GOP wins Tuesday in the governor races in New Jersey and Virginia boosted Republicans’ hopes for a 2010 comeback. But the win by Democrat Bill Owens (in photo) in a special New York congressional race — a seat that Republicans have held for more than a century — highlighted what can happen when conservatives try to purge moderates from the GOP. National conservative talk-show hosts blasted the GOP candidate as too liberal and not a true Republican. And politicians such as Sarah Palin and even Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, injected themselves into the race by endorsing the Conservative Party candidate. But Newt Gingrich warned that such national interference in local elections could make Nancy Pelosi the House “speaker for life” and guarantee President Obama’s re-election. “I think we are going to get into a very difficult environment around the country if suddenly conservative leaders decide they are going to anoint people without regard to local primaries and local choices,” Gingrich said.
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That was just a taste.
Don’t get your hopes up falsely Phillip.
tiahrt endorsed a canadate in freakin ny.
lol
lmao
ahhh who cared?
nobody
todd as senator = sad day for america.
Lets see, if the conservatives and GOP are not exactly one and the same, why would conservatives care if a GOP nominee loses who is NOT conservative?
The Republican nominee endorsed the Democrat.
No loss here for conservatives that the Anti- Conservative Republican lost. It’s actually a victory.
Keep telling yourself that, “Boxlock20″ –
You CONs are winning!
We “lib” are running scared.
Oh please — PLEEEEEAAAZZZE — don’t nominate the Moose Dresser for president in 2012!
All politics is local. It always was. RARELY is attempting to nationalize a local race a good tactic.
apparently you napped through the news cycle.
let me get you caught up.
the republican running was cast out as not crazy and wacky enought to be called a real republican.
palin and todd and limbaugh and others of you big thinkers endorsed him.
he lost.
there ya go.
news in a sec.
I’m just happy to shut up those knuckleheads who have been saying that the GOP had to change, had to become more liberal, were finished as a national party, blah blah blah, ad nauseum.
The bonus is to make the Dems repping conservative districts nervous about supporting the Obama agenda with 2010 coming up. Good.
Why are conservative even in the
GOP? If they’re so concerned about
their principles, why not form their
own party? After all, the foundation
of the Republicans is a very liberal
party (think Abe Lincoln). The cons
simply hijacked the party after the
1965 Civil Rights Bill. Enough of your
complaints — create your own entity.
Off year election. No national race. Corzine may be the victim of righteous hatred of the super rich. AND the cons lost a seat they had held for a hundred years. This should reinvigorate those who believe Government can and should work.
I’ll be happy with a two-for-one margin in 2010.
ELEMENTARY EPIDEMIC: 11 Uncovered Videos Show School Children Performing Praises to Obama
by John Nolte
Big Hollywood has already posted a couple disturbing videos of young school children singing/speaking praises to President Obama, but when eleven more dropped in our email box it came as quite a shock. What seemed like an aberration now appears to be a troubling pattern.
Maybe “epidemic” is a better word.
Each one of the videos below is creepier than the last because the further down you go, the younger the children — brace yourself for kindergartners – except for the last and most disturbing video, which you have to see to believe.
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/11/04/elementary-epidemic-11-uncovered-videos-show-school-children-performing-praises-to-obama/
This should reinvigorate those who believe Government can and should work.
What church do these believers attend?
A couple of local wins, a winning national party does not make.
Go More Rogue, yeah that’s the ticket!
“highlighted what can happen when conservatives try to purge moderates from the GOP”
teehee. Someones not paying attention. Based on past voting records is sounds as if Owens, the winner of that race, is more conservative than Scozzy, the pick of the R. party bosses in N.Y.
Funny how things work out.
“if suddenly conservative leaders decide they are going to anoint people without regard to local primaries”
I must have missed something. Where did this happen?
I’m curious to know how the lefties on this blog define a “moderate Republican”. What is their stance on the issues of the day?
Anybody watching Fox right now. Dr David Janda says healthcare rationing was already hidden in stimular bill. He also says if the HC bill now pending passes, 45% of physicians will resign. That’s rationing by default.
stimular = stimulus
“45% of physicians will resign” Backed up what evidence?
LOL.. talk about fear-mongering.
Most doctors want to practice medicine. Most doctors support the public option.
A lame laughable claim.
DId Dr David Janda promise to stop practicing medicine?
“I’m just happy to shut up those knuckleheads who have been saying that the GOP had to change, had to become more liberal, were finished as a national party, blah blah blah, ad nauseum.”
Don’t worry friends. He won’t believe me when I tell him that everything he “knows” is wrong. That’s some of the beauty of it.
I said it earlier and it is bearing out through the day. What the folks like outlander will take from this is they must not have any moderate candidates. Trouble for HIM is, the less moderate cons are thinking the same thing only THEY are beginning to fear they may be railoaded with whackaloon nominees who can’t win. Around the country, SEVERAL cons are already challenged with far right primary opponents. The result of this as Newt Gingrich agrees is that every election will have candidates from both wings of the party. And my addition to that is they will have one candidate that they won’t LET win so they can nominate candidates who CAN’T win.
We just saw the first casualty of the Republican civil war.
I tease conservative friends or whatever their flavor of politics is now, former for Bush, that Newt Gingrich is their unelected leader. Raising more money nationally than any other.
He steps up to the podium of his own and cracks jokes. He’s not a conservative leader from his own statement? He’s not anointing himself first? What local constituency is he leading?
Speaker for Life Nancy Pelosi is better than the guy many Republicans can’t seem to remember, last Speaker of the House where graft, blackmail and money laundering happened.
Newt Gingrich is a funny…. add your own descriptive.
Republican Governors do well in National Politics? Who?
Steele said, “It’s not about the change we need, it’s about the change we want.”
What the hell does that mean?
“DavidB” cites –
“Steele said, “It’s not about the change we need, it’s about the change we want.”
Did he really say that?
Hey, I want unicorns that fart rainbows! I guess I should re-register as a Repubic Party member!
I need a society around me that doesn’t mean people die because they can’t afford health coverage.
If that’s the battleground, I know which side I’m on.
Mixed results for “conservatives”= mixed results for “demoncraps”
HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess chimpy was too busy playin’ golf to “help” Bill Owens (the only demorat elected yesterday that the WPE DIDN’T campaign for….
Change = lower handicap
WPE
HAHAHAHHAHHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
The New York candidate wasn’t chosen in a primary, but handpicked by several county officials. It is one thing to fight a moderate incumbent (think radical Democrat Ned Lamont trying to purge Joe Lieberman in Connecticut); another thing to do battle for an open seat. It’s funny the way the media talk about Republicans who won’t accept someone who isn’t conservative enough, but don’t remember the Lieberman race, where Democrats tried to get rid of a long-respected Senator who wasn’t radical enough for them.
The same cons that were telling us during the congressional recess that health care was dead, are now prophesying that the cons are ready to make their big comeback.
We’ll see, but I doubt it. Reminds me of Rove’s prediction for the party a few yrs. ago.
45% of drs. going to resign in protest and get them a good old fashioned blue collar job, you betcha!
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Given that redistricting happens every 10 years (or more often in certain states), especially in New York where the the number of reps apportioned has varied over recent times, a claim like that is nothing more than leftist spin, if not outright false. Sometimes I believe the Eagle’s Editorial Board is nothing but an extension of the Daily Kos.