Posted on 11/05/2014 6:50:55 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
I am a Californian, born and bred. We're not ALL stupid.
My husband was a Republican too.
However, with Hollyweird in our midst, Boxer and Feinstein, we sure appear to be stuffed with stupids.
We DID produce Ronald Reagan, so we can't be all bad.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dre/politics/election-results-2014?office=house&state=48
At link above is a great interactive map. You can switch between governors, legislature, senate.
Re Calif: Run your cursor over some of those southern coastal blue districts and notice how close it was between the D. and the R. Encouraging.
Also notice in the “toss up” and “narrow victory” columns in the above link off the polls were.
Then check this out.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/392038/polls-were-really-really-david-french
YEP.
Who knows. I hope so.
I'm pretty sure that you don't think do, but I am a TAD more hopeful.
It's what he does. He hates this country.
We'll get an even bigger WAVE in 2016.
A political party roundly devoted to death and taxes is bound to encounter some resistance once in a while. They really don’t belong in the voting both, much as they are wont to undermine the fundamental rights inscribed and to be enforced according to our Constitution.
This was clearly a victory for hate.
Hail Koch!
Hail Hydra!
Muahahahaha!
So am I. Not born and REARED but still a Californian.
We're not ALL stupid.
Heavens to Mergatroid. I was just making a.....forget it. Some people just live to be offended.
SOMEONE has been watching the QUIET MAN.
GREAT movie. I never miss the opportunity to watch it.
the strategy for 2016 will be employed by March.. They now realize they need shinny objects to get the black and unmarried, single mother vote.
That may be, however, besides Governor, all the other races were closer than previous...a good sign to be sure.
In my Assembly district, we turned out a Rat for Republican and we were 60%-40%, in some cases, 70%-30% against any of the Rats running for any office in the state.
But thanks for the generalization anyway...I’d be disappointed if at least one FReeper didn’t take a shot on a daily basis.
Yesterday was not so much a wholesale embrace of the GOP as it was a complete and total repudiation of Barack Obama and the gang of criminals he brought to Washington in 2008.
In the last 2 decades, it became clear to me that we were losing that struggle as those major institutions gained ground among the growing class of those either employed by or dependent upon the expanding welfare state. My way of emotionally coping with that was to tell myself that if the majority did, indeed, lust after a socialist welfare state, well then, let’s bring it on and let them have it good and hard. Rub their noses in it. Shove it down their throats!!
At the same time, I continued to tell myself that there were still enough honest-to-God adults out there who, once they had a taste of a totalitarian command state regime, they would reject it. I refused to consider that so many citizens (and I use the term loosely) would come to love and embrace the thing enough to sustain it and prolong the economic and personal agony history teaches always attends such despotic systems.
Yesterday, I THINK we began to come to our senses!
I’d analogize what happened yesterday to what an otherwise healthy human body does when faced with an existential threat. Just as our bodies are complex organisms, nations are complex organisms. Faced with ISIS, ebola, the invasion across the southern border and Obama’s criminal neglect of those threats, and on and on and on we STILL have the resolve and character to rally and turn back the threats and deal with the SOURCE of the threats.
All that said, we’re not out of the woods yet.
Now it’s up to the Pubbies to set out a serious and freedom oriented AGENDA and be RESOLUTE in repairing the damage this renegade regime has done over the last 6 years!
Obama and Valarie Jarrett are NOT going to go gently into that good night. As an egomaniacal malignant narcissist, this guy will dig in his heels. Just as a wild animal is most dangerous when cornered, Obama is now in a corner from which there is little chance escape. Ted Cruz was asked last night by if the Pubbies would take up the matter of Obama’s “lawlessness” and he stated rather emphatically that they would.
I’ll be watching to make sure that happens! I’m sure Darrel Issa and Trey Gowdy are licking their chops. I’m doubling my popcorn order for THAT show!
The only event that would please me more than what happened yesterday would be the sight of Barack Obama leaving the White House in manacles and leg irons with Eric Holder right behind him. If he and Eric are smart, they’ll spend today booking air travel to some non extradition country. I’m sure Lois Lerner would like to go along!
And speaking of air travel, tell these new Pubbies to take the keys to Air Force One away from Obama. It’s time to halt his endless taxpayer funded world apology tour!
Now comes the hard work of keeping all these new folks honest in the toxic and corrosive atmosphere of Washington, D.C. . it’s up to these same voters to watch all these new folks like the proverbial hawk and keep them within Mr. Jefferson’s “chains of the Constitution.” When you see them beginning what is the inevitable drift into the D.C. Swamp, CALL AND LET THEM KNOW WE’RE NOT GOING BACK TO “BUSINESS AS USUAL”. The Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121! Write it down.
You should call just to hear the world’s worst “Music on Hold”.
The massive wins by in the statehouses MAY mean that at least SOME voters believe the 10th Amendment will be the most important tool to roll back the growth of fedzilla and return the states to the status of “LABORATORIES OF FREEDOM” the Founders intended them to be.
In that vein, the new national Pubbies need to start taking apart the federal bureaucracy, starting with the Department of Education, the EPA, the IRS and on and on.
Not to be the skunk at the picnic, but there IS some not so good news: The good guys won this one but the tight margins in many of these races mean that there are STILL large pockets of diehard Democrats who STILL DON’T GET IT!!
If you know any of those folks, spend some time attempting to acquaint them with our history, the ideas of the Founders, our tradition of freedom, the Constitution and why those things are important! There will be another election in 2 years and – unless we somehow reach them – many of these folks will be cocked and locked for payback!
And while he’s a huge improvement over the clearly deranged Harry Reid, I’m very worried about Mitch McConnell’s comments that he would crush the Tea Party.
DISGUSTIN' photo of a DISGUSTIN' person.
LIved there for a little over a year, don’t think all Cali’s are bad, most of the state’s pretty reasonable people... Unfortunately though the state has 2 giant metropolitan centers, that get an insane amount of wealth by happenstance of geography... THe San Fran/Bay area, where huge amounts of imported goods flow into giving the area an insane amount of guaranteed cashflow they can suckle off of and Hollyweird which again is a leech from national economy scales.
These 2 areas have so much cast off cash, that they can fund any rediculous idea that any leftist comes up with, and as such have attracted some of the most leftist folks on the planet and they just overwhelm the state from having any shot at normalcy IMHO.
Joe, what doesn't make sense is your remaining in the Democrat party whose policies are damaging your state probably more than any other.
Switch to the Republican party. West Virginia has turned red on you and you are more a Republican than a Dim.
This is the money quote for me--CNN is trying to spin this as puzzling, since they are confused as to why it should be that if people believe this they would vote republican. It's simple -- The senate is controlled by democrats, and they are part of Congress! Obviously, if they were mad at the GOP they would have thrown out the House of Reps instead of the senate . . .
On top of that, people are mad at the GOP leadership because they aren't opposing Obama enough, not because they are obstructing Obama, otherwise it would have been the same result as above. . .
The only conclusion you can come to is that media really believe their own spin and are desperate to believe that this GOP wipe out is somehow good for the Dems in the long run.
Look for lots more pouty faced media people when it dawns in them that regardless of what they are saying now, Obama is faced with a clear choice of compromise or obstruction, my bet is he goes full bore obstruction/destruction and that would lead to an even bigger rout in 2016, unless the Dems force him to compromise or resign to save their hides. Alternatively, if he refuses to save them Dems may start publicly pushing for impeachment to stave off losses, and the GOP will just stand there letting them all twist in the wind . . .
“Sometimes the messenger isn’t good.”
That sure sounds racist.
It's about US. If either political party actually starts representing people, they'll emerge from this mess, winning elections. Look at the US Senators who won. (ex: Ernst, Cotton, Sasse, even Perdue) They seem to be about making the US a better place, not about enriching their buddies.
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