The Kansas Republican Party says last night’s big wins for the GOP show Americans are unconvinced by Democratic health care proposals and the economic stimulus package.
But, in a statement this morning from state GOP Chairwoman Amanda Adkins, the party says more work is necessary before Republicans can count on big gains next year.
“President Obama won New Jersey, Virginia and New York’s 23rd District by at least 5% in 2008. The Democrats’ defeat in Virginia and New Jersey in Tuesday’s elections is an indicator that Americans want more than empty promises of hope,” Adkins wrote.
“Voters believed in Obama’s message but the change they wanted did not include a government takeover of healthcare and a so-called stimulus package that has done nothing to put Americans back to work.
“The close race in New York indicates that we still have work to do. We must educate voters on the pro-growth, pro-business platform that will achieve sweeping victory for Republicans in 2010.”
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The Democrats did not lose a 2-1 squeaker last night. They lost two huge races, saw an overall evaporation of 25 basis points of support — and lost by nearly 500,000 cumulative votes in the three high-profile elections. Or put another way, Republicans won two races decided by millions of voters — and Democrats won a small race dominated by party operatives. In addition, the GOP made some historic gains in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Washington state special elections to boot.
Funny how exit polls show that the voters in the governor elections said their decisions weren’t based upon Obama’s presidency. But I suppose if you only look at two elections, and ignore all the other elections, then you can come up with any conclusion you want.
In the two federal elections the Democratic candidates won, so according to the GOP, that is a referendum that the country favors Obama’s positions.
BTW, since when was a government takeover of health care proposed? Clearly the person in the article has no clue as to what is going on in Congress.
“The close race in New York indicates that we still have work to do. We must educate voters on the pro-growth, pro-business platform that will achieve sweeping victory for Republicans in 2010.”
Uh huh. How about this? The election in New York was the Republicans to lose. The lesson in that election is for the Republicans, and does not involve “educating voters”. This are the same lesson that Kansas Republican activists should have learned from the defeats of Phill Kline and the state board race, but the party seems determined to ignore.
If you define the moderates as RINO’s, you send them to the other side, even if issue by issue they would mostly side with you.
The idiots who truly seem to think that the answer for Republicans is to be “more conservative” (in the coalition conservative sense) are the idiots who are going to keep the Republicans in the wilderness for elections to come, IF they get their way.
Should be:
“This is the same lesson that Kansas Republican activists should have learned from the defeats of Phill Kline and the state board race, but the party seems determined to ignore it.
Silly wabbits, there is no “government take-over of health care.”
The Rs got two gubernatorial wins, but the House has a new Democrat from a place that has been conservative for 150 years.
Keep it up! Purity of thought, Purity of votes, Purity of Party, Purity of our precious bodily fluids…
I agree with the first post. The following sorry excuses for posts are just denial puff pieces for socialism.
ELECTION FAIL
a republican of all people knows and loves dishonesty.
it makes them all tingly inside to vote for a crook.
btw
who cares who the gov of NEW JERSEY is… lol lmao weeeee woooo hooooooooooooo snicker.
“The close race in New York indicates…” YOU LOST with sarah palin’s help.
dear (j/k) disHonestObserver, you agree with the first comment because… because?… because… it was MADE BY YOU.
try to keep up, or not, you are funny.
But looking back at First Read’s coverage the day after the 2005 New Jersey and Virginia contests, we had forgotten that Rahm Emanuel — then chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and now White House chief of staff — had called us to argue the very point Republicans are now making: that the two gubernatorial contests say something about the upcoming midterms. CLICK
donks are frauds
You Obots just got PWNED. In my last post and last night.
HAHAHAHA
Amazing how an election turns out when ACORN isn’t present with their goons
The November 3rd elections were a turning point, swiftly reached. The inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama was followed by Tea Parties around the nation that aggregated into the huge September 12 rally in Washington, D.C. And barely two months later, the election of Republican governors in Virginia and New Jersey. In Maine, the voters repealed the authorization of same-sex marriage, an anathema as morally debased as abortion. ……. Admittedly, there are tangible benefits to electing a radical kook lefty for El Presidente.
8 wins for Democrats, 2 for Republicans and one Independent.
Yet the “librul media” is focused on the 2 republican governors. One of which ALWAYS goes to the new sitting president’s opposing party.
And really, who liked Corzine anyway? Unseating him is nothing to brag about.
The real message, which corporate media is suppressing, is the rejection of Palin-style extreme rightist politics.
Again.
I just read that some conservative democrats in Texas officially changed parties and became conservative Republicans.
Any conservative democrats here in Kansas wanna become into conservative Republicans?
Mike Huckabee is coming next week? I wish Nancy Pelosi would come to Wichta. I have a Grand Jury presentment for her arrest.
i just read moderate republicans are pukin their guts out and have changed into thoughtful human beings and will vote for moderate democrats.
oh btw i read some random republican brain like palin figured out the world is round and asked mikey steele if that is true.
mikey said, “well i’ll get back to y’all k i’m hip.”
The DimLibs/leftists again can’t see the forest for the trees. The country was fed up with incumbents a year ago and we still are. I am confident (yet) in this country that they will eventually see through the smoke and mirrors empty promises of Obama and the Dim’ocrats to ‘clean-House’, pun intended. If this economy doesn’t pick up significantly, and if Obama can’t do anything more than continue to simply campaign, there will be a ‘day of reckoning’ for the Dim’ocrats that I and many many others will welcome.
An do we expect the KS GOP to weigh in otherwise, or the KS Democrats, if the roles where reversed? This not really news is it?