Posted on 11/03/2010 4:20:37 AM PDT by Schnucki
Hysteria has lapsed into disaffection: it was a bleak night for President Obama. But, despite the apparent immediacy of a ‘conservative moment’, there is caution in Republican circles this morning. Both Clinton and Reagan won from similar positions in 1982 and 1994.The G.O.P's leadership knows that elections are not won from the extremes, as Barack Obama has discovered to his cost, and it is trying to calm the party’s often excitable fringe, which will be no easy task if Rand Paul's 'Tea Party tidal wave' is anything to go by.
Ben Brogan recently highlighted the G.O.P’s growing ‘Stop Palin’ campaign. Chancers and charismatics like Palin titillate their captive audiences; but they can enrage the unconverted, as well as affronting the dignity of the office to which they aspire, as Karl Rove put it recently. Christine O'Donnell's dismal performance in a race she might have won is a case in point. (Marco Rubio may yet prove an exception to the rule, but, baring an Obama-style rise, his day is distant.)
The Tea Party aside, the Republicans are nowhere near ready for government at present. The tenor of its formal opposition is therefore very important. The leadership is debating how best to conduct itself now that it is in the ascendant. Yesterday, David Brooks suggested that sombre compromise will win out. On the basis on what Republican leaders and strategists have said overnight, it was a good call. There was not a whiff of triumphalism from John Boehner, the new Speaker of the House and face of Republican opposition, who sang the familiar refrain of 'new politics', preparing himself for what is being called 'Boehner's Burden'. And John Reeve, a chief G.O.P. strategist, told the Today programme that the party would show its 'sobre face to tread a difficult path, placating the
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Someone needs to check what they have been using to spike their coffee.
triumphalism?? is that a word?
Every single week, Gov. Palin took on Obama and the corrupt DNC.
Meanwhile, the other RINOs (Rove,etc.)attacked for Obama
select GOP-chosen candidates thought to eventually be a threat
to .... Mitt Romney.
Meanwhile, Romney’s poodles in California and Massachusetts
appear to have been clubbed to death by citizens who hate Romney,
his surrogates and his RomneyCARE.
This guy is off. The Tea Party is not “the fringe”. Obamabots are the fringe. What’s happening is that people are tired of the fringe running the country. The Tea Party is the real deal, the whole cloth, the table top...
As badly as I wanted a 200 Seat House-13 Seat Senate gain, I’ll take this. Now, Stuttering Barry won’t be able to run against a “do-nothing” Congress...he still has the Senate and Dingy Harry as a Democrat pinata for the GOP to beat on for the next two years. However, Sarah Palin is the biggest winner of last night, and her position as Candidate-Kingmaker of the GOP was assured.
Hey Brits... Stay the Eff out of our politics... you live in a sh!thole, so fix it first!
LLS
If the Republican Party is not smart enough to understand that what happened to the dems in office last night can and will happen to them if they do not do the will of the elctorate they will truly have a short term victory. You do what is good for the Nation and the People and not for the Party or you will be the next unemployed.
Humility is the necessary order of the day if we want to keep the wheels from flying off this roller coaster.
The new Republican congress will suffer the same fate once they pass the VAT.
Things are what they are.
The natural tendency of the state to consume all available resources can not be tempered by the mere will of the governed peoples who have previously granted sanction to create this now unstoppable force.
This is nothing new.
All right, FRiend, it was a great night, an historic one and I’m going to bed. Congratulations!
I was up all night too.
If the wife does not file a restraining order against me and Fox news, it will be a good day.
My boss is going to kill me when I show up like a walking talking piece of crap.
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