November 6th, 2009 07:07am
Pat Cunningham
Eugene Robinson NAILS IT.
An excerpt:
The good news for the Republican Party is that its far-right conservative base is energized. The bad news is that the far-right conservative base isn’t big enough to elect national or even statewide candidates without help from moderate Republicans and independents. The two new Republican governors-elect, Bob McDonnell in Virginia and Chris Christie in New Jersey, did just that. If the party is going to insist on ideological purity from every candidate in every state, it will cede the political center to the Democrats.
Sensible Republicans get it. But any GOP officeholder up for re-election has to worry about a possible primary challenge from the right, with tea party fanatics yelling about revolution, Palin posting attacks on social networking sites and Beck shouting treason. I don’t expect to see many profiles in courage.
November 5th, 2009 08:28pm
Pat Cunningham
Have your say (but respectfully, please) on this tragedy.
UPDATE: Suspected shooter is NOT dead. See HERE.
November 5th, 2009 01:39pm
Pat Cunningham
I guess THIS means that these two organizations have been taken over by socialists bent on sapping us of our precious bodily fluids.
November 5th, 2009 11:32am
Pat Cunningham
Ezra Klein NOTES that “Dixie has fallen out of favor in Washington, and fast.”
November 5th, 2009 11:08am
Pat Cunningham
Yesterday, we had THIS.
Today, we have THIS.
A few excerpts:
When Kirk decided to run for the Senate, it made some sense — Illinois is one of the more reliably “blue” states in the country, but Kirk has generally preferred to keep the far-right, Sarah Palin wing of the Republican Party at arm’s length…
Why in the world would Kirk sully his reputation like this [by seeking an endorsement from Palin]? Because he’s facing a little-known, underfunded anti-tax activist/political neophyte in a Republican primary, and a right-wing third-party candidate is a possibility in the general election.
November 5th, 2009 10:51am
Pat Cunningham
November 5th, 2009 10:31am
Pat Cunningham
WARNING: If F-bombs offend you, don’t watch this video. Otherwise, prepare to be amused at the parallels with today’s super-orthodox wingnuts:
(Hat-tip to NoMoreMisterNiceBlog)
November 5th, 2009 09:57am
Pat Cunningham
THIS KIND OF STUFF is sure to make the South Carolina Republican a RINO in the eyes of the political kamikazes of the radical right.
An excerpt:
“To those people who are pursuing purity, you’ll become a club not a party,” Graham told POLITICO in the Capitol Wednesday. “Those people who are trying to embrace conservatism in a thoughtful way that fits the region and the state and the district are going to do well. Conservativism is an asset. Blind ideology is not.”
UPDATE: Graham also is WAXING SENSIBLE on global warming.
November 5th, 2009 08:39am
Pat Cunningham
Gail Collins tells us the TERRIBLE TRUTH.
An excerpt:
We have a dramatic saga story line brewing here…and I hope Obama has gotten the message. Really, he had better shape up and completely transform the way Washington works before the next election. Otherwise, another governor’s head could roll.
UPDATE: Ruy Teixeira also has a GOOD TAKE on the elections:
To hear Republicans tell it, Tuesday’s elections, in which their candidates captured the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey, were a repudiation of President Obama and indicated a voter shift toward their party. They should calm themselves down. The results don’t show this and, in fact, suggest some rather daunting challenges for the Republicans.
UPDATE II: El Rushbo BLAMES Newtie for wingnut loss in NY-23.
UPDATE III: The incomparable Nate Silver offers a WORTHY PERSPECTIVE:
[I]n New Jersey, there’s literally almost no evidence that the Democrats’ agenda had anything to do with Jon Corzine’s defeat. Voters who cited a national issue were more likely to vote for Corzine, and voters who cited a local one, the Republican Chris Christie.
In Virginia, the evidence is certainly a little stronger, insofar as the national agenda may have affected the lopsided turnout (the electorate which turned out Tuesday had voted for John McCain by 8 points, a near-reversal of the actual results). Even there, however, the quarter of the electorate that cited health care as their main issue went for the Democrat Deeds 51-49. And in NY-23, which was supposed to have been the ultimate smackdown of the Democrats’ agenda, the Republican Conservative candidate unexpectedly lost.
UPDATE IV: Dick Armey throws NY-23 wingnut UNDER THE BUS.
November 4th, 2009 04:14pm
Pat Cunningham
Mark Kirk, the erstwhile moderate Republican congressman from the Chicago suburbs, reportedly is pleading for an endorsement from Sarah Palin in his bid to succeed Roland Burris as the junior U.S. senator from Illinois.
At least, that what it says HERE.
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