Posted on 05/19/2010 3:49:36 PM PDT by Syncro
REPUBLICANS ON TRACK TO SNATCH DEFEAT FROM JAWS OF VICTORY
May 19, 2010
Republican consultants are doing a wonderful job raising expectations sky-high for the November elections, so that now, even if Republicans do smashingly well, it will look like a defeat (and an across-the-board endorsement of Obama's agenda). Thanks, Republicans!
That's what happened in the 1998 congressional elections, nearly foiling Clinton's impeachment. It's what happened to the Conservative Party in Britain a week ago. And that's what happened this week in the 12th Congressional District of Pennsylvania, formerly represented by Rep. John Murtha.
Note to Republicans: Whenever possible, victory parties should be held after the election, not before it.
The result of the election in Murtha's old district on Tuesday was that the rabidly anti-ObamaCare, pro-life, pro-gun candidate won! Yippee!
But the news on Wednesday morning was that the election "dealt a blow to Republicans," as The New York Times reported.
The reason the Times' description was not utter madness (in violation of New York Times' official policy) is because the anti-ObamaCare, pro-life, pro-gun candidate was a Democrat and, for the past two months, every Republican on TV has been predicting a Republican victory in Murtha's district.
Thanks to all the happy talk, if the Republican actually had won, it would have been Page 16 news. But when the Democrat won, it seemed like an against-all-odds, come-from-behind Hoosiers victory!
Why were Republicans predicting victory in a district where Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1? Given a choice between two candidates who both hate ObamaCare, why would lifelong Democrats not vote for the Democrat?
Republicans are playing the same raised-expectations game with the November elections. Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner is ludicrously predicting Republicans will pick up 100 seats in the House in November. Newt Gingrich puts the figure at an equally insane (and weirdly precise) 78. He also predicts the Cubs will win 132 games this season and six games will be rained out.
Keep it up, Republicans, and I'm going to keep naming names. I have Nexis.
For more than half a century, the average midterm pickup for the party out of power has been 24 seats.
Your job, Republicans, is not to go on Fox News and whisper sweet nothings in conservatives' ears. Your job is to repeal the Obama agenda. Raising expectations so high that a 30-seat Republican pickup will seem like a loss is not helping.
Moreover, we're not going to pick up any seats this November if Republicans keep chumming around with the Democrats' pals on Wall Street.
Roughly since the Harding administration, Wall Street has overwhelmingly favored Democrats. According to a recent report from ABC News, for example, the five largest hedge funds gave "almost all their donations to Democrats."
For the past year, the Democrats' Wall Street BFFs have had lower public approval ratings than Hitler. (When I say "Hitler," I don't mean Dick Cheney or George W. Bush; I actually mean Adolf Hitler.) While Hitler continues to enjoy great personal popularity, there is a growing dissatisfaction with his policies.
How could Republicans possibly screw that up? We try harder.
Read the rest at AnnCoulter.Com
God Bless Anne Coulter. “When she’s good she’s very, very good!” This article was a good one!!
For the record Boehner did NOT say we'd win 100 seats. He said 100 seats were "in play," meaning they were competitive. Well, DUH? In any given election why WOULDN'T 100 seats or more be in play? Why wouldn't 300 be in play, at the very least?
Republicans lose a special election in a district where Dems outnumber them 2:1 on a DEM PRIMARY DAY, and suddenly the black armbands come out? Jeez people.
Right. The passage of the health care bill should have destroyed the myth of the moderate Democrat. Republicans have to tell the people why they can’t vote for so called conservative Democrats.
Well, speaking for the GOP that is SOP as I put at the end of the title.
As for Conservatives, we are going to fight to the finish to take this Country back on track to the Constitutional Republic for which it stands!
That is 478 1/3 I think
I do get how it’s played.
The ‘consultants’ and members of the GOP circle cliques work on both sides, they are DC Capitol Hill denizens with an attitude of “what’s in it for me?”.
As for people like me, the GOP has got two choices, ignore us at their peril, or purge themselves of RINOs, grifters, compromisers, traitors and Big Government afficionados.
As far as I am concerned, Pelosi, Reid and Obama have done more for the conservative and constitutionalist movement than any particular GOP group in Congress. The more they shove their leftist garbage down our throats, the stronger we get.
I won’t for one second allow the GOP to think we are to be taken for granted, never again.
I would rather have a Zell Miller democrat as Speaker of the House than any GOP RINO anyday.
They are none of the above. Once Pelosi had her votes, she released the "Blue Dogs" to vote against the bill. May as well replace these fake conservative Dems with real conservative Republicans or Tea Party members, eh?
Perhaps some of them did because their constituencies would have their *ss otherwise.
But I said IF those 38 dems were pro-life, pro-gun, etc (reread my post), then I would rather see them in the majority within the Dem Party AS WELL AS Congress.
If there are 38 X 10 such dems in Congress, I can guarandamtee you Pelosi will not be their Speaker.
And John McCain is different...how?
You did not read did you?
I said just what you quoted, IF they are pro-life etc....then I wouldn’t mind if there 10 times as many because I know Pelosi would not be allowed to be Speaker for them if they were a majority in their own party.
And those dems were ‘not released’, not all, many were conservatives recruited by Rahm Ballerina for the express strategic purpose of getting enough dems elected as to control committees and leadership positions. They are a thorn in Pelosi’s side as they come from extremely conservative districts and they won’t survive if they vote with the Socialists.
Technically, of course, “in play” doesn’t mean up for re-election, but rather competitive in the sense the GOP could win them. And yes, I think probably 100 are “in play,” with probably a good chance of winning 50 and an outside chance of winning 70.
And as for election results, which will help conservatism more:
1. Aiding the party of Obama and Pelosi.
2. Helping the oppisition.
3. Constructing an imaginary world.
It isn't going to happen.
“Oh, committee chairs, yes....well if the TP can get enough conservatives in Congress, those chairs are going to be chaired by conservatives, so what’s the big deal about having GOP sellouts in those chairs? We had that for 12 years and it got us Obama.”
That’s gonna leave a mark. The painful truth hurts: some Dems were and are more conservative than the RINWADs* that were in power until 2008 and who still run the RNC.
(*Republican In Name, Word, and Deed)
Man, I hope you are right!
If that happens, I'm going to to think your aren't LS, but Claira Voyant! LOL
Thank you Ann!
WHY must Republicans always simply turn out to be, well, Republicans and cheerfully accept their “second party” status. Just ONCE, they should take fire and USE the popular unrest out there, prepare to treat Democrats on a par with how Democrats routinely treat Republicans (give no respect, hold the opponent to his principles, and suggest there is no “there” there), and pay attention to only ONE poll - that taken by the election authorities on Election Day.
Maybe not a swing of 100 seats. But 40 would be a good start.
Good response to would be thread hijacker!
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