Posted on 11/03/2009 11:22:22 PM PST by libh8er
Major Republican victories in two states last night left the fate of President Obama's signature health reforms in doubt and Democrats licking their wounds a year before the 2010 mid-term elections.
The defeat of Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine by an estimated five points in the New Jersey governor's race was a serious blow for Mr Obama, who had campaigned intensively for Mr Corzine and urged crowds across the state to turn out for him as they did in the historic White House race a year ago.
In Virginia, Republicans won a clean sweep in contests for Governor, Attorney General and control of the state assembly in a huge swing against Democrats. The state helped to seal Mr Obama's victory when he carried it by six points last year.
Senior Democrats cast their bleak night as history as usual, noting that the off-year races in these two key states are traditionally won by the party not in the White House. Yet the President campaigned in Virginia as well as New Jersey, turning both gubernatorial elections into tests of his political coat-tails - which now look threadbare
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Am I crazy, or has he only been in office (sworn in) a little more than 9 months?
Words fail.
Champagne’s flowing tonight at the Clinton household. I hope Rush channels Clinton tomorrow :)
Hahaha
I wonder if the electorate in toto is seeing that all Obama is capable of is empty campaign promises? That all this guy knows how to do is campaign (he has a gift) and play other games (basketball....with the guys but he’s no pro) (Golf?..reporters not allowed)
Any other games we know of he can’t win?
I am saddened that we lost in New York, but I amazed that we one in New Jersey. I was sure that the ACORN/SEIU crowd would stuff enough boxes to keep it in Dem hands.
And as my final note on New York, see new tagline.
...[T]he President campaigned in Virginia as well as New Jersey, turning both gubernatorial elections into tests of his political coat-tails - which now look threadbare.
That coat is his Chicago team jersey from the International Olympics Commission junket.
REALLY?
(re-posting, but I guess it applies).
Basketball Jones, I got a Basketball Jones
Got a Basketball Jones, oh baby, oo-oo-ooo
Yes, I am the victim of a Basketball Jones
Ever since I was a little baby, I always be dribblin'
In fac', I was de baddest dribbler in the whole neighborhood
Then one day, my mama bought me a basketball
And I loved that basketball
I took that basketball with me everywhere I went
That basketball was like a basketball to me
Basketball Jones Cheech & Chong
http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=180
I wouldn’t count NY as a loss. Better to have a Democrat than a DIABLO, and there will be a clear cut election a year from now.
This is the kind of "hope" I have, anyway!
>>Am I crazy, or has he only been in office (sworn in) a little more than 9 months?<<
The fastest drop since measurements have been gathered.
Jeeze, someone who says he is hopeychangy and surrounds himself with tax cheats, race pimps and commies and is now shocked — shocked! — that his schoolboy ideas don’t work in a very real and often hostile world.
The headline that keeps on giving...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Hoffman had good principles, but we have to be realistic about the way people are. We need to find grounded conservatives with the gift of gab and personal. As principled as Hoffman is, he wasn’t “marketable”.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
While I agree, I personally deplore that. It’s sad that in order to be a successful politician in a democracy you have to be a smooth-talker with a lot of personal charisma.
Had he been elected, Hoffman would have done fine.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
“While I agree, I personally deplore that. It’s sad that in order to be a successful politician in a democracy you have to be a smooth-talker with a lot of personal charisma.
Had he been elected, Hoffman would have done fine.”
We Cannot ignore current political realities! I think Hoffman was a fine upstanding person but a candidate has to have the complete package to take it over the top. The Gipper is a good model of the complete conservative candidate. A good communicator, intellegent, principled, a good sense of humor, self depricating, physically attractive and visionary! That said, Conservatives have reason to celebrate today the war has begun and the most of the first battles have been won!
I can’t wait for the democrats to “simply point out” that our conservative lost to their democrat. Can’t wait for them to try and twist the one loss against the two wins as a referendum against conservatism. They will try and make republicans scared to run conservatives by saying that only moderates are electable...if the party continues to drink the dem Kool-aid I will explode.
I agree wholeheartedly that principles are more important then style and flash..but being realistic, most people are easily swayed by smooth talkers. As there are well spoken, very likable conservatives out there, why take a chance?
I could be in the minority, but I think it was more a regional displeasure, not a national one that allowed for the shift in the right direction. I do however think that people are starting to toe the line and we conservative need to help edge them over for the betterment of fricken everybody.
Obama has no coattails... He couldn't save Corzine in a traditionally Democratic state where the GOP candidate crushed him by double-digits. The independents went GOP by better than 2-1 in both contests.
Maybe there werent enough ACORN/SEIU people available so they had to reroute people from New Jersey up to NY-23 and sacrifice NJ to make sure they defeated Sarah Palin's Conservative candidate.
I guess that’s possible, but I don’t think so. A governor is a lot bigger prize than a congressional seat that is going to be up for grabs in another year anyhow.
Yes, defeating Sarah’s choice was important to the Dims, but let’s not forget it was equally important to the RINOs who want to marginalize Sarah. THIS is why I am so disgusted with the Republican Party leadership.
Oh don't you worry. I have not forgotten that for one second.
“...but let’s not forget it was equally important to the RINOs who want to marginalize Sarah.”
We can see leadership at work. She took a guy from the ash heap to a near victory, in a blue state. I think is says more about the tard voters in that district, that they would vote for a pretending to be conservative Democrat. An Owens vote is a vote for Pelosi and the Congressional Black Carcass. Just another set of Blue State Losers. Just don’t move down to Georgia because the taxes are killing you. Stay there an soak in it, leeches.
“Am I crazy, or has he only been in office (sworn in) a little more than 9 months?”
No, you are not crazy! It just feels like he’s been the Zero for eternity!! I just pray that our country - the country we grew up in - is still here at the end of this nightmare.
Corzine’s loss in New Jersey was a catastrophe for the Democrats. This is a heavily Democratic state where the GOP candidate (Christie) was a fat slob who ran a terrible campaign and was outspent by a 5-to-1 margin.
Hey Obama! Blow my pole.
lol,,,lol,,,
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