Posted on 11/06/2014 8:00:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Remember Wendy Davis, the champion of women’s rights? She was the Texas state senator who spent all night on her feet to protest a law that would ban late-term abortions. The U.S. (and Canadian) news media turned her into a hero, then cheered her on as she ran for governor, looking to strike a huge victory against the Republican war on women.
Ms. Davis got clobbered on Tuesday. She lost by 20 points. Texas voters had many issues on their minds, but it turned out that late-term abortions wasn’t one of them.
Democrats (and much of the media) were stunned by the pounding the Republicans inflicted in the midterms. Their predicted wave turned into a tsunami. Republicans won almost every race for senator and governor across the country. As one MSNBC commentator gloomily pronounced, “The Obama era is over.”
Lots of people blame President Barack Obama, who dragged the Democrats down like a pair of cement booties. He’s so unpopular that a lot of Democratic candidates told him to stay away. But could something else be going on as well? Could it be that Republicans (some of them, at least) understand the voters better?
Take Wisconsin, a swing state where the Democrats launched a full-frontal assault on Republican Governor Scott Walker. Mr. Walker had the audacity to take on the state’s public-sector unions and roll back their pension benefits and wages. To most of the Canadian media and The New York Times, Mr. Walker is right-wing arch-villain. To most Wisconsin voters, he’s a pragmatic reformer. It was supposed to be a squeaker, but he won handily....
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
No
The short answer is no, they do not.
The other answer is leftists know how to appeal to the vulgar and base nature of humans. Conservatives try to appeal to logic, reason and normalcy.
Unfortunately logic and reason works on fewer Americans, but enough people are turned off by the “fruits” of the Obamaconomy to give the GOP an advantage.
Yes, but it’s not saying much. They’re up against a bunch of baby killers. Who listen to their constituents and the American people as closely as they do the murdered victims of abortion.
Republicans are not much better ( that doesn’t include our beloved conservatives...both of them)
“but it turned out that late-term abortions wasn’t one of them.”
Maybe late term abortion was on the minds of those who voted against her.
LOL! They still don’t know who WE are.
"Personally, I think most Americans are essentially pragmatic. Domestically, they want governments that function, and globally they want strength without adventurism. That seems reasonable enough to me. As for Mr. Obama’s legacy (apart from being the first black president), right now, it’s hard for me to see it. I wouldn’t be surprised if he sinks without a trace."
No, but we understand republicans better.
I think we got an exceptional Republican turnout. Republicans realized this was likely a now or never moment.
Precisely.
I was one of them. Abortion Barbie never had a snowball’s chance here in Texas.
Not that snowballs ever have a chance here . . .
It’s past my bedtime.
And the two-thirds of the electorate that didn’t vote, the bunch that the Idjit in the White House keeps chiding —
They voted with their butts.
Even his sycophants as so over him they wouldn’t budge off their sofas to vote.
Add MARGARET WENTE to the list of people who don’t understand the American voters.
Wisconsin hasn’t been a swing state in thirty years. It hasn’t gone republican since Reagan It may be possible now due to the influence and success of Scott Walker though.
Scott Walker woke people up to the adversarial relationship between the public sector unions and the tax payers, as well as the crony relationship between those same unions and the Democrat politicians. The middle class tax payers are not part of the Democrat coalition of special interest groups, unless they are union members.
This twit is a blithering idiot!
I am telling you. I am quite impressed with Scott Walker. I think he is a winner. Better even that Kasich here in Ohio and he is pretty decent.
I think he would be tough in an election.
Well the Republicans certainly understand the American voter better than this cloistered elitist. How many abject inanities are in the first sentence alone?:
“We’d like to believe that most Americans are really liberals at heart, or would be if they weren’t so brainwashed by the Republicans, religion and the gun lobby. But what if they really aren’t liberals at heart? What if Sarah Palin understands them a whole lot better than Wendy Davis and Barack Obama do?”
Being in the republican party is no guarantee you are for THIS Republic..
Many republicans are for democracy therefore making them democrats..
the very word democrats means you’re for democracy..
some republicans are for democracy..
Democracy is a FILTHY WORD... filthy..
America is NO democracy... the words democracy and democratic are nowhere in the Constitution..
Democracy was, is, and always will be Mob Rule by mobsters..
Democracts were and always have been traitors.. ALL OF THEM..
Not all of them are confused.. their democrats on purpose..
Democracy is the road to socialism. -Karl Marx
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. -V.I. Lenin
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism .-Karl Marx
Communism “IS” socialism...
The Republicans do not understand the voters better. They understand reality better.
I read the comments after the article. They are truly delusional. They simply believe in impossible things.
Well, it would be fitting. He appeared on the political scene without a trace.
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