Mark Levin, posted election night:
We will win around 3 score House races (including several long-time liberal Democrats), several Senate races, a slew of governorships, and this will be spun as a loss. We are fighting the Democrats on their dark blue turf, they have become the regional party, several states have returned to their red status (Florida, Virginia, Indiana, among others), and this will be spun as a loss. We are well positioned for 2012. The conservative movement is back and growing. Nancy Pelosi and her machine have been defeated. And the GOP moderates have their backs to the wall. And this will be spun as a lost.
As for compromise, the victor doesn’t seek compromise, the loser does. To think otherwise is to switch places. Furthermore, compromise per se is irrational. You only compromise depending on what the issue is, and what the compromise means for the broader picture.
The Democrats have far more Senate seats up in two years. The Republicans control much more redistricting after tonight. And this will be spun as a lost.
Would you rather be us today or them?
Speaking of “us” and “them”: what the GOP establishment — symbolized by Karl Rove, Carl Forti, Trent Lott, Lindsey Graham, and a host of others bitching about how the TEA Party cost the GOP the Senate by “leaving several seats on the table” — neglected to tell you is that the GOP machinery refused to help several TEA Party candidates in close races, instead throwing its resources behind candidates like Carly Fiorina, who represents (to their way of thinking) the perfect kind of Republican. They backed Lisa Murkowski. They tried to prop up Crist in Florida — at the expense of Rubio.
This is who they are.
If Obama doesn’t get it, neither do these “pragmatists”, who somehow believe the American people want to see things get done in Congress — through compromise and backroom deals — when what they really want is things to get undone: spending cut significantly, tax cuts left alone, ObamaCare repealed, federal government scale rolled back, nannystate regulations revoked.
The same people who drove the GOP into the electoral ditch — and then after the ’08 elections presumed to lecture us on its certain further demise, should conservatives and ideological “purists” not accept a good chunk of the progressive agenda as a political fait accompli, or pretend comity with someone we knew to be a dangerous socialist ideologue (and yes, everything in his biography pointed to this) — are now using gains driven by the TEA Party to criticize and denigrate the very benefactors who have enabled their return to relevancy.
It’s time for conservatives and classical liberals to stop worrying about numbers and start concentrating instead on getting rid of the kinds of country club Republicans who stand for nothing but their own power.
Otherwise, why bother?
Get ready to fight. Again.
outlaw.
Yes. It’s always been a fight. It — the ideal of personal liberty — is the vacuum of tyranny that tyranny abhors when tyranny is the eternal baseline.
Instead of this awareness we rate our congresscretin’s success on how much crap s/he brings us. So we’re covetous thieves, living for a time in the land of liberty.
This is more Jeff’s schtick, but it seems apropos:
“Was it worth it, that flurry of activity?” Ross wanted to know. “Did it make sense to push and push and then keep on pushing?”
“Sooo worth it,” Barry groaned. And then he donkey punched Ross again.
Via Instapundit
The overlooked thing here, is that John Cornyn’s SNRC did such a piss-poor job of candidate recruitment ( Charlie Crist, anyone?) that they weren’t going to take the Senate in the first place.
Without the tea-party, John Boehner would still be calling Nancy Pelosi “Madame Speaker.”
So fuck ’em.
This is one of the many, many reasons I never donate to political parties. Because they do what they damned well want to with it, and not what I’d have them do with it.
Like Obama they keep using the words “we” and “our” not as terms of inclusiveness but as a means to get close enough to bury knives in the backs of their political enemies.
A note to Karl Rove, Trent Lott, Lindsey Graham, and other GOP “pragmatists”
Are you with us or against us? That is a rhetorical question. Wave two (the primaries) needs to purge a few GOP pragmatists.
My former namesake, who previously architected such glorious acts of eeeeevil as making hurricanes that hit Nawlins appear with his mind! and causing leftist conniptions by his mere presence, has relegated himself to the dungheap of asshattery. The mantra “Party Before Principle” lives strong in Karl Rove, so fuck him sideways with a lit lightsaber.
#4 – exactly. They get no money or time or effort from me. I support those people running for office that represent my views, goals, ideals and party be damned. The Country Club R’s don’t represent me, so they will get only one thing from me….opposition
“We did not nominate our strongest candidates.”
That Barry Goldwater -weak, got his ass handed to him in the biggest popular vote landslide ever. (I think that record still holds.) Screwed the GOP out of the White House for four whole years.
Imagine how different the 80s might have been if we’d nominated Rockefeller back then.
We might not have had all these problems, right Trent?
So the apprentice has slain the master and taken his place, eh?
Wave two (the primaries) needs to purge a few GOP pragmatists.
AK’s Lana Mulvahey has shown them the way around that, I’m afraid.
Like, eg., John McCain for President.
LANDSLIDE!
Ernst: the apprentice has slain the master, burned out his eyes, pissed into his dead skull, ripped off his head and crapped down his neck.
But in a way that’s not unhelpful.
As long as you didn’t skull-fuck him as well, Darth.
Desecrating a corpse is one thing. But…
Are you telling me South Carolina can’t find a viable and competitive GOP challenger in the primaries for Lindsay Graham? Or that Mississippi cannot do the same for Trent Lott?
Karl Rove just has his gig at Fox. He is the fill in for Juan Williams and Shepard Smith.
Jeff, unfortunately the choices were McCain, Romney and Huckabee.
Which suggests that maybe something is wrong during the primaries.
Not what I’m saying at all Joe. I’m just cynically pointing out that you can dump them in the primary and they can run as an independent in the general. Hell, the Dems in SC would probably dump their nominee if Graham wanted to run on their ticket.
I’m all in favor of purging RINOs, but that doesn’t mean the RINOs are going to stay purged.
Some people think there are more important things to worry about than your feelings about RINO’s.
If only pragmatists will be allowed to win primaries, only pragmatists will apply.
On the other hand, if principled people can win, principled people will run.
Which is why I’ve been saying: Ground game, people.
County and State Party committees. Local and State politicians, from legislators and judges right down to dog catchers. Country Club Republicans do have one vulnerability: they have never been ground game players. Local committees have always been totally subordinate to the National organization, so are mainly composed of weak-kneed yes-people uninterested in retail politics. When was the last time you ever heard of Republicans sending a bus to the old folks’ home to take voters to the polls?
Take over the locals and vote the Country Clubbers out. Learn to do GOTV — is “street money” really dishonest? Not really. Pass out flyers and pamphlets even when there’s no election in the offing. Go around and talk to people, both to convince and to detect groomworthy candidates. All of which Democrats do, and do well. Really, the surprising thing is not that Republicans often do badly; it’s that they do as well as they do while ignoring or minimizing the “slog”.
It’s hard. It’s boring. It’s often discouraging. But if the tea parties mean to have any permanent effect, it’s an absolute necessity.
Regards,
Ric
The conservative movement is back and growing.
No Mr. Levin the Tea Party movement is growing. Because their message resonates with independents. There’s no sign at all that “conservatism” has any more appeal to independents than it did before the fall. That’s why most conservatives are trying to pretend they’re same same as the Tea Party.
Rove is simply puppeting for his paycheck at this time. He has no use for conservatives as we do not have influence on who signs his paycheck anymore. He’s a consultant, meaning he is a motivated whore.
Re: the write in, yes that is a strategy of diminishing returns, IF and only IF you keep sending the true conservatives to the show and they start to pack the ranks within the party leadership.
Cornyn and McConnell are on notice. (I beleive that McConnell threw his weight behind the establishment candidate in the Rep primary in Kentucky against Paul). Heck, one could argue that Cornyn is past due on his bill and deserves eviction in the next primary. He is the suck.
Viva la revolucion, viva Republicanos libre!
Clearly you don’t listen to Levin’s show.
To him, conservatism is Constitutionalism; what I call (and he sometimes calls) classical liberalism.
And yes, that is what’s growing.
Naturally, though, you know better than he. And his 8 million + listeners.
Clearly I don’t listen to Levin’s show.
No Mr. Levin the Tea Party movement is growing. Because their message resonates with independents. There’s no sign at all that “conservatism” has any more appeal to independents than it did before the fall. That’s why most conservatives are trying to pretend they’re same same as the Tea Party.
That would certainly be the weak-minded water boy interpretation. You can spell out for us what isn’t conservative about the TEA Party movement if you’d like.
Princess Lisa got away with it because she was part of the patronage machine that is GOP politics in Alaska.
Could Lott do that in Mississippi? Maybe. Maybe not. He is part of a similar structure, but he might be old enough now to just say fuck it and make money playing the system from the outside. I do not know if Graham could do that in South Carolina (but he does have that Crist like quality to him).
Then why correct him? You don’t even know what he’s saying.
The tea party is about the spendings and the small governmentses. Whereas conservatism is about punishing the gays and giving fora to cumslut hoochie Jesusmamas so they can lie and people can laugh.
Your inner happy voice frightens me.
If it’s not “conservatism” and it’s not teabagging, then what was it that turned Independents in masses as if from the the maggot-gagging stench of leftist statism, feets?
Kindly don’t remind us of that guy who, in the week prior to the election, tweeted for poll evidence that the coming wave was related to a growing abhorrence of the status quo. There’s only so many ways you can dice that thing before you prove your own denial.
Like the kid in the Shining.
Actually, down here the GOP almost cost the Tea Party people the election. The Dems ended up using the same attacks that the standard bearing, 9 times defeated, GOP primary favorite used against the fresh blood brought in by Tea Party excitement. If the GOP wasn’t running around telling everyone what an unelectable, crazy, bitch O’Donnell was, I bet dollars to donuts she’d have won by 10.
The GOP thinks that it won, when the Democrats lost. They’ll learn. We’ll all learn, and it won’t be pretty.
Because I think credit should go where credit is due – and that’s the Tea Party and their message. A big story of 2010 was how much of the conservative message was consciously sidelined I think. Immigration didn’t move the dial – Mr. Tancredo can attest to that – to say nothing of silly social con issues.
Hot Air has our back.
Or not.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Except cupcakes what are tasty.
When you have a spoon everything looks like a cupcake!
ok not really
You eat cupcakes with a spoon? Much is answered, I think.
yes I’m a stupid tard what eats cupcakes wif a spoon and what doesn’t listen to Mark Levin’s radio show … but I did ride the matterhorn with Glenn Beck!
So I got that going for me.
The Old Issue
Many Tea Party people will tell you Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny is their manifesto. And Levin was one of the few talk show hosts who actively campaigned for Tea Partiers — even back during the primaries.
I heard all of them on his show.
Best not to speak out of your ass. People can smell it.
The conservative message is cutting spending, cutting regulation, standing up for free enterprise and individual rights…
That was the message the Tea Party ran on. It’s classically liberal and tied to the founding principles of this country, which is why (as I said nearly two years ago) it would cross party lines and resonate.
As for Tancredo, he got nearly 40% of the vote in an increasingly liberal state — as a 3rd party candidate . The Republican got 10%. That’s a lot of people voting for a single issue.
Amnesty, as desired by McCain, Graham, and the GOP establishment, was one reason the GOP got killed in 2008. The Tea Party movement is for following the law. Don’t think illegal immigration had nothing to do with these elections.
Immigration didn’t move the dial – Mr. Tancredo can attest to that –
Jan Brewer and John McCain must have a different dial.
ok I am sorry for saying Mr. Levin was attributing momentum to conservatism what I think belongs to the Tea Party – when he said “the conservative movement is back” I misunderstood.
On a related note… remember that nice ad Darleen linked? here … that race is one of them what hasn’t been called yet.
Don’t think illegal immigration had nothing to do with these elections.
Who do you think pushed me over the top?
The conservative message is cutting spending, cutting regulation, standing up for free enterprise and individual rights…
The conservative message is “mari-ju-wana is baad m’kay?,” which is why in Happyfeet land, I’m a conservative, and you’re not.
Only because we purple shirts got ’em to the polls and showed ’em how to vote Harry.
I’m ignorant and a slow learner, so explain to me how a platform of Constitutional conservatism, government limited by enumerated powers, does not unite the Paul and Palin wings of the Tea Party? If such unification occurs can the Tea Party just take over the Republican Party and get it over with?
46 was for Jeff’s 42, if that wasn’t obvious.
Wait, who ever said that we’d get to stop fighting? We’ll always be fighting or we’ll end up right back where we were two years ago.
The bell you just heard wasn’t the signal for the end of the fight, that was the signal to start swinging in earnest. The brute that is establishment politics is staggering, time to drive him to his knees.
There is no benefit to “taking over” the Republican party. But that does not preclude TEA parties from becoming active in (or even wholly dominating) the party.
The great strength of the TEA parties is their basis in well established, and popularly accepted principles. Ones that the left is loathe to openly oppose, lest their true intentions be unmasked. That is why the left has been unable to counter them, it does not suit their preferred method – seeking to target the individual, either for ostracism, or for compromise.
The TEA parties themselves should strive to be broad organizations that repeat and reinforce those American principles, seeking to attract politicians willing to serve the needs and desires of this large constituency.
It is inevitable that some of those politicians who get elected due to their adherence to TEA party principles will be targeted, and some will either be neutralized, or otherwise politically compromised. Politics has a way of doing this – it is built in. But so long as this is seen as the failure of a given politician the long term prospects for success of principle will not be diminished, it will merely be seen as a need for fresh blood.
The day when a politician, seeking to carry a TEA party banner, is willing to run for election as a Democrat, then things will have truly changed.
Until then the Republican party needs to be thought of as nothing more than the political action wing of the TEA parties.
[…] This is who they are. […]
@AngryDumbo: If, as Ric says, we keep playing the ground game, then either a) classical liberals will move into higher and more influential spots in the Republican party, thus remaking it; or b) the GOP Establishment will keep dismissing the hoi polloi, in which case they will become the New Whig party and get supplanted by whatever name replaces Tea Party (if any does).
The riot started down in cell block number 4
Spread like wild fire across the prison floor
Scar-face Jones said, “It’s too late to quit”
Pass the dynamite ’cause the fuse is lit
Traitors.
If they do this for Palin I will never forgive them. Never.
I’ve done that the last two cycles now and not just the nursing homes. The GOP has a reasonable ground game in some areas.
I agree with your thrust though. County and state level work. Do it or be inevitably disappointed.
Towards the overall issue here, I think people have to objectively gauge their local party. In some places, taking over the GOP would be easy; in other places, it’d be hard. Wherever possible, I would recommend taking over the party. For one thing, you don’t have to recreate the infrastructure and connections and can instead get right to work. For another, if you take over the party, they don’t have the infrastructure and connections anymore. Two for one.
Revenge of Palin’s Uterus!!
They’re sucking off Mike Castle again over at Ace’s.
Yeah, they can’t let go of their pragmatism over there.
Outlaw!
I don’t get this. Strategically, it’s much better to have a known enemy in place rather than an unknown. How many favors would Team R have to expend on a Mike Castle to have a chance at securing a vote?
We know how Bearded Marxist will vote. Mike Castle would have been a coin flip at best. Don’t need the stress or distraction.
Besides, the GOP works much better as a minority in the Senate. Give them a House and Senate, you get 6 years of Compassionate “Conservatism”.
Palin was in National Review today lecturing failed R candidates how they shouldn’t let the opposition define them.
It was very interesting to read.
Link?
Link?
Besides, the GOP works much better as a minority in the Senate. Give them a House and Senate, you get 6 years of Compassionate “Conservatism”.
One hopes that when the GOP regains control of the government, it will be fit for the job. Two more years of reform may bring us close to that point.
Which part was interesting? Did she implore them not to let opponents call them White Trash Christers what swallow jisms?
Here.
Plus, just having the House means Barack can’t effectively run against the Congress. The Dems control the Senate and the Executive. Seems to me the GOP is strategically well positioned.
sorry here is the link
I think this is more the problem than rejecting useless wild cards like Castle. At least it takes it out of the realm of sounding elitist when expressing discomfort with lightweights like O’Donnell.
Sorry about the lack of a link in my previous comment. I was posting from a BlackBerry. DarthLevin at #66 has the right link to the Castle thread at Ace’s (by Drew M.).
I’m not sure where this argument for perfection came from.
No one could reasonably conclude that O’Donnell, and to a much lesser extent, Angle were excellent candidates.
Any grass-roots movement is going to put forward people who are outside the mainstream–that’s its appeal. There is little doubt that O’Donnell was intellectually and tempermentally unsuited for a modern day run for high Federal office. But the Tea Party also got behind Pat Toomey, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, who were fine, if not nearly perfect, candidates. They are not looking for diamonds in the rough, but rather, people willing to fight for the classic liberalism PW holds dear. Some of the people who do that are pretty flawed.
But that’s politics. It is very human at the street level. Alvin Greene of SC snagged 360,000 votes despite a legitimate mini-scandal and refusing to campaign. He appears to have simply sat around and chilled, perhaps not dissimilar from a character in one of Jeff’s Corey Haim vignettes.
Stay involved in the state and local parties. That is where control of the primary elections are, and control of the primaries determines what the establishment is going to look like.
Not the national party – the local and state parties.
“Alvin Greene of SC snagged 360,000 votes”
Good point – how come the handwringers don’t ever point to him when assuming the D’s always pick invincible folks to run…
Republicans to Democrats. I think I love you*.
* I say that only because Danny Bonaduce got a pass on being the bad boy of the Partridge Family today. Not out of any enforsement of pragmatic republicanism or those who argue for it.
Comment by geoffb on 11/4 @ 10:28 am #
Someone ought to ask Mr. Lott who this ‘we’ is. Last I saw he wasn’t a member of the Delaware Republican Party, and it was that state party’s primary voters that nominated Ms. O’Donnell. That party did not want Mr. Castle.
That argument is over, Trent. Take it to the Delaware Republicans and maybe they’ll be polite when they tell you to go frack yourself with a weed-whacker.
First the RNC tried to prop up Crist at the expense of Rubio. And then, the Democrats tried to prop him up at the expense of Meeks. All members of the same club.
Comment by LTC John on 11/4 @ 1:46 pm #
By my way of looking the Democrats ran some pretty vincible folks this time around.
Trent Lott couldn’t organize a two-car funeral. What a crock.
Good point – how come the handwringers don’t ever point to him when assuming the D’s always pick invincible folks to run…
The “pragmatist” argument is that in a Republican wave year, they squandered an opportunity to take an otherwise unwinnable seat. Greene works against the left’s attempts to smear Republican candidates as idiots, but is otherwise irrelevant.
Green snagged 360,000 votes despite being a pallet load of bricks short of being a pallet load of bricks.
That fact should be very disturbing on multiple levels. It is one thing to vote ‘against’ your ideological opponent, when it also means that a dysfunctional simpleton might be your Senator for the next six years it says something else entirely.
360,000 party line votes says all that need be said about the type of people who support the Democrat party in SC. No candidate with ‘crossover’ appeal would ever capture any of those votes – it is pointless to even try.
The fact that the man got the nomination – he won the primary – is of much larger concern. The fact that 360,000 voters reflexively punched the straight ticket/D option doesn’t bother me much at all.
Well said, Jeff. How outrageous is it that we already have to worry about our efforts being all for naught just TWO days after the election. ggrrrr. (see my “Please, Please, Please Don’t Fix ObamaCare” at my site. http://bit.ly/awKNy8)
re: some comments above on Trent Lott: just to be sure you know, he’s not in the Senate anymore. He resigned in 20007.
re: some comments on Lindsay Graham: when he ran for reelection in 2008, despite being censured by some county GOP orgs and telling La Raza that SC was bigoted, the SC GOP made no effort whatsoever to put up a primary opponent. The SC Dems didn’t bother running anyone against him either, so a Republican politician from Myrtle Beach switched parties and ran to the right of Graham. He was foolishly reelected in Obama’s year with over 60% of the vote. He’s like a tick on a dog. We have to suffer 4 more years of him till we can try to pluck him off.
re: some comments above on Trent Lott: just to be sure you know, he’s not in the Senate anymore. He resigned in 20007.
we’re kind of aware of this, Prudence. However if he wants to run his jaw we get to run ours right back at him and call him for the fool he is.
Try it – it’s fun! and the plastic hair makes target acquisition a breeze!
Lott is a lobbyist now. Why the fuck is Politico even interested in what he says, is my question.
Alvin Greene is an instructive case in another way.
How many Democrat pundits were on national TeeVee emoting about what a terrible, terrible candidate he was?
Regards,
Ric
How many Democrat pundits were on national TeeVee emoting about what a terrible, terrible candidate he was?
About that: Rove says that when he had his WTF Delaware?!? outburts he was wearing his Fox News political analyst cap, not his GOP political organizer/activist cap. I half believe him.
It’s interesting how for the Democrats in media, it’s the same hat.
As far as getting things done: if we wanted a congress that would pass Obama’s agenda, we’d have elected Democrats. A Dem house worked with Obama. A more Dem house would have worked with Obama. There is no longer a Dem house. Therefore…? Are the pragmatists even capable of logic?
It’s interesting how for the Democrats in media, it’s the same hat.
Remarkable, ain’t it? I don’t even think Democrats are capable of making qualitative distinctions among their representatives.
There’s this attitude among the intelligentsia that Democrats always win and Republicans always lose. Occassionaly, the parties fail to play their assigned role. For this reason, and so everybody can play the role they were intended to play, we have bipartisan compromise.
Sure they are Abe: better and betterer.
sorry, Mikey. didn’t mean to cause any offense. I must have misread #15 & #27. I’m all for giving Trent Lott hell. It *is* fun! (I’m thinking the hair is actually from a Lego person.)
and Jeff, yeah! why does Politico (and Meet the Press, This Week, Washington Pos, etc.) all always get these has-beens middle-of-the-roaders in and falsely present them as the conservative voice? I think it’s because they know it weakens the presentation of our position–while getting to present the moderate position as the far right, so then, well, we just plain crazy, obviously. We need to start a protest to demand equal representation. :) (plus I think guys like Trent and Newt et al have publicists shopping them around for all-purpose quoting. ugh.)
Rick–speaking of Alvin Greene, did you see the Byron York tweet yesterday? shocked me. “Did you know Alvin Greene received 358k votes — 184k more than Chris Coons? 77k more than Joe Manchin. And just 3k fewer than Harry Reid.” makes you want to lose faith in humanity, doesn’t it?
Rove and Lott are selling a product at this point, their political expertise. It’s all a sales pitch, and shouldn’t be confused with a plea for the best interests of the country. Rove doesn’t get to wear multiple hats anymore than Stewart does, and fuck them both for trying such a pathetically self serving excuse. It bothers me that Fox pays him as an analyst when it’s clear he can’t or won’t be objective.
Prudence,
Lott has been rehabilitated, now that he’s “useful” in ways other than demonizing conservatives and Republicans to gin up support for Democrats and liberals. Time was, Trent Lott was so far right, Attila the Hun was ashamed to be seen in his company.
It may not have been an “objective” opinion, Makewi, but it was an honest one.
And objectivity is over-rated.
Prudence: Not shocking at all. On the other hand, I’m a Texan.
What you were seeing there is a combination:
1) There are still lots of people in the Old South whose knowledge of politics and national affairs begins and ends with (R) and (D). R’s are villains, D’s are good guys; if they’re white it’s because Lincoln freed the n–s, if they’re black it’s because Nixon didn’t. End of story.
2) An election you know you’re going to lose badly is a great time to try out the cheating machinery. Nobody’s looking too closely, so you can have null-result drills in ballot-box stuffing and transport, creating ballots out of thin air, and the rest of the techniques you may need later.
In this case I’d guess it’s something like half and half.
Regards,
Ric
And objectivity is over-rated.
Perhaps. I’m more than a little sick of self serving political types though, and this is an instance of exactly that.
#’s 73,80, 85
It isn’t the fact that he was, as quite fairly noted, “A pallet load of bricks shy of being a pallet load of bricks,” it’s that he was a few degrees from being deported as a walking rights violation. My favorite is how the University of South Carolina police had banned him from certain parts of campus because of his predilection of trying to hump everything he encountered. The involuntary discharge. The showing of porn to an 18-year old, then after she freaks out, he propositions her for a quickie–in front of the cops. The YouTube videos are a national resource. No one had ever heard of him in the town of 4100 he claims as a hometown, even the black barbershop owner.
If it was the old days, I would beg to cover this, or do the recap, or whatever. The guy got 360k votes. Quite ovbiously every single black person voted for a partially retarded political dirty trick, and probably some of the zipperheads at USC, Clemson and C of C to boot. Is there any guilt more granular than the rich, white southern liberal?
There are treasures in this nation and I love it so.
I’m more than a little sick of self serving political types
Wouldn’t it be a hell of a thing if Karl Rove was introduced as a “Fox News political analyst and self-serving politicl type?”
I think I’d respect them all more if they were upfront like that.
#97 — Right, Roddy.
Now, riddle me this: During the campaign we had every talking head on the planet getting up on TeeVee, and every pundit who had an intact keyboard, explaining to us in bipartisan, repetitive, and exhausting detail what horrible candidates O’Donnell, Angle, et. al. were. Nonstop barrage, from morn ’til night and back to sunup; it was clearly the signature of the campaign, “the story”. How many network-seconds, column-inches, and/or IP packets were devoted to Greene?
Regards,
Ric
Joe Miller (AK) is getting no help from the loyal Republicans above. He needs your help. These people are not conservatives.
“It’s time for conservatives and classical liberals to stop worrying about numbers and start concentrating instead on getting rid of the kinds of country club Republicans who stand for nothing but their own power.”
None.
A tragedy of the most profound order, a shame of eternal consequence.
– Rove is not taking retirement gracefully.
It’s a losing battle. The Tea Partiers are mostly rightfully shown as nuts. Both repubs and demos are captured as surely as the financial regulators. There is no way out of this maze. My question these days is: Whither the Fed?
Those “nutty” tea partiers caused the largest conservative/Republican electoral shift in more than seventy years. The American people evidently think otherwise, cynn.
Tea partiers, nuts, Cynn? You better get down on your hand and knees and thank ’em for their attempts to save this failing, flailing nation from the likes of ideologically lost radicals like BHO. If not for the Tea Partiers, we’d still be wandering the wilderness wondering if we deserve to survive another few years. With the Tea Party spark plug providing needed patriotism and their dedication to the original constitution and fiscal sanity, we have a better, but still only a slim, chance to survive.
And we’ve clearly defined the enemies of the Republic to include not only the obvious far-left Democrats and their radical controllers but some very mainstream Republicans who just want to come along for the ride.
I’m thinking the ride should get very bumpy for all of ’em. Every two years, a new batch of targets must go down.
I think by 2012 we’ll all be much better at this. Comes with practice, y’know?
Go back to the wine box, cynn, the serious adults are talking. Perhaps you might have read somme of the 102 comments before dribbling on to the page.
Dunno if this Mark Levin video asking for help for Joe Miller was linked yet. I’m a late arrival, as usual.
Cynn said:
There is no way out of this maze.
Try suck-starting a .38. It is guaranteed to remove you from life’s maze.
Just a suggestion.
English is your third language, yes? Probably best to not try it when drunk, is my advice.
# All your cadidates lost, huh.
Good.
The Fed is going to do what is good for the Fed.The best interests of the country be damned.
Coming from a certifiable drunk lunatic, this is so rich in irony my teeth hurt.
The Tea Partiers are mostly rightfully shown as nuts.
Oh, I dunno, Cynn. Tea Partiers got rid of an egregious Republican Senator in Utah and saw their nominee trounce the Democrat with 62% of the vote. They got a true rising star nominated and elected in Florida, both ballots over the oleaginous sitting Governor. They retired Russ Feingold, Arlen Specter/Joe Sestak, Blanche Lincoln and others. It’s too bad they didn’t nail Murkowski in Alaska or Reid in Nevada, but you can’t win ’em all…at least in one election.
Demmies will be defending, effectively, 23 seats in 2012 with no more message than the one they have now: More taxes, more regulation, more control. It wouldn’t surprise me to see Tuesday’s results dwarfed in 2012, with the Tea Party older and wiser than it was in its first, and immensely successful, outing.
Be prepared for a second coat of shellac, IOW, comrade.
People commenting seem to think that Trent Lott is still in office. He is not. He retired several years ago. Mississippi’s senators are Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker
No. We know Lott is a lobbyist. We wonder why he’s even being asked to comment, much less why he’s agreeing to do so.
Lindsey is his proxy, that’s why the statement is important, Lott was ham handed all the way around, doesn’t mean he wasn’t treated poorly for the Thurmond statement
Hey, don’t you wingnuts know Trent Lott isn’t in office any more? Sheesh.
AND NOBODY TOLD US?
TEH ECHOCHAMBER IS TOO ECHO-Y!
Good.
speaking of good this is the krinos taramosalata … it’s tasty! – it’s like 3.99 a jar at the kosher place… mostly I’ve just tried it on crispy flatbread – and only the “greek-style” exactly like the one linked
Tarantula cupcakes?
no it’s a spread made from carp roe – you will enjoy to eat!
and it took me like 7000 tries to get it to post
Rest assured, no matter how much saber rattling and conservative posturing Lindsey Graham may attempt between now and 2014, the voters of South Carolina will not forget that he has supported the nationalization of banks, the fingerprinting of all Americans, national ID cards, amnesty for illegal aliens, cap and tax, and the confirmation of two radical appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court, among other outrages. He is a rogue Senator who has betrayed the voters of South Carolina. http://www.sunlituplands.org/2010/03/lindsey-grahams-advocacy-of-national-id.html