Posted by
Ed Donath on Friday, November 06, 2009 8:08:14 AM
from eddobloggo.com
Tuesday's strong gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia lend no credence to the title of a recent book by Democrat strategist/spinmeister James Carville: 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation.
In fact, post-election, Carville has sent an e-mail to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee warning that the GOP could rebound in 2010 and take over the Senate just as they did in 1994.
But rather than saying "We told you so" about Obama's loss of luster, rather than gloating over these impressive turn-around victories, we should make a single, unarguable point -- that if Democrats had won these governorships the left would be screaming from every media organ and rooftop about the Dear Leader's strength and righteousness instead of warning of the ominous possibilities inherent in the 2010 mid-term elections.
The previous point is validated when the left's spin-doctoring regarding the results of the special election in New York's tiny (low-population) 23rd Congressional District is examined...
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NY 23rd CD Final Election Results
Bill Owens (D) – 62,662 votes
Dede Scozzafava (R) – 6,374 votes
Doug Hoffman (C) – 57,572 votes
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 The Conservative candidate on the Unknown Party line was defeated as a result of the votes that GOP partisan knee-jerkers squandered on the Republican. Despite Ms. Scozzofava's "withdrawal" from the contest and subsequent endorsement of the Democrat, her name remained on the ballot.
Nancy Pelosi was quick to tell us what a huge victory this was considering that the district has been a Republican bastion since Lincoln was president. She could have made a more realistic point by mentioning Newt Gingrich's hypocrisy in regard to his initial endorsement of an ultra-lib candidate merely because of a parenthetic "R" after her name.
When the RINO's votes are combined with the Conservative's, however, this election has an entirely different outcome. It should actually be called a VINO
-- Victory In Name Only -- for Bill Owens.
In any case, the result is certainly not representative of an Obama mandate, as the left has spun it to be.
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| "If Conservative Doug Hoffman wins in the 23rd CD Tuesday it will be by a margin of votes that exceeds the meager 30,000 Conservative Party of NYS votes received by the greatest Conservative politician of our time, Ronald Reagan." - eddobloggo |
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 Completely ignored by pundits on both ends of the political spectrum: As the loser in the NY 23rd CD race, Doug Hoffman got more votes on the CPNYS ballot line in this low-population district than well-known Conservatives like Ronald Reagan and three-time governor George Pataki ever received -- statewide.
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Furthermore, both the national Democrat and Republican machines were embarrassed by the strong showing of Doug Hoffman, CPA. Hoffman is a very nerdy novice who didn't have a war chest or a major endorsement until a few days before the election but he ended up with every prominent national Conservative and Republican in his corner.
Nonetheless, a loss is a loss, even if it is a LINO.
But what has it cost the Democrats in funding and spent political endorsement capital to purchase these piddling 60,000 votes while losing a million of the New Jersey and Virginia voters who had pulled the lever for Obama just one year earlier?
It is estimated that limousine liberal John Corzine spent $24 million of his own fortune, in addition to what had been contributed to his campaign war chest, in his failed attempt to retain the NJ governorship. Meanwhile President Obama made several personal endorsement appearances with him, all on the US taxpayers' dime.
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Away from its social implications, Maine's same-sex marriage referendum defeat sends a further warning -- especially to liberals and RINO's like Maine's own senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins -- that they had better be more in tune with their constituents' growing distrust of the leftist agenda (universal health care, cap and tax and the climate bill) or risk ouster in the next election.
The bad news about these elections cutting Obama down to size is that he will be forced to ramp up his never-ending campaigning in an attempt to woo independents back into his corner.
The good news is that there are so few of them left to woo.
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