Posted on 08/01/2009 8:29:10 AM PDT by RobinMasters
It took four years of George Bush’s second term to push Republicans to a recent nadir in registration in Minnesota. It only took six months of Barack Obama to push the GOP back into parity with the DFL, the state’s Democratic Party. Eric Ostermeier at Smart Politics looks at the suddenly-stronger Republican Party and draws at least one of the correct conclusions:
The SurveyUSA poll finds 34 percent of Minnesotans now identify as Republicans - the largest percentage enjoyed by the GOP in 63 surveys conducted by the organization dating back to its inaugural tracking poll in May 2005, when 35 percent identified as Republicans.
In fact, Republicans had only reached the 30 percent mark in just 7 of the previous 42 statewide surveys conducted by the polling organization since January 2007.
Democrats have held advantages over the GOP in party ID of moderate to large margins since late 2005. The percentage of residents identifying as Democrats in Minnesota had even eclipsed the 40 percent mark nine times since the 2006 election - and as recent as April and June of 2009.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
SOOOO Sorry but too bad! My senators are two “moderate” fakes, Mark Warner and Jim Webb - and you won’t find me defending THEM! They slimed their way in Obama-style by talking moderate but are now voting lib. But at least we in VA haven’t elected a complete moron like Ventura (9/11 was an INSIDE job???) or Stuart Smalley - cripes! My insults pale in comparison to the insults your state’s voters perpetrate on YOU!!!!
That was a good try but no joy in the end - too bad the whole system in MN is replete with commie libs who are happy to steal an election for their side. Only the MN voters are to blame for setting up this system...
Coleman could’ve kept fighting it in court (taking it to the Supremes), but he wants now to keep himself potentially viable to run for Governor next year... I thought it was sickening Pawlenty decided to certify it, he knows damn well there was enough fraud and chicanery to call into question the legitimacy of the results given the narrowness, but he wanted to add to the myth that MN is somehow immune to voter fraud in other states. Sorry, Timmy, but where there’s rodents, there’s fraud.
Excellent points! I thought Coleman was going to take it to the Supremes - get it out of the state if nothing else. If Pawlenty is positioning himself for something national, do you think he’s a good bet to support despite this goof?
The only people humping Pawlenty is the media and some out-of-touch members of the RINO establishment (and, of course, the only reason why the media touts certain Republicans is because they want the weakest ones, ones who have inflicted the most amount of damage to the party and the Conservative movement, to face stronger Democrats in the general, and even if the RINO happens to win, the left still wins).
I mean, he’s been a disaster for the MN GOP. Why would a sane Conservative support someone who presided over the shrinking of the state GOP’s standing in the State House of Reps from a 60% majority when he took office now down to 1/3rd, or the State Senate from a nearly tied to 30%, or a complete wipeout of the other statewide GOP elected officials, blowing of both Senate seats, loss of another Congressional seat (and coming perilously close to seeing the entire delegation reduced to 1 federal Republican last November) ? And this all the while he’s saying we need to reach out to liberals ?!? WTF ?!?
You notice the media talks about how “divisive” Palin is in the GOP (lie), how she just doesn’t enjoy a lot of support (lie). Well, since she’s so destructive and divisive, why isn’t the media humping her candidacy, since by their reckonining, she’d be easy pickins for the False Messiah in 2012 ? Because they know it’s all bullcrap. She’s precisely the person they don’t want us running. That’s why we run here and tell Pawlenty to take a hike. He had 8 years to demonstrate a good record, and he blew it big time.
Excellent, EXCELLENT - thanks so much for the info...it’s sites like this that will help all of us make the right decisions in the future. I’m guilty of buying into the “go along to get along” crap from McCain (and I’m a sucker for a war hero - unlike most of the rest of the country...)but NEVER again! I want my check list of true conservative stances satisfied before I ever work/vote for a Repub again...great to get your info, thanks...
Yeah, we’ve had quite enough of the go along to get along crap. That attitude is what made us the minority party for umpteen decades. If you’re not going to ACT like a leader, why would people vote for you ? As we well saw, McCain was a disaster as a candidate (the only good thing he did was picking Palin, and then he failed to utilize her). Pulled all his punches in the debates with the False Messiah. It’s funny, somebody should’ve told him to treat Zero like a Conservative, THEN he wouldn’t have hesistated to attack him mercilessly.
So true - and he had SO many opportunities to nail the poser...but I find it hard to “beat up” a guy who gave so much to the country...just wish he would get off the stage and be a senator emeritus in RETIREMENT! Get a CONSERVATIVE in there...
Unfortunately, the laws they pass while in power stay with us forever...
If I were running for President, I would promise to lobby for a Great Purge of Federal Laws - entire sessions of Congress dedicated to removing laws from the Federal books!
I put it like this, they may have been heroic during their military service, but if it doesn’t continue into their political service, it doesn’t give them a free pass to continue doing the wrong thing. I look at John Glenn, for example. He wanted to portray himself as a “moderate”, but in his failed quest for the Presidency, he overextended himself so financially that he was “up for sale.” By the time he was concluding his final Senate term, he was running interference for Clinton in covering up the ChinaGate mess and sale of nuclear secrets (and whatever else) for campaign contributions to the Democrat party. He went from heroism to covering up for treason in the span of 4 decades, and he got his ride into space again for his treachery.
McCain does indeed need to retire next year, but has arrogantly declared again to run. He does not have my support in the least. Even his predecessor Goldwater jumped the shark in running for his last term, barely concealing his hatred for Reagan, and reduced to lying to pro-lifers to support him in 1980, despite the fact his Dem opponent was more socially Conservative than he, and then Goldwater giving the middle finger to the people that narrowly pushed him over after he got his last term...
It really is no joke that going to DC often warps even the best people, and the longer they stay, the more warped and part of the problem they become. Glenn stayed 24 years, McCain will have been there 28 years as of Jan 2011, and Goldwater stayed 30 years (with a 4-year gap after his ‘64 Presidential run). All far too long. I’ve observed once they’ve been there longer than 6 years (and I’m talking about our people, not the Dems, who are already mostly corrupted before they even get there), they’ve already been compromised. Very few manage to stay clean and keep their vision to shrink the size of government.
And it seems odd too because even if they just have a(R) after their name, they are personae non grata in the DC cocktail circuit but I guess the power high trumps all...I’ve been on the Hill a lot in the past and always find it funny when you approach a congress member, they start with the “Who the eff are you to talk to ME..?” look on their face...real “into” themselves from the very start...
From what I’ve observed, too many (Republicans) come to town to try to get on the cocktail party circuit because they want to “be liked” by the media and have them say nice things about them. That’s the last place they need to be, and the last group they should be socializing with. The media is NOT our friends, especially as long as they are dominated by the extreme left fringe. The media knows how to play some of our people, separate the weak-willed ones from the herd, and turn them against our people and the base. Those people are dangerous. You’re right, too, about the arrogance of the entrenched, and that cuts across party lines (but especially those on the left or in the process of moving further in that direction).
I tell this short story from time to time, I think probably some of the smartest folks in DC ain’t in government, they drive cabs. One cabbie I spoke to back in the ‘90s, a self-identified Conservative Republican and Black, was discussing Colin Powell with me (this was the week he was deciding whether to enter the ‘96 race, when polling indicated he could probably beat a weak Clinton). This guy admonished me that Powell was a total phony and absolutely no good whatsoever. The cabbie ultimately proved 100% right, with it coming to full fruition in the last election with his full-blown apostasy. There was a prime example of a Republican corrupted by the cocktail party circuit, kissing up to his new liberal media friends. He surely made his racist and sexist bones with his backstabbing weaselry.
Love those cabbies! My husband went to Army War College in ‘95 and the buzz there wasn’t complementary of Powell.
Been great to and fro-ing with you, look forward to more in future, all the best in MN - got to go function now!!!! Cheers, gin of matginzac
Nice talking to you, too.
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