Posted on 11/09/2005 8:22:21 AM PST by Black Tooth
Not bye.
They're too busy packing to move their families and their companies to red states.
Sniff, sniff.
In the CA proposals, you had a very, very, very heavy union turnout. What I found very interesting is the likes of Fabian Nunez and all the Unions and Dem opposition crying that this is a waste of taxpayer dollars ($80 million). Yet, they all spent more than that trying to defeat the Props. I am surprised though, at Prop 73 not passing. I thought decent parents would come out and vote for that one, but apparently, they are okay with their 14yr old getting an abortion w/o notification, as long as the kid can't drive till their 16, vote till they're 18 or drink till they're 21.
I am sorry, but it seems to me that in California and NJ, that statement hardly applies. I am not sure that MORE conservative initiatives would have done any better. Look at 73.
Quite frankly, it was all about piggishness waddling after the pork.
But who knows...
I think the choice of headline is on the mark. I keep hearing that the outcome of these elections "doesn't matter," and that Republicans are still sitting pretty...yet the stark absence of "victory threads" puts the lie to those claims.
Black Tooth could have been more genteel with the headline, but it would have been at the expense of truth.
No surprise there. No knockout either.
EVERY ballot initiative was defeated in California, liberal AND conservative. It was a wash.
>>>>Where are the Republican Victory threads?
Food for thought.
Vote Early, Vote Often
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1518679/posts
In reality, here is our victory:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518385/posts
Iraqi's Thank America (Wow, this is moving!)
(maybe move there?)
The ozone you smell is coming from the smoking craters of every California Republican proposition on the ballot.
Hey, we conservatives in Southern California voted to pass most of Arnold's propositions, with Orange County passing ALL of them.
See http://vote2005.ss.ca.gov/Returns/prop/30.htm for county by county results. San Diego, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties to secede and form South California! Wishful thinking....
How is the defeat of Democrat ballot measures in Ohio not a "KO" for Democrats, but the defeat of Republican ballot measures in California somehow a "KO" for Republicans?
I have a little meassage for you to take back to your friends at DU:
They've got another thing coming if they believe this election is good news for them as a harbinger for 2006.
There was a consistent theme that ran strongly through every election yesterday: Status Quo.
Republicans retained Republican seats, Democrats retained Democrat seats, propositions to change or create new laws all failed, and traditional marriage was reaffirmed.
Every single issue went status quo, with the exception of local down ticket races where Republicans took Democrat seats. This does not signal a public that wants to shake things up much, which is what Democrats really need to win in 2006. It is pretty clear that there is not going to be a Democat version of the Reagan Revolution riding in on the heels of the anti-Prop 13, or a national push to "throw the bums out" that swept in Newt Gingrich's Republican Revolution.
Sorry, Dems, but it looks like we're going to be in for more of the same for a long time to come. The public spoke loud and clear and said, "keep things the way they are!"
If, in fact, this was piggishness, then the voters got what they deserved.........
So a headline like: "Republicans win some and lose some, Dems do the same" would be at the expense of the truth?
Excellent. That's it in a nutshell.
Why is this being posted in breaking news?
VIrginia didn't do too bad, given the circumstances.
We have a democrat governor who is seen as having done a great job, because our economy is booming, our budget has huge surpluses, and we are all happy campers. With the national mood, people were likely to vote for his logical successor, the Lt. Governor.
With all the negative national stuff about republicans, and with the strong national democrat presence, we held our own. Only lost a couple of delegate seats. Some were Rino seats where we booted the Rinos but couldn't get our conservatives elected (too much with rinos supporting their democrat opponents).
It was a tough race, a lot of close races, but we picked up the Lt. Governor seat from the democrats. Assuming a good recount, we will be up one on statewide offices.
Only the MSM could spin a loss of one statewide office as a huge victory in a state that traditionally picks off-party governors, where things are great, where the democrat sounds more like a republican than most republicans.
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