Comments on: Dems Begin Lowering Expectations on 2010

By: Herodotus

Herodotus — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:35:58 +0000

Stanford will be term limited from the governorship soon.

By: Herodotus

Herodotus — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:31:25 +0000

By: penguin2

penguin2 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:55:23 +0000

Remember, that there will be an anti-Democrat sentiment present. This backlash may protect some Republican seats and give vulnerability to even “blue dog” Democrats.

By: kyle8

kyle8 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:11:46 +0000

let’s not forget that he was hated by the left for his anti crime stance.

Crime is a social issue.

By: kyle8

kyle8 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:09:50 +0000

resistance is futile

By: JSobieski

JSobieski — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:54:02 +0000

Meanwhile, Arnold is barely Republican on anything at this point.

He really has folded like a bad hand of poker.

By: Rapunzel46

Rapunzel46 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:52:36 +0000

Never should have been re-elected. The man lacks a core. A recall might be nice, if SC had some good conservatives they could run against him, otherwise he is in there for six more years. We can only hope his side-kick is defeated next year and it shakes the Graham up enough to use his head before he puts his mouth in gear.

By: Rapunzel46

Rapunzel46 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:50:53 +0000

voting for that bill last week. I could imagine Arnie voting for it in a heartbeat. Rudy and Arnie both may me social liberals but I believe Rudy is grounded in solid economic principles, which allowed him to turn NYC around, while Arnie sold out to the Kennedy klan and did an abysmal job in CA, particularly the last four years. He started out promising and then grew green and weak.

By: Rapunzel46

Rapunzel46 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:30:16 +0000

I loathe Boxer, too… but Arnold???

By: dld1717

dld1717 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:04:20 +0000

I think Lincoln is easier to knock off then Pryor

People need to get Huckabee to run for good of party and so he can get his ideas out

By: dld1717

dld1717 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:57:50 +0000

Honestly, I would take even a Arnold if it meant that you know what was knocked off

I loathe Barbara Boxer

By: redneck_hippie

redneck_hippie — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:29:45 +0000

Well…Mark Levin and his friend, Fred will have a few words to say on that.

By: spainishirish

spainishirish — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:23:47 +0000

Obama started with something completely indefensible. It will be difficult for him to jump into something even more so.

And it will be nice to see the courts rip Obama a new one if he somehow pushes thru the Fairness Doctrine, CIR, or Card Check. Unlike his spending bill, these involve instant constitutional challenges.

By: Rich Tandler

Rich Tandler — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:08:42 +0000

. . .a former teammate of his told me, “He’s got to be running as a Democrat. He’s too dumb to be a Republican.”

By: itrytobenice

itrytobenice — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:11:18 +0000

I think in 4 years the country will look back wistfully on the Bush years as years of peace and prosperity. And we can tie Robin Carnahan to BO and beat her with a dead cat.

By: kweiss01

kweiss01 — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:18:44 +0000

I’d like very much to believe that the stimulus fight has stiffened some Republican backbones and made them remember what being a Republican means.

But then I read about Lindsey Graham endorsing the Wyden healthcare plan (http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_treatment/archive/2009/02/12/wyden-s-political-balancing-act.aspx) or look at the Republicans’ own stimulus proposal to fix the price on mortgages (price fixing?!) and think they’ve still got a long way to go.

If Republicans are still uncertain on such key issues as how or if government should intervene in our healthcare or whether government should fix prices rather than let the market do its work, well… We still haven’t returned to being the party of small government, have we?

By: redneck_hippie

redneck_hippie — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:51:34 +0000

The reverberations will go a long way to kill Obama’s chances at getting the rest of his agenda into law. Doing this deed in the night, behind closed doors, etc. is sticking to him. And these are not missteps. It was calculated and connived for.

The next round (whether it’s comprehensive immigration reform and its twin sister card check, Fairness Doctrine, nationalizing medicine/banking or what-not, it’s not going to be so quick next time. This is not Checkoslovakia, Barry.

By: noufa

noufa — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:37:29 +0000

Both could be branded as RINO moderates. As a conservative Republican, I have serious concerns about both men on important issues. But it’s easier to respect Rudy. Maybe because national security is a huge issue in a post 9/11 world.

There’s something else at play, though. One can disagree with Rudy on important issues yet still believe he has thought long & hard before taking a stance. Rudy almost seems to enjoy political confrontation & he is GREAT at it. That’s not the mark of a fickle man.

Maybe I’m not being fair, but Arnold seems less serious. He is primarily interested in defending his public persona. Remember how easily he backed off after losing on those ballot initiatives? Yeah, he was re-elected but the state is still a huge financial mess.

Another thing: Rudy fought hard for Bill Simon, who would have power to appoint justices & would have been a much CA Republican standard-bearer than Arnold.

By: E Pluribus Unum

E Pluribus Unum — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:33:20 +0000

Personally, I’ve already factored it in, and I believe what I believe. What they’ve been doing, they’ve been doing incrementally for years.

Now they are wide open with it, and when you see Rush stations going off the air because of some federal regulatory mumbo-jumbo, you will see that they have reached too far – and suddenly it ALL will be up for review, starting with unions, the media, then socialized health care, overregulation, the whole thing.

And in spite of the stacked deck. ordinarily people will have had enough, and they will throw it off.

By: Martin Knight

Martin Knight — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:42:29 +0000

Nowadays, the new breed of Republican “moderate” wants to be free to vote with Democrats on procedure as well as policy. And in the name of the Big Tent, he/she expects us to accept him/her with open arms! After all, even though he/she votes 100% with the Democrats, that’s still better than having a Democrat there right?

dld … look, we’re open to Mike DeWines (even if he was one of the dumb dumb dumb members of the Gang of ~~Idiots~~Fourteen), Rudy Giulianis and Gary Johnson types, but Chafee-types like Schwarzenegger are a Fifth Column.

We may have a Republican Majority Leader, but we’ll never be able to get legislation passed, or introduce any meaningful reforms because our Senate “moderates” tend to be principle-free content-less vapid idiots.

So what is the point? Better to find men and women of principle and courage, who believe in something, even if to the Left on some issues from somewhere other than the place where they manufacture “Republicans” like Chafee, Jeffords, Arnie and the Maine twins.