[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Deep blue IL and MD elected GOP governors this past November.

Hopefully-—certainly not guaranteed-—this may indicate the voters in both states-—maybe even MA too-—of all places are fed up with liberal policies bankrupting their states.

Time will tell.

[rllngrk33]

Deep blue IL and MD elected GOP governors this past November.

I'm not too hopeful that anything O'Malley signed into law will be repealled. The MD House and Senate are firmly in the DemocRats hands and have been for a long time.

This is only the second Republican governor since Spiro Agnew in the '70s.

[tanknetter]

Hopefully-—certainly not guaranteed-—this may indicate the voters in both states-—maybe even MA too-—of all places are fed up with liberal policies bankrupting their states.

Unfortunately, voting patterns in Liberal states tend to be driven by short attention span/ADD voters. They reach a tipping point where, fed up with Liberals, they vote in the GOP. When the GOP doesn't fix things fast enough (or does fix things fast, freeing voters to return to lower priority issues) they go back to the Dems.

As a result, Conservatives end up eating a lot of undeserved blame for the economic and other problems. Which Liberals are willing to exploit to their fullest ability.

IMHO it's a fools game and long past time for Conservatives to stop enabling the "two steps forward, one step back" progressiveness of Liberals. Ayn Rand got it right in Atlas Shrugged when John Galt refused to step in at the last moment and try to fix things.