Posted on 11/04/2009 10:28:46 PM PST by rabscuttle385
WASHINGTON — Republicans emerged from Tuesday’s elections energized by victories in Virginia and New Jersey, but their leaders immediately began maneuvering to avoid a prolonged battle with conservative activists over what the party stands for and how to regain power.
The victories, in races for governor, were cast by the party’s national chairman, Michael Steele, as a sign of a “Republican renaissance.” In New Jersey, Gov. Jon S. Corzine, a Democrat, was toppled by the Republican nominee, Christopher J. Christie. In Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell, the Republican, defeated his Democratic opponent, R. Creigh Deeds.
Republicans said the victories showed that President Obama and his party were vulnerable on the economy, government spending and other issues.
Yet throughout the day Wednesday, Republicans grappled with the disappointing outcome of a special election for what had been a reliably Republican House seat in upstate New York. That contest became a battleground between the party establishment and a conservative insurgency demanding more ideological purity from candidates.
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Viva la resistance!
RINOS better get outa the middle of the road before they get pulverized by the Mac Truck of conservatism.
Our leaders? Hahahahahahaha. Now we’re ‘conservative activists’ huh?
An interesting coincidence: Democrats and RINOs share a desire to silence the people. Fair conclusions can be made from this.
why does no one ever mention she also endorsed both McDonnell and Christie and they both won. It wasn’t like she only endorsed Hoffman. In fact, she had already donated the maximum to McDonnell from her PAC way back in July or something like that. But they only want to focus on the one election and not the other two.
He did go from 23 to 45 in 10 days and from trailing Owens by 12 to losing by 4. The key event was Dede stabbing the party in the back and throwing the race to Owens. Palin had nothing to do with that. All she did was write a few boilerplate sentences.
I mean, it’s not like she flew into NY on an emergency visit on Sunday and went up and down the district telling everyone that Hoffman is one of her biggest partners and the key to her agenda. It’s not like there were giant billboards and TV ads with her face saying Palin/Hoffman. Only to see him fall flat on his face. It’s not like she sent some of her top people to help him out. A 9 yr incumbent with unlimited cash. Doug was basically unknown as of a couple weeks ago.
But the NYT tells us NJ was no big deal. Nothing to do with Obama. No reflection on him at all.
It is nice to know that the mighty Grey Lady is now resorting to browsing her facebook page to write their stories, though. A real titan of news gathering they are. I wonder how Nagourney feels knowing he’s the top political reporter at the paper of record and has to read the facebook notes of a woman he obviously despises with all his soul.
Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Olympia Snowe, et al, you might as well be Democrats because you vote with them! Not one of you can get reelected without us! We DON*T NEED YOU.We DON*T WANT YOU. Just follow Specter on over to the evil side and get out of our way so we can get some REAL conservatives in there!!!
I composed a ScoreCard for the voting record of members of Congress. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2341921/posts
And am now doing the same for the Senate. Have the framework composed, except I need some guidance on the bills in the Senate that are revealing about the true loyalties of the members.
Any suggestions for the Senate Bills?
FYI…..
But the NYT tells us NJ was no big deal. Nothing to do with Obama. No reflection on him at all.
Rahm Emanuel 2005 : Our gubernatorial wins in NJ and Virginia are huge
Rahm Emanuel — then chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and now White House chief of staff — had called us to argue the very point Republicans are now making: that the two gubernatorial contests say something about the upcoming midterms.
Here’s what we wrote then:
Democratic House campaign committee chair Rahm Emanuel, calling First Read immediately after Kaine’s and Corzine’s victories were announced, argued that it’s clear Democratic voters were already energized earlier in the year when Democrat Paul Hackett nearly won a traditionally GOP-leaning Ohio House district. “I think that’s even more true today.”
The Rinos are “grappling” with losing the New York Congressional election. I wonder if they’ve been grappling with every election they have lost over the past four or five years now? Or do they just do the same loser face things over and over again while telling everyone to shut up about it?
Adam just won a prize from our friends at the Media Research center:
The "Dewey Defeats Truman" Award for the Most Incompetent Reporting of This Year's Election.
I disagree with the MRC. Don't believe Nagourney is incompetent. He's just a liar. He writes what he writes in the hope it will confuse, demoralize or splinter the right and elect marxists.
the party establishment (national) was hoodwinked, I think they have learned a very valuable lesson.
AMEN!!! LOL
From now on, trying to ‘lead’ conservatives into voting for RINOs will be like herding mountain lions.
Sean had that idiot, wife-cheating, blow-hard Newt on yesterday.
I turned Sean off forever yesterday. Too many liberals and to much of that loser Newt.
Newt betrayed us when he was banging his assistant, cheating on his second wife, and getting blackmailed by the Clintons (IMHO). They had his FBI file.
I might also mention that after the 1994 victory, Newt led a steady declining majority.
What the GOP fails to realize is that there is enough of us to screw them out of any election at any given time if they don't give us the candidate we want. If they want to ever win a major election again, they need to ditch the RINOs or face a conservative alternative any time they run.
To hell with RINOs and the GOP for tolerating them. If we have to tear apart the party to rebuild it then that's what will happen. The "Party of McCain" can take a hike.
RINOs say the same thing about conservatives--and they are right. I say we need each other if we're going to stop Democrats. Fight it out in primaries and then stay united to defeat the Democrats. It is the ONLY way.
This is simply untrue. Oh, if it were true. The fact is there is no where near enough true purists to get elected to anything. If you want to perpetually keep Dims in power, this is a surefire way to do it.
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