GOP sweep: Big governor victories in Virginia, NJ

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Taka313 at 11:54 PM JST - 5th November

Sail,

I also have to laugh at your poll about the country being headed in the wrong direction. If 60 percent or so say the country is headed in the wrong direction and the president is polling at above 50% approval and the Democrats have higher approval than republicans whose leader, mitch mcconnel suffers from approval rates in the 20% range, who do you think the American public is pissed at?

Man, when you jumped off the deep end, you went head first.

Taka
Taka313 at 12:04 AM JST - 6th November

Holy Cow Yabits, you're right. I just looked at RCP.com and last year about now, little over 80% said the country was headed in the wrong direction.

So what we are experiencing here is acute ODS. Yep, fewer people think the country is headed in the wrong direction and because a black democrat is in power, that's now apparently a bad thing.

Simply amazing.

Taka
yabits at 12:11 AM JST - 6th November

Hello, Taka313:

So what we are experiencing here is acute ODS. Yep, fewer people think the country is headed in the wrong direction and because a black democrat is in power, that's now apparently a bad thing.

Isn't it funny how some people believe that Inauguration Day somehow represents a complete restart of history? Like the turning of an Etch-a-Sketch upside-down and shaking it to remove everything that happened before.

Would that could only be possible!
yabits at 12:16 AM JST - 6th November

If the polling question were to be asked: "Do you believe the country is headed in a better direction now than it was a year ago?" -- The percentage of "no" responses would provide a very quick tally of delusional idiots in the sampled audience.
Sarge at 12:16 AM JST - 6th November

The Democrats losing New Jersey is like Ted Kennedy losing Massachusetts. How could this happen?
yabits at 12:24 AM JST - 6th November

How could this happen?

It happens through the willful and complete ignorance revealed in questions like that one.

The Democrats and Republicans have exchanged control of the New Jersey state house on a regular basis over the past 40 years. Remember Tom Kean? (probably not). Remember Christine Todd Whitman? Both were recent Republican governors of New Jersey.

As for Massachusetts, I seem to recall the names of William Weld and Mitt Romney as occupying in the governor's seat in the not too distant past.

Making something out of complete nothing seems to be a common Republican tendency these days. I give you Sarah Palin... (cue snare drum and cymbal.)
Sarge at 12:32 AM JST - 6th November

"Making something out of a complete nothing"

Yes, yabits, the supposedly irrelevant Republicans winning two governorships despite Obama's campaigning for the Democrat losers is a complete nothing, ha ha ha!

"I give you Sarah Palin"

Sorry, Sarah Palin is also "irrelevant" ha ha ha!
yabits at 12:45 AM JST - 6th November

Yes, yabits, the supposedly irrelevant Republicans winning two governorships

I never claimed that the Republicans were irrelevant. There are plenty of "nothings" that the Republicans set out there for the delusional to vote for. After the string of debacles of the previous 8 years, having so many people still so duped as to be likened to chickens voting for Colonel Sanders is certainly not irrelevant. Not when it causes so much damage to our nation.

My hope is that someday Republicans will be as irrelevant as they richly deserve to be. Unfortunately, it may require more of their leadership [sic] to get the really dumb and slow to finally wisen up. (It took a Hoover to bring about FDR; it took a Bush to pave the way for Barack Obama.)

Great hope does come with the younger generation, who would rather associate themselves with an accordion band than with Republicans.
zurcronium at 03:23 AM JST - 6th November

This is like the body twitching after its been dead for hours. The republican party will fall apart as the palinistas and the few remaining sane republicans people will never agree on where the party needs to go next. Its like watching a slow motion train wreck.

Better indication of the future was the congressional seat in NY that was republican for decades and is now democratic due to palin interference.
sailwind at 02:13 PM JST - 6th November

Taka,

Sail, So, because you think the country is headed in the wrong direction, that gives you the right to slam Beelzebub for claiming that he would prefer something other than a two-party system. Your beliefs give you the right to assume that he meant a Democratic permanent majority and not a multi-party system with more than two parties.

Noted.

The fact that you refused to even consider that is what makes you now a radical, not believing the country is headed in the wrong direction (while ignoring that many thought the country was headed in the wrong direction before Pres. Obama).

I read Beelzebub's post and I commented on it. To me it sounds like he is advocating a one party state. He has had plenty of time to refute me or clarify his position. he has not, but you do seem to feel you can speak for him after all going so far as to call my comment 'radical'. When all you are doing is speculating as to Beelzebub's real position. I have read his posts in the past and he is very far left wing and it would be no shock if he was a real socialist just as Yabits is ( you want radical? Yabits can't wait for the "Glorious Revolution" when all the capitalists pay for their "crimes agaisn't humanity").

Second point.....

So what we are experiencing here is acute ODS. Yep, fewer people think the country is headed in the wrong direction and because a black democrat is in power, that's now apparently a bad thing.

I could care less about Obama's skin color he could be orange and with purple polka dots for all I care. Why is it with the left that they always want to bring the 'race card' in if someone actually has to fortitude to 'gasp' actually dis-agree with their enlightened views? I am a fiscal conservative and Obama is a big spending liberal you think I'm actually going to change and support his policies? Gawd, I was hoping he would be a centrist but boy I was wrong. And the good independent voters of both Virginia and New Jersey came to same conclusion.

Last thing Taka....... It is my opinion that you and the left will now attempt to demonize anyone who disagree's with your views by painting them as either 'radical' or 'racist'. I found that very sad and disturbing.
lostrune2 at 04:26 PM JST - 6th November

Seems VA and NJ voted Republican despite (not because of) Obama since Obama still has a 54% approval rating (relatively speaking, that's pretty good for a sitting President). However, while the majority still like Obama, many do disagree with some of his policies. VA, until recently, has been a Republican state, and NJ, while usually Democratic but only by 3-4% margin, really didn't like the crazy Corzine.

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In the meantime, what Palin didn't realize about NY is, despite a solid Democrat state, NYers regularly vote Republican mayors and governors, just not the ultra-conservative types, unlike Alaska. It may be good to some that the Party is purged of non-purists, it won't help them gain the numbers in Democrat states to wrestle back the majority seats in the House of Representatives. There may be more cohesiveness in a purer Party, but the majority Party gets to control the powerful committees in Congress.
lostrune2 at 04:40 PM JST - 6th November

sailwind,

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Why would anyone expect Obama to be centrist when he's more liberal than Hillary Clinton, and many Republican voters didn't like Hillary and were hoping she'd be defeated in the Primaries. It's similar thing with Bush Jr., when many independents expected Bush to be centrist. (The thought of depending on unpure independents would give Sarah Palin a heart attack.)

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But yeah, labeling "radical" and "racist" isn't good form, as well as labeling "unpatriotic" and "communist." People should just stop with the labels.
Taka313 at 01:29 AM JST - 7th November

Sail, I concede that YOU don't care about race however, your ODS is quite undeniable.

Now if you can go back and comment on the facts I presented instead of trying to take the moral high ground after attacking another poster, MY degree of sadness and disturbance would abate quite a bit since you completely ignored those facts this time around.

Long story short, try again camper.

Taka
Taka313 at 01:52 AM JST - 7th November

"When all you are doing is speculating as to Beelzebub's real position. I have read his posts in the past and he is very far left wing and it would be no shock if he was a real socialist just as Yabits is ( you want radical? Yabits can't wait for the "Glorious Revolution" when all the capitalists pay for their "crimes agaisn't humanity")."

What an awe inspiring comment. Allow me to translate:

When Taka speculates: Bad

When Sailwind speculates: moderate good and morally pure.

You "speculated" that Belezebub only wants a 1 party system.

You "speculated" that he didn't reply for nefarious reasons and not that he simply didn't check this thread again.

Then you "speculated" that Yabits is a socialist.

Allow me to speculate. In my speculation, that was the most hypocritical post from you EVER. So no, Sail, no accusations of racism but you definitely hit the hypocrite juice pretty hard yesterday afternoon. Hypocrite juice bongs or IV drip?

Taka
victimcrat at 02:37 AM JST - 8th November

Sweep. Sweep.