GOP Radicals Help Democrat Take NY House Seat

[Winehole23]

Soi disant conservatives still haven't settled on what flavor of faux populism they like best. Taking Romney and Huckabee seriously is a symptom of that.

[exstatic]

"This makes life more complicated from the standpoint of this: If we get into a cycle where every time one side loses, they run a third-party candidate, we'll make [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi speaker for life and guarantee [President] Obama's re-election," Gingrich told the New York Times hours after Scozzafava's exit. "I think we are going to get into a very difficult environment around the country if suddenly conservative leaders decide they are going to anoint people without regard to local primaries and local choices."

[hope4dopes]

[doobs]

Democrat radicals in Congress and the White House help GOP take governor seats in NJ and VA.

[Cry Havoc]

[Wild Cobra]

That really needs to be extended to 2010 reflecting the temperatures declining with the increase of the Somoli pirates.

[Homeland Security]

The NJ and VA results shouldn't scare anyone. The economy is down, the governors were the people in power when the people expected something to be done. It's no surprise that 2 in bent governors lost. It also has very little bearing on anything nationally.

Many states that are general liberal and left-leaning have had Republican governors - like Massachusetts, for example, which elected Mitt Romney.

the right wing nutbags should be scared - because big picture, they're LOSING. The vast majority of people under the age of 25 don't care whether gay people can marry and assume abortion has always been legal and are OK with it. There is a fringe in this country that has Fox News to whip people into a frenzy, but that is desperate moves from a desperate people - they are gonna have to accept that their radical views are the minority or get out, eventually.

Why should the "right wing nutbags" be scared? In response to losing their majority, they are purging out everyone who is not a true believer and stockpiling lots of weapons and ammunition. Seems like they have a plan and you just don't understand the new paradigm.

[admiralsnackbar]

Why should the "right wing nutbags" be scared? In response to losing their majority, they are purging out everyone who is not a true believer and stockpiling lots of weapons and ammunition. Seems like they have a plan and you just don't understand the new paradigm.

But who does understand the new paradigm? Do they? By purging everyone but the most extreme adherents to... (do we even know anymore? Christian corporatist right-wing interventionist fiscally-irresponsible war-hawk-ism?) they only alienate more moderate voters... what's the electoral end-game there?

The GOP used to mean business and reason over sentimentalism and religion, but now it just seems lost in the wilderness, and run by people I'd be embarrassed to talk policy with. They're like the Democrats after Carter: rudderless, whiny, weak-minded, and without ideas.... doing the same over and over, even when it's proven not to work.

They all talk about what Goldwater/Reagan conservatives they are, but judging by their actions, they must do it for the same reasons teenagers buy Lady Gaga: they think they're supposed to even though they can't articulate why. They certainly don't want to dance to it. Seriously -- talk about RINOs -- whole effin' party seems like it's made up of Foghorn Leghorn Dixiecrats that somehow convinced voters they mixed WF Buckley in with their Bible readings.

Funniest of all, the closest thing they had to classical conservatism (Ron Paul) they laughed at and marginalized. Some of Paul's ideas are a little daft, but the GOP would do well to move in a direction that actually generated enthusiasm in voters instead of trying to use the Gingrich playbook from the 90's as if people wanted to listen to all that I'm-more-patriotic-than-you-are horse again /old man rant

[Winehole23]

The GOP used to mean business and reason over sentimentalism and religion, but now it just seems lost in the wilderness, and run by people I'd be embarrassed to talk policy with. They're like the Democrats after Carter: rudderless, whiny, weak-minded, and without ideas.... doing the same over and over, even when it's proven not to work.

They all talk about what Goldwater/Reagan conservatives they are, but judging by their actions, they must do it for the same reasons teenagers buy Lady Gaga: they think they're supposed to even though they can't articulate why. They certainly don't want to dance to it. Seriously -- talk about RINOs -- whole effin' party seems like it's made up of Foghorn Leghorn Dixiecrats that somehow convinced voters they mixed WF Buckley in with their Bible readings.

Nice take, AS.