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Posted on 11/06/2009 7:24:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Democrats have some thinking to do after Tuesday's elections, but Republicans don't have time to think. They're too busy trying to survive the party's internal purge and avoid being shipped off to political Siberia.
Will loyal members inform on others for harboring suspiciously moderate views? Will anyone judged guilty have to wear a sign saying "Republican In Name Only" as penance? Will there be re-education camps? Will deviationists face the Enhanced Interrogation Technique of being forced to listen to the wit and wisdom of Glenn Beck, at ear-splitting volume, for days on end?
Or worse: When Sarah Palin's memoir, "Going Rogue," hits bookstores later this month, will the ideologically impure be required to read -- and commit to memory -- every golden word? Her publisher might consider culling the highlights into a pocket edition. That way, any Republican caught without a copy of "Quotations From Chairman Sarah" could be summarily expelled from the party.
The big story from Tuesday's vote ought to be that independents, who gave Democrats their sweeping victory last November, went with the Republicans this time in New Jersey and Virginia. Indeed, Democrats are trying to figure out what this means. Given President Obama's continuing personal popularity, has his cool, nonconfrontational, consensus-building style been the right strategy all along? Or, as some on the left believe, did a lack of fight and fervor leave independents cold? Or was it all about the unemployment numbers?
But the Democrats' soul-searching is far less compelling than the Republicans' civil war. The "tea party" conservatives -- led by Palin, Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Dick Armey and others fed up with the GOP "establishment" -- managed to get Democrat Bill Owens elected in a solidly Republican Upstate New York congressional district.(continued)
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The “big tent,” compromising-on-principle-to-the-point-of-irrelevance RNC has definitely worked out the last couple of election cycles. For the Democrats.
Why does Sarah drive feminazis, insecure women and homosexuals into hissy fits?
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The word that first comes to mind is “disjointed”.
“Smell the flop sweat” isn’t a bad summary either!
I think they don’t exactly know what hit them.
I PRAY they don’t figure out what hit them. They don’t want to admit the truth, and I don’t think they will.
The writer is a loon with an underlying taste of fruits and nuts.
Seeing Eugene Robinson as the author of a column is a barf alert, just as Helen Thomas, Eleanor Clift, David Corn, Bill Press or Maureen Dowd would be...
Will there be re-education camps? Will deviationists face the Enhanced Interrogation Technique of being forced to listen to the wit and wisdom of Glenn Beck, at ear-splitting volume, for days on end?
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Bilge like this earns you a Pulizer.
(Just as pathetic as Nobel Peace prizes)
Sarah just gave a great speech at the Wisconsin Right To Life. Someone who was inside was twittering what was happening, great speech. She just keeps on getting better and better. Sean hannity also has a advanced copy of her book, he said he can’t put it down it’s so great. Wanna know why those groups of people fear her so much, PURE JEALOUSY, they hate her because they wish they were her
Never take your enemy’s advice. It is a desperate enemy who feigns concern for your best interests. Just bayonet the bastard and resume the attack.
My comment? Eugene is nothing more than a turd with sugar sprinkled on top...perfect fit for MSNBC’s white guilt...
Democrats have also declared war on their “moderates”.
But they won’t talk about that.
He should read the day-by-day polls in NY 23.
And then recall that "the party's" candidate, Scuzzy, was to the left of the Dem.
Here is what really happened. A liberal was about to get elected, and Sarah Palin, without even campaigning in person, eliminated the RINO and came within a whisker of electing a conservative, with only a few weeks remaining in the campaign, against a concerted effort by the DC moles to get a liberal in at all costs.
Step-by-step, it goes like this:
1) There was no primary to allow people’s true positions to be aired — party officials in consultation with DC RINOs chose Scuzzy.
2) A month ago Hoffmann was mired in last place.
3) Sarah Palin spoke up, but did not campaign in person. A couple of Tweets and/or Facebook postings.
(Contrast this, by the way, to the multiple PERSONAL appearances that Obama(+) put in for Corzine and Deeds. FAIL.)
4) Hoffmann surged.
5) The RINOs did a double-pronged attack. The GOP hierarchy and heavy hitters — including GOP chair Steele and RINO-turncoat-Newt — publicly endorsed Scuzzy.
6) The GOP also spent $900,000 on Scuzzy.
7) At the last minute, Scuzzy dropped out. This had the effect of negating all of the GOP-cast absentee ballots, now guaranteed to be wasted for purposes of defeating the DEM.
8) To make the stab in the back DOUBLY sure, Scuzzy officially, and in public, endorsed the DEM. (WTF???)
9) Hoffman still came within 3% as a Third Party candidate, after coming from nowhere to remove the hand-picked GOP RINO quisling.
10) But all you can do is say “we lost, boo hoo.”
I beg to differ.
Cheers!
Eugene -bless his heart- is trying to inject some humor into an otherwise pedantic and misguided article. Seems like nothing is working out for him these days.
The Repubs could make their tent huge by being the party of fiscal discipline and limited government. I know the Neo/social cons won’t like it but TFB.
This isn’t ‘The attack of the Palinites’, it’s ‘The Attack of a slimy LibNazi on Republicans’.
Panty twisters.
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LOL, Good Lord, it seems like 90% of liberal writers have the emotional make-up of a radicalized college freshman. The dripping contempt they have for anyone but their fellow Marxists is funny. This is really pathetic, and this is in the Washington Post, it seems the left has run out of psuedo-intellectuals, this is just sophomoric.
LOL!
Paging Eugene. You might want to check in with moveon.org and their plans for Democrats who defect on Obama’s legislation.
I don’t understand point 7, could absentee people have changed their ballots if she had withdrawn earlier?
What got Eugene so het up? It is not his party, it’s ours.
Cheers!
If you lose by 3% or 30%.. a loss is still a loss.
Hoffman is a loser and pretty sure the NY Republicans will nominate someone else in 2010.
The Dems are near to giveing each other wedgies over this. They don’t know what to do. Conservatives were supposed to have disappeared by now, gone the way of the dinosaurs, and by gad we are back stronger than ever and meaner than a junk yard dog.
They have never seen us like this. But then they have never threatened to destroy the country like this either.
When we reach critical mass, they will only wail, and wet their pants. The bigger surprise is coming down the pike.
This article proves one thing. We are over the target.
Palin’s appearance at a Wisconsin Right to Iife event tonight drew over 4000 people
This passage is gold. it illustrations how delusional some in the Obama camp are.
“Given President Obama’s continuing personal popularity, has his cool, nonconfrontational, consensus-building style been the right strategy all along? Or, as some on the left believe, did a lack of fight and fervor leave independents cold?”
If he just would have blamed Bush more often and been more vocal about his socialist agenda, then the independents would still love him.
Yeah...that’s the ticket.
This way, we have no divided loyalties: and Owens is due to get thrown out in 2010. Likely enough by Hoffmann.
Nice try, but I fear Axelrod's voice has lost its charm.
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A cross dereliction of duty is to impose a outsider with no connections to the district and not considering the local party or its views.
Hoffman is not a local of the district and he wont get the nomination for being a loser with a gomer pyle personality.
The NY repubs will nominate a better candidate in 2010 and Hoffman will try playing spoiler but wont succeed.
Thomas Sowell said it best:
“It is amazing how much panic one honest man (or woman) can spread in a multitude of hypocrites.”
Hoffman was organic, and ran on his own. Scuzzy was imposed by local party bosses in conjunction with your RINO friends in D.C.; and proved her true worth by actively endorsing the Democrat.
Nice try, but you are wasting your time.
Sliming Conservatives once again, eh, Greggy ?
The left can’t stand the idea that the R’s become a conservative party. Scares the begeezus out of them.
He is a loser who lost the historic Republican district and handed it to Pelosi on a plate.
Unlike trolls like you, I dont cheer Democrats win as gains.
Cheering for Democrat wins again, dj?
Which the turncoats in D.C. should never have supported, either verbally or with $900,000 of increasingly rare contributions.
If they had got behind Hoffman as they should, he'd have won in a landslide.
And if Dede had won, she'd have been voting with and for Pelosi all the way ANYWAY.
Remember who she endorsed when she withdrew?
Nice try, troll-child.
No, Greggy, that would be your candidate, DooDoo Scuzzyflavor.
The phrase; “casting about wildly” might be applicable here.
He can’t even decide on a coherent conclusion or course of action. But I do think we have a new pet phrase in the making here...
“It’s all Sarah’s fault.”
Sorta refreshing in a way, methinks.
Well you should be cheering that the Democrats won a historic prized Republican district.
Why should they get behind Hoffman who running on a third party?
Republicans will get behind the Republican nominee, why a troll like you expects Republican money to support third party candidates? It is ridiculous.
Anyway Owens has said he is supporting the public option ( which Dede opposed) and he can think Hoffman for getting him elected.
It’s always worth a laugh to read one of Robinson’s typically clueless columns. It would be worth it to have Robinson discuss reality with people who could set him straight. Somewhere along the line Robinson and other libs failed to pick up the part about limited government and the constitution.
You misspelled that. It's moron.org. (smirk)
No, Greggy, that would be your candidate, DooDoo Scuzzyflavor. Your fellow liberal RINOs that you love so much always deliver the goods for the Democrats.
If the GOP had put their weight behind a conservative, instead of a liberal to the LEFT of Owens, who endorsed Owens, we'd have had a conservative in the seat.
Steele's fault; Gingrich's fault; the DC RINOs' (who apparently colluded with the local party bosses to foist the liberal on the voters) fault.
Please, go on again, and explain how supporting a conservative over someone to the left of the Democrat, who was pro-abortion, pro-cap-and-tax, etc., makes one a troll ON FREE REPUBLIC.
Ping Jim Robinson while you're at it. Maybe you can convince him.
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