Y’all are familiar with the moonwalk, right? When someone looks like they are walking forward, but in reality they're sliding backward? Well a bunch of Barking Moonbats are moonwalking.
Team Obama (anticipating losses) blew off the Tuesday elections in advance by downplaying any importance or significance in whatever the results. They even made a point to let everyone know that Obama was so not interested in the elections that he would be watching basketball instead of returns.
This strategy backfired so badly that David Axelrod (who as an ex-newspaper reporter should have known better) was forced to lower himself to interview with Fox, the very network he had vilified as not being a legitimate news network.
Andrew Malcolm discusses this in LA Times
EXCUSE ME AGAIN? The objections to Crist has been going on for some time now, NOT since the election in upstate New York. SEE GEORGE WILL IN YOUR OWN NEWSPAPER PRINTED SEP 27.
A MOONBAT SUMMARY ON THE ELECTIONS
With pinheads on the left like Nancy Pelosi declaring "Victory!" at the same time her party takes devastating losses in Virginia and New Jersey, it's no wonder that people sometimes don't know where to look for honest perspective. Yes, Nancy, the House of Representatives picked up a vote that you guys will carry for a year. It is a loss for the Republican Party.Team Obama (anticipating losses) blew off the Tuesday elections in advance by downplaying any importance or significance in whatever the results. They even made a point to let everyone know that Obama was so not interested in the elections that he would be watching basketball instead of returns.
This strategy backfired so badly that David Axelrod (who as an ex-newspaper reporter should have known better) was forced to lower himself to interview with Fox, the very network he had vilified as not being a legitimate news network.
Andrew Malcolm discusses this in LA Times
“ Here's how desperate Obama administration spokesmen were Wednesday to fill the info void they'd created by hiding away during the previous night's bad news election returns:Reuters Reports on the Robert Gibbs Moonwalk
...So, today out trotted Axelrod and press secretary Robert Gibbs to say the same things over and over as damage control: How could the election be about the president when he was not on any ballot? ...
Local issues prevail; Gibbs even dismissed the voting as "local elections." Corzine was in his own deep trouble already. We'll get young people energized next year. And, off-camera, off-the-record, Virginia Democrat Creigh Deeds was an awful candidate who didn't listen to us enough.
But, hey, (insert quick verbal pivot here) look over here at New York's 23d District where a Democrat took advantage of Republican/Conservative infighting and snatched a single GOP House seat.
Axelrod to Garrett:
The other races in Jersey and in Virginia were really state races, very much focused on state issues. In New Jersey it was very much focused on Governor Corzine, but in New York 23, the issues that we’re discussing everyday in Washington were very much on the ballot.
And, particularly because of the purge of the Republican candidate, by the right, it became even more so and what you saw was a pretty vigorous turnout there yesterday in a district that had been held by Republicans for 140 years and the Democratic candidate won. I think that sends a strong message here.
To ABC's Jake Tapper Axelrod quoth:However, far more important for this president's future than these aides' scripted media quotes are the political calculations going on silently today in the minds of, say, the 257 Democrat House members who must face angry voters next year when the troubled economy will be even more Obama-owned.
I think that young people were energized by the President about the set of issues and concerns that he ran on. I think they'll be energized again in 2010. But you know some of it is a personal appeal and we are going to work hard over the next year to make sure that in these national elections that are coming up our voters and particularly young voters are strongly engaged.
Here's what they see:
Virginia's Gov. Tim Kaine, who's also the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, spent extra national money there and still can't deliver his own state against a tide of voter dissatisfaction.
Also, they'll note that Gov. Corzine couldn't even approach winning New Jersey with that state machine, all the money in the world, a mediocre, overweight Republican opponent, a third-party guy to siphon GOP votes and five presidential appearances in an historically Democratic state that went big for Obama in 2008.
Gee, these realistic professional pols might think to themselves: How eager should I be to be seen doing the roll call bidding of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Democrat triad from now on? ”
“ White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters the governors races turned on "local issues that didn't involve the president" such as property taxes in New Jersey. "I think voters are concerned about the economy," Gibbs said. "I don't think the president needed an election or an exit poll to come to that conclusion."WA POST does some major Moonwalking:
However, Julian Zelizer, a political science professor at Princeton University in New Jersey, said the anti-incumbent mood expressed on Tuesday and economic unease may have wider implications for the Democrats in 2010. "Democrats need to be nervous about other states," he said. ”
“ Democrat Bill Owens took a surprising victory in a special election Tuesday in Upstate New York, winning a House seat that Republicans had controlled since 1872 and, in the process, potentially deepening a split that emerged within the GOP during the campaign.EXCUSE ME? Dede Scozzafava was not even a RINO, she was more liberal than the Democrat Owens and was no loss whatsoever to the Republicans since she would vote lockstep with the Democrats. Hoffman was a 'Hail Mary' attempt to bring some reason to the 23rd.
As Democrats rallied around Owens, they said Republicans had revealed their intolerance of moderates through the dumping of Scozzafava. Local officials in New York had nominated her instead of Hoffman and others, but that choice set the stage for a conservative uprising that last month went national.
Leading national Republicans, most notably former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, injected themselves into the race to back Hoffman and blast Scozzafava. In the process, the race turned into a proxy battle for broader questions about the direction of the Republican Party, and the momentum seemed to be irresistibly propelling Hoffman to Washington.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, retorted, "This election represents a double blow for national Republicans and their hopes of translating this summer's 'tea party' energy into victories at the ballot box."
Conservatives, expecting a Hoffman victory, had already started talking about which moderate Republicans they would take on next, suggesting that those who back Democratic initiatives could face trouble winning primaries next year.
GOP leaders in Washington have endorsed Florida Gov. Charlie Crist for a Senate election there next year, but party activists, angry about his appearance with Obama this year to back the stimulus bill, have sided with his Republican challenger, former Florida House speaker Marco Rubio. ”
EXCUSE ME AGAIN? The objections to Crist has been going on for some time now, NOT since the election in upstate New York. SEE GEORGE WILL IN YOUR OWN NEWSPAPER PRINTED SEP 27.
A MOONBAT SUMMARY ON THE ELECTIONS
“ Republicans are spinning this as a massive referendum against President Obama and a Democratically-controlled Congress. What was really the case was that Deeds was a terrible candidate who got through his primary with some lackluster candidates; and almost immediately went negative on McDonnell, focusing most of his campaign on a 30-year-old doctoral thesis McDonnell once wrote. This allowed McDonnell to run a smart campaign.A RIGHT THINKING SUMMARY
He stayed above the fray, managed to run to the center (although he is a far-right conservative) as a populist by focusing on job creation and lowering taxes. It was a winning formula, and it showed yesterday by the results. However, it's more of a case of “good campaign” vs. “bad campaign” than having anything to do with Washington.”
“ Let's look at the real lessons from Election 2009. A moderate Republican and a conservative Republican (who ran as a moderate and populist) won races for Governor against generally weak candidates.NANCY PELOSI'S MOONBATTERY
A Democrat will be representing a district which has not elected a Democrat in 100 years, because the right-wing of the Republican party ousted a front-runner candidate who was deemed “too liberal”, and backed an ultra-conservative in her place.
An ultra-liberal Lt. Governor John Garamendi overcame an association with deeply-unpopular Governor Schwarzenegger and a more-popular Republican State Senator (David Harmer) to win a Special Election in the California 10th district by 11 points. The seat was formerly held by “blue dog” Democrat Ellen Tauscher. ”
“From our perspective, we won last night," the California Democrat told reporters during a Wednesday photo op. "We had one race that we were engaged in, it was in northern New York, it was a race where a Republican has held the seat since the Civil War. And we won that seat. So, from our standpoint, no, a candidate was victorious who supports health care reform, and his remarks last night said this was a victory for health care reform and other initiatives for the American people." From our standpoint, we picked up votes last night," a cheerful Pelosi said, "one in California and one in New York.” VIDEO HERE
What you fail to see Mrs Speaker, is that the Conservatives won last night, and that message is the shot across the bow of the GOP. You didn't care to look at the way your guy won. You failed to see the fact that had Deidre Scozzafava stayed in the race unchallenged by a Conservative, you would have had a vote on your side for health care anyway. You gained no ground, whatsoever.
And what a bone-headed move for Team Obama that does not know how to govern except in campaign mode and tries to own every news cycle. It makes me start to reassess my previous thoughts that these Campaigners Extraordinaire can't possibly be so stupid to pull stunts like declaring war on Fox News and Tea Partiers and Seniors and the list goes on.
I had been thinking there had to be a sneakier, more ulterior motive. Surely they couldn't be so stupid as to openly try shutting down any opposition or difference of opinion without some underlying reason such as misdirection (aka prestidigitation.)
Perhaps it is after all it is their Audacity of Stupidity that they thumb their nose at and continue to underestimate We The People.
Click on READ MORE to jump to more links including a summary by Reuters, Moonbattery by MSNBC and the DNC Head Moonbat Tim Kaine, WA Post, WSJ, Some Blue Dogs who GET IT and a nice essay by a young conservative.
Summary by Reuters
* Democrats push on with healthcare bill after elections
* They say voters want them to accomplish something
* Financial markets bet reform will be slowed by results
Ann Coulter on MSNBC before the election
“ MSNBC, Aug. 31, 2009, Keith Olbermann on Robert F. McDonnell, Republican candidate for governor of Virginia: "In (McDonnell's master's thesis), he described women having jobs as detrimental to the family, called legalized use of contraception illogical, pushed to make divorce more difficult, and insisted government should favor married couples over, quote, 'cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators.' Wow. When did he write this? 1875? No, 1989. Wow, 1989.
"Goodbye, Mr. McDonnell."
MSNBC, Sept. 22, 2009, Rachel Maddow also on McDonnell: "And here's where the conservative movement and the Republican establishment smash into each other like bumper cars without bumpers. Here's where Republican electoral chances stop being separate from the wild-eyed excesses of the conservative movement. "Part of watching Republicans try to return to power is watching ... the conservative movement eat the Republican Party, eat their electoral chances over and over and over again." ”MOONBATTERY BY HEAD MOONBAT TIM KAINE
“ On what turned out to be a good night for Republicans, Democrats were silent until midnight, when party chairman Tim Kaine released a statement saying that Democratic losses should not be viewed as a referendum on President Obama or Democrat policies.
According to Kaine, Democrats had strong candidates in both Virginia and New Jersey, but the problem was, they “were running against a significant historical tide and faced uphill battles from the start.” New Jersey, the party in power in the White House hasn't won the N.J. governor's office since 1985 -- and the party in power in the White House hasn't won the Virginia governor's office since 1977
Beyond “historical” trends, exit polls showed that the two gubernatorial elections “turned on local and state issues,” Kaine said. “The results are not predictive of the future or reflective of the national mood or political environment,” he insisted. Kaine said that in each state, President Obama’s approval ratings “are better today than the share of the vote he received in each state in 2008.”
Democrats say the most “consequential” race of the night was the one they won – in New York’s 23rd congressional district, where Democrat Bill Owen defeated conservative candidate Douglas Hoffman by about 6,000 votes. Democrats say the race was hijacked by “right-wing extremists” who forced the liberal Republican candidate, Dede Scozzafava, to bow out at the last minute.
In his post-election statement, Kaine described Scozzafava as a “moderate” who was “purged from the Republican Party by the most extreme elements of the conservative right wing including Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.”
Kaine said Republicans should be very worried: “ This race turned out to be the worst of all possible worlds for Republicans as not only did the Democrat, Bill Owens, win a seat that Democrats have not held in more than 100 years, but what occurred in New York has exposed a war within the Republican Party that will not soon end.”
Kaine said the “war” within the Republican Party played out in Pennsylvania earlier this year when longtime Republican Senator Arlen Specter became a Democrat -- and is now playing out in House, Senate and gubernatorial races nationwide, where conservatives are challenging liberal Republicans.
“The all out war between Republicans and the far right wing is a disaster for the Republican Party and will dog it well after today," Kaine predicted. ”
“ After losing Virginia's governorship for the first time in eight years, some Democrats are trying to console themselves that Virginia is at its core a "red" state. This ignores not only that they won back-to-back governorships but also that Democrats defeated a sitting senator in 2006, took control of the state Senate in 2007 and won an open Republican Senate seat and three House seats in 2008 while carrying Virginia's electoral college votes for the first time since 1964.SOME DEMOCRATS GET IT; MOST DON'T (as seen in WSJ)
Some in the White House are trying to deflect blame for the defeat by saying that Sen. Creigh Deeds lost because he didn't embrace the president and his policies. This ignores how much the Obama administration's support for cap-and-trade, organized labor's agenda, government-run health care and rampant spending hurt the Democratic nominee with independent voters. ”
“ The GOP is framing the outcome as a rejection of Democratic proposals including the health-care bill, and some conservative and vulnerable Democrats seem inclined to agree, as they keep an eye on 2010 elections.SOME BLUE DOGS SEEM TO GET IT
"Last night, I think voters sent a clear message that the administration and Congress need to focus on the economy," said Rep. Dan Boren (D-OK). "We need to focus on creating jobs right now, and you don't do that by raising taxes on small business," he said...
"What's important to take out of these elections is that voters in both states were concerned about the direction of the economy and rejected out of hand the economic policies being pursued by the White House and Speaker Pelosi," House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) said Wednesday on television talk show "Fox & Friends."
Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-VA), who is president of the 39-member House Democratic freshman class, told freshmen at a weekly breakfast Wednesday that passage of the health bill will help, not hurt, their 2010 prospects. "What I saw was a depressed Democratic base. Democrats are going to have to deliver for that base if they want to excite that base," Connolly told reporters during House votes Wednesday.
Other Democrats downplayed any negative effects on their legislative agenda. "This really isn't a referendum on [Obama]. I really think these are just state-specific issues that were debated with greater skill than one candidate as compared to the other, and the quality of the two campaigns did differ," said Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA). ” -By Martin Vaughan, Dow Jones Newswires
“ The House leadership needs to pay attention to what happened in Virginia," said Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., one of 52 conservative Democrats, or Blue Dogs, in the House of Representatives.
Last year, swing voters helped Democrats to their biggest congressional majorities since the mid-1990s. Once Tuesday's two House winners are sworn in, Democrats will have 258 House members and control 60 of the 100 Senate seats. Next year, all 435 House seats will be contested, as well as 36 Senate seats, 18 now held by each party.
Tuesday's elections "will probably cause pause for some people," said Rep. Michael Michaud, D-Maine, a Blue Dog.
Some moderate Democratic senators voiced similar thoughts, saying that the public's perception is often that Washington is too unresponsive to voters and too eager to increase the size and cost of government. "The American people get it. They know we're on an unsustainable fiscal course," said Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D.
Many of these concerns are hardly new to conservative and moderate Democrats; Tuesday's election results simply underscored their importance as they weigh their votes on pending bills.
Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., said, "I've always had pause" about health care overhauls and ramped-up government spending. Like most centrists, he represents an area where hard-to-predict independents often determine an election's outcome. ”
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I liked this essay posted by a young conservative on FreePress“ Now that Conservatism has a fresh momentum, the people are watching this generation very closely. Will we, the generation of intelligence and technology, tire? Absolutely not. Will we, the architects of the Information Age, falter? Never. Will we, Generation X, be the destroyers of the greatest nation one the planet and fulfill the dire predictions of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley? Not while one of us still draws breath.
If we were to fail, if we were to be the generation that allowed the "Last Bastion of Freedom and Liberty" on Earth to fail; then we would deserve all of the scorn, disgust and hatred that our posterity could possibly muster for the remainder of Eternity, and we deserve to be completely forgotten by History.
We are in fact entering a "Brave New World". The 'Battlefield of Ideas' has moved into Cyberspace, and is embroiled in Ideology and Rhetoric the way Talk Radio and Television were before us. The question is: Can Conservatives hold this ground, too? ”
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