Teabagger Heroes Humiliated At The Polls

[dudalb]

The Washington Post has a Palin Tracker:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/palin_tracker/

She didn't do that badly on her endorsements. Out 60 endorsements, 28 won the election, 12 lost the election, 10 lost in the primary and 10 are still undecided.

Yes, but she is not doing well in the High profile Senate races.

 

[dudalb]

Besides Pelosi, Harry Reid was the most targetted Democrat. In a state with the worst unemployment in the union and in an election where incumbent Democrats were dropping like flies, losing to Harry Reid was an embarrassment. It took a special candidate to lose to Reid and Angle was just the teabagger for the job.


Losing to a WRITE-IN candidate is not an embarassment? Only the 2nd time in history of Senate races that it's ever been done. Miller gave it away, Murkowski was going to not mount any big effort until Miller was exposed as a loon and a hypocrite.



Giving away a guaranteed Republican seat to the Dems is not embarrassing?


In general maybe not, but in some high-profile cases it was very humiliating.

Tehcnicallly Pelosi was not targeted by the GOP as far as being relected goes. She comes from the most solid Democratic District in the country. But she was made the symbol of all that was wrong with the Democratic Congress.
IMHO, I thought Pelosi was a mistake as speaker from day one.

 

[dudalb]

I'm a little disturbed that 40% of the people of Delaware actually voted for her.

Basic rule of American Politics..in most states 40% would vote for Mickey Mouse if he ran on the GOP ticket;40% for Bugs Bunny if he ran on the Democratic ticket; and 20% are not commited to any party. They are the ones who decide elections.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

They had some legal experts discuss this on CNN,and the almost universal opinion is if the intent is clear, a misspelled letter or two will not matter. This is the almost universal rule in Write ins.

This can only help Murkowski. Remember, it was the intellectual cream of the crop teabaggers who voted for Miller. The "less intelligent" probably couldn't figure out the ballot, so they scrawled Mierowidhdusuui. That may be close enough to Murkowski for the judges.

 

[Spindrift]

Tehcnicallly Pelosi was not targeted by the GOP as far as being relected goes. She comes from the most solid Democratic District in the country. But she was made the symbol of all that was wrong with the Democratic Congress.
IMHO, I thought Pelosi was a mistake as speaker from day one.

Correct. Pelosi and Reid were the two bogeymen used to scare people into voting Republican. Pelosi more than Reid. I love when people say, "We can't have that Pelosi in charge anymore." I ask, "Why? What exactly has Nancy Pelosi done that you are so afraid of her?" The response is usually some stammering and maybe a "Well, I just don't like her!"

When she became a scare tactic, she was too much of a liability and should have been moved aside, but I doubt she would ever go along with that. It will be interesting if they make her minority leader. If I was a Dem who survived a close race, I wouldn't want her waiting in the wings to be used as a club against me in the next election.

 

[leftysergeant]

Corn used the term during the Diane Rehm show and only apologized for using it when confronted by a caller.

Who's Diane Rehm?

 

[cwalner]

Correct. Pelosi and Reid were the two bogeymen used to scare people into voting Republican. Pelosi more than Reid. I love when people say, "We can't have that Pelosi in charge anymore." I ask, "Why? What exactly has Nancy Pelosi done that you are so afraid of her?" The response is usually some stammering and maybe a "Well, I just don't like her!"

When she became a scare tactic, she was too much of a liability and should have been moved aside, but I doubt she would ever go along with that. It will be interesting if they make her minority leader. If I was a Dem who survived a close race, I wouldn't want her waiting in the wings to be used as a club against me in the next election.

I have an idea. I nominate my representative, Andre Carson as minority leader. I am sure that the fact that he actually is a muslim won't be used in any way as a scare tactic by the right.

 

[dudalb]

Correct. Pelosi and Reid were the two bogeymen used to scare people into voting Republican. Pelosi more than Reid. I love when people say, "We can't have that Pelosi in charge anymore." I ask, "Why? What exactly has Nancy Pelosi done that you are so afraid of her?" The response is usually some stammering and maybe a "Well, I just don't like her!"

When she became a scare tactic, she was too much of a liability and should have been moved aside, but I doubt she would ever go along with that. It will be interesting if they make her minority leader. If I was a Dem who survived a close race, I wouldn't want her waiting in the wings to be used as a club against me in the next election.

I have some friends who are active in California Democratic politics, and, behind closed doors, a great Many California Democrats...including some of her fellow congressmen, cannot stand her. She is just not very likable.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

I have some friends who are active in California Democratic politics, and, behind closed doors, a great Many California Democrats...including some of her fellow congressmen, cannot stand her. She is just not very likable.

I've always found her to be...well....an idiot.

 

[atadoff]

Yes, but she is not doing well in the High profile Senate races.

6 wins 4 losses according to CNN.

 

[BeAChooser]

Sharron Angle did the best of the three, only losing by 5%.

Perhaps instead of gloating, you should step back and think about that.

A candidate who NOBODY had even heard of a year a half ago, came within a hair of unseating one of the most powerful democrats in the country.

And that's with unions like the SEIU throwing everything but the kitchen sink into keeping Reid in office.

That's with the Casino bosses openly supporting Reid and even telling their employees to go vote for Reid the morning of the election.

That's with 3 visits by Obama during the campaign and a final radio interview by Obama election day.

That's with Michelle Obama flying into Vegas the day before the election to help get out the vote.

That's with voter turnout events where democrats clearly violated the law by providing free food to get groups that are largely democrat to vote.

That's with Reid being Mr Pork in the Stimulus Bill.

That's with the mainstream media being in the pocket of the democrats (ignoring their dirty laundry) and focusing on anything that would cast the Tea Party or Angle in a bad light.

That's with Nevada democrats holding a registration edge of 60,000 voters (more than the margin of victory).

That's with a less than perfect republican candidate who admittedly had and expressed some pretty extreme views on a number of issues.

That's with voting machines that seemed to automatically check Reid's name.

Speaking of which ...

I find it a little suspicious that pre-election polls from one of the most accurate of the polling organizations (Rasmussen) showed Angle ahead by 3 to 5 percent, yet Reid wins with a 5 point margin. Plus, Rasmussen's polls showed that Angle was extending her lead as the election approached. She had a 3 point lead 2 weeks before the election and a 4 point lead 1 week before the election. And Rasmussen wasn't the only organization showing this. The Mason-Dixon Polling and Research survey (for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and 8NewsNow) gave Angle a 4 percent lead just a few days before the election, with a margin of error of only 4 percent (http://www.lvrj.com/news/angle-poll-data-improve-106287803.html ). CNN polls also said Angle was leading by 4 percent less than a week before the election (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/29/two-straight-polls-angle-49-reid-45-in-nevada/ ). Here's a complete list of polls in the final days of the campaign: http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=5351 . They ALL show that Angle was ahead of Reid and extending her lead ... and yet Reid wins by more than the margin of error in any of those polls?

Hmmmmmmm….

 

[BeAChooser]

I'm a little disturbed that 40% of the people of Delaware actually voted for her.

I'm disturbed that 56% of people in Delaware voted for a communist.

 

[T.A.M.]

I'm disturbed that 56% of people in Delaware voted for a communist.

and the 40% that voted for a dimwitted antimasterbation witch idiot didn't scare you???

figures.

TAM

 

[Freddy]

Just a nitpick: I'd say that Angle may have been the most important teabagger, due to Reed of course. Plus Rubio's win was a given.

That's reasonable, but I look at it more in terms of political ceiling: to understate it, Rubio's is quite a bit higher than Angle's. That was also true before Angle lost, of course. The thing about Nevada and Delaware is that there were candidates in the Republican primaries who would have won easily, and they didn't win the nomination. The guy in Nevada, especially, was about as conservative as Angle, but much less dumb. I hope the tea party learns a lesson by looking at Rubio and Johnson vs. Angle and O'Donnell. I'm not holding my breath on that one, though.

Though not addressed to me, thanks anyway! I'm not sure how I'd get by without schadenfreude, courtesy of these phenomenal nut cases.

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True, and let's add Miller to the list of abject jokes, along with O'Donnel and Angle. A list pioneered by Palin of course.

Don't know much about him. Great education, inexplicable cover-up of minor misconduct years ago. Gives me pause as to his judgment. Overall, I'm not terribly impressed with him. I also don't mind Murkowski.

 

[Spindrift]

Edited by Tricky: 

Edited for rule 12. You must address the topic, not other members.

 

[Noztradamus]

And that list does not include the perrenial favorites that I mentioned, who always seem to garner some write in votes in any election that allows them despite being 1) completely fictional and 2) in one case an actual rodent.

You do know that Mickey is a human wearing a disguise, not an real mouse? (Also: God didn't make little green apples, And it don't snow in Minneapolis when the winter comes)

 

[Freddy]

You're right. My side is sanity.

Right. Sanity demands incivility. I can see why you wouldn't want to call yourself a Democrat, but your sympathies are obviously closer to them than to the Republicans.

 

[Whiplash]

I'm still disgusted with the desire by some to keep using the word Teabagger, with glee, and think that they are offering anything substantive or valuable to any discussion.

And that includes any idiots who embrace the term for themselves.

But the fact that some of these idiots call themselves that, used as rationalization to constantly use the term against EVEYRONE on the right, as a pejorative, is stunningly pathetic.

Most of these people consider themselves "Tea Party candidates". NOT "teabaggers". That is something that only a small, idiotic minority embrace.

I don't care how much people continually reject this. It's exactly the same thing as idiot racists who say it's ok to use the N word because many blacks openly embrace the word for themselves. They sound like complete idiots when they make this rationalization. And so do those who justify calling people teabaggers on the same rationale.

Just childish, petty, and not at all interested in moving anything forward or doing anything useful. Just plain insulting. Just the typical kind of personal discrediting that simpletons do when they can't engage on real ideas. Just resort to the personal attack.

Some of you need to grow up. And stop rationalizing. You are so blinded by your ideology, you can't even see how ridiculous you look using this term.

And using the term is also a tacit admission to the fact that you are the "teabagee". After all, if they are teabaggers, and they hate you.. what does that make you?

How stupid are some people?

 

[varwoche]

I'm still disgusted with the desire by some to keep using the word Teabagger, with glee, and think that they are offering anything substantive or valuable to any discussion.

And that includes any idiots who embrace the term for themselves.

But the fact that some of these idiots call themselves that, used as rationalization to constantly use the term against EVEYRONE on the right, as a pejorative, is stunningly pathetic.

Most of these people consider themselves "Tea Party candidates". NOT "teabaggers". That is something that only a small, idiotic minority embrace.

I don't care how much people continually reject this. It's exactly the same thing as idiot racists who say it's ok to use the N word because many blacks openly embrace the word for themselves. They sound like complete idiots when they make this rationalization. And so do those who justify calling people teabaggers on the same rationale.

Just childish, petty, and not at all interested in moving anything forward or doing anything useful. Just plain insulting. Just the typical kind of personal discrediting that simpletons do when they can't engage on real ideas. Just resort to the personal attack.

Some of you need to grow up. And stop rationalizing. You are so blinded by your ideology, you can't even see how ridiculous you look using this term.

And using the term is also a tacit admission to the fact that you are the "teabagee". After all, if they are teabaggers, and they hate you.. what does that make you?

How stupid are some people?

Not nearly as pathetic and stupid as drawing a parallel between the treatment of teabaggers and the historic treatment of black people in the US.

 

[Cleon]

I'm still disgusted with the desire by some to keep using the word Teabagger, with glee, and think that they are offering anything substantive or valuable to any discussion.

And that includes any idiots who embrace the term for themselves.

But the fact that some of these idiots call themselves that, used as rationalization to constantly use the term against EVEYRONE on the right, as a pejorative, is stunningly pathetic.

Most of these people consider themselves "Tea Party candidates". NOT "teabaggers". That is something that only a small, idiotic minority embrace.

I don't care how much people continually reject this. It's exactly the same thing as idiot racists who say it's ok to use the N word because many blacks openly embrace the word for themselves. They sound like complete idiots when they make this rationalization. And so do those who justify calling people teabaggers on the same rationale.

Just childish, petty, and not at all interested in moving anything forward or doing anything useful. Just plain insulting. Just the typical kind of personal discrediting that simpletons do when they can't engage on real ideas. Just resort to the personal attack.

Some of you need to grow up. And stop rationalizing. You are so blinded by your ideology, you can't even see how ridiculous you look using this term.

And using the term is also a tacit admission to the fact that you are the "teabagee". After all, if they are teabaggers, and they hate you.. what does that make you?

How stupid are some people?

I notice the word "Libtard" has been used with some regularity of late, with nary a word from you. You'll have to excuse me for not taking your selective outrage particularly seriously.