[neverdem]

If you remember Gun-Shy, then Bloomberg going after Pryor is poetic justice! Chuck U & Dingy gave him cover back then. We might have Bloomberg to thank if we get the Senate in 2014!

Hat tip to george76!

[neverdem]

BANG!

[lurk]

There are moderates in the Dem party? They look like the North Korean politburo lately.

[Hostage]

> “The Tea Party revolution, which had begun months before Matthews’ rant, has since ***undoubtedly*** cost the GOP a few Senate seats.

Huh? It cost the GOPe a few Senate seats.

> “But its energy ***probably*** let them seize the House and control of many state governments in 2010.”

Probably? PROBABLY???

> “And despite any Tea Party ***excesses***, Republicans are within striking distance of a Senate majority in 2014.”

Excesses??? What ‘excesses’ would those be?

Is everyone inside the Beltway drinking Koolaid? Or are they so insulated as to be clueless?

[Carry_Okie]

The Tea Party revolution, which had begun months before Matthews' rant, has since undoubtedly cost the GOP a few Senate seats.

Funny, it looked to me more like backstabbing RINOS undermining their own GOP nominees that cost a few Senate seats and won a few others.

[Vince Ferrer]

We’ll take it.

[SuziQ]

Seems like the perfect time for a pro-gun Tea Partier to try for one, or all, of the Senate seats the Democrats are purging. See just how ‘liberal’ the people in those districts truly are.

[pabianice]

Neither party understands. The parties, as we have known them, are dead. What’s left is who can garner the most votes using every trick in the book. Unhappily, Republicans bring Nerf bats to an artillery duel. Massachusetts liberals understand. Create straw candidates so a racist, multi-millionaire, extortionist, liberal governor with 36% support can win reelection.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Like, if I want to find out what’s happening in the Republican party, I’m going to ask Chrissy Matthews?

[sickoflibs]

RE :”Today, the same liberal worldview and wishful thinking that fueled the pundits’ “GOP purge-and-die” narrative in 2009 is causing them to miss the more dangerous purge that threatens the Democrats now.
In 2006, Democrats built a congressional majority by embracing and convincing pro-gun, pro-life moderates to run in marginal states and districts. They have since lost many of these in the House, and liberals are now in the process of purging them from the Senate.
Until Monday, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., had been acting like a man seeking re-election — raising $1.5 million in the first quarter and attempting to distance himself from Obamacare.
But Baucus had just voted against the gun control measures that President Obama had been pushing. And in response, Organizing for Action — the post-campaign version of Obama’s campaign — announced it would be mobilizing activists to shame and pressure Baucus and the three other Democrats who had voted against gun control.
Baucus, already polling badly and facing a tough re-election, needed that like he needed a hole in his head. Who could blame him for hanging it up early?”

This article picked up on something I noticed by watching the Democrat channel.

As recently as a few months ago just this year libs were celebrating a simple story of conservatives purging the GOP ranks to create a super-minority pure R party and Dem majority. This was a Major theme of theirs for a long time,
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But as the author correctly says, Pelosi Dems welcomed the 100% NRA rated Dems into the party so they would win so big in 2006, 2008 and 2012.

But now they are purging their own for not joining the Gun safety vote team. Only a few months later.

This is what beating Dems gets. Seeing them mad for a change.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Pat Toomey, the conservative

After his gun-grabbing escapade, this phrase is now unfortunately an oxymoron.

The (only) measurable difference between the Democrats and the Republicans today is that, in the main, the Democrat Party listens to its base. The Republican Party takes pitchforks to its base.

[justiceseeker93]

Mike Huckabee on his TV show last night played up the fact that Baucus is the fourth current Democratic senator who will not seek reelection next year. The others are Harkin (IA), Rockefeller (WV), and Johnson (SD).

All of these seats should be up for grabs in the Senate races, since none of them are solidly 'Rat. But the GOP needs a net gain of six to get the Senate majority.