California, Colorado, Mass., resist the wave. GOP “pragmatists” in the old and new media renew attacks on the TEA Party “purists” — sneering at every loss, pretending people came out to vote for more of that compassionate conservatism and bi-partisanship they love to peddle. Murkowski, aided by the GOP establishment, showing disdain for primary voters, and proving that power is more important to some on the “right” than ideology (which is evidently quite malleable).
And yet: 65-68 House seats picked off, huge gains in governorships and state assemblies (and the concomitant redistricting and on-the-ground machinery for 2012), solid gains in the Senate, and a GOP leadership in the House acknowledging that Republicans didn’t win last night, Constitutional principles did.
So.
Discuss. Because frankly, I’m too exhausted.
Oh. And this is interesting.
Laura Ingraham: “we need to put up polished, experienced candidates.” And “free trade sucks.” I used to love Laura. Now she’s like something that came mewling out of the slime after some unholy coupling of Meghan McCain and Pat Robertson.
Today, people should focus on the 2nd paragraph, as that is where the path forward is. The MFM, the statists, and the Leftists would rather focus on the 1st paragraph.
Murkowski, aided by the GOP establishment
squishy Team R whores what lurv them some tasty cowski are include
Lamar Alexander… Johnny Barrasso … Bob Bennett … Kit Bond … Richard Burr … mellifluous douchebag Orrin “Lisa is a friend and she’s done a good job” Hatch … Johnny “let teh government be your downpayment” Isaakson … Dick “Senators who look like old lesbians” Lugar … DIck Shelby … Lympia Snowe … spineless John Thune … Roger Wicker – whoever the fuck that is …
and lastly Princess Lindsey*
oh. I shoulda refreshed I’m sorta hung up on that first paragraph cause of that laskan whore is the last thing our little Senate needs – Team R Senators are very very cowardly and suggestible so she can’t help but be a bad influence
I liked the part where Rand Paul stomped and stomped and stomped on their pointy little heads.
Defeating Graham and Hatch would be a nice start to 2012.
Pablo: I thought Rubio got a couple of good kicks in, too.
Squid – MN was not so bad last night, no?
My trackbacks didn’t work.
Regards,
Ric
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20101103/NEWS09/11030390/Iowans-dismiss-three-justices
Oops. I guess people don’t particualrly care for judicial activism in the Hawkeye State…
LtC John – I saw that they gave the cornhole to 3 of the judges that tried to force their will on the people.
Dayton won.
One of the worst senators becomes governor.
Lots of work to do: we still have millions of morons in the US who need them some educating.
And no, I’m not talking about Yelverton. He’s beyond repair.
Fuck that. I’m tired of Dick and Jane Focusgroup. How about some people with a clue that they’re not all that bright?
BTW — come mid-January, the left will have to think twice about martyring Obama. It’s unlikely Biden could stay as president for very long, considering his mental state, and the result would be President Boehner.
but elsewhere voters rejected white trash anti-homo christers like Angle – O’Donnell – Ken Buck – and most emphatically Paladino
Those goggles do nothin’ Jeff, but you’ve summed it, well, she was a longtime fave of mine, then she became a Rombot
You should check out this post-mortem from Tim Wise, as approved by Amynda. For those of you who may have forgotten, Tim Wise is that portly little white fellow who speaks with an urban/black affect and who “educates” about “white privilege.” I think his main purpose is to emotionally jerk off black liberals and reinforce white liberals’ exquisite sense of compassion.
The takeaway is that non-Hispanic whites will some day be a minority, and therefore you should fear brown people because they’re going to punish white people for past misdeeds, but your fear of brown people as reflected in your votes is irrational and racist, and you’ll all die soon anyway:
http://www.timwise.org/2010/11/an-open-letter-to-the-white-right-on-the-occasion-of-your-recent-successful-temper-tantrum/comment-page-1/#comment-4354
You were saying ?
Sigh.
People here in Minnesota reflexively vote Democrat is huge numbers. Most of the ones I’ve met fit much more into a classical liberal mold rather than a progressive mold, yet many continue to vote for progressives.
I would say it’s possible to save them from themselves, but they’ve been voting this way for generations.
All I can hope for is Dayton gets tired of playing governor in four years and quits.
“we need to put up polished, experienced candidates.”
I actually agree with that. The only proviso being that I’d rather have candidates with Down’s Syndrome who have the sack to advance and vote on conservative principles than polished establishment Republicans who amount to little more than Democrat fuck toys.
Yeah. That was the deciding factor here in Colorado.
Oh, wait. No it wasn’t.
The anti-Buck ads were all women saying “he’ll take away my birth control.” Or “he wants to raise taxes 23%”.
Dude’s a Princeton grad. Hardly white trash. Should be right up your elitist alley, happy. He doesn’t stink of the people.
happyfeet could ruin a Gypsy picnic, you know?
serr8d, I didn’t realize I was opening the lid on Pandora’s Bigot Box just linking to an article that showed Iowans don’t like activist judges…
Wise reminds me of the cowardly boyfriend from Grand Torino.
Amanda is just a stupid cunt who refuses to stop thinking with her stupid cunt.
Yeah, I no longer care.
I used to love Laura.
I was puzzled by her reaction this morning, too. She’s sounding more like a Party Apparatchik by the day.
Boortz’s radio show it is.
Glenn just made a good point: How can California vote FOR Jerry Brown but AGAINST pot?
Defeating Graham and Hatch would be a nice start to 2012.
I’ll be walking across broken glass to pry Hatch from that seat.
I still cannot believe Brown is governor again in CA. I remember how sucky he was at it last time, but back then at least they had enough wealth to absorb his idiocies.
California has so much going for it, it takes very determined progressives to ruin the place. And yet, they’ve managed to do that quite well.
I just think a few down-ballot races in… Iowa are probably less indicative of what this election was about than the failure of full-throated top ticket social cons in multiple states and regions
However, Alan Grayson has still lost.
It is interesting how gerrymandered House seats went GOP and the Senate (while there was significant inroads) seems less immune to the wave.
Part of it was seats like California and New York are blue. But that is just part of the answer. I am surprised at how well Harry “Sen. Pat Geary of Nevada” Reid did. But then again, he is the guy who caters to the Nevada powers that be.
Comment by dicentra on 11/3 @ 9:46 am #
However, Alan Grayson has still lost.
And Allen West still won.
A good start.
and it was close enough in Colorado that Ken losing message-time having to discuss to what extent gayness is like alcoholism was probably a non-trivial factor
You’ve never played team sports, have you?
I think you had to be smoking something in order to vote for Brown, that’ the connection,
Why do people waste time on happyshit?
Why am I wasting time asking this?
Well, hf has alread crapped on this thread enough for me to depart for the day… I’ll check in tomorrow and see if any threads can survive.
Didn’t the MN House and/or Senate switch?
If Princess Lisa wins in Alaska, it is also due catering to the powers that be. Miller was too radical, he might fuck up Christmas bonuses or something. There is a lot of gold in Alaska and most of it gets panned from deals in Anchorage and Juneau.
I just think
That’s been thoroughly disproven. You’re just the dumb guy who thinks the 10% of your neighbors who’d vote republican without the Christers are worth shitting on and alienating tens of millions of other voters. It’s pretty failshit math.
This just in Charlie Crist still lost.
Radio Pyonyang to commence 2 days of marshall music.
He’s like a rally bad girlfriend for some people here – they’re waiting for him to return to that one time when everything was going so well and he looked good in a sundress and . . . At this point though, it’s time to slapabitch.
That’s my favorite part of this election: not only lost, but lost big. To a fucking draft-dodging Christo-Taliban!
Pot isn’t strong enough to numb the brain that much. As Darleen suggests in the other post, an initiaive to legalize crack probably would have done better.
Also breaking across the wires
Nancy Pelosi no longer speaker of the House.
Shredding of garments and rubbing of ashes on head to begin in Baghdad on the Bay There is no Happy meal in San Fran today.
Sorry to be a noodle but I can’t enjoy what goes on in the rest of the nation because I’m stuck in MA.
MA has a 2.5 bil budget gap that Happy Hopeychange Devalue refused to address on the campaign trail this past month, while Baker did (throat-slash motion here).
I got the property tax bill yesterday (I’m thinking I wasn’t supposed to get it ’til today; chalk one up for the postal service). On top of the already hiked muni taxes and the forthcoming Obama fed hike in January, we’re also looking at at least a full 7% sales tax and a 9% state income tax, because keeping the public sector from being inconvenienced is all that seems to matter.
But at least those EBT cards are good at the track. Our only question is is if we’re going to RI-level dysfunction or if we’re going to fast track the denial lever all the way to “California.” Because as Michigan shows, you don’t wake up until everyone’s gone and you look around all at the post-war-like shelled out buildings and swaths of vacant overgrown spaces.
I’m thinking a U-Haul franchise in south-central MA is a pretty good short term venture right now.
This was talked about in another thread. Compared to the Senate classes that will be up in ’12 and ’14, this class was practically already bright red.
If the momentum continues for another election cycle, the streets will run blue with Democrat blood (metaphorically speaking).
My guess is that in the areas that it would gain most support (AT&T Park) enforcement is already rather lax, and medical mj is easy to come by, so it is de facto legal anyway. There are probably plenty of Hispanics that are pro anything Democrat but not pro drug.
Don’t you mean The Big Fruit Salad?
the pot prop didn’t fail if it brought people to the polls to vote for dirty socialists what might otherwise have stayed at home
* And Allen West still won.*
Yes, this. Grayson’s an asshole but West is a good man who will do a good job and to me, that’s the most important thing. I’m so pleased to see former members of our armed services winning elections across the country.
And Sink concedes to Scott in Florida. Amazing how many state elections went conservative.
Sink would have won except for the liarliarpantsonfire lies her campaign (approved of by Alex Sink, natch) told about Rick Scott.
Grayson might have done better without the lies. But he’d done enough to self-immolate before the campaign even started.
Is there any place to go on the internets that just shows election results nationwide without all the verbiage?
I do feel bad for you folks in MA and CA and CO. But, if failshit Michigan can wake up, you can eventually too.
We didn’t eliminated all the asshats, but I’m thinking that Dingell is looking pretty old and Gary Peters may find his district is going to disappear in two years.
Baby steps.
If all else fail, move.
What happened in Michigan isn’t a down-ballot race in Iowa. The races they won were either in dumb-fuck districts or so much federal DNC money was spent …
Just imagine – our business tax – gone (a flat tax is being proposed). Right to WORK. Dare to dream.
Never mind. I was trying to see how Popaditch did (he’s the tank commander who lost an eye). He lost to the Democrat.
California, I hardly knew ye.
It had no effect whatever.
Except with certain conservatives who would rather vote progressive than stomach anyone who actually believes their religious texts.
Isn’t Detroit still a big bag of fail, though? How can that be fixed?
Bingo #46
I’m glad Michigan woke up. Good to see.
Now if you can boot RichRod and his Big East ways, UM may have a chance to become a decent football school again ;)
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JeffG is entirely correct in the original post when he notes that some of the most impotant gains were in the various state houses around the nation. The results of the 2010 census will soon be aplied to the House of Representatives, and how the net losses/gains in congressional representation is applied to the individual states, the drawing of new and redrawing of old districts, is of vital importance. Dominance in the state houses will most likely ensure that this processes is done in a way that will be amenable to the GOP for the coming decade; and at least minimize the torurous district planforms that are often drawn to guarantee socialist Democrat/minority seats in congress despite the overwhelming sentiment in the state.
Perhaps most promising, and noted here or in another thread, is the passage of a Florida initiative that would specifically outlaw such gerrymandering expressly to pander/seat a preferred ethnic or racial group.
Other than that, I’m pretty much in full agreement with Abe’s response in comment #20.
And happyfeet, I couldn’t disagree more with you’re sweeping generalization about Buck, Angle, O’Donnell and Palladino. In each case it’s difficult at best to link that defeat to their stances on gay marriage or the gay lifestyle. So please restrain yourself from the usual “dirty christer white trash gay bashing whores deserved to lose ‘cuz they h8te gheyz”; they’ve lost, OK, let them fade from view in peace.
Oh, and dicentra?
Do us a favor an work on getting that Hatch guy to retire or something; make him an offer he can’t refuse!
Detroit still is a fail, but Dave Bing isn’t bad, and w/o all the tools in State government, perhaps there is hope.
Synder wants to fix Detroit, so I’m willing to wait and see what he can do.
And, it may not have made national news but a HUGE group of black religious leaders endorsed him over Bernero. That is huge.
Will you ever frelling stop?
It is interesting how gerrymandered House seats went GOP and the Senate (while there was significant inroads) seems less immune to the wave.
The Dems defended 17 seats, and lost 6 of them. That’s pretty fucking huge. Seismic. If the whole Senate had been up for grabs, we’d likely have seen Dem losses of 30 seats or more.
Way too many people seem to think that Reid and Coons are the electoral equivalent of the aircraft carriers at Pearl Harbor. It ain’t true. The Proggs got whupped good and hard, and pointing at the few races where they managed to hang on just makes it that much easier for them to remain in denial.
We are winning. We aren’t winning on every front, and we’re not winning every battle, but we’re winning just the same.
64 for 62
well I think if Team R wants to point to midterm results as being an affirmation of the power of their anti-gay marriage message than it’s fair to take note that many of their most high-profile anti-gay candidates failed –
Huh?
I don’t know what goes on over on the West coast, but this kinda stuff was pretty absent in the midwest.
Funny that.
Never mind, the comment I was referring to got deleted.
Will you ever frelling stop?
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Oh. Ha. I was trying to figure out what I said, Cranky.
If Detroit could get over its desire to vote on race and nothing else, there may be hope. It’s a long road back, though.
Sorry, Carin. I should have blockquoted the comment that annoyed me, and I didn’t. I’ll try to do better in the future.
Karl Rove told me I have to have my candidates packaged by him.
He’s very helpful that way.
Rove was the first on my “dead to me” list. I no longer care about anything he has to say.
Delaware’s other seat is up in 2012. Bet’cha O’Donnell could take him down.
If Detroit could get over its desire to vote on race and nothing else, there may be hope. It’s a long road back, though.
When black religious leaders in DETROIT back a white Republican for governor? I say that’s progress.
Out of 37. The opportunities for gains were very limited.
I read somewhere the Dems will be defending more than 20 seats in ’12.
I meant that even if the stars align, Detroit itself is a major mess, as you have so aptly described.
O’Donnell moved the Delaware GOP to the right. Angle did the same for Nevada.
They had no GOP money for the kind of ground game needed. The GOP “pragmatists” would have us packaging moderate GOP candidates like Whitman and Ms Carly. They won’t make waves. People won’t laugh.
How’d that work out for them?
McG is right that the math was tougher on the Senate this time, given the overall number, and specific races that were being contested. 2012 has way more Dems out having to defend their asshattery.
Da! When the new, veto-proof (as if) Florida legislature gets around to re-drawing Congressional districts (which, IMHO, ought to be one of the first priorities), Corinne Brown will most likely be a last-termer. Her district will no longer be predominantly black parts of Jacksonville, Sanford and Orlando.
To be fair, all of the districts will be shaken up quite a bit. FL-22 (among MANY others) will, thankfully, no longer be allowed to exist in its current shape.
You know who lost? Sluts, whores, and bitches.
The Dems labeled them and defeated them.
Congrats, Amanda!
(and happyfeet)
I meant that even if the stars align, Detroit itself is a major mess, as you have so aptly described.
There is nothing that cannot be solved in Detroit. Nothing.
We just need the political will.
Detroit is situated excellently …. right there with Windsor, on the water. near the lakes. So much could be done.
Odd thing I’ve noticed among my cow-orkers this morning: when discussing the election results at the state level (i.e. GOP House and Senate, likely DFL Governor), they seem almost relieved.
I may be projecting here, but I think the prospect of a unified DFL government frightens them almost as much as it does me.
How’d that work out for [the pragmatists]?
When you remember that they’d rather lose than win with the “wrong” kind of conservative, about like they thought it would.
I didn’t label Angle or O’Donnell at all – I wanted them both to win… I liked McMahon but we didn’t talk about her much…
The ones I labeled were Meg and Carly and Cowski. And this one other hoochie what wasn’t even running for anything.
Repeating a point I made earlier this morning in another forum, because it seems relevant (and because I love the sound of my own pixels):
I remain puzzled at the frustration and finger-pointing among GOP/Tea Party cheerleaders at the various blogs and news networks. I understand that it’s a stressful, exciting, anxiety-producing time, but I really wish more people would step back and take a look at what they’re saying as compared to what’s really going on.
The Alinskyites successfully froze, personalized and attacked Angle and O’Donnell. Whoopie for them. The Establishment GOP got their girl in through the back door in AK, despite the wishes of the local GOP voters. Whoopie for them. I don’t deny that these are setbacks for those Tea Partiers who want to unseat the Old Guard, but in the scheme of things, they’re just a couple of battles in a much bigger war.
Obama is finished. Pelosi is finished. Reid holds on for one more term, but is terribly weakened. The Progressive agenda has had the legs cut out from under it. For the next two years, we fight a holding action in Congress while we continue to gather support at the State and local levels (and boy, howdy! did we ever win big in those races!) and prepare for the next big fight in 2012. The Establishment (on both sides) will say that the Tea Party will lose momentum in the next couple of years. That’s wishful thinking on their part.
What we saw last night was a repudiation of all the big-government and old-boys-network bullshit that’s taken us over the cliff in the last decade. The Tea Party, and the principles it stands for, won in a big way. The pundits who desperately want to write off the movement as a bunch of racist hick uneducated fringe astroturf loonies are going to have a hard time carrying that narrative in light of the widespread support shown for our principles. Equally difficult to carry will be the idea that we’re in bed with the GOP, especially if we get busy using our newfound support to pressure the GOP to return to its founding principles. Putting principle over party will only increase our movement’s appeal with independents and frustrated Democrats, after which we’ll have a good chance at not just a plurality, but a majority over the establishment parties.
Yesterday, we stopped the enemy advance. Today, we consolidate our position, firm up our supply lines, put our reinforcements through boot camp, and build up materiel for the campaign that lies before us. In 2012, we have an amazing opportunity to take back Congress and the White House, and to get busy rolling back decades worth of destructive and unconstitutional policy.
Never forget: politicians and pundits blow with the wind. A lot of them are pouting right now, licking their wounds, but they’re soon going to realize that they’ve backed the wrong horse, and to remain relevant they’ll pretend that they were on our side the whole time. We should appreciate that our jobs will be made easier as the media environment gets less hostile, but let’s never make the mistake that any of those bastards are actually on our side.
For today: no recriminations, and no blame, except for the Establishment assholes who so richly deserve it.
and I even voted for Fiorina which I thought was really going above and beyond the call
Angle maybe early on I wasn’t real fond of but that was several moons ago
Squid …
I travel quite a bit for work. I am fortunate enough to sit up in b-class most of the time (i get the status upgrade, not because we buy the b-class ticket) so I can say I sit with sales guys, mid level executives, business owners and other assorted members of the frequent flier bitch miles club. essentially revenue generators, not overhead.
What has been remarkable in the last 9 months was how quickly single serving friends would talk politics, uninitiated, and the generally the mood was “This shit has to stop”. Even on the international flights, with some of the foreigners (where it was more, of “You guys need to stop this idiot”). So the Tea Party has tapped into a very large vein. We here tend to express our feelings openly, but I think/know we are a thermometer for what the larger public feels.
This is pretty much the entirety of the happyfeet mystique.
I think that’s wishful thinking, of the same kind that had Democrats all cocky after they retook Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008.
The real statement is, I think: quit talking down to us; quit dismissing us; quit telling us we’re stupid, or we will do this again and again.
There are all too many voters out there, still, wishing a large (but competent; most of them at least hope for that) government on us. Please don’t make the mistake of forgetting that those people are and always will be attempting to effect their desires, just as we are with ours.
Which is not to claim that “we” have a lot common in the way of desires. Just a figure of speech.
True , Squid, it’s the Alamo, but San Jacinto is coming up, or to put it another way, the Battle of Coral Sea led to MidWay. Don’t be dissing the Huntress, pikachu, her aim is sure
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Barney Frank had to sweat his reelection.
OK, he didn’t lose. But when was the last time he was even challenged?
Part of me wants Palin to run for President we I can watch greiferfeets go into convulsions on this here blog. The other part of me wants her to run so I can vote for her.
Squid in #86 is right on. In two years… {we advance and begin the counter offensive!
Slart, it may be wishful thinking on my part. If you’re right, and we can’t get 55-60% of our countrymen to embrace certain self-evident truths regarding liberty, then I’ll concede that our country is a lost cause, and none of the effort was worth it.
No, I am not trying to get you to concede lost cause, Squid. Just warning you not to be fooled by the appearance of success.
Well, my main concern is that people not let Nevada and Delaware overshadow the really significant gains of the last year, nor let the significant gains of the last year lull them into complacency. There’s a long hard slog ahead, but days like today go a long way toward making the effort worthwhile.
Another great thing about last night: The GOP made enormous gains in the Texas legislature and two Democratic congressmen – Ciro Rodriguez and Solomon Ortiz – were ousted by Francisco Canseco and Blake Farenthold in TX-23 and TX-27. Great night.
Mike, didn’t Chet Edwards, TX-17 get shown the door as well?
Yes, that’s right! Bill Flores is his replacement.
Since Mike Pence is stepping down, I think the Republicans should elect a freshman with solid Tea Party credentials to the #3 leadership position.
Bit late to all of this (diagnosed with strep throat this morning and I feel terrible) but I wanted to give some state level observations that back up this post.
1) Here is Wisco, we were able to get strong classical liberal/conservatives through the primaries in the two biggest races that would receive the bulk of attention and advertising. Both of them were attacked on issues as absurd as “Ron Johnson wants to put polluting oil/death rigs on Lake Michigan” or “Scott Walker would ban stem cell research in Wisconsin”. Both refused to take the bait and instead talked about the issues that truly motivated them. The government is too damn big and wildly overstepping its proper role.
2) I don’t have the proper numbers but it was said in local offices that little Wisconsin actually had more person to person contacts than any other state. 3 million phone calls or door knocks in a state with around 5.5 million people total.
Take those two things together, a solid message and a relentless effort to get that message out and you get success.
New governor, took over the state assembly by a large margin, took over the state senate by a large margin, snagged two House pick ups and put Russ Feingold out to pasture. In a state that went +14 for Obama.
If we can do it, so could a bunch of others (and many did on Tuesday). We shouldn’t get cocky, but we need to recognize that we can continue to achieve success if we continue to do the right things.
Rest and get well bh.
Yes, get well. And thank you so much for giving your time and energy to help save this country from the likes of Jam Master Wonderbread and his food court wheels of steel.
Thanks, Geoff, will do. Think I’ll see if I can’t choke down some tea and honey now and see if I can’t fall to sleep.
Thanks, Jeff.
Okay, later, guys.
Shit, I’d be remiss to not mention that you’ve used protein wisdom as a vehicle to promote classical liberalism relentlessly for years and years, Jeff. So, thank you as well.
Okay, definitely later this time. I get sweaty just sitting up to type.
It’s official, now.
Codename: sweaty cheddar.
– yes, get better bh, your racist ass is missed from the convo.
– In other news, I will just sit and watch as the bastard unions fight over the scrapes of whats left of Cal.
– As one pinhead Progressive proudly put it, “The defeat of Meg showed that we don’t look kindly on people who try to buy the election.” Knowing there isn’t a special interest in this state that Brown isn’t on his knee’s too leaves such a statement dripping with more syrupy irony than you could get from a tanker truck load of Aunt Jamima’s best.
I just want to say, if everyone that didn’t vote for Brown would have voted for Whitman, she still wouldn’t have won. So I don’t feel bad for voting for Nightengale, and I don’t feel dirty for voting for a RINO.
California is like a drunk in desperate need of rehab. She will have to hit bottom before she’ll admit there’s a problem. Don’t let you’re states enable her by bailing the bitch out.
your states…
2008. The result was similar.
Under those circumstances I’d say there are bigger things to worry about than how I might feel about voting for a RINO.
But hey: COWABUNGA!
Well McGehee, in the future I will try to comment only on things you think worthy.
Try to be less hypocritical though, there are bigger things to worry about than someone else’s apparently frivolous comment on a blog.
Lee, notice that nowhere in my comment did I say “you should.” I only said “I would.”
But apparently I was still too aggressive, rhetorically, for your feelings.
You’re a big meanie, McGehee. There’s no way around that.
Meanie.
Obviously you are a better commenter than me McGehee. I’ll leave the commenting to you guy’s worrying about the more important things than my pitiful little thoughts.