When the Tea Party wins -- especially in a blue state -- Repups lose!

[whathehell]

..Wittness the long faces on Joe Scab and Pat Buchannon this morning!

Delaware gets goof-ball Christine O'Donnell and Carl "beastiality emails" Palladino wins in New York...HEL-lo!...Looks like we WIN in November!

[FBaggins]

1. Still too close to call in NH. n/t

[Warren Stupidity]

2. That is one scenario.

And short term it is likely that far right loons will go down to defeat. However they will have the full backing of the RNC Media, and they are pulling the Republican Party even further right. Not only that, but our brilliant Democratic Party leaders will respond to right wing extremists taking over the Republican Party by:

1) never calling them right wing extremists;
2) moving even more to the right.

The other scenario is that our home grown fascists win elections and start taking over.

[whathehell]

5. Yes..

and yours is another..I choose to be optimistic.:shrug:

[Crystal Clarity]

8. I dunno... Maine's R Tea Party candidate for Governor is leading in the Polls

and we're considered a 'blue state'. It's freaking me out. This guy is an idiot.

I originally was happy about the Republican's choice of the Tea Party guy after our June primaries. I thought it wouldn't even be close, let alone the guy in the lead only 6 weeks from the election. I'm trying to stay optimistic but...

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/09/big-lead-for-gop-in-maine.html
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Big lead for GOP in Maine

To the list of states where things are looking dreadful for Democrats this fall you can add Maine: Republican Paul LePage leads Democrat Libby Mitchell 43-29 in PPP's first look at the race with independent Eliot Cutler pulling 11%.

The thing drivings the GOP poll advantage in Maine are the same we're seeing everywhere: a unified Republican base, a lack of interest from Democratic voters, a strong GOP lean with independents, and the specter of an unpopular Democratic President and Governor hanging over the heads of the party's candidates.

[SoCalDem]

26. Tea party folks love to portray themselves as victims

and when they run a woman as their candidate, they can actually rack up some wins, because every time a male democratic candidate even so much as mentions the tea party candidate's shortcomings, the press will accuse him of bullying the "poor little gal"...

Republicans know how to choose candidates..they have been running more and more "wimminfolk", and it's not because their party is a front-runner in women's rights.

They have perfected the art of taking a democratic standard, and using it as their own bizarro version of whatever it happens to be.

Reagan's admin showed them that you could "play-act" your way to electoral victories.

They have advanced the careers of many closeted gay people even though they advocate against real gay rights.

They use a small cadre of specially selected black people (Condi/Steele/Powell/Ole Freaky-eyes & a few others)

Their very own "hispanics"..Cubans in Florida who were children of first-wavers who were more European/white than "hispanic"

and of course their "red-dressed, usually-blonde wimminfolk" ..they like 'em sexy, smart-mouthed & sassy.., but regularly vote against any real women's rights legislation, and most of the hierarchy would love nothing more than to have all women barefoot, pregnant & flipping pancakes in the kitchens of America.

[girl gone mad]

18. I don't know.

I heard from a couple of Independents today who are actually pretty liberal, but they were thrilled that the teabaggers won some primaries. There are a lot of people who are deeply unhappy with the current power structure and they will vote for radical change, even if that change is an unqualified kook.

[myrna minx]

15. .

:scared:

[ingac70]

3. Joey the Scar and Pat have the same look on their face....

they had after McCain selected Caribou Barbie as his running mate.

[winstars]

4. It's truly a wonderful thing to see these two jerks this morning!!! nt

[AlinPA]

6. But look at the number of teabagger senate candidates : NV, DE, NH, TN, PA, CO, WI, UT, AK, FL.

We should take DE and maybe NH, but the rest could make the senate a teabagger controlled body. Add them to Coburn, DeMint, Inhofe, Cornyn, and the rest of the crazies and it looks bad. Six years is a long time to have that many teabaggers in there.

[Botany]

9. And we should win just about all of those states because the tea party ...

.... people are whack jobs. BTW you forgot Rand Paul in Kentucky. Utah :shrug:

The Koch Brothers, Freedom Works, Fox News, and Rush have created a monster that is out of control
and could very well kill any chance for a republican take over in the senate.

[whathehell]

13. I know!...and it makes my "enthusiasm gap" shrink considerably.

Rand Paul in Kentucky?...Unfortunately, I think he's got better chances than he would a blue state...UtaH (where I have some Mormon cousins, strangely enough) has been called "the most conservative state in the nation"...and I think the tea party could win there...Oh well.:shrug:

[DevonRex]

21. Sorry, but the teabagger is up in the polls in Colorado. nt

[whathehell]

10. I know what you are saying....

I'm originally from PA (Philly)..Do you really think a teabagger could win there?

I haven't lived there for about thirteen years, so things may have changed...As I remember, PA used to be reliably Blue...Of course, you know more than I do now.

I live in the Chicago area now, near Wisconsin, home of Russ Feingold, a progressive Dem..I don't think a teabagger could win there...Again, though, you never know.

[ingac70]

12. TN already has 2 repuke Senators.

Why even bother to mention it? Long lost cause.

[AlinPA]

23. Yep. But Paul is a totally wacko teabagger. Probably worse than the usual dirty bigoted

republican.

[ingac70]

25. That is Kentucky, not Tennessee. n/t

[AlinPA]

27. Oops.

[deacon]

7. This is a LONG TERM monstrous problem thats afoot. The GOP is married to the tea

party and they've become part of the party. Should a few baggers win...they have to deal with it, PR wise on a huge scale. It's a nightmare for the GOP and who gave the tea party life (?) yep, Fox "News".

[whathehell]

11. I agree..

but it's more of a problem for the GOP than us, don't you think?

I don't think they're going to play well AT ALL with the Independents, who, btw, are rarely mentioned anymore by the Talking Heads, have you noticed?...During the Presidential election all you heard about were "the independents" -- now, there's hardly a peep. I get the feeling this is NOT a coincidence...and that may be because the corporate media KNOWS that independents aren't going to go for nut bags like Angle and O'Donnell.

[Javaman]

14. Christine hairy palms O'Donnell nt

[whathehell]

16. I know...It's hillarious. She has as much chance

of winning the general as the proverbial snowball in Hell.

[Javaman]

17. I would like to think that...

but there are a whole lot of self loathers out there.

[whathehell]

19. In Delaware?

I don't think so...Even the Repukes are writing that state..They tried mightily, I understand, to keep her from running.

[Javaman]

20. Let's hope. Nothing surprises me anymore...sadly. nt

[whathehell]

22. I get your drift. n/t

[ibegurpard]

24. Massachussetts?

how soon we forget

[whathehell]

28. Haven't forgot a thing..

O'Donnell is way to the right of Scott Brown.