Krauthammer: So much for last year’s Democratic “realignment”
posted at 4:10 pm on November 4, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Via Greg Hengler, one of the more provocative takeaways from last night’s jumble. In fairness, the Reagan realignment of the 80s was no less real for having suffered big blue gains in the 1982 midterms, but it is strange to find Democrats getting utterly destroyed, especially among independents, in a newly “realigned” state just a year after The One made it part of his unicorn kingdom. For all the laughs conservatives have had over his narcissism, this year’s results actually underscore what a strong candidate he is: When you remove his personal charisma and Hopey/Changey sermonizing from the equation, you’re left with … Creigh Deeds, and even a Republican as nondescript as Bob McDonnell can put the boots to someone like that. To put it another way, for Democrats, The One really might be The One; and, alas for the national GOP, right now there’s no one on our side who quite measures up head to head. But at the local level, in state or House races? Why shouldn’t a guy like Christie be able to beat Corzine, even in a Democratic stronghold? Why shouldn’t, say, Carly Fiorina be able to beat Boxer? Their party’s littered with at least as many unappealing losers as ours is. Take Obama off the top of the ticket, toss running trillion-dollar deficits into the mix, and it’s anyone’s game.
For further thoughts, read James Pethokoukis on re-realignment and Ace on ObamaCare. He asks a good question: If we’re now living in the Democratic paradise, where the silent majority’s itching for a glorious new health-care entitlement and purple states can be expected to break blue most of the time, why is the White House so eager to get cover for Blue Dogs by wooing RINOs in the Senate? Own the bill, Democrats. Bathe in its realignment glory.
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evergreen on November 4, 2009 at 6:04 PM
There was supposed to be a GOP “permanent majority” … which could have been… but it was pissed away by Bush, Rove and the GOP leadership who wanted to be “compassionate conservatives” (read: Dem-Lite).
That’s why I hate Rove being touted all over the place as some spokesman for conservatism… trying to rewrite history… he’s “the architect” of the Democratic resurgence.
mankai on November 4, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Ditto!
Bob's Kid on November 4, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Was anyone else as pissed off as I was by O’Reilly’s brief one second interruption in this clip? STFU Bill, Charles is talking!
Sharke on November 4, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Maybe Oblabalama should have made Corizine czar of Jersey before the election..
huckelberry on November 4, 2009 at 7:03 PM
You don’t understand it because it makes no sense. Saying we should lose in 2010 so we can win in 2012 is crazy talk.
xblade on November 4, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Thanks for the inspirational pep talk, Allah!
Bruno Strozek on November 4, 2009 at 8:47 PM
In VA Deeds and most of the rest of the D party ticket was running what had been the winning formula from the mid-1990’s to 2008: sling as much mud as you can, keep on slinging it, disparage the character of your opponent and get the media to help you. Deeds was doing that with the WaPo.
It didn’t work.
Anywhere it was tried in VA, those candidates went down in flames.
Webb won on those tactics, pure and simple, yet here we are in 2009 and tyring those exact, same, winning tactics that had worked for over a decade suddenly lost all its appeal, all its magic, and all its MSM fairy dust. If Deeds had run a traditional, rural based campaign with a modicum of mudslinging, he would have stood a chance. Instead he pulled out the Scroll of Doom, read the magic formula and it blew up in his face.
Looks like nearly the same thing happened in NJ, save it is a Democratic Machine State. Having a formula like that go *poof* in NJ is damned impressive in what it says about the state of the Democratic Machine Party.
And if these newly minted R Governors can’t carry through on their words in very short order, don’t expect any magic formula to be left for either party. When I hear candidates start to utter the word ‘rollback’ then I will know the message is getting through. Twelve months are left to learn that word and mean it. Otherwise 2010 won’t be pretty for either party.
ajacksonian on November 4, 2009 at 9:50 PM
Quote of the day!
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on November 4, 2009 at 9:56 PM
no doubt,
what it shows is that the people would most likely be behind true small government minded candidates.
Ones that would take an ax to the government and shrink it and it supposed responsibilities and let the people handle it.
Face it, its hard for dems or rinos to say to their brethren that they arent needed anymore so what we get is just that, the total gloss over of what really needs to be done, fire half the government and leave it to the private sector to work out.
Sonosam on November 4, 2009 at 10:52 PM
If we can get a conservative majority in both houses in 2010, then business and Wall Street will respond with a strong recovery. This recession duration is due to business being nervous and waiting for the rules to settle out, so they can figure out which loop hole to take advantage of. If Obama wins a second term, then many business will relocate to a capitalistic free market economy, rather than stay in a progressive socialist centralized Obamanation. We need to burn piles of rules and regulations, which have imprisoned the market. “Free the Market”.
Ed Laskie on November 5, 2009 at 12:52 AM
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