In 2008, the Republican Party was thought to be headed for minority status as a rump party of the South. Tonight, the governorships of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and New Mexico are in GOP hands. Senate seats from New Hampshire to Illinois are flipping control. This does not mean that the Democrats permanently have become a rump party of the two coasts. “Permanent” is the stuff of fabulists. It does mean that the GOP now has the chance to prove to voters previously unwilling to give them a try that they can behave more responsibly than the Democrats. Oh, and Dino Rossi is leading in early returns in Washington State.
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LIVE BLOG: Geography
Jennifer Rubin
11.02.2010 - 11:39 PM
Topics: Dino Rossi, Illinois, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Republican Party, Senate, Washington, Wisconsin
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William Ayers’ Forgotten Communist Manifesto “Prairie Fire”
William Ayers openly declares he is a communist. Zombie has scanned pages showing it indeed is from the book. Ayers sez:
“We are a guerrilla organization. We are communist women and men, underground in the United States for four years”.
Barack Obama – this isn’t the communist Ayers’ I knew – or – I thought Ayers was just protesting the Vietnam war – or – I didn’t know Ayers wanted to kill people if they didn’t re-educate to our liking.
“That may be Palin, one of the failed 2008 contenders or someone we haven’t gotten to know yet.”
One of the failed 2008 contenders?? You must be kidding. (Please don’t say you mean Huckabee.)
GET ON BOARD HARRIET’S BUS
Quote from Harriet
“Personally, I can see the progress from one week to the next – our efforts are definitely making a difference. Not enough can be said for the effect of our increasing visibility and support for John McCain. A highlight of Saturday’s trip was a special invitation to Cindy McCain’s first rally, whereby she specifically acknowledged us and thanked us for our efforts. Then on Sunday, Joe McCain, John’s brother, stopped in to headquarters to personally thank us for all our hard work. We’re on the radar and we’re having an impact!
This weekend we will have buses leaving on Saturday and Sunday for canvassing efforts in Allentown.
A huge turnout will continue to remind all the other disheartened Democrats throughout the country (official PUMAs and others) that they are not alone.
Our visibility on the news will help quash the MSM narrative that this thing is over. Also, on a personal note, it’s very therapeutic to see firsthand the media’s distortion of what average Americans are really thinking.
Since so many groups have had success organizing buses from now until Election Day Weekend (congratulations to all of them!) I wanted to give you our schedule for anyone who wants to join me and the other PUMAs.
Through sponsorship from the McCain campaign, we’ve been able to have buses available for the remaining weekends until November 4th. Following is the schedule for, what is now being called “Harriet’s Bus” –
Saturday, October 25th – NY to Allentown – GOTV (departs 9am)
Sunday, October 26th – NY to Luzern – GOTV (departs 9am)
Saturday, November 1st – NY to Scranton – GOTV (departs 9am)
Sunday, November 2nd – NY to Scranton – GOTV (departs 9am)
The bus will be leaving from 31st Street and 8th Avenue. Please email me at HChristian@infnyc.com to let me know if you can make it or if you have any questions.
Come on PUMAs – with 2 weeks left – let’s finish strong!!!!”
All NY PUMAs please join
“and in her air altogether there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable.”
Said of Elizabeth Bennet, in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Palin’s as vapid and ethically challenged as advertised. And your blog post only ihighlights the failure of Commentary and its ilk, where smart people flogged the most myopic foreign policy in American history and led the conservative movement off a cliff. If a ground-up conservatism is the future of the movement, surely elistists of Commentary, with a proven track record of failure, will be the first sent overboard.
Republicans almost got it right this election, nominating the one man who could make it a race. He came up short because he took the conventional route — cleaving to the base at the expense of independents. No doubt, you will argue that he wasn’t conservative enough, wasn’t cutthroat enough (despite the impact on the polls of his negative attacks), mishandled the rollout of his VP candidate. You will be wrong. Again.
Don’t be mistaken, the negative campaign against Palin (which included some so-called conservatives) is less aimed at this election cycle than it is at 2012. They know she’s the new leadership of the conservative movement and want to discredit and ridicule her.
One example? Look at the story that she’s the reason why McCain is losing the elections. Any honest observer would point out that she was what gave McCain ( an “long-shot” election in itself) momentum and kept him competitive even under the financial crisis (which was the real reason for McCain’s drop as well as his failure in pointing out Obama’s many fallacies).
Palin was a rare case in which the conservative intelligentsia and the liberal media found common ground.
Iranian parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said Wednesday that Iran would prefer Democrat Barack Obama in the White House next year. Larijani also dismissed any idea that the US would attack Iran.
“We are leaning more in favor of Barack Obama because he is more flexible and rational, even though we know American policy will not change that much,” Larijani said at a press conference during a visit to Bahrain.
How to deal with Iran and the crisis over its nuclear drive has been one of the foreign policy issues in the Nov. 4 race for the White House between Obama and Republican John McCain.
Larijani, a leading figure in the conservative camp in Iran, also said the United States was too busy dealing with the global financial crisis to consider waging an attack on Iran.
“The risk was low before,” he said. “But now I am 100% certain that the United States will not unleash a war against Iran. The economic crisis has cost the United States $1.4 trillion and Washington is working to resolve its internal problems and not a war.”
http://www.ynetnews.com
I repeat myself. The “Pundits” hate the Maid of Wasilla. They also hated the Maid of Orleans. ‘Pressed to death’ has replaced burning at the stake.
Hey Rahm. “It was a dark and stormy night…”
Any honest observer would point out that she was what gave McCain ( an “long-shot” election in itself) momentum and kept him competitive even under the financial crisis (which was the real reason for McCain’s drop as well as his failure in pointing out Obama’s many fallacies). –Paulo
Utter garbage. McCain was virtually tied with Obama heading into the conventtions. McCain’s surprise pick of Palin intrigued people — and excited his base — but they soon saw there was less to her than meets the eye. And the pick cost McCain his best arguments — experience and judgment. To assert that the left is worried about Palin is the laughable. The left is focused on getting Obama into the White House. Notice the Obama campaign hardly ever mentions Palin. Give her enough rope and she hangs herself. Her ethical blindspots, her profound ignorance, her willingness and even joy at taking the low road with her partisan rhetoric, ensure that she is and will be McCain’s biggest single liability. Had single handedly ensured that McCain would have no play on moderates and independents. And let’s not forget, she is comedy gold. I hope this is the direction the conservative movement takes: still dumber, still more partisan, still more hypocritical. Please, please nominate Palin in 2012. Obama can then coast to a second term.
Corporate America will take the GOP to the shed after 2008 and say, nominate moderates or we’re out. The hateful so-called “Christian” base of the Republican party has nowhere to go, nowhere. Corporate money that actually pays for the Republican party can easily go away, as it has before.
So dream on pundits, dream on Palins, the GOP will be reborn as a moderate party designed to regain traction in New England and other areas that are not the old Confederacy or Utah. Otherwise Republicans will be a smaller and smaller minority for the next 20 years.
Ask Gingrich, ask anyone who’s done the math.
Jerry,
garbage is just about evvery single thing you wrote:
1)) McCain, after his pick, was LEADING the polls. The financial crisis cost him dearly…
2) Palin not only excited the base when she was picked. Her rallies, to this day, draw thousands of people.
3) The Obama camp does not need to worry about Palin. The media does the service for him…
4) Oh, she said a stupid thing in her very first interview under incredible pressure and unfriendly reporters. So what? Biden’s been saying stupid things for 30 years and he’s the “experienced” on the democratic ticket. Now, THIS is laughable.
5) As I said, the left does not need to worry about Palin now because the media is doing the dirty job for them (oh, if all the investigative reporters who went to Wasilla made a stop in Chicago….). But I was referring to the Palin critics on the right (not that I expected lefties would understand…)
6) Talk about partisan politics. Obama is soooooo uber-partisan, right? And “transformational”…
“The hateful so-called “Christian”
are you talking about Jeremiah Wright? Oh, sorry, he’s on the loving Christian Obama base….
but wait, we’re not allowed to talk about it.
The Christian right is the danger. These people to cling to guns and religion. Ops, this was in a closed fundraiser. In the open Obama must say he is religious, after all, “he’ s in the United Stupid of America” (by Mill Maher, another loving and caring progressive mind of the new Obamian era).
PS- I’m wondering when these loons are going label Thomas Sowell a racist .
A few interesting stats from today’s Zogby:
Obama holds a 50-point lead among voters under age 25. FIFTY. There’s your future, conservative movement.
Obama, purportedly the most liberal Senator, is winning 21% of conservative voters. (Little problem with the base, eh?)
Obama is leading by 29 points among independents (Thanks Caribou Barbie!)
And, yeah, Hispanic voters hate your guy, too.
Face it, conservatism is on its death bed. Unless the movement broadens its appeal, and becomes more moderate, you will fade into the night. Your constituency is, literally, dying. You need to attract new voters. They won’t be moved by your boilerplate Reagan-era themes or Rove-era wedge issues.
biggest unforced errors of the campaign so far, in chronological order:
* Romney’s religion speech, which lost him the independent moderates and only reminded the anti-Mormon rednecks
* Sarah Palin for VP, destroyed McCain’s “experience” argument, the only area where he has real earned advantage
* McCain “Suspending” campaign saying won’t debate during financial crisis, then debating anyway and looking ridiculous when his package failed to pass
* Republicans + McCain voting for Bush 700+150 billion Wall Street bonus+pork, and doing it while everyone was watching the sausage being made
* Ayers attack while economy tanking, shows conservatives living in a virtual bubble, out of touch with the times and the issues
* Sarah Palin shopping spree, every woman will remember, most people who have to budget will be suspicious of the “hockey mom” in $1500 pumps she got for free.
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James Says:
October 23rd, 2008 at 6:45 AM “and in her air altogether there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable.”
Said of Elizabeth Bennet, in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
Sarah Palin,I know Elizabeth Bennet,you are no EB.
idon’t these guys have liberal blogs to read?
so, under 25 are all for Obama. And people are surprised?? I am surprised that anyone under 25 would call themselves conservatives at this day and age.
Don’t liberals know that everybody under 25 is a liberal? Then they grow up… (well, some).
I am so angry at the utterly despicable treatment meted out to Gov. Palin that I would vote for her for any office from President of the Universe and on up.
“Palin is…popular with ordinary voters.”
Uh, in the sense that more than half of them believe she’s not qualified to be president?
Although experience is often preferable, Palin’s demeanor, charm, success and common sense are stong attributes — they serve her well, and government, at any level.
As many experts, like so many of your commenters, have gone really ugly in their criticisms of Palin, it has resulted in my being more supportive of the Palin choice. I wonder how many others have experienced the same result due to “expert” opinions?
Nicely put together, Ms. Rubin. I wish it were not so, but beltway snobbery runs both ways.
Under 25 voters mostly going for Barry? What a surprise! I was a liberal at that age, too, but I grew up. So will most of them.
By the way, the largest student organization on the UC Berkeley campus today is the Berkeley College Republicans.
Times do indeed change.
“neocon delusions of grandeur” — the brush you paint with is so broad you need a forklift for it. Here’s my question: do you actually know any human beings in the categories you apostrophize so freely? That is:
- “Neocons”
- Christian conservatives
- People from the American South
- People from Utah
If not, then it’s clear your only “contact” with them has been through the mainstream media. If one had the mindset of a leftist, one could accuse you of hating Jews, Christians, blacks (many from the South and proud of it, just as much as whites from the South), and Mormons (who of course are not the only people in Utah, but have put a peculiar stamp on that state).
Seriously, take a driving trip around the continental US, and learn something first-hand about your countrymen. Your reflexive reversion to ignorant stereotypes could use a good kick in behind. On the other hand, it’s about what Americans of broader experience have learned to expect from insular New Englanders…
Check out the 18-24 line….
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2008/10/021851.php
Sarah Palin is Elizabeth Bennet going to Washington. RCAR is Caroline Bingley, accustomed to fashionable society in London and looking down on Meryton people.
James — Naaaahh. RCAR is Mrs. Bennet.
Palin is the best candidate for the people that we’ve seen in a long time. Those illuminati critics ARE simply afraid of her. We’ve never had a regular person getting so far into the world of Washington, and they can’t handle it. If she can get in, why not the next guy? Soon Washington truly will be an entity connected to the people.