Washington Post: "The Momentum Myth"

The Washington Post ^ | 10/25/2012 | Jonathan Bernstein

[ModelBreaker]

I agree this could be a wave election for Republicans. But breaking the liberal bubble? We’re electing Romney. He’s a progressive as I define progressive—a politician for whom every problem elicits a government solution, probably a federal one.

No, Romney is not nearly as bad as Obama, who might be characterized as a vicious progressive. But America is not voting for small-government conservatism because none are on the ballot. Sadly, were one on the ballot, he or she would be defeated in a landslide.

This election (assuming we win it) is just the first step in a Hostile Takeover (to crib Matt Kibbe’s term) of the US Government. It will, hopefully stop thing from getting a lot worse, while small government conservatives continue to build our infrastructure and develop experienced small-government candidates for future races.

But the worst possible reaction to a Romney victory would be for conservatives to say, “whew, it’s OK now. I can relax. The liberal bubble has been destroyed.” It’s not OK and they cannot relax and the liberals will still be running things in D.C. That they will have R’s by their names and will not be as ugly a set of liberals does not change that.

I can feel the wave. But it’s a Republican wave. And that doesn’t mean a whole lot, except that Obama, Pelosi, and Reid’s wrecking ball gets turned off for four years.

[neveralib]

Do you have to have a name ending in ‘Stein’ to work at the COMPOST??? Liberal Jews fear and hate Christians but don’t fear or hate communism. Strange world.

Worst yet, not only do they not fear or hate Communism, they don't fear or hate those who would destroy Israel and murder every single Jew on Earth--and that includes this Leftist Moonbat--which is Radical Islam, which just happens to be an Oxymoron as all of this cult-cum-religion (Islam) is by its very nature, Radical.

[Slyfox]

Sounds like WaPo is suffering from Bomnesia

[Chode]

guess he must of missed the WAPO/ABC poll with R-50/0-47then...

[C. Edmund Wright]

With due respect, I think you either just read the header or skimmed - there is about 20% of the article explaining that this is an anti liberal, and not a pro conservative - wave. And it is anti liberal, anti elite, and anti media.

There are several distinct parts of the article calling out Rove, Romney and Ryan as “riding” this wave but NOT driving it. Read it. I think you’ll agree.

[spawn44]

Washington Post: You socialist democrats would win every election if only the results were based on 1. EXIT POLLS 2. Polls skewered +8 or +9 towards the democrats. But unfortunately, the good feeling you gain from re-arranging the deck chairs on the titanic, doesn’t last very long.

[American Constitutionalist]

Washington Post and the NYTs ? what’s the difference, both of them are in denial mode now.

[winner3000]

The Compost tried to create its own fake momentum along with the rest of the media and partisan pollsters, who, through the use of oversampled Democrats, tried to make the re-election of Obama seem inevitable through the use of these rigged polls back in September.