No matter what happens in today’s elections, GOP will still face identity crisis
November 3rd, 2009 at 08:15am Pat Cunningham
Liz Sadoti of the Associated Press ANALYZES the dilemma facing the Republican Party.
A few excerpts:
For Republicans, an election win of any size Tuesday would be a blessing. But victories in Virginia, New Jersey or elsewhere won’t erase enormous obstacles the party faces heading into a 2010 midterm election year when control of Congress and statehouses from coast to coast will be up for grabs.
It’s been a tough few years for the GOP. The party lost control of Congress in 2006 and then lost the White House in 2008 with three traditional Republican states — Indiana, North Carolina and Virginia — abandoning the party.
So even if political winds start blowing harder behind them and even if they can capitalize on Democratic missteps, Republicans still will have a long way to go over the next year because of their party’s own fundamental problems — divisions over the path forward, the lack of a national leader and a shrinking base in a changing nation…
[T]he GOP’s ranks are thinning: Only 32 percent of respondents called themselves Republicans in a recent AP-GfK survey compared with 43 percent who called themselves Democrats.
Also, the party’s power center is mostly limited to the South, the one region McCain dominated last fall; Obama won almost everywhere else — including making inroads in emerging powerhouse regions like the West, although Republicans still solidly control several lightly populated states in the area.
UPDATE: Early reports in locales holding state and local elections around the country suggest extremely light voter turnouts.
But this pattern does not necessarily pertain in the 23rd Congressional District of New York. I’ve not yet seen any indications, one way or the other, of turnout in that area.
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1. Mike Carroll | November 3rd, 2009 at 9:53 am
I was waiting to see what color lipstick you would try to put on this pig. You didn’t disappoint.
2. Pat Cunningham | November 3rd, 2009 at 10:04 am
Mike Carroll: Pig? What pig? Those are elephants in the illustration above, Mike, not pigs. And they represent the party of the South, as you may have heard. To call them pigs is to insult them.
No, wait. I think I know what you’re getting at. You’re expecting that today’s elections will signal the triumphant return of Republicanism (which, of course, would be a swinish development from my perspective).
Oh, that’s rich, Mike. A joke like that would be side-splitting among political scientists. It’s so ridiculous.
And that’s how you intended it, right?
3. expdoc | November 3rd, 2009 at 10:12 am
The Republicans have problems for sure. They need to focus on the fiscal issues that are a threat to our economic future and leave the social stuff at the side of the road.
The Republicans also have some valuable assets in Obama, Pelosi and Reid.
4. Mike Carroll | November 3rd, 2009 at 11:02 am
Todays election, Pat, will send a warning shot across the bow of anyone in Congress that doesn’t occupy a totally safe seat and the warning couldn’t come at a better time with healthcare coming up for a vote. That is what I meant as I’m sure you know.
You are whistling past the graveyard Pat.
5. SNuss | November 3rd, 2009 at 11:04 am
I have to laugh at you, Pat. The elections have barely started, and you are already trying to put a Far-Left spin on the yet-to-be-determined results.
6. Pat Cunningham | November 3rd, 2009 at 11:37 am
Mike Carroll: The warning shot will be sent across the bow of any Republican who hasn’t lapsed into complete wingnuttery. You don’t honestly think the Sarah Palin boomlet is the welcome future of the Republican Party, do you? Wake up, Michael. These people can barely walk upright. What they’re doing to the party of Lincoln, TR and Ike is a disgrace. And yet, you, a self-declared Hamiltonian, seem nonplussed by it all.
7. Mike Carroll | November 3rd, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Pat-your concern for the future of the Republican party is truly touching. The future of the Republican party depends on whether it returns to a Conservative party rather than a collection of Rinos. Otherwise, it is essentially a false choice.
8. SNuss | November 3rd, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Thought this was interesting…..
**VIDEO** Terrified Voter says NJ Dems Using Gangbangers for GOTV
November 3, 2009 by EJ
How would you like to be a New Jersey police officer and look out your window and see several known criminals, including a man you arrested several weeks ago and another who had just been released from prison for shooting a cop? And then find out that the men were sent into the neighborhood by the Democratic Party for GOTV operations - complete with lists of voters names, addresses and phones numbers!
That is what happened Sunday on a quiet street in Morris Township. The officer, who’s name we are with holding, specifically heard the men discussing that he was a police officer and that they now know where he lives. The officer confronted the men and they took off. He contacted the local police who responded and caught up with them and about a dozen other men a few blocks away. According to the police report, the men were known criminals and when asked why they were in the neighborhood they stated they were
“campaigning for the Democratic Party.”
Below is an interview with another Morris Township resident who also witnessed the gangbangers going door to door. She contacted a local Democratic Party Official who sent her an email stating
“Thanks for writing. Yes, I heard about this and am very sorry for the incident.”
Shockingly, this isn’t the first time New Jersey Democrats have used gang bangers for GOTV. According to this story on PolitickerNJ, the Bloods Street gang stole $6000 from the NJ Democratic State Committee through a check fraud scheme. NJ Democratic Party Chairman Joseph Cryan said “that checks were copied from payments sent out for the party’s 2006 field operation.”
It’s 9:00 AM and things are just heating up in Jersey.
See the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C784ApnKSI&feature=player_embedded
Source: http://www.electionjournal.org/2009/11/03/video-terrified-voter-says-nj-dems-using-gangbangers-for-gotv/
9. Pat Cunningham | November 3rd, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Mike Carroll: “Rinos”??? I can’t believe you’re actually using that term. What’s next? Tinfoil hats? Weird conspiracy theories? Birtherism? Deatherism?
Mike, I think you’ve been hanging around here too much. The nuttiness of some of these commenters — combined with the relative scarcity of reasonable conservatives — is having a bad influence on you.
So, when are you and realfoxnews going to launch your political consultancy?
10. Pat Cunningham | November 3rd, 2009 at 3:29 pm
SNuss: That’s a terrific little anecdote you’ve got there. No names. No documentation. Just a thrilling little story. And, of course, you believe it.
Did you hear the one about how the Democrats are using aliens from Mars to get out the vote? It’s true. A friend of my cousin’s mother-in-law knows a cop who says he heard about it from another cop. Yeah, let’s alert SNuss about this. He’ll know what to do to get the word out.
11. Mike Carroll | November 3rd, 2009 at 4:58 pm
I truly admit to spending too much time here but it is my guilty pleasure.
12. SNuss | November 3rd, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Maybe you will like this one better:
Monday, November 02, 2009
It’s Official: Corzine Paying Daggett To Stay In Race
[BUMPED; UPDATE AT BOTTOM: NJ DEMS CONFESS !]
As we expected, the Corzine campaign are pulling every dirty trick out of the Democrat playbook to get their boss re-elected (since he’s long since realized there is zero case for it based on the merits).
We surmised a few days back that independent candidate Chris Daggett’s mere existence in the campaign at this point was being paid for by Corzine, if not in cash, than in a job-to-be-named-later, something that Dagget himself did not deny. Well, here’s some proof of that rotten pudding:
…in the final days of the campaign, it appears state Democrats are paying for robo calls supporting Independent Chris Daggett. First reported here, the robo calls attack Christie (but not Corzine) and promote Daggett. At the end of the call, it is mentioned that the calls are paid for by a “project of the NJSDC.” No idea what that acronym stands for, but New Jersey State Democratic Committee, isn’t too big of a stretch.
More interesting is the fact that the return number on the calls is the same number that was used to promote Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley’s election in closing days of the 2006 race.
Not a bad idea by Corzine - finance a second opponent to split the 60% of New Jersey resident who are steadfastly against him. Not sure if it’s quite legal, but in dirty Jersey, apparently anything goes…
And with the Obama campaign now running the Corzine campaign, the fact that ACORN is trolling the inner cities to commit voter fraud is no surprise either:
More telling that the fix is in, however, is the sudden appearance of ACORN on the scene…
GOP officials recently received a phone tip from a hospital in Newark, reporting that people in ACORN t-shirts were in the facility signing up and collecting absentee ballots. New Jersey law allows anyone to take up to 10 absentee ballots at a time. The tipster reported seeing individuals in the ACORN shirts entering the hospital with blank absentee ballots and leaving with completed ballots.
There are reports out of Camden, New Jersey that voters are discovering that absentee ballots have already been submitted under their name. They did not authorize these ballots. Early reports suggested that the number of absentee ballots ‘requested’ in Camden city is higher than in any previous election. This will no doubt spark confusion on election day.
This is your Democratic party, America. Using the good names of the weak and the poor to commit voter fraud to keep themselves in office despite what appears to be overwhelming sentiment that it is time for Corzine to go.
Democracy is only a tool for the Democrats to obtain power. Once in, they will use any means necessary to keep it. Thuggery, crime, fraud, down to the exploitation of the poorest members of society.
Will Crooked Jon get away with it? We’ll see tomorrow…
UPDATE 552P: The Democrats confess. Ugly:
The Democratic State Committee now admits paying for a robocall to Somerset County voters that slams Republican Chris Christie and promotes independent gubernatorial candidate Christopher Daggett.
A Democratic spokeswoman says the party’s chairman, Joe Cryan, was not aware of the robocalls when he denied that the state committee had anything to do with them yesterday afternoon.
Cryan, who told PolitickerNJ.com yesterday afternoon that the Democratic State Committee had “absolutely” nothing to do with the call, could not immediately be reached for comment.
Source: http://jerseynut.blogspot.com/2009/11/its-official-corzine-paying-daggett-to.html
13. Stephanie | November 3rd, 2009 at 7:09 pm
I cast my Christie vote today!!!!
14. Pat Cunningham | November 3rd, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Snuss: Give it up, and spare us these long nosebleeds you copy from loony Web sites. The link will do.
15. snuss | November 3rd, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Pat, in case you missed it, the Dems confessed to running robo-calls for Daggett. You may not like the site, but the truth is the truth.
And this was no longer than much of the Leftist blather that YOU post as fact. You are just whining, because you can’t cry “racist” on these elections, as you do so often.
16. Pat Cunningham | November 3rd, 2009 at 11:53 pm
SNuss: What’s going to be your excuse for the wingnut Hoffman losing in NY-23? Every major hard-line right-winger had skin in that game, and they lost. It’s the first time a Democrat has won that district in more than 100 years — and he beat a darling of Palin, Limbaugh, Beck, et al. This race was the big test case for teabaggers chasing so-called RINOs from the field. Well, they chased — and then they lost.
This is too sweet. Frankly, I don’t care that Corzine lost in Jersey, and the Dem in Virginia was a weak candidate who never really had a chance to win.
But NY-23 was going to be the big prize for the teabaggers. So what happened?
17. snuss | November 4th, 2009 at 8:08 am
Hoffman was a virtual unknown, running as a third-party candidate, yet came within a hair of winning. Had he been the RNC candidate, he probably would have won.
New Jersey and Virginia were far more significant election results, especially New Jersey, where B. Hussein Obama made repeated trips, trying to get Corzine re-elected. Disillusioned moderates and independants, who originally voted for The Messiah, turned away from the Democrats in droves. The reality of the Obama agenda has become apparent to all but the MoonBats, and they don’t accept this kind of “change”.
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