Overshadowing the whole night was Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s decisive triumph over Matt Bevin, a conservative Louisville investor whose bid drew support from outside groups such as the Senate Conservatives Fund and FreedomWorks. Bevin proved entirely unequal to the task of fighting McConnell and saw his public image shredded as McConnell’s campaign picked apart his record on issues from bank bailouts to cockfighting.AND: Chelsea Clinton's mother-in-law fails in her effort to get back to Congress, despite help from Bill and Hillary Clinton.
May 21, 2014
"In 3 states Tuesday night, long-serving lawmakers rolled over tea party opponents."
"Eight-term Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson beat back a challenger supported by Club for Growth, the most influential conservative group targeting elected officials in primaries. In Pennsylvania, Rep. Bill Shuster easily dispatched an opponent once touted as a tea party warrior."
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regardless of the electoral success of "tea party" candidates, they have surely proved their point to remind "long-serving lawmakers" of the fundamentals of our party - limited government.
You need to watch a little which publication is touting which races.
It's hard to replace incumbents, but they'll need the tea party support in November.
If I listen to the Dem talking points all over the news media yesterday, the "GOP civil war is over, and the Tea Party won". Outright, bold face lies are now the norm, since they know the press will not question them. I'll get off my soap box now.
I thought DWS and others were claiming that the TP had taken over the GOP?
On the Clinton Margolies angle. She got beat because she is a radical leftist and because she is crooked...
It's too bad those incumbents weren't shown the door. They are certainly part of the problem. Especially Shuster. Ugh.
Alternate Headline:
Racists Crushed.
Wow. TEA party loses in headlines, candidate's image shredded (by one of the most well established and powerful members of Congress) in the body.
Really not clear from the story how many (or if any) of the winners are TEA party endorsed. Unless every unseated incumbent means TEA party winner?
>The Crack Emcee:
>Alternate Headline:
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>Racists Crushed.
Are you saying Tea Parties is more racist than Republicans? How do you figure? Is it because TP'ers are less likely to go along with the Democrats?
"The Crack Emcee said...
Alternate Headline:
Racists Crushed."
With this wit and insight I am shocked that you are such a loser.
So:
The Party that believes that race doesn't matter is racist, and the party that believes that race is all that matters isn't racist...right?
McConnell is a shrewd dude. I can see why he's the Republican's leader in the Senate. In a race between him and Rand Paul for Kentucky senate, either a Republican primary or among the entire electorate, McConnell would trounce Paul. This is why Rand Paul says nothing about McConnell. He wants his help to get reelected in 2016.
… regardless of the electoral success of "tea party" candidates, they have surely proved their point to remind "long-serving lawmakers" of the fundamentals of our party - limited government.
Exactly.
"The Crack Emcee said...
Alternate Headline:
Racists Crushed."
To which I give you a Condi Rice Remembrance:
“The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.”
I think you misspelled "because of" in the update
The Drill Sgt: "To which I give you a Condi Rice Remembrance:
“The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.”"
According to Crack, Condi Rice's father is not a real black. According to Crack, Condi Rice is not a real black.
According to Gloria Steinem, Senator Kay Baily Hutchison was a "female impersonator".
I think I'm seeing a pattern.
BTW, whenever I see "The" Tea Party, I have to laugh.
Gahrie: "The Party that believes that race doesn't matter is racist, and the party that believes that race is all that matters isn't racist...right?"
Yes.
Everything in lefty-land is orwellian alice-in-wonderland upside down.
Which is why they must, inevitably, invariably, implement rules/laws/pressure to ensure that anyone who notices the illogic of their positions be ostracized and "other-ized".
We have only seen this for the last 100 years everywhere the left obtains power.
But only everywhere.
They lost because they are a bunch of racists. If they weren't so racist, they wouldn't have lost.
But the Republican party is going to keep losing until they learn to give back to the Native Americans what they have taken.
Clearly this is a win for Native Americans and a crushing defeat for the racists in our country.
It takes the Republicans being back in power for the Tea Party to rise again.
We forget how spineless and Democrat-lite they can be once they have power. We think, "Surely they'll do what they say they'll do once they have power again, right?" and when that doesn't happen, suddenly the voters remember, and that's when the groups like the Tea Party and, heck, I don't even remember all the Democrat attempted alternatives, rise up to show their dissatisfaction.
Establishment is finally taking the Tea Party challenges seriously. We'll see if this pattern holds up through 2016.
The best news from the night was the failure of the Clinton in-law. Anything that serves as a smack in the face to that family can only be a good thing. Not that it could have helped that her husband was convicted of fraud. Hey, you lay in a sty, you'll get pig crap on you.
One thing about this year's midterms is that the Dems don't really have as much at stake as the GOP does. If the Senate flips, the GOP can pass some legislation (which Obama will veto) and can block nominees (which they can already do, except where Reid pared back the fillibuster). If it doesn't flip, we still get two more years of gridlock.
But for the GOP, this means getting whatever seats they can as a backstop for 2016, which should be a good year for the Dems (as a presidential election year, with higher turnout, plus with a lot of blue state GOPers on the ballot like Toomey, Rubio and Ron Johnson). Plus, if the Dems hold the Senate, Reid may feel emboldened enough to scrap the fillibuster entirely so he can get some Obama nominees on the courts.
If the Tea Party's pragmatic and actually wants results--by which I mean to avoid a real setback--they'll swallow their pride and do what it takes to help the "establishment" GOPers. I have a feeling they'll do just that.
PB - nothing really sends the message other than defeating the establishment cronies. There is nothing like victory.
Crack Emcee wrote:
Alternate Headline:
Racists Crushed.
I'd like you to name 3 things that the people who lost did that youd consider racist. 3. Becuase otherwise it's just a lefty smear.
And, I thought it was republicans that were racist. So if the republican beat the tea party wouldn't your alternate alternate headline be "racists hold onto power"?
The TEA Party is working on the inside of the GOP and has been doing so since they began. The idea is to take over the nominating process and the local committees. They are conducting seminars on how to get involved. The lefties see none of this. They use unions and ACORN for this kind of nuts and bolts work. The frustration that led to inadequate candidates in some national races in 2010 is over.
jr565, Crack Emcee's comments are not a smear, they are a snark.
Crack wakes up each morning and shouts RACIST! Sad to see the onset of early-stage dementia.
Alyson Schwartz has held that PA-13 House seat for five terms. She gave it up to run for the Dem nomination for governor, and lost badly to businessman Tom Wolf.
Margolies was defeated by state representative Brendan Boyle, a pro-choicer who nonetheless voted in favor of the abortion safety rules passed in the aftermath of the Gosnell murders.
Will Dems campaign for this warrior against women in the fall?
Yet, the widely parroted Democrat talking point yesterday was how the Tea Party "took over" the Republican Party.
I think Margolies lost because she is too crooked even for Democrat voters.
EDH said...
Yet, the widely parroted Democrat talking point yesterday was how the Tea Party "took over" the Republican Party
Being a lefty requires the ability to fervently and vehemently believe contradictory and mutually exclusive possibilities.
Nothing new here.
BTW, whenever I see "The" Tea Party, I have to laugh.
They are cute when they get mad though.
The story today about Clinton's mother in law losing, despite all the help from the "Clinton Machine", failed to mention even once that Marjorie Margolies is the wife of convicted felon, Democrat U.S. Congressman Edward Mezvinsky.
Gahrie,
The Party that believes that race doesn't matter is racist,…
Because they've been ahistorical, making monkey noises at blacks they shoot, and claiming we're happy as slaves, while fighting the "big government" we've used to slow white racism,…
"And the party that believes that race is all that matters isn't racist…"
Because they've been making life easier for blacks to live, and respectful of the country's history, while fighting those who insist on continuing the white tradition of standing in black's way to complete freedom,…
"right?"
Right,...
The Drill SGT,
A Condi Rice Remembrance:
“The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.”
Republican Lee Atwater Remembrance:
You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”
Now - if the two parties haven't switched sides - who, then and now, is the "you" saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger”?
It was the Democrats, then, who are the Republicans now.
And neither Condi nor I can shut them up,...
Drago,
"According to Crack, Condi Rice's father is not a real black. According to Crack, Condi Rice is not a real black."
No, according to the Crack you make up in that well of delusion you call a mind, Condi Rice and her father are not a real blacks. You've NEVER heard me say it, or imply it.
In other words - as I point out daily - you're a liar.
Can I prove you're a liar? Of course I can. Because I have a blog:
Condoleezza Rice For President!
I think you'll lie because A) you're white B) you're scared, and C) you know Condi and I are Republicans who are both saying you've got a race problem.
All the "real blacks" are saying it,...
Crack,
I may regret this, but I read that the little-noted context of Atwater's remarks is that he was calling bullshit on the assertion that he and Republicans were wooing racists. As in, he was saying, if you WERE trying to appeal to racists, then using that [disusting] word is a very direct way to do so; but that by the time you get to his then-present-day coded appeal, the connection is just too obscure. In other words, he was saying, No, I don't see it.
I don't know if that's right. I deplore the way he put it. I do know that my party voted for civil rights laws in higher numbers than did Democrats, that my philosophy thinks racial discrimination is a betrayal of the ideals of the country you'll damn me as a racist for loving, and that if I were tying to keep the black man down, I couldn't do much better than liberal policies have done.
JPS,
"Crack,
I may regret this, but I read that the little-noted context of Atwater's remarks is that he was calling bullshit on the assertion that he and Republicans were wooing racists. As in, he was saying, if you WERE trying to appeal to racists, then using that [disusting] word is a very direct way to do so,..
I don't know if that's right,…"
Atwater, like most racists, was a pretty ugly dude. He WAS trying to say race will be on the back-burner one day but, like Rand Paul's recent underhanded BS on ID voting laws, he was also showing how to maintain the status quo of white supremacy:
"By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like,...totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.…"
"Blacks get hurt worse than whites.…"
THAT's racism. (Don't even get me started on why ANY group of Americans is seen as having to "get" hurt,…) This is the essence of colorblind racism. It's another partisan ploy for lowly racist whites to gain plausible deniability, but - and this is the truly twisted and cynical part - by hiding behind black's high ideals.
They know we believe in America - it's what we're fighting for. For the country to stand for it's beliefs. And they oppose us.
What does that make them?
Racist whites pretend they've somehow gained the stature to lead the Civil Rights Movement, to tell us how it's doing, and where it should be going, in it's battle against their power.
Who do they think they're fooling? How do they think they really look to us?
This is exactly how they look.
They've done it to themselves. Read this thread and look at how they'll lie on me and other blacks. I haven't stopped being black and they don't get it:
They're white guys attacking a black guy.
I'm like a red flag to these bulls. They can't get over it. A black who doesn't agree with them! HE MUST BE DESTROYED!!!
And they'll sell out every belief they claim to be conservative Republicans for to win.
Just ask Mitt Romney,...
Well, that sucks. Progressive corruption unchecked, will end with a dysfunctional convergence.
The objective is for Republicans to continue to control the House and take control of the Senate. Any squabble over whether Mitch McConnell (or whoever) is "conservative enough" has to be subordinated to that. So now that the primaries are mostly behind us, all Republicans, conservatives, right libertarians, and True Scotsmen need to set aside their differences and work for the common good. And I think they will.
Crack is correct, there should be no color blind society!
First comes the Native Americans, they were here first!
Once we sort that out and give them their due, then we can worry about the rest. But let's all be honest here, shall we? The racism towards Native Americans is a real shame on our country. Washington Redskins? Really?!
Once Crack starts working towards making things right for Native American's, then we'll know he is serious.
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