Posted on 11/03/2010 9:42:34 AM PDT by Cinnamon Girl
Somehow, some of us believed that at least Fiorina could pull it off, because, as a resident of this crazy state, it didn't appear that there was a lot of love for Boxer. And I even thought Meg Whitman could surprise the pundits and possibly squeak out a win. After all, Jerry Brown, a career polititian, is like a joke who has done just about nothing right. So how did Boxer and Brown do it? Yes, I've seen what I think is voter fraud before, but I don't think it's enough to add up to a big win. Yes, there are a lot of angry, geriatric liberals who are terrified of anyone with an 'R' next to their name, but again, not enough. I kind of think, in California, that there are so many who depend on the state for their incomes, whether it's union employees or welfare spongers, that they overwhelm the rest of us.
And that's the way it is now in CA: unions against the rest of us. And I hope the rest of us seriously consider moving to Texas because Jerry Brown's only plan of action will be to take more money away from those who earn it in the private sector.
Is that what happened in Nevada with Harry Reid? Maybe people living in the state could address that. From here it appeared that Reid was a big loser, no one was coming to his rallies and he was toast. What happened? How did he do it? I don't know.
Barney Frank? Did the morons in Massachusetts not believe that he was deeply involved with the Freddie Mac Fannie Mae fiasco? How much does this guy have to do wrong before he's thrown out? How did he become a Kennedy? I don't know. Maybe someone has an answer.
don’t ask questions you don’t want the answers to then
Whitman, Fiorina, Angle, and Bielat all lost.
I agree with you there. Tactically this is the worst outcome for the Dims. They still have 2/3 of the government. The country is still broke and it's up to them to fix it even though their policies can't do the job.
It’s simple, things haven’t changed very much.
A majority of Americans in many states/regions throughout the country are not prepared to turn their backs on the social welfare state. Look at the states in some of the worst financial trouble - California, New York, Illinois, all elected Democrat Governors.
A lot of conservatives get caught up in their own echo chamber of like minded people and simply don’t realize that the Tea Party rebellion is mostly limited within the confines of one political party. There just isn’t yet a groundswell of American’s looking to topple the nanny state - not yet anyway.
It’s why ideas alone are not enough. We need very good candidates to go along with those ideas.
Makes me glad I'm a Theocrat.
I just chalk it up to the fact they have tons power because of the years they’ve been around, and bring home a lot of money to their state and pay off the right people. Also, there are a lot of citizens who are very liberal in this country. They still love Obama. They think the government should run health care, and they believe the last two years Obama is trying to clean up Bush’s mess. Oh I know it’s insane, but these people exist. They always will.
“The Devil You Know.”
A solidly Democrat district in Loas Angeles just elected a dead Democrat over a live Republican. So I guess a brain dead Reid, Boxer, and Brown is no issue to Democrat voters.
Liberalism is a mental disease acquired in schools, colleges and universities and sometimes in the wrong churches and homes.
Cures are difficult or impossible.
You make another very good point. The Republican party did sabotage people like COD and to a big degree Angle.
Bottom line: this will be harder than we had hoped.
We are fighting to turn around 80 years of New Deal government mindset. The New Deal ushered in the idea that the government was the solution to our problems; that the governemnt would take care of us; that trading freedom for security is a reasonable thing to do.
These politicians represent that mindset. After 80 years, it is just too big a jump for many voters to think in the way the country’s founders thought—that government was a necissary evil so it should be limited in scope, and that your freedom is the valuable thing you owned.
We’ll get there, but it’s going to take a while. This is a long term effort.
Obviously fraud and union thugs.
Angle wasn’t the best candidate either.
We’re enduring the same BS here in Montana. Fighting against the liberal tide of California and western Washington transplants that have rooted themselves in the western part of the state.
Add to that group those that want an open door sanctuary state and you've got the problem identified
I disagree with your answer. That’s all. I live here.
So is NV a solid blue state going forward to the presidential election?
When was the last time it was tried?
I think a Chris Christie type could do very well in CA.
It WOULD make sense to do something new. Obviously, the Republicrats picked by the CA GOP aren’t cutting the mustard.
Yep, all the old thugs remain. What’s with that?
I think it really hurts them not to hold the governor’s seat in 2012. Ditto with Ohio and Florida.
They still have a D SoS in NV, but if I recall correctly, he’s not one of the Soros funded election thieves.
We were blue last presidential election thanks to Vegas/Reno. :(
If, as, or when THE LORD decides to show up in person and rule directly, then we will have perfect government. Until then, He seems content to delegate the matter to Men. And as long as government is by Man, government will be a mess.
One cannot read Genesis with the mentality that it is True and conclude otherwise. The idea, conveyed in Genesis, that Man is both made in the "image and likeness of God" AND that Man is fundamentally broken adequately and completely explains the condition of society: religious, familial, political and otherwise.
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