Posted on 11/05/2009 3:50:17 AM PST by suspects
How’s that “hope and change” working out for you? I can’t speak for the Democrats, but Republicans - particularly New England ones - are loving it.
After a year of defeat and dire predictions, Massachusetts conservatives have renewed hope for 2010. There’s definitely change on the way, and in a state whose legislators are about 90 percent Democrat, change can only be good for Republicans.
And who can we thank for this new conservative spirit of hopeful-changeyness? The Republican Party’s new hero: Barack Obama.
One year ago today, pundits were writing off the American right for the next election cycle, the next decade - some even said the next GENERATION was lost to the Republicans. And now, just 10 months into the Obama presidency, what’s really been lost?
Virginia (Obama, plus five in 2008), New Jersey (Obama, plus 15) and probably the massive health reform bill (Obama, plus 28 speeches, press conferences and town halls, to no effect).
How quickly we’ve gone from “Obama - how can he lose?” to “Is there anything he can win, other than the (snicker) Nobel Peace Prize?”
Tuesday’s election proved that one of the other things Obama can’t win is another term in the corner office for Deval Patrick. Instead, it looks like New Jersey deja vu all over again.
You remember New Jersey - where an unpopular and largely inept governor was relying on Obama’s star power and his state’s solid Democratic majority to get him re-elected. That, and Gov. Jon Corzine’s ability to spend $30 million - $12 million more than his opponent.
And if all that didn’t work, Corzine had an independent candidate pulling votes away from his challenger, too.
Sound familiar? If you work in the Massachusetts governor’s office, it should. Except Deval Patrick doesn’t have...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Face it, when Barruh can’t even sell out a fundraiser in BOSTON to a bunch of bluebloods, he’s got issues.
The GOP.
Motto.
We Wait For The Dems To Screw Up, Then We Mess Up.
Oh well, hopefully with Palin, we will knock off this elderly generation of RINO’s and energetic mediocrities, and get a new generation of free market, freedom fighting leaders.
I still think people in Mass are crazy enough to re-elect Obama
and Patrick.
Until proven otherwise, I am considering Massachusetts to be a lost cause.
Finally realizing the stuck in a no win situation.
Getting out and moving to Red States who don't spend their way out.
Perhaps I spend too much time in the Amherst/Northampton Crazy Corner to get a better picture but the only good news I can report is the trouble Chris Dodd is in in Connecticut.
Nice article in that the Obama-Rahm-Axelrod massive overreach is likely to get ever worse after they read this stroke-inducing-type piece.
Thanks goodness the arrogance of those three well exceeds their actual capabilities.
Obama probably but Deval has a 60 - 40 shot of going down. only wildcard is that dink Cahill running as an independent. If Deval wins it will be because some anti deval votes go to Cahill and Deval squeaks by on a plurality.
pnh102 wrote: “Until proven otherwise, I am considering Massachusetts to be a lost cause.”
..... Speaking as a resident of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I concur. The political game here is so well-rigged, and the Republican party organization so absolutely inept and aimless, that there is little real chance of the Democrats losing control. Reality has not yet smacked the voting public with sufficient force to wake them up.
Sounds really good...until the conservatives and tea party activists discover that the New England GOP is run by folks like Weld, Chafee, Snow and Collins. These people puff their cigars and sip their wine and cooly lecture us about how our provincial notions concerning God, guns and national glory won’t win in the “sophisticated” world of New England.
good piece, and correct
Maybe, but Deval’s approval numbers are worse than Corzine.
the fact that anyone would vote for a nincompoop like deval
patrick is amazing.
I think this is rather wishful thinking. The elections have consistently shown that only about a third of the electorate are rational conservatives, with the rest moonbats or mushy middle of the roaders. I often despair of the Bay State.
My condolences to you and blessings on your gift to the Redwoods out there.
It would be interesting to see what would happen if a true conservative ran up here in MA...it just might be wishful thinking. Way too many moonbats up here.
Deval Patrick ran on the exact same platform as B Hussein Obama...”yes, we can”
The northeast needed a dose of left wing extremism and a bad economy to wake them up.
Liberalism can only succeed if capitalism and markets are allowed to work.
In Ct, Ted Lament of MoveOn anti Lieberman primary fame has just announced that he’s running for governor. Just what we need is a George Soros puppet about now.
Yeah, but the libs/rats deserting the messes they’ve made where they were simply take their filth to the red states and pollute them. Look at what out-migration of lefty loons from CA did to AZ, CO, MT, and even WY to some extent. They go where economic policies and politics are sane, and try to turn those havens into the places like those they deserted.
Sorry, but with no GOP in the legislature, a GOP Governor is nothing but a powerless and useless figurehead, especially any backed by the execrable RINO ex-Governors. Tim Cahill has my endorsement.
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