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Analysis: Bevin Win in Kentucky Underscores Decimated Democratic Party Under Obama
Townhall.com ^ | 11/4/2015 | Guy Benson

Posted on 11/04/2015 2:30:55 PM PST by Servant of the Cross

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Congratulations to Matt Bevin! And Lt. Governor Jenean Hampton!
1 posted on 11/04/2015 2:30:55 PM PST by Servant of the Cross
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

ping ...


2 posted on 11/04/2015 2:31:18 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Yet the MSMs’ lips remain locked to Obama’s Obunghole.


3 posted on 11/04/2015 2:32:11 PM PST by skeeter
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@RoryCooper Tweet: Under President Obama, Democrats have lost 900+ state legislature seats, 12 governors, 69 House seats, 13 Senate seats. That's some legacy.
4 posted on 11/04/2015 2:33:23 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

but isnt he a loonatic? hmm, looks like anyone can win in 2016, just look at all of the loony dems running.


5 posted on 11/04/2015 2:34:20 PM PST by Cruz_West_Paul2016
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To: Servant of the Cross

...and the GOPe still refuses to challenge Barack.


6 posted on 11/04/2015 2:40:00 PM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Under President Obama, Democrats have lost 900+ state legislature seats, 12 governors, 69 House seats, 13 Senate seats. That's some legacy.

Mongol General: Conan! What is best in life?

Conan: Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.

7 posted on 11/04/2015 2:42:57 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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Yup, Obama's legacy will continue through November 8, 2016.

From another thread: "People are still Voting Against Obama, as they did in Nov, 2014 and will again on November 8, 2016. It's the only way people can express their rage against what Obama is doing to America. If voting against Hillary isn't enough, throw in Obama. They are birds of a feather. Defeat Clinton/Obama 2016!"

8 posted on 11/04/2015 2:49:57 PM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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don't you think they've either been bought off or threatened, you know, made an offer they can't refuse like in the mafia way? I've not forgotten that most in DC are lawyers but it's still hard to imagine so many Republicans in DC have become “in our face” traitors. I'm not saying they were hardened patriots before obozo but there has to be huge motivation for them to jeopardize their own families future let alone us and this country.
9 posted on 11/04/2015 2:50:14 PM PST by drypowder
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To: Servant of the Cross

Unpossible. I was told this guy and any like him were losers. I was told that we had to vote for lesser evils like Mitch, not conservatives because lesser evil wins and winning is what matters. Not principle.

Look at all the great things a lesser evil like Mitch won for us this past month alone!

WINNING!


10 posted on 11/04/2015 2:54:20 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Embrace Existential Cage Theory. Solutions start at home.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

For political junkies, this is one of the biggest upsets ever. Surely shocked me


11 posted on 11/04/2015 3:00:15 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Art in Idaho

I would imagine that at least 40,000 of the Bevin supporters are also for HRC though that should seem unlikely. There always so many “trend” voters looking for winners and decided to take a chance on Bevin.


12 posted on 11/04/2015 3:02:19 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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Good point, but the U.S. Senate remains wholly liberal and will be so in 2017 too. And Orrin Grant Hatch is no help in that department, UT.


13 posted on 11/04/2015 3:03:37 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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You know, it just hit me, the Clintons and Obamas have virtually destroyed the Democrat Party. The people are leaving in droves. If it wasn’t for the MSM carrying their water, the democrat party would just wither away and die. Their hard core group is what, 20%? Combine all the subgroups, the academics, the DSA and the CPUSA and that gives you about 20%. The rest of America is finally getting the picture. . .


14 posted on 11/04/2015 3:10:41 PM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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I think you have part of that wrong. The demise of the Democrat Party began when it was taken over by Marxists and losers (minorities, homosexuals, and other misfits). That began quite some time ago. By the 1980s, the party bore no resemblance to what it had been previously, with the exception of perhaps organized labor. The Republican Party resurgence that began with the election of Ronald Reagan came about mainly because conservative, middle-class Democrats (mainly in the South and West) had nowhere else to go.

It should be noted, though, that the Democrat Party remains a force simply because the GOP is turning its back on those same conservative, middle-class people who are the core of their grassroots support. The GOP has always been a party of big-business, big-government globalists, and that inconvenient fact severely limits its prospects for success in any given election.

15 posted on 11/04/2015 3:23:10 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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“@RoryCooper Tweet: Under President Obama, Democrats have lost 900+ state legislature seats, 12 governors, 69 House seats, 13 Senate seats. That's some legacy.”

Yes that's undeniable, but where are the results of these changes? While there are likely some good things happening in the states and localities, show me where these changes have translated into a change in direction at the Federal level? The answer is that the GOPe idiots who are still in control, left their balls and their backbones at home when they moved to Washington and as a consequence, The Half-Breed has run over them like a Black linebacker, untouched by human hands. Either that or they are so beholden to the US Chamber of Communists and the “K” street lobbyists, that they never had any intentions about doing what they promised their constituents they would.

16 posted on 11/04/2015 3:25:38 PM PST by vette6387
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From the article:

Bevin, boosted by a massive investment from national Republicans and help from his former nemisis Mitch McConnell...

I read on another thread that the NGA had donated sparingly, and only late in the race (R's were heavily outspent in this election), and that Mitch wasn't much help at all.

So, Kentuckians, what's the real story?

17 posted on 11/04/2015 3:26:01 PM PST by TontoKowalski (Satisfied Customer #291)
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To: Alberta's Child

GOP 2016 happened for one reason IMO. Thats because of entropy/dispersion. Those democrats have over the years brought their liberalism to the GOP in fleeing the Marxist DNC.

The GOP is now so diluted as to be less conservative in sum than a Democrat of the Reagan years. And the GOP voter of 2015 thinks outright liberalism is conservative because a Marist Dem opposes a given GOP position.


18 posted on 11/04/2015 3:35:27 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Embrace Existential Cage Theory. Solutions start at home.)
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As I told the Radiant harlylady27 weeks ago. at least obummer is an equal opportunity destroyer.
19 posted on 11/04/2015 3:43:00 PM PST by corbe (mystified)
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To: Alberta's Child
Excellent analysis. It does go back to FDR and mainly the 60s with, as you said, when the Marxist and their ilk took over.

I especially liked,"It should be noted, though, that the Democrat Party remains a force simply because the GOP is turning its back on those same conservative, middle-class people who are the core of their grassroots support. The GOP has always been a party of big-business, big-government globalists, and that inconvenient fact severely limits its prospects for success in any given election."

Will the conservatives ever take over the GOP? We'll see. .

More and more I think we all need to back an Article V Convention of States. No matter what gains we make in the States, the Beltway is so entrenched I think it's going to take an Article V Convention with actual amendments - similar to Levin's proposed amendments - before we see real change.

20 posted on 11/04/2015 3:52:02 PM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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