printObama stumped energetically in the two governor races in which the Democrats have lost miserably:
Conservative Republican Bob McDonnell’s victory in the Virginia governor’s race over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds and moderate Republican Chris Christie’s ouster of unpopular New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine was a double-barreled triumph for a party looking to rebuild after being booted from power in national elections in 2006 and 2008.
The Obama mediacrats are worried sick: Is the Republican’s victory a referendum on Obama’s polices? Or so they’ve been quizzing themselves throughout the day. As much as the Obama media has tried to console itself to the contrary, the conclusion is inescapable.
I did want to see Conservative Doug Hoffman, for the 23rd Congressional District of New York, win in the historic challenge, but it seems he’s trailing Owens (D) by about 4 percentage points.
For the rest, I don’t have a dog in the fight.
Update I (Nov. 4): ABC: “Bill Owens defeated Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, in a race that highlighted fractures inside the GOP that resulted in the Republican candidate dropping out of the race and endorsing Owens.”
It was close: Owens’ 49.3% to Hoffman’s 45.2%. And you’re talking about the atrophying, socialist New York!
Update II: Not yet a year after the elated election of a messiah-like figure who won some unlikely traditionally conservative states, the tide is turning. Yet, as MSNBC, the megaphone of that messiah reports,
“The White House distanced itself Wednesday from Democratic losses in two states, saying the races for governor hinged on local issues and were not a referendum on President Barack Obama.”
Sadly, the fork in the road leads to a dead end: to Republicans, their fake shows of fiscal conservatism and phony promises. So this nation has doomed itself to one of two false choices.
Update III: It’s rather funny how Democrats are diminishing the significance of their election losses (Virginia and New Jersey) and exaggerating their wins (the 23rd District of NY). How do you reconcile that?
Deeds ran an inept campaign with no theme and floundered around about abortion while the economy was tanking. Obama wanted to throw Deeds “under the bus” but realized that doing so would only look worse – so he made a halfhearted appearance. Prominent black Virginians went Republican or stayed neutral.
In the 23rd, the “official” Republican – Dede S – endorsed the Democrat rather than allow a Conservative to win. This, in a nutshell, is the essence of the New York Republican Party – the party of Linsday, Javits, and Rockefeller back in the days I worked for the Conservative Party. They did more to trash Barry Goldwater than LBJ ever could.
Democrats, get a clue and take on the banking cartel. Jefferson did, Jackson did and Kennedy tried apparently. Beef up the Secret Service protection around Obama and take on the Fed. When will you ever have a better chance?
You can destroy the Republicans with this move since the Fed has never been less popular. You will win the undying (politically speaking) gratitude of the whole nation.
Do it Democrats!
[It doesn’t make sense, moon; these people are printing money to fund their programs. Why would they give up the printing press!]
Hoffman is an open-borderite. See the discussion at VFR.
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/014662.html
And I have to hand it to Mr. Moon. The bubble he lives in must be made of some sort of tungsten alloy, probably assembled at Skunk Works. There is a purity to true fanaticism that is (almost) a thing of beauty.
I don’t understand why people consider Bob McDonnell a conservative. He’s not as far as I can tell because his campaign had nothing about cutting expenses and glut in Virginia. Right now we have about 25 rest stops that were shut down because the state cannot afford the half a million it costs to maintain each of them (for half a mil, you’d think the janitors would do a top-notch job). So instead of say, selling them off or cutting expenses in order to fund them again, they’re just sitting there. Wasted property usage.
There was no mention of that, just the usual roads and schools BS we always hear about. I did vote for him because I had two choices on the ballot and no viable write-in candidate. There is no perfect candidate, but you always need to pick the best option of the choices presented.
Creigh Deeds ran a horrible campaign, by the way. The cornerstone involved Bob McDonnell’s masters thesis from two decades ago. This is why he lost, although the Democrats in Congress didn’t really help him.
The most notable thing I noticed about the Hoffman/Owens election was that Hoffman was a registered member of the Constitutional Party, the press downplayed his party affiliation and continued to do everything they could to make it a ‘hooray for the Liberals’ victory. Ignoring the greater story that a 3rd party candidate went head to head with the two “National Parties” and knocked one out of the race completely; to top it off, he took over forty-five percent of the vote compared to the combined Republican and Democratic forty-nine percent in an area coincided to be “Liberal.” The times, they are a ‘changing, hooray for our side.
Obama’s Midas touch failed in an Olympics bid, two gubernatorial races, and deliverence, in all likelihood, of a healthcare bill this year, as promised. This is all in keeping with his signal life long achievement of having never achieved anything and having been handed everything, including a presidency and a Nobel.
[… these people are printing money to fund their programs. Why would they give up the printing press!] Ilana Mercer
Strictly speaking, the abolishment of the Fed and fractional reserve banking is not necessary. All that is necessary is the repeal of legal tender laws. The market place would then crush the banking cartel. A couple of quotes from Ron Paul should show the importance:
‘ Legal tender laws disadvantage ordinary citizens by forcing them to use money that is vulnerable to vast depreciation. As Stephen T. Byington wrote in the September 1895 issue of the American Federationist: “No legal tender law is ever needed to make men take good money; its only use is to make them take bad money. Kick it out!” Similarly, the American Federation of Labor asked: “If money is good and would be preferred by the people, then why are legal tender laws necessary? And, if money is not good and would not be preferred by the people, then why in a democracy should they be forced to use it?” ‘
[snip]
‘ Tragically, the Supreme Court has failed to protect the American people from unconstitutional legal tender laws. Salmon Chase, who served as Secretary of the Treasury in President Lincoln’s administration, when he was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, dissenting in Knox vs. Lee, summed up the argument against legal tender laws in twelve words: “The legal tender quality [of money] is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.” [emphasis added.] ‘ from http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul118.html
I recommend the whole article and anything else Ron Paul has written on the subject (or any subject!).
Neither gold or silver is needed for sound banking. Just liberty and the usual laws against fraud and insolvency. Competition would do the rest.
Many would pick gold and silver for their inherent usefulness as money but, strictly speaking, this is not required, IMO.
The warm and fuzzies that many are getting from the apparent shift in political preferences should be tempered with some reality. It was often said that “Democrats wanted to head toward the cliff at 65 MPH while the Republicans would only go 35 MPH”. Nice analogy but it makes no difference when you’ve already gone over. Any change in throttle speed, or the Feds status, will not affect the eventual outcome.
Did anyone notice the Indian central banks bought 200 metric tons of gold yesterday? They bought it with their “reserve” dollars. That’s a lot of gold and what it means to us was far more important then this election. The Gulf states hold a an unknown number of “trillions” in US paper. They want to get rid of it, but slowly so the dollar’s value isn’t destroyed completely before they can move. India has likely triggered a gold rush… or dollar dumping, if you prefer. One day soon Americans who speak Hindi and Mandarin may be able to peddle their bicycles to jobs at US call centers.
Forget the state Republicans. The national group gave Dede S about a million dollars! They would have looked like complete idiots if Hoffman would have won.
As it is, they obviously have huge egg on their face, and if Palin does anything to help the Republican party, it will be to drag it back to the right and towards Constitutional precepts.
There is much more anger out there than Washington or Fox even imagines. Look at how Ron Paul’s son is doing; he is trashing the opponent while the Republicans can’t understand why.
The fact that Republican Party insiders picked Dede without a primary election shows the rotten cancer that has suffused the Republican Party itself. With this pick, they confessed their values to the world. The fact that voters repudiated this steaming pile that was served up to them is slightly encouraging.
If we can’t take over the Republican Party from the inside, our nation is lost. The two-faced Single Party is insinuated into the law nationwide and controls every election with the above-mentioned printed money.
The chances of taking back the Republican Party? About the same as a third party replacing it.
But we have to try.