didn’t go far enough!
Today, they’re taking solace in the few major races they did win – barely.
But don’t tell them any different. Let them keep operating under those false premises.
This comment from the link merits reposting….
Danté said…
“the Republicans are actually less favourable to Americans than the Democrats. ”
Over in the real world, a landslide victory of 60 seats means they’re actually more favourable to Americans.
Sorta reminds me of ‘Comical Ali’ – “there are no US tanks in Baghdad!” as they pass by in the background.
I guess O got his wish… yes someone did indeed get “punished”… but good.
When I was in Florida last month, I tried to get an idea of the mood of the populace by checking out bumper stickers on vehicles while driving around. During the 2 weeks I was there I saw one pro-Obama bumper sticker and many more anti-Democrat stickers. I saw a number of “Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing it’s idiot” stickers and a few Tea party billboards. Not surprisingly, Florida elected primarily Republicans yesterday. (This was in the Daytona beach/Palm coast area).
The lesson in this for PMSH is that tax and spend is not going to go over well. Incumbents who figure this out are going to get re-elected.
If the new congressmen, senators, state legislators and governors don’t begin to reel in absurd spending, we might see what is in effect an anti-incumbent vote next time.
We’ll have to see how a Rob Ford gets done the things he promised.
And our nominally Conservative party should pay heed.
Voters are beginning to realize that they don’t have to take this.
The time of ever-expanding government intrusion into all aspects of our lives is ending.
We might just see anti-incumbent voting for the next few elections.
I heard some lame stream media empty suit actually hit the nail on the head with a statement that summed up voter motivation in this election. He said it was “buyer’s remorse”.
Good analogy. I think the American people realized they made a mistake with BO in the 4th month of his inflationary spending mania and have been aching to get to the polls to correct the course government ever since.
The Obamaites steered the US economy and ship of state so close to the rocks, I can see the Dem machine not recovering for 10 – 15 years from this – or at least until they tuuf the Marxist-socialist thugs and return to classic American Liberalism.
I thought it was about taking that “shovel” away from the socialists:-)))
My concerns are simple. More people didn’t vote than did. I think these people are not engaged in the political process and tend not to vote because of that. The 2008 election showed what happens when a very small percentage of these will informed, ” American Idol” style people showed up; Urkel became the president. The problem is, going forward, there are more of them than us and the educational environemt along with the lax imigration policies are creating fasted than we can convert them. There is a certain inevitablility to the socialization of the US. This will continue until the crisis destroys their democratic foundations.
There is a rebuttal over there….
http://blunt-objects.blogspot.com/2010/11/small-dead-animals-try-not-to-overlook.html