Stop The Post Election Mania

This is getting absurd. The Economist has the libs blabbering because the Republicans are now doomed as the party of the South? Say what?

Today, though, the people who are in that very danger are the Republicans rather than the Democrats.

Help me out here. The Republicans held power for twelve years, won the last two Presidential elections and, now, because of one close election during a troubled war, it's over but for a fat Democrat lady singing?

It must be the political silly season.

And this via Hot Air:

My politically savvy pal advises us to prepare for full-blown Obamamania:

That's Barack Hussein Obama, yeah, that's going to play well over 60% of the United States. I'm not questioning the post, sure, we'll likely see Obamamania as Allah allows. But a man with two years in the Senate and his bio isn't going anywhere, not for at least 6 - 10, if ever, frankly. His accomplishments relative to seeking the Presidency amount to next to nothing. He'd have been looking at a governorship if he was that smart. And something tells me there's a lot we don't yet know about Obama:

Why doesn't Senator Obama ever visit his mother's side of the family or the places they're from?

Barack Obama was born at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii to Harvard University-educated economist Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a native of Kenya and a Muslim. His mother is Shirley Ann Dunham, of Wichita, Kansas. When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced. His father eventually returned to Kenya, and he saw his son only once more before his death in 1982. Ann Obama then married his stepfather, Lolo Soetoro from Indonesia. In his early childhood while growing up with his mother, Barack used the name 'Barry'. The family then moved to Jakarta. When Obama was ten he returned to Hawaii under the care of his grandparents, (Madelyn Dunham) and later his mother.

Comments

[jaime]

Ummm...this last election wasn't close. It was a blowout. Not a single Democratic Incumbent lost their seat in either house of congress.

[docweasel]

It was taboo to say before the election, and sounds like lemonade from lemons or sour grapes now (to mix a sour metaphor), but losing a _few_ (and the R's are now no further behind than the D's were in the House and the Senate is even closer) seats and the apparent control of Congress, while the D's hold no real working majority, is probably the best thing for the R's.

Can you imagine the pressure for the electorate to make a major change in government in 2008, after FOURTEEN years of Republican control of the House and 8 of the Presidency, and in 2008 I don't think there's anyone who thinks Iraq is going to be going wonderfully. Or that the R's would go the next 2 years with no scandals or major fuckups.

There would be a HUGE impetus for "change" (as stupid as that is, out of the frying pan into the fire comes to mind) among the electorate, and I could see the Republicans getting absolutely killed in 2008 in all 3 fields, not to mention state-wide races. Now, after years of big Democrat talk, the Dems are going to get 2 years of their own obstructionist medicine: and if they can manage to keep their slim majority disciplined enough to pass anything "meaningful", Bush still has the veto. The D's DAMN sure don't hold anything like a veto-over-riding majority.

Look for them to get zero done, fatigue the public with hearings about nothing anyone wants to really rehash (I mean, they have said for 4 years Bush lied, the intelligence was wrong, the war was wrong, what is really going to come out of the hearings that we haven't heard) and get their faces on the news alot, and that ain't good for the D's.

Really, far from despairing, I'm sanguine about the losses in Nov. Now in 2 years the R's can say "see, we told you they wouldn't do shit", and there IS a conservative tilt to the country that the ever-weaking MSM no longer controls.

Look for a Republican Prez and a unified Congress again.

At least for 2 years, then all bets are off. President Guiliani or McCain would be weak one-termers who might lose us Congress again mid-term, if they do manage to get elected.

[seekeronos]

Jaime... are you sure of your facts?

Let us review how close this election is in terms of the facts.

Allow me for the sake of saving some time typing to directly quote from an article by Ann Coulter (yah, I know you liberals really like to hear from her...)

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In fact, if the Democrats' pathetic gains in a sixth-year election are a statement about the war in Iraq, Americans must love the war! As Roll Call put it back when Clinton was president: "Simply put, the party controlling the White House nearly always loses House seats in midterm elections" — especially in the sixth year.

In Franklin D. Roosevelt's sixth year in 1938, Democrats lost 71 seats in the House and six in the Senate.

In Dwight Eisenhower's sixth year in 1958, Republicans lost 47 House seats, 13 in the Senate.

In John F. Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson's sixth year, Democrats lost 47 seats in the House and three in the Senate.

In Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford's sixth year in office in 1974, Republicans lost 43 House seats and three Senate seats.

Even America's greatest president, Ronald Reagan, lost five House seats and eight Senate seats in his sixth year in office.

But in the middle of what the media tell us is a massively unpopular war, the Democrats picked up about 30 House seats and five to six Senate seats in a sixth-year election, with lots of seats still too close to call. Only for half-brights with absolutely no concept of yesterday is this a "tsunami" — as MSNBC calls it — rather than the death throes of a dying party.

During eight years of Clinton — the man Democrats tell us was the greatest campaigner ever, a political genius, a heartthrob, Elvis! — Republicans picked up a total of 49 House seats and nine Senate seats in two midterm elections. Also, when Clinton won the presidency in 1992, his party actually lost 10 seats in the House — only the second time in the 20th century that a party won the White House but lost seats in the House.

Meanwhile, the Democrats' epic victory this week, about which songs will be sung for generations, means that in two midterm elections Democrats were only able to pick up about 30 seats in the House and four seats in the Senate — and that's assuming they pick up every seat that is currently too close to call. (The Democrats' total gain is less than this week's gain because Bush won six House and two Senate seats in the first midterm election.)

So however you cut it, this midterm proves that the Iraq war is at least more popular than Bill Clinton was.
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Source article: http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=156

Sorry for the pull-quote, but it lines up exactly what I knew about this election. That you Dhimmicrats even got the votes you had is nothing short of a fluke. By all accounts it would have been a narrowly held House and a significantly more solidly held Senate, if not for the excessive burning of the midnight oil by the MSM spin machines.... and had Bush let go Rummsy as a casualty of war earlier on, it might have been a more solid Republican Congress yet.

Mountain, meet molehill.

[Jon]

"That's Barack Hussein Obama, yeah, that's going to play well over 60% of the United States."

You realize you're a pig, right?

[Phoenix]

Doc,

Yeah. And just think... Jim Webb can say 'I halped!'. OOOH RAHH !

Jon,

What does a pig have to do with such a strange middle name? Come to think of it, a strange first and last name.... Definitely, that whole name has some great rhythm to it.

[mkultra]

Wingers must be licking their lips at the prospect of a black man being the Dem nominee in '08. You think Harold Ford got "Mandingoed" by the right wing? You ain't see nothing yet.

Lily Belle,
your hair is golden brown
I've seen your black man
comin' round
Swear by God
I'm gonna cut him down!
I heard screamin'
and bullwhips cracking
How long? How long?

[Seekeronos]

Ann Coulter, ding!

Think what you like about her... but her facts are correct. The MSM has blown a very minor victory into something like the parting of the Red Sea (pun intended).

As for the GOP, I'd rather have some reliable folks than a bunch of wingnuts, moonbats, cowards, appeasement monkeys, and general reprobates that can't even agree with one another for more than 10 minutes. It would really make my day to see some genuine saved, Bible-believing Christians get into office, but I'll settle for GOP candidates who seem to be willing to work with constituents such as myself.

If it were up to the Dhimmicrats, we'd probably be deported at the same time that the green crescent flag of Allah gets hoisted over the Capitol.

Two years should be yield enough rope for the Pelosi Pack to hang themselves, methinks... provided our boys manage to keep thier noses clean and their privy parts secured.

As for Barrack Obama Bin Hussein... that brother may be able to put up a good fight, but I say it is yet too early in the season to making a call yet.

What we need on our side is some good buzz building for Newt Gringrich or Tom Tancredo. Probably Newt, because he could easily blow any Dhimmicrat contender out of the water.

[mkultra]

"If it were up to the Dhimmicrats, we'd probably be deported at the same time that the green crescent flag of Allah gets hoisted over the Capitol."

If it were up to the Rethuglicans, Obama would be tied to a post and bullwhipped on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Trust me, the right is going to get crazy racist ugly if Obama is the Dem nominee in '08. You think the right wing is a bunch of cracker racists?

You aint seen nothing yet.

[Seekeronos]

Actually, the Republicans were the ones that wanted to keep folks from being tied up and bullwhipped.

I'd be happier not to see Obama bin Hussein not win any primaries, not because he is a black man, but because he is willing to bend over backwards to accommodate Islamism.

A man's skin colour - or even his ethnic origin - has no bearing on how he might govern.

However, someone with known affiliations to questionable subversive groups like CAIR and its minions = time to take notice.

[mkultra]

"Actually, the Republicans were the ones that wanted to keep folks from being tied up and bullwhipped."

Do you really believe that Southern Conservatives (GOP base) are less racist toward blacks than Northern Liberals (Dem base)? Especially when many Northern Liberals are black and most Southern Conservatives are white? Do you really believe that urban blacks in the North hate blacks and white rural southernes embrace them?

Deep down, do you really believe that? Really? If you can form a sentence, there is no way you can believe that.

As for you reference, the GOP used to be progressive on racial issues. But that was a long time ago.

Today's GOP is made up of many minority hating whites. Not all of them, but many. It's not just an attitude, it's reality. Trent Lott said the United States would have been better with segregation. And he just got re-elected to be second in command in the GOP in the Senate.

No serious person believes that the Democratic Party is more racist than the GOP. Give me a break. The reason Allen lost is because he was correctly perceived as being just another GOP bigot.

This ain't rocket science. The GOP has become the party of white Southern privilege. It's obvious to the sentient among us.

The GOP hates blacks and gays. Obviously. We could have a more useful debate if you would simply admit the obvious.

[larry]

actually, the *best* part about obama running in '08 is when we get to plug his name into "the name game" song. won't we be hatin' THEN!

obamalama; bloblama; fee-fi momannana
whamabamathankyouma'ama.....obama!

then he can make a warm speech about how when he "was a young lawyer, chasing ambulances", and the lefty morons will just swoon. "he's so dreamy!", they'll sigh. then they'll pass a law banning the "name game" song from being played during election cycles. they might call it the 'phi slama jama obama no fair mocking silly democrat names that rhyme with banana' omnibus bill.

go ahead, laugh...but you wait. it'll happen....

[seekeronos]

I would have to disagree with you on the GOP being so generally racist.

Yes, the GOP has changed since the 1860s... but people who still endorse slavery are quite on the outer fringes of society, much less a major political party.

There is no "silver bullet" of political parties. Generally, yes... the GOP tends to show favour to big and small businesses, in the same way that the Dems pander to the (or perhaps less so these days) labour unions, and special interest groups.

The main reason urban blacks (and other urban minorities) support the Dems is the (often empty) promises of providing for the "little man" of jobs and tax-intensive social programs that lend very little incentive for some folks to wean themselves from. The Dems play to the population centers of the cities, where leftist MSM is based.

I live more than a healthy commute away from NYC... and there are plenty of ethnic minority citizens who voted Republican that I know of.

If anything, we wish to lessen the distinction of having so many conflicting hyphenated-Americans... why not rather be simply "Americans", and have done with it. Conversely, we seek to guard our borders against those who seek (often illegal) entry, and who would live here without seeking to learn our ways or our language, much less properly assimiliate into mainstream American culture.

Hatred of gays and blacks? I don't think so. I've plenty of respect for the coloured folks I know (of all ethnicities, not just blacks) who have made a name for themselves.

Gays? They are free to live as they wish, but don't count on the marriage thing... which should be left for state legislatures to deliberate and decide on.

[Phoenix]

"The GOP hates blacks and gays. Obviously. We could have a more useful debate if you would simply admit the obvious."

Here's some rocket science for ya: What you say is 'obvious' is unadulterated racism in itself. And you want to have 'useful' debate?

Get back atop that one-trick pony of yours, ride him hard and give him his lead. Maybe you can work up a froth on his mouth to match that of yours.