Posted on 05/19/2010 3:49:36 PM PDT by Syncro
REPUBLICANS ON TRACK TO SNATCH DEFEAT FROM JAWS OF VICTORY
May 19, 2010
Republican consultants are doing a wonderful job raising expectations sky-high for the November elections, so that now, even if Republicans do smashingly well, it will look like a defeat (and an across-the-board endorsement of Obama's agenda). Thanks, Republicans!
That's what happened in the 1998 congressional elections, nearly foiling Clinton's impeachment. It's what happened to the Conservative Party in Britain a week ago. And that's what happened this week in the 12th Congressional District of Pennsylvania, formerly represented by Rep. John Murtha.
Note to Republicans: Whenever possible, victory parties should be held after the election, not before it.
The result of the election in Murtha's old district on Tuesday was that the rabidly anti-ObamaCare, pro-life, pro-gun candidate won! Yippee!
But the news on Wednesday morning was that the election "dealt a blow to Republicans," as The New York Times reported.
The reason the Times' description was not utter madness (in violation of New York Times' official policy) is because the anti-ObamaCare, pro-life, pro-gun candidate was a Democrat and, for the past two months, every Republican on TV has been predicting a Republican victory in Murtha's district.
Thanks to all the happy talk, if the Republican actually had won, it would have been Page 16 news. But when the Democrat won, it seemed like an against-all-odds, come-from-behind Hoosiers victory!
Why were Republicans predicting victory in a district where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1? Given a choice between two candidates who both hate ObamaCare, why would lifelong Democrats not vote for the Democrat?
Republicans are playing the same raised-expectations game with the November elections. Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner is ludicrously predicting Republicans will pick up 100 seats in the House in November. Newt Gingrich puts the figure at an equally insane (and weirdly precise) 78. He also predicts the Cubs will win 132 games this season and six games will be rained out.
Keep it up, Republicans, and I'm going to keep naming names. I have Nexis.
For more than half a century, the average midterm pickup for the party out of power has been 24 seats.
Your job, Republicans, is not to go on Fox News and whisper sweet nothings in conservatives' ears. Your job is to repeal the Obama agenda. Raising expectations so high that a 30-seat Republican pickup will seem like a loss is not helping.
Moreover, we're not going to pick up any seats this November if Republicans keep chumming around with the Democrats' pals on Wall Street.
Roughly since the Harding administration, Wall Street has overwhelmingly favored Democrats. According to a recent report from ABC News, for example, the five largest hedge funds gave "almost all their donations to Democrats."
For the past year, the Democrats' Wall Street BFFs have had lower public approval ratings than Hitler. (When I say "Hitler," I don't mean Dick Cheney or George W. Bush; I actually mean Adolf Hitler.) While Hitler continues to enjoy great personal popularity, there is a growing dissatisfaction with his policies.
How could Republicans possibly screw that up? We try harder.
Read the rest at AnnCoulter.Com
But now we find out from a front-page article in The New York Times that, despite Blumenthal's repeated references to serving "in Vietnam" -- he was never in Vietnam. He got five draft deferments and then joined an elite unit of the Marine Reserves to avoid going to war, serving in their heroic "Toys for Tots" brigade.Read the rest at AnnCoulter.Com
As Pat Caddell says, Democrats are whores, but they expect to be paid; Republicans' names are scrawled on the bathroom wall: "For a good time, call the GOP!"Ann, You Go Girl!
"For the past year, the Democrats' Wall Street BFFs have had lower public approval ratings than Hitler. (When I say 'Hitler,' I don't mean Dick Cheney or George W. Bush; I actually mean Adolf Hitler.) While Hitler continues to enjoy great personal popularity, there is a growing dissatisfaction with his policies.ZING!How could Republicans possibly screw that up?
We try harder." - Ann Coulter
Based on the GOP’s history....is there any doubt?
Although the article makes sense....the problem is:
Ann Coulter is part of that problem...
Coulter spent so much time ridiculing the Birthers over the Obama BC. I am sure Ann Coulter, like all libs, has seen the real Obama BC that is stashed somewhere in Honolulu, Kenya.....
Also, Ann early in the 2008 campaign supported Mitt Romney....who was ObamaCare before Obama was ObamaCare. Memo to Ann: Mitt still thinks RomneyCare is working in Massachusetts...
Sorry...just cannot buy anything Coulter says anymore. When it comes to being conservative....she turns into Clark Kent, but not Superman....just disappears
Hard to argue with that!
She makes an excellent point but the Tea Party does not care about the GOP or the RATS, they care only about credible conservatives and cut-spending constitutionalists.
There were 38 dems that voted against Obamacare. If those dems are pro-life, pro-gun, pro-tax cut, anti-Obamacare, anti-socialist, pro-spending cuts, pro-Constitution, then....
I don’t care if there are 38 X 10 such dems in Congress.
I would rather have 435 Zell Miller democrats in Congress than any of the go-along-to-get-along RINOs.
From my understanding, the candidate that won in PA-12 is a strong conservative, what else matters? Oh, committee chairs, yes....well if the TP can get enough conservatives in Congress, those chairs are going to be chaired by conservatives, so what’s the big deal about having GOP sellouts in those chairs? We had that for 12 years and it got us Obama.
Har, you beat my ping!I was lurking. :o)And with a great picture!
And, Ann's column was almost an hour late this week, so I had more time to prepare.
:o)
Ann’s absolutely correct.
Coulter is correct.
The GOP is attempting to take a free ride on the overwhelming frustration the public has towards DC.
A big problem with the GOP is insider self-interest that is incompatible with the necessary change the Party must embrace.
I agree Ann.
But of course she is right. It is still almost six months to November. Th Pubbies are definitely not going to win a hundred seats in the House. They are saying these things so they won’t have to fight hard. Pubbies don’t like to fight hard.
You just don’t get how the game is played. There may be 5 honest conservative Democrats. (That’s pushing it. The last one in my book was Virgil Goode, who became a Republican). The Blue Dogs have a chain around their neck and lick the hand of their master Pelosi. Their first vote is to make her Speaker. Their second is to enshrine members of the Progressive Caucus in leaderhip posts. When actual legislation come up, they do what they are told. Pelosi or House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn count the vote on any piece of legislation. If they are short, they buy votes. If they have a healthy majority on a liberal bill, they count off how many Democrats they can safely lose and tell that number of blue dogs they can vote according to the needs of their district. To be blunt, unless the left loses a vote, the Blue Dogs are just Democrats who lie to their consituents.
Those DemocRATS that voted against DeathCare had the express permission of Plastic Pelosi to do so. They do not have the collective spine to stand up to the leftists in their party hellbent on America’s destruction.
Yes, she spent hours and hours on TV, in her columns, and when out selling books, when ever we are at an event together (that's all she wants to talk about when we are together, man it damages my ego no end) , doing all that..."so much time"... it's a wonder she ever gets anything else done!
And how could she be a positive pundit on the Conservative scene with those BIG BLACK MARKS against her?
The few people here at FR that get all "cranked" up over this are spinning their wheels.
But...I'll ask for this thread to be pulled and whenever anything comes up concerning her on FR I will hit abuse over and over again until she is purged form the site.
Fair enough?
Oh thanks for helping get this column more exposure with your bump!
Ann is as usual right on. Sad to say we will probably find a way to blow our best chance since 94.
Balderdash!
Those Dems who falsely claim to be conservative do so just to get elected!!
They ALL would have voted for the HC bill if Pelosi needed them.
Every single one of them will vote for Pelosi for speaker, and they all will vote for cap&trade, amnesty, tax increases.....and none of them will vote to REPEAL the healthcare bill.
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