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The Democrats have shown themselves to be petty and hateful in both victory
and defeat, low, vindictive and petty
Sore Losers and Sore Winners
By Daniel Greenfield Friday, November 5, 2010
imageThe midterm elections of 2010 have come and gone. It would be easy
enough to fall into gloating, but the truth is that while we have come a
long way since 2008, we're not nearly where we need to be. The Republican
party has been forced into the realization that they can't win as the party
of big government, but for all the red meat being tossed out there by
Boehner, that doesn't mean that they have actually internalized it as a
discipline.
The Democrats are struggling to find their message now, but their fallback
has always been to blame Republicans for everything. The public refused to
buy that when congress and the white house were in their hands, but it may
be more willing to hear the message when the media continually focuses on
Republican congressional victories.
2010 has been a major roadblock for Obama, but the road still goes on. It's
our job to cut off that road all the way in 2012.
The Democrats have shown themselves to be petty and hateful in both victory
and defeat. Sore losers and sore winners both. A startling number of
Democratic winners have refused to even accept calls from their opponents.
And their number includes Barney Frank, Andrew Cuomo and Jim
<http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/11/02/moran-refuses-murrays-concessi
on-call> Moran.
Now all three of these are major scumbags already. Barney Frank is well.
Barney Frank. Cuomo refused to actually run a campaign, instead used the
media to slime and destroy first Governor Patterson and then Palladino.
There's no question he's high on the list of the creepy evil politicians
list. Jim Moran finished his campaign, the way he ran, low, vindictive and
petty. But it still characterizes a party where even the winners are sore
winners.
The Democratic barely survived the 2010 elections, but Pelosi will still try
to soldier on. And Harry Reid, reelected thanks to generous portions of
voter fraud, will be back to serve as a dusky light for the Senate. But the
GOP nevertheless lost too many elections that could have been won.
The obvious jabs will be taken at Tea Party backed candidates losing in the
Senate, but then how do you explain well funded "moderates" like Fiorina
losing? There are nonetheless some lessons to take home.
A divided Republican party is more vulnerable
First, a divided Republican party is more vulnerable. Particularly if you
have more than one Republican or ex-Republican in the race. Rubio finessed a
difficult election. But had Meek dropped out, the results might have been
different. In Colorado, the same template produced a disaster. And the
Alaska results still aren't quite in.
But even without multiple candidates in the race, primaries that get very
ugly, make it all too easy for the Democratic opponent to just pick up where
the Republican primary attacks left off. That's what happened in Delaware,
when the state Republican party showed that it would rather have a Democrat,
than a Republican they don't control in office. And they got what they
wanted.
Electable candidates are important
Second, electable candidates are important. Electable candidates are
articulate, sympathetic and understand the issues. This election saw too
many grass roots candidates with limited public speaking skills, which is
natural when you're working from the bottom up, but elections these days run
through the TV screen. We also saw too many wealthy executives with all the
personal appeal of a cold fish. Both ran into big trouble.
To win as a Republican, you have to win by a large margin to offset voter
fraud
Third, to win as a Republican, you have to win by a large margin to offset
voter fraud. I strongly suspect that Dino Rossi and Sharron
<http://bokertov.typepad.com/btb/2010/11/what-happened-in-nevada.html>
Angle both won, but they didn't win big enough. And when you don't open up a
large enough margin early on, it becomes all too easy for the Democrats to
hide some of your ballots and discover some of their own. And of course
there are the illegal aliens and the mental patients and all the rest who
get taken to the polls.
Fighting voter fraud should be seen as a key element of securing victories
for conservative candidates. Because if you can't win the election, policy
proposals alone will go nowhere.
On November 4th, 2008, after the election, I wrote a piece titled,
<http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2008/11/battle-is-over-war-begins.html>
The Battle is Over, The War Begins
The battle against them must be twofold, first to limit the damage they can
do while in power, and secondly to plan and prepare to retake Congress and
then the White House in a coherent and orderly manner without the chaos and
backbiting that has characterized the last year of this campaign. It will be
all too easy to fall into the blame game and to let it devour us, too much
of the conservative movement and the anti-jihad blogsphere is already
fractured. The goal now must be to heal those fractures, to create unity
around a single purpose, to liberate America again.
It will not be an easy struggle. The Obama years will make the worst of the
Clinton years look mild by comparison. We have seen the thuggish abuses of
power that brought Obama into office, but that is only a taste of what an
Obama administration in control of the Federal government will be able to
do. But that is also our best hope. Obama's only real calling card has been
an empty promise. Now he will have power and responsibility and we know he
will abuse them. Arrogance was and remains his Achilles heel and the
Achilles heel of his backers. And when their revolution runs into the
reality of voter expectations, there will be the opening to begin the
political downfall of this government.
Unsurprisingly we have seen much of this takes place. Obama abused power
once he had it. Arrogance proved to be his Achilles heel. And his revolution
ran into the reality of voter expectations.
On the next day I wrote another piece, titled,
<http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2008/11/get-obama-dissent-from-day-one.html
> "Dissent From Day One",
And what has Obama won? He's won a chance to be responsible for the economic
mess that his own backers caused and that even the threat of his pro-tax
policies is already prolonging. He has won the chance for sovereign rule
with a Democratic congress whose ratings are already in the toilet and sole
responsibility for the looting and corruption that will inevitably follow.
Simply he has won the chance to go down and take his party down with him.
And we can help.
And we did. We have come a great distance in these last two years. Now
another two years remains. And those two years will be the truly crucial
ones.
Thankfully the logo has held up. Dramatic victories were scored. And we took
a lot of the country back. But the hard work is only beginning.
Meanwhile the fallout continues within the Democratic ranks. But MSNBC
suspending Olbermann is not part of that. Olbermann wasn't suspended for
contributing to Democratic candidates, like
<http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2010/10/it-all-comes-down-to-how-liberal-yo
u.html> Rick Sanchez, he made the mistake of falling afoul of Jon Stewart.
Which made him an embarrassment. The suspension is MSNBC's way of warning
Olbermann to cool it.
The media establishment insists on pretending that Jon Stewart is some kind
of informed critic of how news should be reported. We saw the consequences
of that with Crossfire, now with Rick Sanchez, both times CNN deferred to
Stewart. Now MSNBC has too
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