Comments on: Democrats ecstatic at Bush not kicking their ass

By: Captain Holly

Captain Holly — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:07:22 +0000

I agree. This election was pretty much a wash.

How do I know? The MainStreamMedia have pretty much stopped talking about it.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:39:38 +0000

Wow! That was posted at 6pm. Mine, at about 3:30ish. I confess, I write their talking points now.

Say, isn’t parroting this huge victory that isn’t also, what’s the phrase, where, you know, you get a whole group of like-minded folks with an agenda to repeat the same thing. It’s on the tip of my tongue.

By: brittney

brittney — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:36:24 +0000

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2005/11/get_yer_gop_tal.html#more

GOP talking points. “Status quo” is one of the first.

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:27:53 +0000

Good point. The more I think about it, the fact that a guy named “Kill Gore” couldn’t get himself elected in Virginia may mean the Repubs are in deep doo doo after all.

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:48:38 +0000

“Democrats ecstatic at Bush not kicking their ass”

Hey, you’ve got to crawl before you can walk, right?

In the Virginia governor’s race, what’s more important is not who won but how he won. He successfully deflected the sort of culture war attacks the Rs have been using to win elections for some time now — and he did it not by shying away from them but by standing up to them. Further, for the first time in recent memory, a mostly positive campaign defeated a bitterly negative one.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:22:14 +0000

ass = donkey = democrat.

Besides, they’re sort of into this ‘collective’ nonsense.

By: ben

ben — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:08:46 +0000

should that be “ass” or “asses”?

By: Manish

Manish — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:19:59 +0000

Here's an article that digs a little deeper into the Virginia results. According to Kos, the Democrats also gained in the Virginia Assembly. Beyond that, a Republican won the Lt. Gov race and the AG race is too close to call. All-in-all, I don't think its all that meaningful to 2006. On the other hand, the California results deal a blow to Arnold as he's constantly threatened to go directly to the voters has won him concessions in the past. Its likely that he won't be able to play that card again.

By: Ravenwood

Ravenwood — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:05:07 +0000

I think the NY Post summed it up nicely:

“Now, it’s true that George W. Bush won Virginia by 8 percentage points in 2004, while Republican candidate Jerry Kilgore appears to have lost by 5 points. But if you think Kilgore’s loss reflects Bush’s weakness and a nightmare for the GOP in 2006, consider this:

“Bush won Virginia by eight points in 2000, too–and the following year Democrat Mark Warner became governor with a 5-point margin of victory. The next year, in 2002, Republicans won a stunning midterm victory, taking four Senate seats and expanding their majority in the House of Representatives. . . .”

http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/57065.htm

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:39:16 +0000

Good point. My first reaction to watching three much-needed reform bills (union extortion control, state budget control and legislative redistricting) and two pretty good ones (parental notification on abortion & 5-year teacher tenure) fail. My second is to notice that in the end, California is no worse off than it was yesterday; it’s just not any better, either.