Just Reverting To Norm After Anomaly Of '08

Investors.com ^ | November 5, 2009 | CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

[Kaslin]

Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of ObamaCare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010.

But the most important effect of Tuesday's elections is historical. It demolishes the great realignment myth of 2008.

In the aftermath of last year's Obama sweep, we heard endlessly about its fundamental, revolutionary, transformational nature. How it was ushering in an FDR-like realignment for the 21st century in which new demographics — most prominently, rising minorities and the young — would bury the GOP far into the future.

One book proclaimed "The Death of Conservativism," while the more modest merely predicted the terminal decline of the Republican Party into a regional party of the Deep South or a rump party of marginalized angry white men.

This was all ridiculous from the beginning. 2008 was a historical anomaly. A uniquely charismatic candidate was running at a time of deep war weariness, with an intensely unpopular Republican president, against a politically incompetent opponent, amid the greatest financial collapse since the Great Depression.

And still he won by only seven points.

[Kaslin]

[neverdem]

White House apologists will say the Virginia Democrat was weak. If the difference between Bob McDonnell and Creigh Deeds was so great, how come when the same two men ran against each other statewide for attorney general four years ago the race was a virtual dead heat?

LOL!

[ASOC]

The author left out “Swimming in Union and special interest money”.

Another way to take the Great Election of 08 is that “with enough money and a complicit Press, you CAN buy any Government office in the US, including the Office of the POTUS.

But then I'm just an old, and bitter cynic who is tired of watching his Nation circle the drain in his lifetime....

[SunkenCiv]

Krauthammer: ...the most important effect of Tuesday's elections is historical. It demolishes the great realignment myth of 2008. In the aftermath of last year's Obama sweep, we heard endlessly about its fundamental, revolutionary, transformational nature... rising minorities and the young... would bury the GOP far into the future. One book proclaimed "The Death of Conservativism," while the more modest merely predicted the terminal decline of the Republican Party into a regional party of the Deep South or a rump party of marginalized angry white men... A uniquely charismatic candidate was running at a time of deep war weariness, with an intensely unpopular Republican president, against a politically incompetent opponent, amid the greatest financial collapse since the Great Depression. And still he won by only seven points.

Give or take a legion of Ouija Board Absentee Voters.

[justiceseeker93]

2008 may have been an anomaly, but the country is still paying dearly for its collective trance and will for at least three more years (although electing a GOP Congress next year would be a mild antidote to the poison now coming out of the federal government).

The GOP must keep its eyes on the ball for 2010. Beside recruiting good Senate and House candidates who can articulate the differences between conservative principles and 'Rat statism (which will necessitate primary challenges against some RINO incumbents), the GOP can't afford to to be indifferent to 'Rat voter fraud. Undoubtedly it was present Tuesday, but was not mentioned at all in the media because Republicans were, for the most part, able to overcome it by the force of numbers. That doesn't mean 'Rat cheating at the polls is a thing of the past. Republicans, beware, let's not let our guard down!

[ExTexasRedhead]

Massive voter fraud, more than likely, put Zero in office. A thorough investigation, exposure, and prosecution needs to take place NOW.

[rmlew]

Unfortunately, 2008 was not an anomaly. Rather the anger from Bush mismanagement hastened the natural result of our decision to import people more open to marxism and allow leftists to indoctrinate our children.

Have Conservatives Failed America?

[justiceseeker93]

...our decision to import people more open to marxism...

I'm well aware of what you mean. But with more conservatives in power, we can push back against the trend by tightening immigration from the Third World and gain better control of our borders. In addition, meaningful education of immigrants in American history and tradition as a requirement for citizenship might be helpful to lure them away from Marxism.