Posted on 03/12/2014 12:51:55 PM PDT by Starman417
A few days ago Barack Obama issued a warning to democrats: It's time to worry.
The election is coming, the election is coming!That’s the message coming from President Obama as he tries desperately to rouse Democrats out of a midterm election stupor that could cost his party control of the Senate — and bury his agenda once and for all.
Obama has increasingly sounded like the nerdy kid in a bad horror movie constantly warning his friends to stay out of danger as he’s called on the Democratic base to not be complacent in 2014. “You've got to pay attention to the states,” he begged at a recent fundraiser for the Democratic Governors Association. Obama lamented that Democrats don’t think state-level races in the 2014 midterms are “sexy enough.”
Raising cash for Senate Democrats in Virginia, Obama said Democrats tend to get “a little sleepy” and “distracted.”
“We’re good at Senate and House elections during presidential years — it’s something about midterms," Obama said. "I don’t know what it is about us.”
This time he is way off point. He thinks it's about getting the vote out. It's not. Obamacare stiffs young people and they are waking up to that fact. And the reality is settling in on liberals.
Dye-in-the-wool liberal commentator Chris Matthews predicted that Democrats could lose as many as 10 Senate seats in the midterms.“To the Democrats, this election, a rosy scenario is to lose five Senate seats, not six,” he said on “Meet the Press.” “They could lose 10.”
Yesterday David Jolly won a special election in Florida. It had been characterized as the election democrats "Can't afford to lose."
It’s rare in politics that anything other than a presidential contest is viewed as a “must win” — but the special election in Florida’s 13th District falls into that category for Democrats.A loss in the competitive March 11 contest would almost certainly be regarded by dispassionate observers as a sign that President Barack Obama could constitute an albatross around the neck of his party’s nominees in November. And that could make it more difficult for Democratic candidates, campaign committees and interest groups to raise money and energize the grass roots.
Lose they did, despite Jolly running what the National GOP called a "Keystone Cops" campaign. Liberals on the political boards are quiet today after the open throttle smugness of the day before.
Reality is also finding the liberal media:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
With zero help from the GOPe he STILL won.
If the GOPe hate him he must be my kinda Republican.
Remember not too long ago they were threatening to inflict Hillary on us. Methinks they’re not going to be so certain now.
No, he actually got a LOT of help from the GOPe. The election was too important for the GOPe to sulk and let him fail.
The lesson from this win- and Cuccinelli’s loss- is the GOPe should go allout for candidates they don’t want!
It's any number of things you POS:
>Your voting fraud machine ramps up with more fraudsters in Presidential years
>Your fraudulent media partners ramps up the venom more against the Republican in Presidential years
>The off years are when the LIV's are not barraged with constant propoganda and as a result - don't vote
Libertarian candidate still sucking votes by...
To young American everywhere I say, “You thought you were screwed by big business? Wait until you’re screwed by big government!”
You got that right, brother.
“Raising cash for Senate Democrats in Virginia, Obama said Democrats tend to get “a little sleepy” and “distracted.”
Guess he means his constituents that are stoned, glued to the tube and gobbling down carbs that make them sleepy.
Obama can always make more constitutionally indefensible executive orders to push his agenda. /sarc
While patriots work with their state lawmakers to repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, patriots and former Obama supporters need do do the following in the 2014 elections, something they should have done in 2012 and will hopefully try to do again in 2016.
Patriots need to try to elect 2/3 conservative majorities in each House of Congress in the 2014 elections. If patriots succeed then Congress will be positioned as follows.
Congress will have the power, under the Constitution's Clause 2 of Section 7 of Article I, to override presidential vetoes. In other words, Congress will be able to repeal constitutionally indefensible Obamacare Democratcare for example, without Obama's signature.
Baraq will have mucho time for golf this fall.
No dem (except Charlie Crist) wants him anywhere near their campaign.
They’re all begging for BJ Clinton.
The Liberal columnist I’m enjoying most these days is Greg Sargent of the Washington Post. Guy is Journ-O-List’s posterboy. His panicked backpeddling from the importance of this race started a day or two back - I assume that he got some last minute internal polly showing that Sink was about to do a a spectacular Titanic impersonation.
Now he’s desperately trying to downplay the whole thing. The guy is a bigger tool than my garden shovel.
I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning ...
Democrats seeking re-election have made it clear that they don’t want Obama anywhere near them when they’re campaigning. But what about Hillary?
If yesterday’s election was so critical from the Democrats’ perspective, why didn’t she show up to campaign for the hapless Ms. Sink? If Hillary is half as popular among Democrats as the media keeps telling us, surely her presence would have attracted crowds of Democrats to Ms. Sink’s campaign events and energized many to go to the polls on her behalf.
But Hillary was not there, and the media, which constantly extols her popularity among Democrats, don’t seem to mind that she left poor Ms. Sink Hillaryless in her hour of need.
And, from Hillary’s own perspective, it would have been in her interests to campaign on behalf of the Democrat who was favored to win yesterday’s election, so she could take some of the credit for the expected victory. But she didn’t show up. Apparently, she was afraid that her presence could not guarantee victory, which does not bode well either for her or the Democrats for the next three years.
If Elizabeth Warren had gone to Florida to campaign for Ms. Sink, she might have attracted enough feminists to the voting booths to at least have changed the election’s outcome to a negligible loss rather than a striking one for the Democrats. But, of course, with Hillary in command of the Democratic party, Elizabeth Warren is not permitted to energize crowds because she might become more popular than Hillary herself.
All of this leaves Democratic candidates in the same Sink-hole with yesterday’s loser — alone, without Obama campaigning for them, without Hillary campaigning for them, and without potentially helpful Democrats like Elizabeth Warren able to come to their aid. The hardest thing for Republicans to deal with this election year might be overconfidence.
The irony is that Billyboy can pull in dollars but not votes. The record of candidates he has endorsed since he left the White House has been pathetic.
I think his popularity is mostly in the eyes of the MSM.
I like to make humorous post about the guy on FR but he’s truly pondscum.
Rand Paul is looking smarter all the time for “daring” to point out the facts.
Again with the Libertarian bashing.
When will you GOPbots get it through your heads that you’re not entitled to the votes of Libertarians any more than the votes of Democrats?
P.S. I’m not a Libertarian. Yet.
Great win in a purple district. Time for ramping up the mid terms.Tea Party should win all of the races. Jolly is not as Conservative, bbut the 13th is now the district it was when Bill Young first won. Most of the district is in Republican districts when they redrawn the lines and if became an urban district.
Most of the people are from the Northeast and Midwest who retired to Florida, but not the retirees in places like The Villages or Sun City Center (white collar in those two places the retired union blue collar in the CD 13)
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