Posted on 11/05/2013 9:08:54 PM PST by SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny
The Virginia gubernatorial race was a huge victory for the Tea Party movement. Wait a minute! Democrat McAuliffe “won,” you say. How could this be a victory for the Tea Party movement and a positive precursor for the 2014 mid-terms? Here’s how:
(Excerpt) Read more at tpnn.com ...
That’s how much regular dems. Respect Christie.
And there’s a lot of them. Not Marxists. Just regular union types etc
They’re getting sick of taxes and morons who lie too
Seems like cc has a lot of the more conservative elements up in arms but all they seem to do is criticize his mass
You know what? I’d much rather have a beer with him than mittens
Any day
We showed the GOP establishment how well the Tea Party can do WITHOUT THEIR HELP!
That should make the GOPe nervous about how they might perform WITHOUT TEA PARTY help.
THAT message is a WIN!
You really want to spend all your time and effort fighting Republicans/conservatives who aren't pure enough? With that logic we'd never elect people like Rudy Giuliani because you'd be too busy supporting candidates that were more pure but completely unelectable in NYC.
Didn't we just learn a lesson from the silly nomination of EW Jackson? The guy meets the purity test but was unelectable and a drag on the ticket.
At some point we have focus fire on the greater evil here. This endless war whining about the GOPe won't get us anywhere. Reagan managed to overcome their reluctance to really move the party to the right without years of moaning about the "establishment". In fact, he struck a deal with them and put Bush Sr. on his ticket in order to unite the party. If we find, nominate and support good electable candidates there will be no need to endlessly complain about the "establishment".
We should forget Virginia and start grandstanding New Jersey.
Are you out of your MIND????
Christie is just ANOTHER ROMNEY/McCain/Bush. SURE, he won in Jersey. The State DNC is fragmented and he is popular here BECAUSE HE ACTS LIKE A DEMOCRAT.
A candidate like him will NEVER win nationally. And even if he did, he would institute policies which reflect Democrat philosophies. He is pro Muslim and pro Illegals and has NO respect for the Bill of Rights.
Yeah, we lost in VA, but it was CLOSE VERY CLOSE. and EVERYTHING the Tea Party post put up there was accurate.
Agreed. Virginia is a microcosm of the country, and it’s a must win in presidential elections for the GOP. The fact that it elected a corrupt slimeball like McAwful, even if it was a narrow margin, is a huge loss.
I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said. I have this sense, though, that Chris Christie’s presidential aspirations will only be slightly more successful than Rudy Giuliani’s ... and for many of the same reasons.
It is my understanding that the VA legislature is made up of a majority of Republicans. If so, TM’s policies may be dead in the water anyway.
My guess is never.
This country has lost its mind.
You know what really pisses me off?
Knowing that everything my parents taught me doesn’t matter a hill of beans.
The only thing that matters in America is lies.
Lies.
That is how one achieves success in this country.
And it is just ****ing disgusting, smoothsailing.
I really can’t take it anymore.
“Conservatives only voted 83 percent for Cuccinelli. 17 percent of conservatives cost him the race.”
In all due respect to you, what evidence do you have that these 17% are conservative? A true conservative, or even lukewarm one, could not vote for McA - not even with holding their nose.
” I am sick of looking at the loss’ and ignoring the wins.”
That ain’t a win. It was engineered by the democrats just as much as the Virginia “libertarian” was. Meet you’re 2016 losing redux of Dole/McCain/Romney...there is now no freakin’ way that Krispy is not the nominee.
"...He posted the following response on his website, MarkLevinShow.com:
WE COULD HAVE WON THIS RACE. FOR THE REASONS I HAVE EXPLAINED HERE AND ON THE AIR, GOP ESTABLISHMENT AND DONORS LEFT THE FIELD. NOW, NOT ONLY THE LIBERALS BUT THE RINO MOUTHPIECES CONTINUE WITH THEIR MANTRA ABOUT THE DEAD TEA PARTY AND THE RINO FUTURE. ABSOLUTELY APPALLING! (And they did not spend even $3 million, that was a phony number.)
RT@seanmdav: In 2009, the RNC spent $9M to win VA by 17 points. Looks like it’ll have spent $3M in 2013 to lose by a hair. Dummies
McAuliffe was named the winner of the race Tuesday night. However, Cuccinelli and the third-party “libertarian” candidate Robert Sarvis combined for more than 50 percent of the vote. With 97 percent of the precincts reporting, McAuliffe was leading Cuccinelli 47.3 percent to 46 percent. Sarvis received 6.6 percent of the vote.
TheBlaze reported on Tuesday that a former Obama campaign bundler curiously helped fund Sarvis’ campaign in the race. Read our exclusive report for more information.
The tweet Levin included in his response was that of “The Federalist” co-founder Sean Davis, who claims the RNC spent more than three times more in the 2009 race in Virginia compared to this year’s governor’s race. In his reply, Levin claimed the RNC didn’t even spend $3 million compared to the $9 million spent in 2009. ... "A Furious Mark Levin Reacts to Republican Ken Cuccinelli’s Loss in Va. Governor’s Race – Find Out Why He’s Livid
Actually, the media mantra was that the shutdown would lead to across-the-board GOP defeats, whether or not they were affiliated with the Tea Party. The effect was supposed to be especially big in blue states. Christie crushed Buono with a margin in excess of 20 points. In Long Island, NY, the Nassau County Executive is a Republican incumbent) who just shellacked his Democratic opponent (and predecessor) by 20%. This is in a county Obama carried by 7% in 2012.
Ultimately, Cuccinelli lost because he (1) was outspent 2 to 1, (2) had a Libertarian splitting the GOP vote, (3) lacked charisma, (4) had a corruption issue and (5) had the bad luck to run for office in a region where the bulk of the workforce gets its paychecks from the Federal government just after a shutdown initiated by the GOP.
Yes, in terms of presidential elections, we may be in the wilderness for a couple of decades. We really need pro-secession governors in red states, but from the disaster result in the Alabama special election, looks like there are too many nimrods to allow it.
:It is a loss, but could a credible tea-party candidate have come so close to winning just a few years ago?”
NO.
The difference between Conservatives and Democrats is that when THEY loose, its ALWAYS the “dirty politics” of the other side, the lack of adequate funds, the fact that the public didn’t get the message, etc., etc.
The fact is we ALMOST won and the numbers WERE trending in Cuccinelli’s direction, even in a state with the problem of DC workers and northern liberal transplants. If the election would have been held next week, McAuliff would have LOST. And that damn bastard and his policies and health plan was the reason.
SOOOOO, take page from the RATS for a change. Take your tails out from between your legs and stop cowering and pandering to RINO philosophies. STOP blaming our POLICIES when we loose. WE ARE RIGHT and they are WRONG. We WILL win and they WILL loose NEST TIME.
Yet the NJ voters overwhelmingly decided to make the minimum wage linked to inflation in a referendum. What good is Christie doing when he gets votes but isn’t willing to fight battles on actual conservative issues? His speech was absolute much with a message of “my job is to get the job done.” What job? There was literally one sentence in the whole thing paying lip service to some conservative policies. Meanwhile he withdrew the challenge to same-sex marriage, letting it be dictated for the state by a judge.
In this election I think neither Dims nor Republicans turned out that much at all. The reason Sarvis got that kind of vote percentage to start with was because a fair number of conservatives and non-liberals had personally been completely alienated by Cuccineli.
He wasn't the "so-called" libertarian, he was the libertarian, representing the libertarians.
The bottom line here is that outside of the Federal employee-rich DC region, the shutdown did the GOP no electoral damage in blue states, and that’s cause for celebration.
If you want to win, you have to do the work. Just wishing it, it won’t work.
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