Posted on 01/20/2010 6:33:01 AM PST by milwguy
Dream up a gargantuan backlash against Barack Obama’s left-wing gospel, and you still could not invent the notion of a relatively unknown, conservative Scott Brown knocking off an Obama-endorsed, liberal, female attorney in liberal Massachusetts — in a race to fill the seat once held by Ted Kennedy.
If a liberal senatorial candidate can be defeated in Massachusetts, eleven months after the Obama hope-and-change blitzkrieg, it is hard to believe that any liberal seat is necessarily safe anywhere.
So the real story is not a populist backlash, but a growing populist backlash, whose ultimate nature and magnitude are as yet unknown. What’s going on?
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
"The best thing that could happen to Barack Obama is more Democratic losses in hodgepodge elections that might yank away our young transfixed Narcissus from his mesmerizing reflecting pool."
“...whose ultimate nature and magnitude are as yet unknown...”
That is a tsunami....
Quintessential VDH slapdown.
Better put some ice on that, Obama...LOL.
By the way, Obama, if you continue on as you say you will, you’re gonna’ need a bigger boat...
Brown is pro-choice. He’s not a conservative.
Ha, you quoted my favorite line.
I love VDH. And I LOVE our Victory Day today.... What a great way to start the new year.
There was a backlash against Republicans for failing to act like Republicans (especially on spending).
There is now a backlash against liberal Democrats because they are acting like liberal Democrats. So in other words, the GOP can come back by adhering to their values, whereas the very values of liberal Democrats are what is doing them in now.
Good read.
He is not a conservative on abortion, and that is a very important issue but not the only one measuring conservatism.
“Brown is pro-choice.”
Maybe, but he voted YES on defining marriage as one man and one woman. He’s no liberal.
......In the process, he developed a terrible habit of promising favored constituencies a hundred billion here, a hundred billion there as if it were all paper money.....
Money promised but not appropriated is not money spent
Me too. I really enjoy reading VDH. I wish we had some good candidates who could communicate as well as VDH.
Who made you his judge?
“He is not a conservative on abortion, and that is a very important issue but not the only one measuring conservatism.”
What I wish I said.
While I am very pro-life, we can't measure a person's “conservatism” on one issue alone! Would you rather have had Coakley win?
Brown is for restrictions on abortion, and politically, that's all we can really expect right now anyway.
The liberal media and the democrats all laughed at the Tea Parties...”astro-tuff” said Knuckelhead Nancy...
WHO IS LAUGHING NOW?
They REALLY live in a dream world...from their condesending perch they believe middle America to be “uninformed”, led by Rush Limbaugh, incapable of independent thought...they CANNOT believe that they and their programs are being REJECTED by an informed populace..
They WILL not learn...the Obama’s, Pelosi’s, and Ried’s of the world will still cling to their delusions as they are taken away in straight jackets.
That may be true but it has been often said "The enemy of my enemies is my friend". And Pugosi, Dirty Harry, Zero, and the rest of the crap in Washington (and New Mexico) are definitely my enemies.
Oh, I’m quite happy he won, but I think the term “conservative” is a misnomer. Mainstream Republican, perhaps.
VDH, as does Charles Krauthammer, calls Obama a narcissist-—
“””No politician quite gets a pass for deception and prevarication. Obama in his narcissism thought his sonorous rhetoric made him exempt from a “read my lips” or “I didn’t have sex with that woman” moment. It didn’t.”””
VDH then goes on to describe how a narcissist reacts to situations-——
“””Yet Obama still pontificates that angry deluded voters will “suddenly” come to appreciate how he rammed health care down their otherwise ignorant throats: “The American people will suddenly learn that this bill does things they like and doesn’t do things that people have been trying to say it does. . . . The worst fears will prove groundless. And the American people’s hope for a fair shake from their insurance companies — for quality, affordable health care they need — will finally be realized.””””
That's like saying a politician who is against abortion, but supports the welfare state, is still a conservative.
The good news is, a guy like Brown will probably become more conservative over time, given his stance on the other issues. I'm quite happy that he won, don't get me wrong.
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