What's GOOD, BAD, and *VERY* GOOD from *NY 23*?
UPDATE: DO SEE THE *WILD* Lawrence O'Donnell video! You can bet that the Morning Joe people had words for him afterwards!
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GOOD that the good guys won.
BAD that it does not fully rouse up Palinesque wackaloons who would have had then *really* gone after e.g. moderate GOP Gov. Charlie Crist in Florida, even though they still partly will. Supposedly they have 12 candidates they're after in all; such is their death wish! (They already tried telling Klondike Barbie that NY 23 was a tricky district so she shouldn't upset the applecart: "Overreach THIS!," she intoned.)
GOOD that it still leaves R's divided.
BAD that they may still be more organized having managed to lose a seat that should have been child's play for them.
VERY GOOD, if they stick to this emerging meme: people need a role in selecting their nominees! Those guys who tried to do them a favor by putting forward Dede as electable can never get away with that again, is all! And that is the *compromise* position; everybody says it, from envenomated tea-baggers, to old-school walrus Haley Barbour.
Role in selecting? That means primary-ing their asses! And Republican primaries these days are howling nut fests! And Limbaugh & co. will be revving up those low-information voters about who are the real unelectable zealots who deserve their nitwit votes for nominee! So we'll be seeing more spinny-eyed Doug Hoffmans!
Hordes of ventriloquist dummies, flooding the GOP tickets!
Run for your lives!
November 4, 2009 8:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
It's a good optic, Moat.
The Tea-baggers have ideas, the ideas are really important, they can't be dismissed any more than the people can, it's a whole movement that needs to be listened to. Obama is screwing up and we need good people get involved, not people from Washington, and to quit spending our great grand-children's money.
What kind of people do we need? Spinny-eyed Doug Hoffmans. What will they do? All repeat the preceding paragraph above. With conviction.
November 4, 2009 9:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
Two congressional seats up for grabs. DEMS WIN BOTH.
The news looked so bad last night, I turned it off.
Two governor races go to repubs, though.
O'Donnell hilarious. Smacked Steele down.
Thanks
November 4, 2009 1:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
O'Donnell was just wild.
November 4, 2009 1:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
So we'll be seeing more spinny-eyed , yellow-toothed Doug Hoffmans!
There, fixed that for ya.
November 4, 2009 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Eyya, Shmed! I owe you one for that, I do!!
November 4, 2009 3:23 PM | Reply | Permalink