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Dems want to believe the myth

By Charles Krauthammer
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WASHINGTON - Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010. But the most important effect of Tuesday’s elections is historical. It demolishes the great realignment myth of 2008.

In the aftermath of last year’s Obama sweep, we heard endlessly about its fundamental, revolutionary, transformational nature. How it was ushering in an FDR-like realignment for the 21st century in which new demographics - most prominently, rising minorities and the young - would bury the GOP far into the future. One book proclaimed “The Death of Conservativism,” while the more modest merely predicted the terminal decline of the Republican Party into a regional party of the Deep South or a rump party of marginalized angry white men.

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radicalreign
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Well that about says it all, I'd say!
 
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reprat
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Here comes the chance of a lifetime to finally rid Beacon Hill of all these incumbent hacks!
Will you take it? Contact CleanSweepBeaconHill at email address ClnSwp092009@hotmail.com only if you are serious about lending a hand. We can do this in 2010! Beacon Hill in 2010, the White House in 2012!
 
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Meme
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Right on as usual Mr. Krauthhammer.
 
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Stirthepot2 replying to reprat
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I know I'll be lending a hand when I am waiting for the voting polls to open in Middleboro where, I will be voting Barney OUT!
 
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epsteinpats
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Hmmmm, and nary a mention of the only election that mattered--that of the only congressional seat in new York! In that election, mainstream Americans once again sent a rejection letter to the wacked-out right wingers currently hijacking the GOP. Despite the best efforts of Krauthammer's employer (Fox) the conservative idiologue--the guy embraced by teabaggers everywhere--lost. Races for governor are classically non-compliant with the redness or blueness of a state. Case in point: MASSACHUSETTS. It can be successfully argued that Massachusetts is the most liberal state in the Union. So why then did we go almost 2 decades with 4 republican governors in a row? Florida elected a Republican governor by a wide margin...and Barack Obama by an equally wide margin. California has had a Republican governor for a few years now. etc. etc. etc.
 
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epsteinpats
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Oh and the teabagger loss in New York was in a district that has been Republican since '93. This was a huge loss for the GOP and Krauthammer knows it and Krauthammer selectively glosses it over. What a freakish loser.
 
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trout4me replying to epsteinpats
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Which is more significant Ep, 100,000 votes in upstate NY or 14,000,000 votes in NJ and VA? Hold on tight to your fig leaf.
 
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tc1236
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in the NY 23rd - the "GOP" candidate dropped out and told her supporters she was voting for the Democrat... and still the out-of-nowhere conservative candidate almost managed to pull the upset. if thats a big win for the Dems, thats pathetic. The real story is that the new Dems from red and purple states will be shown the door in '10. (BO says "I am all knowing - we must have this half-assd, pork-filled stimulus bill. If I get it, then the umployment rate will stay below 8%")
 
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PetePatriot replying to epsteinpats
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You wouldn't even have voted for the Democrat who won the NY 23 race because he is nothing like Barney Frank. He enlisted in the Air Force during the Vietnam war. He retired a Captain. He is Roman Catholic and has a degree in business administration. He has a wife and kids. The 11 Democratic county chairs in the district had to obtain a special proclamation to allow Owens to run as a Democrat; his voter registration showed he had not been affiliated with any political party since 1971.

True, Nancy Pelosi declared this a major victory, but many Republicans are happy that the Rino was dispatched. She then showed her true colors and endorsed the Dem. Who needs Republicans like her and Arlen Spector?

Now we have a 10% unemployment rate just like Old Europe socialist countries. Do you think Americans will tolerate 10% unemployment and keep voting for Democrats?

Why are you so obsessed with the term teabagger? Are you a Janeane Garofalo puppy? If you called a gay man a teabagger would that be hate crime?
 
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epsteinpats replying to PetePatriot
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You must watch a lot of gay porn. If you watched straight porn you may learn that to "teabag" is something that a woman can (and does) perform on a man. However, since the GOP is so fixated on hating gays and are therefore insulted by the term "teabaggers" I will continue to use it. It makes sense since to "teabag" is to partake in a "kink." People with "kinks" are on the fringe of average sexual behavior just like the teabaggers are on the fringe of average American attitudes.
 
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