[Cincinatus' Wife]

Obama raises cash as Dems suffer blow

"President Obama hosted a high-priced fundraiser Tuesday night as his party suffered a stinging loss in Florida's special election.

In his remarks, Obama did not address Republican David Jolly's narrow victory over Democrat Alex Sink for the late Rep. Bill Young's (R-Fla.) House seat. Instead, he touted that his administration provided health care for millions of Americans and that the growth of health care costs had slowed."...

[Nextrush]

There was a primary special election before this general special election.

Jolly won a three way race for the GOP nomination over two candidates including a retired military officer backed by Colonel Allen West.

Jolly campaigned as a “repeal and replace” Obamacare candidate in the vein of GOP House leaders John Boehner and Eric Cantor.

Jolly also campaigned invoking the name of his former boss who he is replacing, the late Congressman Bill Young.

Jolly called himself a “Bill Young Conservative” in his ads.

In reporting on Jolly’s win tonight the “Washington Post” noted that Young was a “moderate known for steering federal dollars to the district”.

[Samurai_Jack]

I know some libertarians and I simply cannot comprehend how they think they are lending assistance to their ideological interests by diluting the voter base of the most conservative candidate?

If I was a democrat candidate, I would donate to the libertarians!

[Berlin_Freeper]

Na Na Hey Hey

[Berlin_Freeper]

Jolly/Sink

[fwdude]

I just hope that Jolly has the intestinal fortitude to fight all the way every single attempt by the Dems to re-re-re-re-”count” ballots and not cave at the first 5-vote Dem lead.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Glad to see Bill Clinton is still the kiss of death to candidates he shills for.

[Arm_Bears]

The RAT strategy to run a third-party candidate that siphons votes away from the Republican didn’t work this time.

Wonder what that portends.

[USS Alaska]

A swing district held by a Republican but won by President Obama in 2012, Florida’s 13th district is exactly the playing field Democrats need to win in this cycle to be successful. Democrats pointed out that the special election turnout would always trend GOP, and they downplayed their loss on Tuesday evening.

Last week, Larry Sabato said that sink was up by 7% in the polls, that the district was trending demonRAT, and he predicted sink would win.

Politico said that the RNC was abandoning it's jolly demeanor and regretted his being in the race.

OPPPPSSSSS....

[MNnice]

So Jolly’s ads simply pointed out the truth while the democrat ads had to lie (”He’s trying to destroy social security!”), the libertarian took thousands more votes than is usual, and they still lost. Heh

[Hostage]

Here's the real message, both ominous, bad and necessary:

OMINOUS
She said that while the outcome wasn’t what she had hoped, she’s “proud of the race we have run,” and grateful to her supporters — and left the door open to future political activity, though she gave no indication of what that might be.

“My life has always been shaped by a deep commitment to service and problem solving, and I look forward to finding new ways and new avenues to continue practicing these values in pursuit of doing good for our community, our state and our country,” she said.

Translation: we don't control the county elections office yet enough to create the bags of ballots needed to put us over the top, but that will change.

BAD
It’s hard to see Jolly’s win as less than evidence that Democrats still face a turnout problem and difficulties with ObamaCare this cycle, however, as he was a deeply flawed candidate with a nightmare background as a lobbyist that made easy fodder for Democratic attack ads.

Jolly is in Boehner's camp, now a member of the GOPe who own him with the near $5 million they sunk into his campaign and yet he did not win a majority and the margin was just under 2%.

This is not good news for Tea Party conservatives as Jolly who is adapted to feed at the GOPe pig's trough inside the Beltway will vote the way his masters tell him to vote. He will be a 'yes' for amnesty and other assorted horrors that Boehnor hides in his pocket.

NECESSARY
Tea Party conservatives must oust Boehner at the earliest opportunity and take control of the Speakership. Then members of Boehner's camp will follow the new Speaker and conservative line votes will become the norm. However, the gluttony that GOPe branded members are accustomed to must end as drastic spending cuts, real cuts take hold. Pigs such as Jolly must be transformed into hungry cougars capable of stalking prey for months or years with minimal food,

The Tea Party activist network in each congressional district must continue to be filled with passionate people that are willing to donate every spare moment to get out the vote. Candidates selected for Tea Party promotion must be so well vetted that a war chest of less than a million would win in a district such as Jolly's with a landslide majority.

Enough already of the GOPe selection and backing of miserable risky candidates such as Jolly.

[wayoverontheright]

Is this the cathartic moment when the realization sets in that Obamacare has destroyed the Democratic Party? Should be.

2014 is going to be another 2010, it is now apparent. Harry Reid will be forced to allow a vote now to deal with the ACA, the dem senators will demand it. The message here is that either they deal with it now, or they’re going down. All of them.

Pass the popcorn...

[yldstrk]

is this the divorced dude with the 28 year old girlfriend

[PeterPrinciple]

RNC spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski said those tools are all things “we will be replicating across the country in Senate races” this cycle.

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Notice RNC focus on the techniques, not the message of obomacare. That is the lesson they learned.