Yesterday Republicans won governors races in Virginia or New Jersey and to listen to them today, you’d think they won the Super Bowl of politics. Seems to me it’s a bit of yawner. I’m hard pressed to figure out how these two elections are going to impact me in Oklahoma, or residents of any of the other states, except those two. But I can understand, after crushing defeats, one after the other, Republicans might celebrate winning anything.
There was another election yesterday that they don’t seem to want to talk about much. In an otherwise obscure section of upstate New York a new congressman was elected. It was a safe seat for Republicans, their party owning that seat for over 100 years. No more. A Democrat will be sworn in, adding to the already huge margin in Congress.
It’s a strange turn of events that created that most unlikely outcome.
The Republican Party went through the process to select their candidate. In that congressional district that was almost equal to calling the election over. But what happened next put a chain of events in motion that is quite telling about the disarray of today’s Republican Party. The wingnuts, the teabaggers and tin-foil hat crowd came swooping in. They didn’t like their candidate much, much like the undercurrent swirling around John McCain’s campaign.
Actually, they hated their candidate. She was a moderate, and they prefer extremism. She believed in tolerance, and intolerance is the fuel that runs their engine. She believed in personal privacy, and the talibangicals simply couldn’t accept that. So the radical faction of the Republican Party found a third party candidate they could rally around. Big name wingnuts came flocking in to the district. Dick Armey, the founder of the teabaggers flew in to campaign. Sarah Palin endorsed the third party candidate, as did Governor Tim Pawlenty (presidential candidate wannabe) of Minnesota, and others. These prominent Republicans were actually endorsing and campaigning against the Republican candidate.
Only days before the election, the Republican candidate facing dismal poll numbers withdrew her candidacy and actually threw her support and endorsement to the Democrat in the race.
Election night political pundits on television were all claiming the election was going to be too close to call and it could take two weeks to determine the winner. They got that part wrong. Apparently the voters in that safest of all Republican congressional districts aren’t as moonbat looney as the radical faction that has hijacked the Republican Party. For the first time in over a century, Republicans in that district crossed over and elected the Democrat.
For a political party that has dwindled down to only 20% of voters claiming allegiance, undermining your own candidate and endorsing wacky views outside the mainstream hasn’t been much of a winning strategy. Well let me correct that. It has been a winning strategy. It’s helped Democrats win, and continue to win. Maybe Americans aren’t as dumb as these Republicans thought.
There was another election yesterday that they don’t seem to want to talk about much. In an otherwise obscure section of upstate New York a new congressman was elected. It was a safe seat for Republicans, their party owning that seat for over 100 years. No more. A Democrat will be sworn in, adding to the already huge margin in Congress.
It’s a strange turn of events that created that most unlikely outcome.
The Republican Party went through the process to select their candidate. In that congressional district that was almost equal to calling the election over. But what happened next put a chain of events in motion that is quite telling about the disarray of today’s Republican Party. The wingnuts, the teabaggers and tin-foil hat crowd came swooping in. They didn’t like their candidate much, much like the undercurrent swirling around John McCain’s campaign.
Actually, they hated their candidate. She was a moderate, and they prefer extremism. She believed in tolerance, and intolerance is the fuel that runs their engine. She believed in personal privacy, and the talibangicals simply couldn’t accept that. So the radical faction of the Republican Party found a third party candidate they could rally around. Big name wingnuts came flocking in to the district. Dick Armey, the founder of the teabaggers flew in to campaign. Sarah Palin endorsed the third party candidate, as did Governor Tim Pawlenty (presidential candidate wannabe) of Minnesota, and others. These prominent Republicans were actually endorsing and campaigning against the Republican candidate.
Only days before the election, the Republican candidate facing dismal poll numbers withdrew her candidacy and actually threw her support and endorsement to the Democrat in the race.
Election night political pundits on television were all claiming the election was going to be too close to call and it could take two weeks to determine the winner. They got that part wrong. Apparently the voters in that safest of all Republican congressional districts aren’t as moonbat looney as the radical faction that has hijacked the Republican Party. For the first time in over a century, Republicans in that district crossed over and elected the Democrat.
For a political party that has dwindled down to only 20% of voters claiming allegiance, undermining your own candidate and endorsing wacky views outside the mainstream hasn’t been much of a winning strategy. Well let me correct that. It has been a winning strategy. It’s helped Democrats win, and continue to win. Maybe Americans aren’t as dumb as these Republicans thought.
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