Susan Estrich: The day after the elections (Spinning it like a Harlem Globetrotter!)

The York County Coast Star ^ | November 7, 2010 | Susan Estrich

[2ndDivisionVet]

So says the campaign manager of Governor Michael Dukakis' 1988 presidential run.

[Yaelle]

In before the big mouthed bass photo.

[ari-freedom]

“I don’t think America rejected Obama’s presidency last night. But they rejected the experience they’ve had of it in the first two years: unemployment; huge bills being passed that most people don’t yet understand; bailouts for those too big to fail but not for those too small to matter”

in other words, basically everything about Obama’s presidency.

[Darkwolf377]

1994 was much worse.

When you start here, where can you go? I'll skip the rest if this is Estrich's level of acceptance of reality.

[ari-freedom]

[ari-freedom]

Susan, you lost Russ Feingold. Russ Feingold! If that doesn’t tell you something, I don’t know what will.

[wac3rd]

The amazing Commies push and push, don’t they? Hundreds of millions dead and displaced, and they still want Stalin or Mao to be their leader.

Dukakis, The Clintons, Obama, Kerry, Mondale, Edwards, Gore...they are all the same, Communists who want a USSR with their buddies ruling over us all, then uniting with Soros to be ruled by the UN.

[wac3rd]

Bush I vs. Dukakis - 1988

Electoral votes - 426 - Bush, 111 - Dukakais

Now, that was an ass-kicking, why didn’t you mention that?

[FatherofFive]

I'd take Barack Obama's political problems over hers any day. And so, I think, would any professional.

I guess you could say a prostitute is a professional.

The American people are beginning to see that these people are just making things up. They so want to believe in socialism, despite all the evidence that it doesn't work.

[Rashputin]

A whole slew of people who could very well have lost — from Harry Reid in Nevada to Chris Coons in Delaware — didn't.

She's really not stupid enough to believe that but she sure hopes her readers are. That Reid "could very well have lost ..." is nothing short of amazing given the fact he was not only a big wheel in on the Hill, but both democrat and republican pundits classified his and a slew of others as "safe seats" where the incumbent never faced a serious challenge and according to the pundits never would.

It's sure nice to see people like Estrich grasping at straws, really nice. Regards

[Vendome]

A whole slew of people who could very well have lost — from Harry Reid in Nevada to Chris Coons in Delaware — didn't. The Senate remained Democratic.

 

Oh, okay.

 

Here is my spin:

A whole slew of people who should have lost — from Harry Reid in Nevada to Chris Coons in Delaware — didn't. The Senate remained Democratic.

 

Thanks in no small part to a few country club insiders who didn't get their handjob picked candidates. 

 

The Republican State Leaders made it clear in word they would not support the Republican candidate who won the primary as an expressed will of the people.

 

The RNSC also made clear not only would they not support the Republican candidate chosen by the voters they also sent people such as Lindsay Graham and Lamar Alexander to knee cap our choice and support the RNSC's choice such as Charlie Crist.  Despite that effort a great man, Marco Rubio prevailed.

 

Karl "The Buffet" went from "Magnificent Bastard" to just plain ole bastard and acted as self serving plicks.  Not only did Karl refuse to support the Republican candidate, he went out of his way to declare candidates such as Christinne O'Donnell non winner before the vote.  He did it over and over.

 

In fact, he just couldn't shut up after the election.

 

So the intramural fighting ensued by not giving financial support, lending help to former Republicans, who were then write in candidates.  This again in direct opposition to the expressed will of the voters.

 

They want us to be team players lending financial support, walking and knocking, even phone banking but only on their terms.

 

I will never support these people and I have made a list of these jerkoffs.

 

I will not support any candidate their names are attached to and will support any candidate including a democrat as an expression of my displeasure.

 

They went scorched earth and I will do the same until they demonstrate they are on the same team.

[Darkwolf377]

Susan isn’t alone in her delusions, but at least these were written long BEFORE the election:

As we head toward 2010, history suggests that Republicans would be expecting to make gains — though whether any gain, if it materializes, is a modest one of 10 seats or less, a moderate one of 10 to 20 seats, or a major gain of 20 or more, remains to be seen. For those looking for comparisons to 1994, however, there are limits to the similarities – at least in the way the current House is set up.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-5335263-503544.html

“[e]ven if Obama and Democrats are just as popular next November as they were last November, they might stand to lose five to ten seats in the House based on the altered composition of the midterm electorate alone.”

That’s bad, but it’s certainly not political reversal on the scale of 1994. Unlike Bill Clinton at the same time in his presidency, Obama’s approval ratings seem to have recently stabilized in the low-fifties; not great, but not that bad in a polarized country, either. And as both Abramowitz and Ron Brownstein have pointed out, in group after group of the electorate, he remains as popular as he was when he was elected. A cyclical turnover of ten House seats, which seems to be the most likely scenario in 2010, would not a revolution make.

http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/some-revolution

[Yaelle]

ROFL!

[ari-freedom]

Rubio deserved to win but O’Donnell and Angle deserved to lose. Rubio’s a rising star while the others would have been the butt of jokes for the next 2 years, killing all chances for more pickups in 2012.

[Vendome]

As opposed to getting getting two self serving anuses one of whom proved he had zero loyalty to party?

I would have taken the chance and we would have two more definite conservatives on our side.

Same with Joe Miller of Alaska.

Same with Sharon Angle of Nevada.

Same with Ruth McClung of Arizona. I mean who doesn’t find a Rocket Scientist sexy?

I get your point but disagree.

Bottom line is our guys, well supposedly our guys, worked against the expressed will of the voter to knee cap our choices.

“The Dude” does not abide with back stabbers.

[skookum55]

The progressive spin: The 2010 mid-term elections saved dozens of Democrat jobs in Congress.

[ari-freedom]

Miller seemed to be a solid guy but he lost it with the east germany comment.

[screaminsunshine]

These people must be outed as communists. The don’t ask don’t tell censorship of their politics has got to stop.

[Tainan]

She certainly relies heavily on unnamed 3rd person support for her statements.

She also makes the assumption that the reader should believe that everything she is writing is true. A glaring mistake.

[DemforBush]

I saw Estrich on Greta or some show the other day. Man, either they used a soft filter on the camera lens, or she’s had some major work done. She had more wrinkles in 1988!