DNC chair: Thank goodness these corrosive tea partiers are destroying the GOP
posted at 6:27 pm on December 4, 2009 by Allahpundit
He calls them “the teabag party,” actually, which I guess is slightly better than “teabaggers.” His hosannas to comparative Democratic unity and imminent Republican civil war come on a day when PPP, a lefty polling firm, declares that the top eight most vulnerable Senate seats next year are all currently occupied by Democrats. Not 24 hours ago, Rasmussen reported that Blanche Lincoln — a.k.a. vote number 60 on ObamaCare — trails four different Republicans in hypothetical match-ups, and there’s no mystery why:
Against all four Republicans, she leads by wide margins among those who favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. The senator even leads by a wide margin among those who Somewhat Oppose the legislation. But among those who Strongly Oppose the health care plan, Lincoln trails every potential Republican challenger by more than 50 percentage points.
The really bad news for Lincoln is that 56% of Arkansas voters Strongly Oppose the congressional health care plan. Just 18% Strongly Favor it.
Translation: Unless Lincoln’s counting on those “corrosive” tea partiers to alienate the entire Arkansas electorate, her choice is between voting no or committing political suicide. I hope for his sake that Dingy Harry has vote number 61 tucked away somewhere safe.
The funniest line here is at the very beginning when Kaine touts the fact that the crazy wingnuts chased Arlen Specter right into their camp. Meanwhile, not only is Specter facing a serious primary challenge in the supposedly unified Democratic primary, but Barney Frank endorsed his opponent just this afternoon. As, no doubt, will lefty leviathans like MoveOn that are currently busy “mobilizing” against the Democratic president and organizing primary challenges for a host of other Blue Dogs who failed the public-option litmus test. All hail unity!
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Arrogance. It’s not just for Obama anymore.
Fletch54 on December 4, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Um, hey guys, Tim Kaine’s claim to fame was being Mark Warner’s lil toady buddy.
I for one, welcome our new brainless DNC chair
Wind Rider on December 4, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Always suspected liberals had no concept of reality. This proves it.
rukiddingme on December 4, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Denial is not a river in Egypt. How many politicians can Obama convince to commit Hari Kari?
kingsjester on December 4, 2009 at 6:30 PM
2010 and 2012 are going to surprise a lot of people.
jhffmn on December 4, 2009 at 6:30 PM
What a maroon.–Bugs Bunny
jimmy2shoes on December 4, 2009 at 6:31 PM
So … the democrat party is composed of:
a) Bumbling idiots
and
b) Rabid Marxists
darwin on December 4, 2009 at 6:31 PM
The outright communists, socialists, marxists, and statists have ruined the democrat party.
daesleeper on December 4, 2009 at 6:32 PM
blockquote>2010 and 2012 are going to surprise a lot of people.
jhffmn on December 4, 2009 at 6:30 PM
No, just the democrats….
deidre on December 4, 2009 at 6:32 PM
The kind of guy who’d climb aboard the Titanic as it’s sinking.
JammieWearingFool on December 4, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Whistling past the grave yard.
Terrye on December 4, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Sadly, there are some in the GOP that think Tea Partiers are ruining the party too.
cubachi on December 4, 2009 at 6:33 PM
The Republicans are far from perfect, but the Democrats make them look better every day.
Terrye on December 4, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Just keep thinking that, Kaine. Don’t think twice about the conservative movement.
Oink on December 4, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Please let this man keep talking. Please please pretty please.
canditaylor68 on December 4, 2009 at 6:34 PM
Baghdad Bob seems uncomfortable in his own skin. Notice he never mentions Independents, who are bolting in droves?
John the Libertarian on December 4, 2009 at 6:35 PM
So this is why the Democrats are sinking, they been teabagging …
tarpon on December 4, 2009 at 6:35 PM
I think this cement headed idiot actually believes everything he just said. What a moron.
rjoco1 on December 4, 2009 at 6:35 PM
Stupid is as stupid says…
JIMV on December 4, 2009 at 6:37 PM
You go right ahead and believe your own press, skippy, that and sell Obowma’s record of ‘success’…
Seven Percent Solution on December 4, 2009 at 6:38 PM
Just another example of Democratic “reality”. These people are going to be in a state of “WHAT THE _UCK HAPPENED” come November 2010.
GarandFan on December 4, 2009 at 6:38 PM
A lot of Hopium in that candy, eh Kaine?
ICBM on December 4, 2009 at 6:38 PM
I hope they keep their heads in the sand.
We “The Teabag Party” are not part of the GOP, but we are against most of what the dem’s are pushing. If the GOP puts up the right candidates it will be a landslide. That is a big if as I do not think the GOP gets it.
IowaWoman on December 4, 2009 at 6:39 PM
At least Baghdad Bob knew he was lying.
Geochelone on December 4, 2009 at 6:39 PM
Fortunately, Obama Democrats are so good at unifying the Right, that it really doesn’t matter how much division there is within the GOP right now. We’ve found something that the Obama Administration is excellent at–making enemies.
RBMN on December 4, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Yeah, and Anderson Cooper’s ratings are in the crapper too.
d1carter on December 4, 2009 at 6:41 PM
You can tell how harmful the libs truly believe the Palin/Beck/Tea Party wing of the party to be by how much they are praising them with their fingers crossed behind their backs that we all won’t catch on. You know, so that we will allow them to keep speaking for us and ruin the GOPs chances in 2010 and 2012. Art of War 101, right?
Wait, that’s not what they are doing?… (sarc)
Kataklysmic on December 4, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Tim Kaine has always been an odd choice for DNC chair. Not particularly revered in VA except he is the husband of the daughter of a popular Republican governor from quite a while ago. All of them have apparently lost their minds and are running around without taking their meds.
If you have noticed lately all of them are having a hard time living in the real world. Nothing they say makes any sense. Finally people are beginning to notice.
BetseyRoss on December 4, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Joe Sestak and Barney Frank square off against Arlen Specter and Fast Eddy Rendell’s machine in the Dem primary in PA next year. Comedy gold.
Wethal on December 4, 2009 at 6:43 PM
I think the GOP gets it, they just are so out of touch with us they just don’t know what to do with “it”.
darwin on December 4, 2009 at 6:43 PM
what “achievement”? Has BHO achieved anything but perfecting the art of the bow and apology? what do they have to sell but expanding unemployment and debt?
Willie on December 4, 2009 at 6:45 PM
All those loons that rampage through cities where economic summits are held don’t seem to have any negative impact on the Democrats. So a group of gainfully employed citizens who carry mildly snarky signs (for the most part) and leave the venue cleaner then when they got there hardly sounds like a recipe for destruction.
Cindy Munford on December 4, 2009 at 6:45 PM
I’m going to love it if the Republicans can gain at least 6 of those seats in the Senate and even more in Congress and the demidiots are standing there gobbed smacked saying what just happened.
I hope they go with this way of thinking up until the election if the republicans take at least one chamber the dems won’t know what to do.
Brat4life on December 4, 2009 at 6:45 PM
PS: I am a proud “tea party” member
Willie on December 4, 2009 at 6:45 PM
Happy happy all the time!
AUINSC on December 4, 2009 at 6:46 PM
That sure doesn’t seem very sporting or grateful of Mr. Frank. I wonder if Sen. Specter still thinks he did the right thing?
Cindy Munford on December 4, 2009 at 6:47 PM
Who cares…I’m just glad he’s gone.
AUINSC on December 4, 2009 at 6:49 PM
While selling life vests he bought in a closeout at the Dollar Store.
Yoop on December 4, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Great job getting teabagged in VA, Kaine! You know, the state you used to be Governor of and were supposed to win. LMAO!!!
chunderroad on December 4, 2009 at 6:50 PM
Poetic justice is mildly satisfying.
Cindy Munford on December 4, 2009 at 6:52 PM
Apparently the editors of NRO aren’t the only one hopped up on those Obama shaped ecstasy pills.
DFCtomm on December 4, 2009 at 6:56 PM
You can’t leave my party!
I’m Timothy Foster Kaine!!
Dr. Carlo Lombardi on December 4, 2009 at 6:57 PM
Actually, we’re ‘killing’ the Left by their own words.
Liam on December 4, 2009 at 6:57 PM
Frank endorsed Specter’s opponent? Oh jeesh*
AnninCA on December 4, 2009 at 6:58 PM
I only got through 27 seconds before my ears started to bleed. I can’t take these idiots anymore.
Dopenstrange on December 4, 2009 at 7:00 PM
It starts to be ridiculous when they keep talking this way while the evidence is mounting.
I think they believed their own PR about astroturfers, etc.
AnninCA on December 4, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Kaine just heard all of the dems. led by O today proclaiming his hard work in creating jobs and bringing the economy to the incredible recovery we are witnessing today. He is the one afterall.
Repubs. spent the day trying to get the health care bill passed.
Failure from the jaws of Victory…
nondhimmie on December 4, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Interesting he doesn’t bring up New Jersey or Virginia…
Seven Percent Solution on December 4, 2009 at 7:03 PM
As against the purposely-faked AGW contentions?
Which the Left has done for decades?
Liam on December 4, 2009 at 7:04 PM
This mindless jerk is a typical liberal bone head.
rplat on December 4, 2009 at 7:04 PM
We’re going to Minnesota, we’re going to Arkansas, we’re going to Louisana, we’re going to..
..EEEEEEEEEEEEEEeaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggg!
VoyskaPVO on December 4, 2009 at 7:06 PM
Had to… their “an item”
CC
CapedConservative on December 4, 2009 at 7:07 PM
The Left can do only one thing, you racefans: attack.
When they’re out of ideas, the only place to go is that’s you’re a lower form of life. Just ask simplesimon and all the other troll who do no0thiong more than assail us here.
So much for tolerance and equality from among the Left.
Liam on December 4, 2009 at 7:08 PM
I think he’s saying what he has to say to the Dims. If he tells the truth, then fundraising and turnout for the ‘Craps in ’10 will be worse than expected. His audience isn’t reality-based, so he’s just doing what he has to do.
joejm65 on December 4, 2009 at 7:12 PM
The Dems better be nice to Arlen….he might might be the 60th vote to end the Health Care debate.
yoda on December 4, 2009 at 7:13 PM
Hey Citizen Kaine, how did your anointed successor do in the VA election this year? Lots of words but no Deeds!
Will the tea-baggers stage the Kaine mutiny?
Steve Z on December 4, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Go ahead an run on Obowma’s successes…
Then, when he was selling the Stimulus Bill that needed to pass immediately without anyone reading the bill or knowing where the money was going:
Now, that he is responsible for the ongoing economic crisis and everything he has touched has turned to crap:
Seven Percent Solution on December 4, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Hari Kari or HarryCare? (Reid, who is not very popular in Vegas these days).
Steve Z on December 4, 2009 at 7:18 PM
You do realize that stating facts against Obowma is going to result in a prison term, right?
Liam on December 4, 2009 at 7:19 PM
If I were Lincoln, I’d just go ahead and vote my conscience, and let it rip.
I think she’s already lost the rebid. I doubt she can walk it back at this point.
AnninCA on December 4, 2009 at 7:19 PM
Geochelone on December 4, 2009 at 7:21 PM
When the dims get slaughtered at the polls in 2010, they’ll say it was because they failed to pass the health care bill (or the cap and trade bill if the HC bill passes). That’s how stupid they are.
darwin-t on December 4, 2009 at 7:21 PM
I think we can safely assume that political correctness is over. The liberals created it but choose to use derogatory language to describe Conservative activists, so I think we can dispense with it from now on.
So in your honor Gov Kaine -
“You’re short and have a stupid haircut”.
huckleberryfriend on December 4, 2009 at 7:23 PM
So if the Democrats get their asses handed to them next year, I guess this boob is going to accept the blame for it, right?
WarEagle01 on December 4, 2009 at 7:24 PM
Not by a long shot.
Liam on December 4, 2009 at 7:25 PM
Gov Kaine…Empty typically partisan blowhard.
Nalea on December 4, 2009 at 7:26 PM
No, it’s going be billed like the last time: Angry white men pitched a hissy fit.
Liam on December 4, 2009 at 7:26 PM
What is Kaine smoking?
BottomLine5 on December 4, 2009 at 7:27 PM
Obama’s Democrats are not only unifying the Right, they’re scaring Indies toward the GOP. We’ll take ‘em!
The original Tea Party was against Taxation without Representation. Today’s Tea Parties are no different.
What the GOP needs to “get” to win in ’10:
Cut. Taxes. Now.
Stop. Spending. Now.
It’s the Economy, Stupid!
Steve Z on December 4, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Fill the jails…!
Seven Percent Solution on December 4, 2009 at 7:29 PM
In sum, the Pubs (who haven’t spoken for me in years) need to stop being Dem-Lite and embrace Conservative values.
Liam on December 4, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Please don’t explain to me what the term “teabagger” means. I have heard that it describes some vulgar sex act. If that is the case, these jackass (excuse the vulgarity) liberals need to be called out publicly by any news host who hears the term from a liberal guest.
stefano1 on December 4, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Too bad nobody’s running against Barney “Banking Queen” Frank in a primary.
Iblis on December 4, 2009 at 7:31 PM
What’s that old song by the Dave Clark Five–Catch Me If You Can!
Liam on December 4, 2009 at 7:32 PM
2010 for sure. 2012 depends on what a GOP House does in 2011. Time for a new Contract with America.
Steve Z on December 4, 2009 at 7:32 PM
You know what’s interesting about this comment, are we doing too good a job beating back Democrat incumbents? Do we need to “walk it back” ourselves?
russcote on December 4, 2009 at 7:33 PM
The drain in Kaine flows mainly from the brain.
nico on December 4, 2009 at 7:34 PM
The Dems must be bursting with pride that their DNC chairman is a 9/11 truther.
theTarCzar on December 4, 2009 at 7:35 PM
I’m sure Obama can just make some ‘Yes we can!’ speeches and it’ll be a Democratic landslide…I mean, just look at his awesome poll numbers.
AUINSC on December 4, 2009 at 7:36 PM
This coming from the guy who couldn’t keep the democratic candidate for Gov. in his own state from losing by 17 pnts… HA!!!!! He just saw the conservative movement first hand… oh wait a minute, he hasn’t spent a full day in VA since becoming DNC Chair. He declared a state of emergency from a DNC fundraiser in Arkansas a few weeks back when Ida dumped over 10 inches of rain in the eastern part of the state and caused massive flooding.
Tim Kaine has got to be the most worthless politician I have ever seen and he was by far, VA’s worst Gov in my lifetime. It is laughable that he is the DNC Chair… they really think that people take him seriously?
JLM-Hokie on December 4, 2009 at 7:37 PM
And that awesome reception he got from the inhabitants of “enemy camp”.
russcote on December 4, 2009 at 7:38 PM
You might as well. There is no rational discourse left. I posted this on another thread, but I watched in amazement as the big “birther” story here was not any more relevant to progressives than the Climategate stand she took or the latest ethics charge filed by wackadoodle up there in Alaska.
AnninCA on December 4, 2009 at 7:39 PM
This allo is posturing, really–speaking to the Dem base with a strong belief in personal denial.
Ain’t no thing, not even a chicken wing.
Liam on December 4, 2009 at 7:39 PM
I don’t know if that’s possible. That’s what always has seemed beyond control of anyone in politics. You can’t control momentum or timing. You can tweak it, but ultimately, that has more to do with how people perceive things than with what the politicians do.
AnninCA on December 4, 2009 at 7:41 PM
You’re over-analyzing, princess. You know better.
Liam on December 4, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Mmmmmm. Yea right!!!!
sweet92169 on December 4, 2009 at 7:43 PM
OT–Is Sarah at Fort Hood book signing today?
dragondrop on December 4, 2009 at 7:49 PM
In the meantime – and while they still have the numbers – the Democrats will race and ram their agenda through Congress, knowing full well that they’re in deep dog poop come election day.
The polling numbers are now on a serious downhill slide and it will only take 41 seats in the House and about six in the Senate to make a WORLD of difference to the fraud in the White House.
The most serious issue for Republicans will be whether or not they can hold out and get enough weak-kneed Democrat support to stop these clowns from totally bankrupting the entire country.
GoldenEagle4444 on December 4, 2009 at 7:50 PM
It must be warm and fuzzy in that delusional world he lives in. Get that man some lithium, stat!
tru2tx on December 4, 2009 at 7:50 PM
WHOOP! WHOOP! WHOOP!
DORK ALERT! DORK ALERT!
WHOOP! WHOOP! WHOOP!
pilamaye on December 4, 2009 at 7:55 PM
LOL. Me too.
Kaine is an idiot. He almost ran my beloved Virginia into the ground along with that nimrod Jody Wagner.
I guess if us tea-baggers here hadn’t harmed the GOP so badly, Deeds, Wagner and Shannon would have lost to McDonnell, Bolling and Cuccinelli by 40 points instead of only 25.
BacaDog on December 4, 2009 at 8:11 PM
I agree with most of that analysis. Maybe it’s the lawyer in me but the quantum of evidence for and against the birther question, to me, falls heavily on the side of “against”.
But I will take issue with AP’s analogy to Trig Trutherism. If the analogy was only one made for purposes of political fallout for throwing a bone to the conspiracy, then so be it.
But to the extent AP’s drawing a factual analogy between the two it is absurd on a bewildering level. Trig Trutherism is nothing more than a vehicle for expressing vile hatred of Sarah Palin.
Birtherism at least has some semblance of evidentiary support, even if it’s largely circumstantial and by omission. Plus, birtherism is fueled, in part, by Obama’s own failure to be forthcoming…as much with his past aside from his birth as his birthplace. In that respect Obama and Palin aren’t even in the same league.
russcote on December 4, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Dude sorry, wrong thread.
My bad.
russcote on December 4, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Some minds will change next Nov. when the teabaggers do some serious A$$ kicking. Gonna be some new change and a lot of genuine hope. Move over Jimmah Carter you got some company acoming to bump your legacy.
bluegrass on December 4, 2009 at 8:22 PM
It’s all rainbows, lollipops and skittle sh!tting unicorns in the party of Obama. Please don’t disturb them.
R D on December 4, 2009 at 8:26 PM
I’m sure Obama can just make some ‘Yes we can!’ speeches and it’ll be a Democratic landslide…I mean, just look at his awesome poll numbers.
AUINSC on December 4, 2009 at 7:36 PM
All the kings horses
and all the kings men
couldn’t put humpy
back together again
mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm
Attn all street hos, get your business loans finalized quick with ACORN & Franks & Dodd Partners, Inc
bluegrass on December 4, 2009 at 8:26 PM
When you have to use Arlen Specter as an example of how well things are going,…that says it all!
Bluestate_Blues on December 4, 2009 at 8:31 PM
You mean the clown from Massachucetts who served in Vietnam?
When the dems lose next summer, they will claim they have “saved or created” hundreds of jobs…and lost millions more with cap and trade, healthcare, Copenhagen agreements……Man, that Keynes fellow should give back HIS Nobel prize along with Gore.
dthorny on December 4, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Arlen Sphincter switches sides as much as Ellen Degeneres’ ex-girlfriends.
dthorny on December 4, 2009 at 8:46 PM
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