Posted on 11/05/2014 12:26:57 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Republicans scored a stunning electoral rout in the midterm elections, taking control of the U.S. Senate after a bitter campaign in which anger at Washington gridlock was turned against a president who took office promising to transcend it. Full article here
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Tonight we saw nothing short of a historic outbreak of mass sanity across America. Sooooo, to gloat or not to gloat. That's the question tonight. I'm leaning heavily against any gloating.It's not an easy decision because the shellacking the Democrats took across the country tonight -- a magnificent display of Democrats' Electile Dysfunction -- presents such a target-rich environment.
For example, the contest in Arkansas. Here you've had what amounted to a family dynasty. It went down in flames tonight. But to top it all, Mark Pryor was brought down by a chap the media not long ago laughed off as having not a snowball's chance in hell of winning! A 37-year-old Congressional freshman named Tom Cotton beating a Pryor? In Arkansas? Ha, no way. But am I going to gloat over it, or even mention it? Nope.
Speaking of losers running on big family names, Michelle Nunn (Senate candidate) and Jason Carter (Gubernatorial candidate) similarly went down in flames in Georgia tonight. But I'm not gonna gloat about it nor even mention the fact that the experts were confidently predicting the Senate race would definitely head to a run-off. David Perdue winning outright? Against a Nunn? In Georgia? Not gonna happen.
Nor will you hear a peep from non-gloating me about the drubbing Democrats received in Colorado's Senate race tonight. The Democrat incumbent, Sen. Mark Uterus, flogged the "war on women" meme throughout the Campaign. He fancied himself being able to rouse that dead horse to victory. This was, after all, the meme that was supposed to be the Democrats' silver bullet because it worked for Obama, whose reelection was saved at the last minute by a woman named Hurricane Sandy.
Unfortunately for the Democrats in Colorado, there was nothing to save the world-renowned expert on female genitalia from defeat at the hands of Cory Gardner. But! Since I'm not gloating, no mention of any of this from me.
Indeed, if I were gloating, I would definitely mention the GOP upset victory in North Carolina, but I'm not. Here again, experts insisted that Kay Hagan had victory in the bag even though her polls sucked. Democrats bragged that the high turnout of early voters would seal Thom Tillis's fate. "I think we've got the momentum," Hagan proclaimed over the weekend. But, again, you won't hear me gloat nor even mention any of this once.
I suppose I could gloat about Wendy Davis's shellacking in Texas (but I won't). She was supposed to turn Texas purple if not blue on the basis that she held up passage of a measure against late-term abortions. She became an instant heroine to the abortion lobby. Vogue magazine featured her on its cover. The Abortion Barbie raised over a million bucks in mere weeks after her pro-abort filibuster. Liberals were certain that being pro-abortion and making fun of people in wheelchairs were winning formulas in Texas. She lost by 20 points to a guy in a wheelchair. But if you thought I was going to gloat about it or even mention it, you'd be mistaken.
In fact, not gonna mention Gov. Scott Walker winning reelection in Wisconsin nor Joni Ernst becoming Iowa's first female U.S. Senator after trouncing Bruce "Bailey". Since I'm not gloating, my lips are also sealed about Pat Roberts winning reelection in Kansas and Steve Daines winning in Montana and Mike Rounds winning in South Dakota and Shelley Moore Capito winning in West Virginia and Mia Love becoming the first African-American GOP Congresswoman.
Oh, one more thing . . .
Harry Reid -- you're fired! Heh, heh, heh! I'm still not gloating though! Honest!
Anyway, that's ...
My Two Cents
"JohnHuang2"
WHERE THE HECK HAVE YOU BEEN???? It is GRRRRREAT to see
you here NOT gloating of course!!!!!!!
What will they do with the victory?
I have no expectations. Now the winners have to show they are Obama’s equal to the task ahead.
OMG! Good to ‘see you’, John!
How could you omit the mayhem in Maryland?
Well, I guess they will have to wait until they are sworn in and get down to business, won’t they? Like I said - I just want to gloat in the victory for a couple of months. Why be such a Debbie Downer? No, they don’t have to show they are obama’s equal - they need to show they are superior! We elected some great Senators and Representatives to the House, some not so great, but at least we have put a finger in the dyke that is sinking this country into tyranny! So, please, just shut up and enjoy this moment!
The devil of doubt and despair.
Very effective.
Sometimes you have to wonder about motive.
Yeah for Mia Love!!!
Haven’t seen you in a long time. Thanks for the ping to another excellent essay
Except here in Pennsylvania, where the dems and dead voters came out in full force to elect the most liberal governor Pa has ever seen.
Haven’t seen your “handle” around here for a long time. Glad to see you weighing in again.
The SOB Corbett raised the gas tax.
He forgot why he was elected. It takes a lot to be a GOP governor and lose.
And while you are NOT gloating, there is another, very down ticket, dynastic upset in WI — Julien Bradley over Doug LaFollette for Secretary of State. A very young, rather overweight, very bright black man knocked off a LaFollette in WI who has held the SOS position for at least 20+ years.
LaFollette is a legendary name in WI, but this guy actually was sort of an imposter who changed the spelling of his name to make it appear that he was a member if the famous LaFollette family. He’s a nasty piece of work who was elected again and again, but who only became noticed when he refused to issue the official wording of Gov. Scott Walker’s Act 10 for weeks, thus allowing the unions to secure new contracts before the law went into effect that would allow public sector union members to opt out.
At least Bradley’s victory looked secure last night.
Well I for one am glad to see you’re not gloating.
I would also point out there was nothing even remotely wave like in last night results
Yep, ya got that right.
Franken and Dayton were to be expected. Stewart Mills (8th CD)...that hurt.
Nice job, John. Ain’t the beer cold! (Not that I will mention that. :-))
I would say Maryland electing a Republican governor by a significant margin is pretty real.
Oh rats! I just looked it up — LaFollette pulled it out at the last minute after I went to bed. LaFollette was the ONLY Democrat to survive statewide election in Wisconsin last night.
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