Posted on 11/02/2010 6:50:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
On MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Chris Matthews cited an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finding that 62 percent of people “voting Republican this time” were making a temporary decision, while 28 percent are making a “long-term switch in party allegiance.” That “tells me, it’s an impulsive reaction, rational reaction, to bad times,” Mr. Matthews said.
Elsewhere on television Monday night, Rachel Maddow said the GOP was reviving the “scare white people” tactic in the closing days of the campaigns; Mr. Olbermann suspended his “Worst Persons in the World” segment, at least for the time being; and Stephen Colbert queued up the ad that encouraged Hispanics not to vote.
“The country takes a turn to the right,” Bill O’Reilly said at the top of his TV show Monday night, previewing Tuesday night’s election results.
Before any of the polls had even closed, the argument about whether the political “turn to the right” is temporary or permanent dominated the media on Monday.
But Brit Hume, seated next to Mr. Williams, asserted that the country is fundamentally “center-right,” and that this election is about something deeper. President Obama “has attempted, as Bill Clinton did before him, to govern from the left. And he is getting resistance to that on a number of counts,” he said.
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Input costs are going up, up, up! ISM inventory is up, backorders are down.
The dollar is in meltdown!
The R’s are set to catch a falling safe!
Miss Matthews is making the amateur's mistake that if one is only making a "temporary" decision for the R's that means they will then go back to voting "D" when the reality is that most folks I know of are putting the R's on probation--if they see the reality that the Tea party is in the driver's seat now, they'll continue to get my vote. But even if they don't, the D's sure as hell won't be getting it.
Maddow is just being a liberal, using smears and Alinsky/Stalinist tactics because she knows the game is up, everyone knows the libs will always, always go back to their tax and spending ways, no matter how they claim to change. Her little theory doesn't incorporate the number of women and minorities running as R's, but what's reality when you're a Good Liberal Who Speaks Truth to Power?
By regular definition, a country should vote on average at the center. It is only a center-right country because the media and those who weasel their way into office are really to the left of the real national center—which they define as to the right, because the real national center is to the right of them!
“The other theme was the one put forward by CNN’s Eliot Spitzer: that the looming Democratic defeat will help Mr. Obama.
“This is the best thing possible,” Mr. Spitzer said. “He needs a foil. He needs an adversary. Somebody to stand up to and fight against everyday. And more than that: somebody to share responsibility for governing.”
Client No. 9 is correct. Bammy, the Whiner-in-Chief, needs a ready-made excuse, and a numerical-Republican-majority, RINO-dominated Senate, god forbid, will supply. A split Congress, that’s the ticket. A bare Republican majority in the Senate will be worse than worthless to conservatives; it will be dominated by weather-vane, socially-liberal, big-spending RINO saboteurs, Collins, Snowe, and the like.
There may be some element of truth to that. I don't know. Chris doesn't know. Nobody knows.
But even if we did know, how would this be any different than what happened in '08?
Ubamadinejad was campaigning on "the worst economy since The Great Depression", "old folks deciding between paying for food or paying for medicine", "children going to bed hungry", etc.
I’d agree with him it’s a temporary vote. If you rather, Republicans are on probation. But it’s not a senseless irrational emotionally driven vote. By temporary we mean if the GOP decides to act like it did before they can kiss their majority goodbye again.
Who dresses that thing?
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