Election Results: Two Out of Three (and Maybe Three) Ain’t Bad
Convincing wins in governors’ races by Christie in NJ and McDonnell in VA are far more important than the muddled mess that has become NY-23, where Hoffman is apparently behind but the outcome won’t be known for quite a while (though Fox is calling it for Owens — so important that all of a sudden, Harry Reid is thinking that ObamaCare might just wait until next year (corroboration here).
The establishment press will of course consider NY-23 the most important race in the universe if the Democrat Owens has indeed won. But the real lesson, even if Hoffman somehow ekes it out, is that it’s hard to undo a fiasco led by the native Republican establishment.
That does not bode well for Ohio, where the ORPINO (Ohio Republican Party In Name Only) is backing two awful fake-conservative candidates for statewide office (Jon Husted and Mike DeWine) who have no business running, and absolutely nothing to offer. ORPINO has apparently made the good candidates’ support for the two POS’s (Pathetic Ohio Sideliners) the price of admission for access to its resources. Nobody is more capable of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory than ORPINO.
I’d like to see Hoffman win or at least make it meaningfully close, just to remind these clowns that a third-party candidate supported by the Tea Party movement forced to endure yet another year of the POR Economy could snatch a statewide office from right (pun intended) under their noses next year if they don’t rediscover sensible conservatism. How cool would it be if that person ended up with the tie-breaking vote on the Reapportionment Board?
Backlash Felt on Election Day…
The people have spoken and they’re saying they’ve already had it with the policies of the new administration in Washington. Here’s how it played out this Tuesday:……
Trackback by Enigma Underground's American Live Wire — November 4, 2009 @ 12:57 am
A Hoffman victory would have been nothing more than the cherry on the sundae. A 3rd-party Conservative unknown 3-weeks ago running a purely grassroots campaign losing by a mere 3 points in a GOP self-inflicted effed up election has to (or should) send chills up and down the spine of the leftists AND Republican elites.
Comment by Joe C. — November 4, 2009 @ 5:26 am
I’m with you on the third party, and with these two RINOs on the ticket, it may be enough to ignite the spark needed to get a alternative party here is Ohio.
Comment by Brian — November 4, 2009 @ 7:26 am
#2 + #3, it is “curious” that I didn’t come across any outspoken anger from the GOP establishment in DC or NY at the GOP RINO’s endorsement of Owens — like, “that’s nice of her to steal $1 mil from us and then bolt.”
Why not? My theory is that it was more important to them for a third-partier to lose than it was for a real conservative to win — because that conservative wasn’t running as GOP. Yes, I believe it very possible they are that craven and unprincipled. They’ve done very little to demonstrate otherwise.
Comment by TBlumer — November 4, 2009 @ 10:47 am