Posted on 10/17/2018 8:40:07 AM PDT by Lazamataz
Just a few weeks ago, analysts thought that control of the U.S. Senate was in play this November and that momentum was shifting to the Democrats. Thanks to their brutal campaign of character assassination against now-Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, those chances appear to be slipping away.
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What is most interesting to contemplate is what happens to the Democrat Party if they lose seats in the Senate and the House remains near to the makeup that it is now.
How many elections do the Democrats follow the path they are on now - resistance - flirting with totalitarian violent responses?
I suspect they will have to continue on this path through 2020, running some ancient old politician, like Biden, with ties back to early 90’s Democrat Party, on a semi-resistance platform. But very soon - if not after this election, certainly after the next - they will come to reckoning. They will have to go full in on socialist revolution or back way off to become a traditional party, center left perhaps, that rediscovers patriotism and a pro-America agenda. Right now the path they are on is a fascist totalitarian revolution with white people playing the role of Jew for the new mob of “color” and radical leftist women. They can’t stay where they are if they are losing - they’ve got to move one direction or the other.
THAT will be a very interesting time.
Dem excuses for losing never have anything to do with policy
Brett Kavanaugh Vows to Fight 'Smears' and Will Not Withdraw - The ...https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation.html
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/brett-kavanaugh-aftermath/
The Character Assassination of Brett Kavanaugh by the Cowardly ...https://www.weeklystandard.com/.../the-character-assassination-of-brett-kavanaugh-by...
Character Assassination: Democrats Just Referred Judge Kavanaugh ...https://townhall.com/.../conservatives-slam-dianne-feinsteins-last-minute-assassination-...
Agreed. Anyone expecting a “wave” either way is going to be disappointed.
“I hope this is right.”
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The writer is probably the most Trump-GOP friendly at the WaPo (or he may be the only GOP-Trump friendly one) but, in looking at misc polling, I think the numbers are looking a lot better than they did just a few weeks back.
Whether that can be attributed down to the nasty attacks on Kav, as the writer says, I don’t know. I’m just glad things seem to be moving our way. But I think most people were disgusted by the nomination circus.
FTA:
Case in point is Tennessee, where Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn was struggling in her Senate race against popular former Democratic governor Phil Bredesen. In mid-September — after the first Kavanaugh confirmation hearings — a CNN poll showed Blackburn trailing by five points (in a state Donald Trump won by 26 points).
But as the ferocity of the attacks on Kavanaugh grew, so did Blackburn’s poll numbers. By early October — after Christine Blasey Ford testified and Kavanaugh was accused of exposing himself to a college classmate and participating in high school gang rapes — a CBS News poll showed that Blackburn had pulled ahead by eight points. And last week, after Kavanaugh was finally confirmed amid scenes of angry protesters banging on the doors of the Supreme Court, a New York Times poll showed Blackburn leading by 14 points.
That is a shift of 19 points in one month.
In other words, the Democrats’ smear campaign of uncorroborated sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh has united Tennessee Republicans behind Blackburn and poured cold water on Democrats’ chances in the Volunteer State. And rightly so. It probably didn’t help with Tennessee voters that Democrats excoriated Kavanaugh for his high school drinking and for inside jokes in his high school yearbook — as if being a beer-drinking jock was some sort of crime.
Worse, Kavanaugh was publicly branded a sex offender for accusations decades old and uncorroborated by any witnesses or evidence. A man’s good name was being destroyed. The treatment of Kavanaugh wasn’t fair, just or right. And it backfired. Politico reports that retiring Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) told Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) that Democrats’ attacks on Kavanaugh hurt Bredesen badly. Bredesen clearly saw the impact the Kavanaugh fiasco was having on his support among Republican voters he needed to win, because he tried to cauterize the bleeding by coming out at the last moment in support of Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
But while his endorsement did not mollify angry Republicans, it enraged many of his Democratic supporters. The super PAC Priorities USA said it would not support Bredesen, while MoveOn announced, “We’re cancelling a planned six-figure digital video ad expenditure for Phil Bredesen in Tennessee due to his Kavanaugh position.” Campaign volunteers have reportedly been bolting from his campaign."
Heh, y'all.
This is Theissen, who is a lot more conservative than most WaPo writers.
“Sadly, most voters probably still don’t know who Brett Kavanaugh is or what happened. We live in a very low information society.”
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However, it should inspire those who are most likely to vote in midterms - both Dems And Reps. Midterms are not determined as much by the general low info voters as it is by the those who are informed on what’s going on. It’s more a matter of turnout.
It’s both.
P.S. Yes, I spelt that word correctly without having to look it up yet again. You know the one I mean. ^_^
P.P.S. You know what we need? A clever, illustrated meme showing Mary Poppins as a Republican who supports President Donald J. Trump. That would really make the leftists slobber and moan with sheer hatred. Where are the weaponized autistics today?
“This is Theissen, who is a lot more conservative than most WaPo writers.”
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Yup -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/marc-a-thiessen
But I do think there’s been a GOP-favorable breeze stirring up within the last month.
Pretty good analysis.
I am speculating that we keep the Senate and likely add to the majority. With 435 seats, the House is just too difficult to predict, especially in the age of Trump. However, I think 2020 will be the watershed in US politics.
Unlike the midterms, 2020 will be a national election and Democrats simply will not be able to cobble together 270 electoral votes. The mob has taken over the Party. Bernie Sanders was the canary in the coal mine. He will run again and may not do as well, but what is clear is that the Dem Party will lurch to the socialist left in order to capture any enthusiasm.
Dems will have to seriously court the anarchists and pledge some fealty to them. If not, the Party will be split and significantly weakened.
So 2018 will be interesting and may have some marginal effect on 2020, but 2020 is going to be the watershed election for Democrats as a national party.
That must mean that their internal polling is showing an absolute implosion.
Marc Thiessen is a (somewhat) conservative op-ed writer who has a regular twice-weekly column in WaPo, just as the late Charles Krauthammer did. Thiessen was actually a speechwriter for Pres. G.W. Bush, for what that may be worth. Very R. establishment but able to say some sensible things now and then.
Would ppl try to learn the difference between the words of one op-ed writer (yes, even liberal papers try to allow the occasional conservative voice to appear open minded) and the editorial and news policies of said papers??!!
Every time there is a remotely conservative opinion column in NY Times, WaPo, etc. a lot of FReepers act as though the impossible just happened, or as if the editorial policies of said paper are changing. No and no. It is just the occasional dissenting voice permitted by the liberal monolith, so that they can try to tell themselves they are not 100% Stalinist.
Just because some fictional character named 'Q' says 'the vote is secure' you would be stupid to rely on it.
This not the Washington Post reporting staff or editorial board admitting wrongdoing by democrats. This is an opinion piece written by long time conservative contributor Marc Thiessen. Big difference.
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