The Barking Moonbats are Moonwalking

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

“ 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:

...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:
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.

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.

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? ”

Reuters Reports on the Robert Gibbs Moonwalk

“ 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."

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. ”

WA POST does some major Moonwalking:

“ 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.

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? 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.

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.

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.”

A RIGHT THINKING SUMMARY

“ 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.

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. ”

NANCY PELOSI'S MOONBATTERY 

“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

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.

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.

Never Underestimate the American 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.

Demwit Definition: Moonbat

MOONBAT: (Shortened version of BARKING MOONBAT) An unthinking or crazed leftist -- in other words, a modern liberal on the extreme edge of whatever their -ism happens to be.

Moonbats are prone to fits of rage and hysteria due to their frustrations with conservative policies. Moonbats may often be found protesting the Iraq War, President Bush and the U.S. Military.  The mental state of Moonbats is rumored to be effected by the cycles of the moon--much like werewolves.  They also tend to be quite batty.

USAGE:
A Moonbat is a liberal who has abandoned fact & logic in the pursuit of spewing their socialist propaganda, (ie Al Franken, Michael Moore, and Janeane Garafalo, to name but a few.) Ronald Reagan was the absolute antithesis of a Moonbat.

A Moonbat is a liberal who has sacrificed sanity for the sake of their pro-evil ideology. A Barking Moonbat will accept and loudly repeat ANY lie that advances their political agenda.

The Moonbat believes that guns are the cause of crime – and soldiers are the cause of war and that his Utopia would exist if it wasn’t for the conservative patriot. John Lennon chronicled it in the Moonbat anthem “Imagine.”  They imagine “no countries” and that starts first and foremost with the destruction of the greatest country in the history of the world.  The Moonbats also dream of a world where no God exists to compete with their own self-importance (think Barack Obama) and the most telling line in their anthem is for everyone to imagine a time where anything and everything is devalued to the point where “There’s nothing (left) to kill or die for.” (adapted from the wise words of Evan Sayat)

A different Beatle song that parodies Liberals seems appropriate here. Look at the opening picture of the video (taken at an anti-war rally), in the forefront is Jane Fonda; go behind her and count three to the left and there is John Kerry.

ALL THE LIBERAL PEOPLE