[nathanbedford]

Wellington was also supposed to have said after Waterloo that it "was a damned close run thing" but Tuesday's midterm election was anything but close. It was however a slaughter which left dead Democrats strewn the across the battlefield reminiscent of the carnage at Waterloo.

The point? Obama has sacrificed his party to his ideology as the litany of failures described by Victor Davis Hanson illustrates. An analysis of Obama's character, his ideology and his narcissism (not to mention his belligerent tone in yesterday's press conference) leads one to no other assumption but that he will continue to sacrifice Democrat party electoral chances to advance his radical socialist/communist ideology.

The media will of course side with Obama as he wages war against the Republican Congress and the Republicans, true to form, will no doubt buckle under the slanders. Much of this could have been avoided if in the contest of 2008 John McCain had not rendered it illegitimate to attack Barack Obama in any way. Today the public would automatically associate Obama's failed policies with Obama's radical ideology. Instead his race continues to provide a buffer behind which the media will try to hide Obama. This election shows that the playbook no longer works to get Democrats elected but it leaves the Republican establishment timorous and unwilling to live up to their campaign promises.

2016 need not be a damned close run thing if Republicans will act like conservatives.

[Alberta's Child]

I would make the case that the shifting control of the Senate was nothing more than a normal course of events completely disconnected from any politics. The party in the White House typically does poorly in a midterm election like this, and there was an added GOP advantage simply because the Democrats had to defend far more seats than the Republicans in this particular Senate cycle.

I might also brush off a GOP gain of 15+ seats in the House as a function of similar historical trends.

What can't be overlooked, though, is the shift at the state level. The real indication of a political sea-change is that the incumbent Republican governors were re-elected in eight of the nine states that Obama won twice (which makes the lone exception -- Pennsylvania's Tom Corbett -- a particularly miserable loser). You can add to that the shocking Republican victories in Marxist states like Massachusetts, Maryland, and even Obama's home state of Illinois.

It's obvious to me that the Democrats are in this situation because Barack Hussein Obama is about as popular as Ebola right now.

[SunkenCiv]

The point? Obama has sacrificed his party to his ideology as the litany of failures described by Victor Davis Hanson illustrates. An analysis of Obama's character, his ideology and his narcissism (not to mention his belligerent tone in yesterday's press conference) leads one to no other assumption but that he will continue to sacrifice Democrat party electoral chances to advance his radical socialist/communist ideology.

I wholeheartedly agree.

[xzins]

Obama is already signaling his strategy. It’s going to be: “It’s only poor little me against a Republican establishment. I’ll hold them back the best I can, but you know they are sinister and out to injure America...and me.”

The media will pick it up, of course, and they’ll play it like Martin Luther King, Jr. against The Entire FBI.

Count on it. Republicans desperately need to pick a woman and a minority as Speaker and Majority Leader. NOW.

[bert]

——he will continue to sacrifice Democrat party electoral chances to advance his radical socialist/communist ideology.——

I would argue that the “radical socialist/communist ideology” is the Democrat party, one and the same. Obama was seen as the Messiah precisely because the party wanted to implement the radical socialist/communist ideology

[Travis McGee]

This is a period of great danger, with a psychotic narcissist in command of everything from the nuclear football to our open borders. I’d compare it to you-know-who in the Berlin bunker, hating his own people for their disloyalty, and their inability to perceive his unique genius, and vowing to bring on his own Gotterdammerung.

[randita]

Good commentary. Thanks.

Hanson raises a great question.

At Waterloo, it was never quite clear whether Wellington's redcoats had won the battle or Napoleon's veterans had blown it.

In the same manner, did the Republican agenda win on Tuesday, or did the predictable Democrats simply lose?

[RedEyeJack]

“Obama has sacrificed his party to his ideology as the litany of failures described by Victor Davis Hanson illustrates. An analysis of Obama’s character, his ideology and his narcissism (not to mention his belligerent tone in yesterday's press conference) leads one to no other assumption but that he will continue to sacrifice Democrat party electoral chances to advance his radical socialist/communist ideology”.

Perhaps the crew of the Pequod will mutiny and not follow their Captain Ahab into the briny deep. The election says that the whale (i.e., the People) has been aroused and is a little angry already. Another poorly aimed harpoon (executive amnesty) may send it over the edge. We can only hope.

[RipSawyer]

“...if Republicans will act like conservatives.”
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Unfortunately, most of them are not trained actors which they would need to be to act like conservatives.