Posted on 03/14/2014 4:25:27 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
"............David Jolly was nearly abandoned by the Republican Party — apparently all too willing to reconstitute a circular firing squad. A Politico article less than a week before the election (probably designed to help Alex Sink) offered this pearl of political reporting:
Over the past week, a half-dozen Washington Republicans have described Jolly’s campaign against Democrat Alex Sink as a Keystone Cops operation, marked by inept fundraising, top advisers stationed hundreds of miles away from the district in the state capital and the poor optics of a just-divorced, 41-year-old candidate accompanied on the campaign trail by a girlfriend 14 years his junior. The sources would speak only on condition of anonymity.
So not only did Jolly have to overcome Sink’s cash advantage (Politico says “his campaign entered the general election nearly broke”), her name recognition, and media partisanship, but he had to contend with Republican tools talking down his campaign so they could blame him if he lost. With friends like that…
The liberal polling group PPP released a poll the day before the election predicting a Sink victory (with a margin of about 3 percent.) Given that a majority of people who voted in the election had already voted by the time of the poll, its results were stunningly wrong.....
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
It isn’t a circular firing squad.
It is the Democrat-Republican moles in all the leadership positions and 25% of elected positions (33% in the US Senate) against the Republican-Republican grass roots.
Current leadership needs to be removed en banc, root and branch, with extreme prejudice before the 2016 election.
Be sure to read the article in full.
Lots of good stuff - including a message to Libertarians.
Washington Republicans abandoning the candidate who sailed to victory without them?
Mmmmm.......sounds like an excellent political strategy. That strategy oughta go national. ROTFLOL.
Jolly’s a joke and the Dems couldn’t beat a joke.
A blockbuster Jolly campaign ad referenced lock-stepping Dems saluting smartly to der leader.
Jolly lit into Sink’s position to “fix” the train wreck Obamacare.
Jolly’s ad said the district needs a rep who will defend THEIR interests-—not those of Obama.
BACKSTORY As far back as 2008, at the presidential debate in Nashville, Democrat candidate Obama advanced his signature healthcare plan---ultimately enacted, by an historic straight Democrat party-line vote, into the "Affordable Care Act"
QUOTING 2008 OBAMA: "No. 1, let me just repeat, if you’ve got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it. All I’m going to do is help you to lower the premiums on it. You’ll still have choice of doctor.”
Repeated over and over again---- with his promise that every American family would be saving $2500.00 on healthcare costs.
Significantly, Obamba NEVER corrected lock-stepping Democrats, all reading from the same Democrat talking points, all of them repeating the same Democrat promises---over and over again.
LOCK-STEPPING PARTY LOYALTY NOT SEEN SINCE 1930-40's ERA EUROPE Obama and the Dems marched in lockstep.....the persistent Dumbocrat drumbeat ---- in obeisance to Obama ---- kept ringing reassuringly in our ears: "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan."
QUOTING SEN. RICHARD DURBIN: “We believe — and we stand by this — if you like your current health insurance plan, you will be able to keep it, plain and simple, straightforward.” (Sen. Durbin, Congressional Record, S.6401, 6/10/09)
“.......liberal polling group PPP released a poll the day before the election predicting a Sink victory (with a margin of about 3 percent.)”.
Tell ‘em what you want ‘em to hear, that should do it.
“BACKFIRE!”
The margin of victory was larger if you count the libertarian (possibly) vote. In Virginia the evil rat McAuliff won because a “libertarian” split the Republican vote. After the fact it came out that the guy was a ringer funded by Democrats for just that purpose.
They did the same thing in Delaware. Maybe the candidate Christine O’Donnell was not all that hot, but the GOP-e sabotaged her every step of the way.
Glad he won but I’ll hold off on any celebrating until I see what happens in November which is a long ways off.
I call myself an extreme libertarian-Republican. On Wickard v Filburn (1942) stands the whole federal regulatory apparatus, which must be destroyed, followed by the delegation to executive bureaucrats any legislative authority. This should be core conservative-libertarianism.
I lose my Libertarian card on abortion, Roe v Wade first and then state by state, which is THE core of separate Libertarianism. Would never have voted, unlike the author, and can never vote for them. Besides morality, it violates the “your fist, my nose” principle if I’m an unborn, and has cascaded into a multitude of social and economic problems today. America and the world will not stabilize until this scourge is revoked.
I've come to believe that the Libertarian Party was manufactured by the Left and the Democrats for the purpose of siphoning away votes the Republican candidate. I don't think a Libertarian has ever won a election for Congress in any state. You'd think the "Libertarians" would wake up and realize that they are being used.
One would hope so. Why the Republicans get sandbagged by this stuff is a mystery to me. One would think they would be looking for this in every election.
Attack the “climate change” argument by saying they said they could fix health care too. How did that turn out? In fact that should work with all of their positions.
Yes it is...
On the Libertarian vote. If you add the R + L votes you are at what, some 53 and change almost 54 percent? That is 54% against Obama and Obamacare if you will, not trying to steal Boehner's words but they can't put anymore lipstick on this pig, and say it is not a vote against him and his "plan"
In any other race 53-54 to 46 is darn near a blowout, that is marginally a 20% victory. And given the fact the money they spent, her name recognition etc. if this trend continues until November, the Dem's deserve to be worried, they most likely will get their political butts handed to them, and even Crissy Matthews knows it.
More important? Even with a Third Party Spoiler and all the DNC Tricks, they can't gin up enough votes or supress it to squeak out a victory. Perhaps this Candidate had enough smarts or was lucky enough not to have happen what happened to us in VA when Cucinelli lost with the E-GOP sitting on their hands on the side-lines. The E-GOP screwed up so many opportunities IMHO, 3 Senate Seats that McConnell never went after, aka the 2 in Jersey ( Menendez should have been pressed IMHO in the Senate as to his behavior ). Maybe, just maybe this is showing even with the E-GOP's dysfunctionality a Conservative can can win and that has got to scare the living crap of of them, especially Mitch McConnell....
I wonder what the percentage really is given the inaccuracy in PPP polling in this election.
I suspect that most of the moles are aides to the politicians and advisors, both of which are telling the pol what to do.
There needs to be a "Come to Jesus" meeting with the GOP when November's election is over, win or lose. The GOP-e is not going to be calling the shots either way. Because if they lose, we will form a new party, and consign them to the way of thee Whigs.
If they win, it will only be because of the Tea Party influence and conservatives in their base propelling them kicking and screaming across the finish line. And there will be new Sheriffs in town in DC.
Just see my tag line why this happens.
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