Dems in Free Fall

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from bone:

James Carville interrupts AK-47's reality-defying Quinnipac polling fantasy:

"James Carville: Who Cares If People Like Dems More Than GOP If We Keep Losing Elections?"

from a CNN exchanage: "Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher was also on hand, reacting to Carville’s advice by bringing up the reality that many Americans right now are not only unhappy with the President’s performance, but with the state of Washington DC in general, including Congress. Carville responded:

Everything that Cornell says is true, but there’s one problem: We keep losing elections. And so what difference does it make if you say, “Well they like us better than they like the Republicans in Congress,” if they keep voting for Republicans"

When it comes to James Carville its best to be on the opposite side of his predictions.

 

[JamesL]

How is all this possible when less than 3 yrs ago, every pundit crowed that the repubs would be lost in the wilderness for the next 40 yrs?

 

[bone]

Quote from JamesL:

How is all this possible when less than 3 yrs ago, every pundit crowed that the repubs would be lost in the wilderness for the next 40 yrs?

Tea Party.

Scared the living shit out of the establishment Repubs, and were (and continue to be) completely discounted and ignored by the Democratic Party. Naive academics with no private sector experience heading the White House and cabinet positions has been a fucking disaster.

Love them or despise them, they have completely changed the political dynamic in the country. When people are scared and feeling vulnerable, they tend to get back to basics. And watching the European socialist welfare state implode has really crippled the Democratic Party message.

All of this has been demonstrated in the only place that truly matters at the end of the day: elections. Since Scott Brown, the Democratic Party has suffered a series of historic setbacks over an extended period of time. A consistent, obvious, factual trend.

All of this is apparent to the entire universe, save AK-47 and Pee Drinker.

Even Ricter has the good sensibility to avoid the cliff edge and refrain from delusional hyperbole.

 

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from JamesL:

How is all this possible when less than 3 yrs ago, every pundit crowed that the repubs would be lost in the wilderness for the next 40 yrs?

Many are the same guys who are now saying Obama is one and done

 

[bone]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

Many are the same guys who are now saying Obama is one and done

And all of these commentators have been completely in the bag for Obama since day one. The MSM is just more lucid than AK-47 at this point in time. AK is delusional.

 

[bpcnabe]

Quote from AK Forty Seven:

Many are the same guys who are now saying Obama is one and done

Obama himself is one of those dolts saying Obama is one and done:

“The odds of me being reelected are much higher than the odds of me being elected in the first place,” Obama told a group of Washington D.C. fundraisers on Thursday night. That was meant to reassure Democratic donors rather than scare the bejeezus out of them. He may have accomplished the latter.

Obama has said on numerous occasions that he is perfectly content with serving a single term in the White House. Obama told NBC News in June that there are moments “where I say that one term is enough.” He famously declared in 2009 that if he did not have the economy turned around in three years that his presidency would be a “one term proposition.”

Now rumors emanating from unnamed White House sources are suggesting that the president’ political failures have left Obama on the verge of clinical depression. A Gawker article from September 12 suggested that Obama “has seemed increasingly listless to associates.”

http://www.ology.com/politics/obama-may-not-run-second-term

 

[Scataphagos]

Quote from bone:

Tea Party.... Love them or despise them, they have completely changed the political dynamic in the country. When people are scared and feeling vulnerable, they tend to get back to basics.

The only groups who despise the Tea Party are (1) DemoCraps/Liberals, and (2) Big Government Republicans (DemoCraps-lite).

The ONLY hope for America's future is to embrace the Tea Party... as they (we) embrace the genius principles of the Founding Fathers.

Yes, I admit to a political affiliation... The Tea Party... DemoCraps are SHIT... Big Government Republicans (DemoCrap-lite) are also SHIT!

Ron Paul is the BEST candidate for America's future. (And you all should know by now, I'm not an emotional, herd-following, partisan dipshit who blindly supports an ideology... other than the original intentions of the Founders.)

And speaking of "The Principles of the Founders".. where did they come up with the "Constitution" and "Bill of Rights"? They observed and noted all of the HORSESHIT that governed Europe of prior CENTURIES.. and drafted principles/rules/guidelines to PREVENT ALL THAT SHIT FROM HAPPENING HERE! Yet, we've greedily morphed into most of it. Are the politicians so corrupt/greedy... and are so many of the hoi polloi so lazy/greedy that all they can conceive is "how can I get more something for nothing"? Can't we EVER pull our greedy/collective heads out of our asses and stand up for what made America great?

 

[bone]

People simply do not want to believe what is obvious - they filter everything through their own internal biases and self-interests.

Humans simply do not want to acknowledge facts. I mean, the five inches between a person's ears is what makes a trader.

Fact: election results from Scott Brown to NY-9 have been historical and unprecedented.

Fact: Tea Party candidates and incumbents are incredibly diverse: Women, Blacks, Hispanics.

But the MSM has real issues simply calling a fact a fact.

 

[bugscoe]

The Brooklyn Paper reported:

Assemblyman David Weprin is blaming President Obama for his stunning 54–46 percent loss to former television executive Bob Turner on Tuesday, claiming that he would have won the southern Brooklyn district if the Commander in Chief was doing a better job — yet many say the Democrat sunk his own ship with several campaign missteps, as well as his refusal to shave off his 1970s-style mustache.

“[The election] turned into a referendum of the President and I was an unfortunate consequence,” Weprin (D–Queens) said during a Monday-morning quarterbacking session with this paper on Wednesday. “If this election happened when the president’s poll results were better, I could have turned this around.”

It would have been quite a feat: Weprin lost the Brooklyn side of the bi-borough district — with just 33 percent of borough voters pulling the lever for him — in the fight for disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner’s seat. As the final numbers were tallied, Weprin was trailing by more than 4,000 votes on both sides of the district.

Weprin called Turner to concede the special election and congratulate his opponent on Wednesday morning. The victor acknowledged the President’s role in the election, according to Turner.

“He said ‘The election wasn’t about you or me. It was beyond both of us.’ ” Weprin recalled.

Calls to the Turner campaign were not returned on Wednesday, but during his victory speech, Turner said his win proved that voters have “had it” with the President’s “irresponsible fiscal policies” and his “treatment of Israel.”

 

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from bugscoe:

The Brooklyn Paper reported:

Assemblyman David Weprin is blaming President Obama for his stunning 54–46 percent loss to former television executive Bob Turner on Tuesday, claiming that he would have won the southern Brooklyn district if the Commander in Chief was doing a better job — yet many say the Democrat sunk his own ship with several campaign missteps, as well as his refusal to shave off his 1970s-style mustache.

“[The election] turned into a referendum of the President and I was an unfortunate consequence,” Weprin (D–Queens) said during a Monday-morning quarterbacking session with this paper on Wednesday. “If this election happened when the president’s poll results were better, I could have turned this around.”

It would have been quite a feat: Weprin lost the Brooklyn side of the bi-borough district — with just 33 percent of borough voters pulling the lever for him — in the fight for disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner’s seat. As the final numbers were tallied, Weprin was trailing by more than 4,000 votes on both sides of the district.

Weprin called Turner to concede the special election and congratulate his opponent on Wednesday morning. The victor acknowledged the President’s role in the election, according to Turner.

“He said ‘The election wasn’t about you or me. It was beyond both of us.’ ” Weprin recalled.

Calls to the Turner campaign were not returned on Wednesday, but during his victory speech, Turner said his win proved that voters have “had it” with the President’s “irresponsible fiscal policies” and his “treatment of Israel.”

He should have asked Kathy Hochul for advice on how to run a campaign




http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/nyregion/democrat-capture-house-seat-in-special-election.html


Democrat Wins G.O.P. Seat



By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
Published: May 24, 2011

Democrats scored an upset in one of New York’s most conservative Congressional districts on Tuesday, dealing a blow to the national Republican Party in a race that largely turned on the party’s plan to overhaul Medicare.

The results set off elation among Democrats and soul-searching among Republicans, who questioned whether they should rethink their party’s commitment to the Medicare plan, which appears to have become a liability heading into the 2012 elections.

Two months ago, the Democrat, Kathy Hochul, was considered an all-but-certain loser in the race against the Republican, Jane Corwin. But Ms. Hochul seized on the Republican’s embrace of the proposal from Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, to overhaul Medicare, and she never let up.

On Tuesday, she captured 47 percent of the vote to Ms. Corwin’s 43 percent, according to unofficial results. A Tea Party candidate, Jack Davis, had 9 percent.

Voters, who turned out in strikingly large numbers for a special election, said they trusted Ms. Hochul, the county clerk of Erie County, to protect Medicare.