I’m looking forward to your scumbag Marxist cousin weeping like a baby in 2012. Oh, and I’m looking forward to your leftist friends being liquidated here.

I would like to offer you my most heartfelt gratitude for the tremendous boost you gave my candidacy. Going out on a limb and endorsing a Conservative Party candidate over one from your own party showed tremendous courage on your part. My staff of hard-working volunteers had been very concerned about this election; but when you announced your endorsement last week, it really lifted our spirits and gave us new life. Now we have largely you to thank for the outcome. I hope we can once again count on your support for the conservative agenda in the next congressional election.

Sincerely,
Representative-Elect Owens

Heh, the amusing part is that she could stand as a conservative candidate and do better than the GOP nominee while going down 400 to sod all against Obama.

Not too bright a bulb that bloke Hoffman in suggesting that subsidies should be dropped in a dairy farming area of NY.
Or was he not cross burning enough, maybe the bible needed to be bashed a bit more.

Maybe, if you really wanted people to believe that what Redbaiter writes here is unimportant to you, you should cease writing 170 word paragraphs about him.

The very minor differences between the two sides, in my opinion, just does not justify the obscene quantities of intellectual and emotional energy, ad hominem invective and dollars invested in this ongoing, albeit non-militarised, civil war.

Bush/Obama same/same The latter is just more articulate and better presented, almost like a movie star! In fact, I remember a survey quite a long time ago now which asked Americans who was their greatest hero, the embodiment of US values – the answer by a long margin was John Wayne who did all his fighting on Hollywood lots.

One could actually say Obama is even more duplicitous than Dubya, but it’s ever so smoothly done

One could also say it is typical of most of not all western democracies, but it just seems the US does it all so much more intensely.

Paul’s advice wasn’t to “the right”, it was to you personally. You are so far away from what attracts people to the right wing that it isn’t even funny. What is funny is your refusal to abandon a paranoid world view that was out dated in the 50′s. I’ve noticed people around here, myself included have stopped trying to have reasonable debate with you, and the only attention you seem to get these days is people to object to the manner in which you present your ideas. Of course to preempt the inevitable and tired “don’t tell me how to act! COMMIE, STALIN, KENYA, DINGOS ATE MY BABY” response you are so fond of, please feel free to continue posting in what ever manner you choose to do so, and thanks for the entertainment

On a more serious note, I’m weary of attempts to spin these elections as proper indicators of the 2010 or 2012 races. There are troubling signs in these results for both parties, but nothing we didn’t already know. Think about it, what did we really learn from today?

That a bad economy would hurt incumbents? Thats one of the basic fact of politics. That bitter and public in fighting can boost your rivals? Another long accepted truth.

If your looking for data that really helps predict whats going to happen next year, Gallup has a good article up at the moment about the political climate being the worst for the Dems since at least 06. Things like Party ID and voters view of the current direction of the nation are far more helpful when seeking to understand the trends of the electorate than a few local elections.

Former AG John Ashcroft lost to a dead person in his 2000 senate race before becoming AG in the Bush2 administration.

No I don’t. The last thing I need is to be told by a commie how to think, how to choose candidates, and who to vote for. You just look after the left, and for the rest of the time, keep your damn patronising advice to yourself.

I’ll tell you one thing that is a damn sight more dead than any of those you name, and that is the concept that left wingers can give the right political advice.

NY-23 was a win for the Median voter theorem, as Owens — a conservative Democrat — was actually much closer to the average ideology of the district than the conservative Republican Hoffman. More than 95 percent of Hoffman’s contributions came from out-of-district, and the conservative activists who tried to brand him as a modern-day Jefferson Smith never bothered to check whether he resonated particularly well with the zeitgeist of the district. ”

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/

Then again, as I’m talking to somebody who is giving the whole ‘Obamacare’ spiel I therefore can make the assumption that you’re totally insane and I don’t care much for your opinion. Cheers though.

Palin and her vociferous horde of flag fellating psychopaths are alienating large portions of the populace. Didn’t they learn from Goldwater? As someone sympathetic to the republican cause I would very much like to repetitively thwack those idiots on the nose with a rolled up newspaper like a naughty puppy.

Hopefully in 2012 after the inevitable catastrophe, someone will have the sense to rub their noses into the urine soaked carpet and they might select someone with a small degree of intelligence.