All Virginia and New York-23 prove is that the looney right is reorganized and re-energized

[Nikki Stone1]

We need to take them seriously and fight them like mad. The moderate GOP may be dead, but the looney right is alive and well.

[VMI Dem]

1. Doesn't prove jack in VA.

Except that Deeds sucks ass.

[Nikki Stone1]

6. The GOP picked a hard right candidate, not a more moderate type

The hard right wing is using tonight's election to prove that the GOP should run all hard right people in 2010.

[VMI Dem]

11. McDonnell ran his campaign as a total moderate.

Avoiding extreme right language and groups.

[Nikki Stone1]

12. His thesis was known to everyone as was his college

I think people knew who they were voting for.

[VMI Dem]

14. That thesis deal fell flat.

Deeds focused on it way too much. McDonnell ran away from it. Thats not rightwing. If it was the extreme right, why did he run away from it?

[vadawg]

21. i think the adverts that mcdonnel ran with the women he worked with and his daughter

totally destroyed that avenue of attack, it seemed a dumb attack in the first place from deeds.

[VMI Dem]

25. Agreed.

[Nikki Stone1]

30. So the va in vadawg stands for "Virginia"? What part are you from?

And what was the general feeling in your neck of the woods?

[vadawg]

31. i live in the mountains, i said a while ago that deeds would lose bigtime

mainly because my neighbours who supported obama in the general had mcdonnell signs on their yards, deeds just ran a really bad campaign.

[Nay]

17. And that VA is no blue state, despite the vote for Obama. nt

[trumad]

2. Both very conservative districts....

which were expected to go Repub anyway...

[lame54]

3. Hoffman is not repub...

he's Frankenstein's monster

[Nikki Stone1]

4. They didn't go Republican, they went hard right. (The Republican in NY was forced out of the race)

The biggest mistake would be to see this as the same old game with the same old rules.

[Posteritatis]

15. The New York district is actually *right of the Republicans*, isn't it? (nt)

[marmar]

5. From what I hear about New York 23, it's a completely looney right district....

.... A depressed "clinging to God and guns" area where people vote against their best interests.

[trumad]

Bingo

so it's no surprise that a dem lost.

[Nikki Stone1]

10. Trumad, do you know a thing about that district?

:rofl:

[trumad]

23. My bad--jumped the gun on saying the dem lost...

but---a Dem hasn't won in that district for over a Century...I only know what I read.

[Nikki Stone1]

7. If it were, how did a moderate repub get on the ticket to begin with?

I don't buy that.

[Johonny]

8. pretty much

The story here is the GOP lost in a district they owned for over 100 years to a guy with no viable national appeal. This doesn't appear to be a national strategy in districts that are really in play.

[Tesha]

9. It's also the home of Fort Drum, still a major military installation.

Like so many "conservatives", they live off of the government they despise.

Tesha

[tsuki]

16. Odd that they would vote for a Pagan. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. I have been saying this for over a few years but

don't expect this to register... it simply won't until it is too damn late

[dschis]

19. The real deal

is that Democrats stayed home. I know of two or three. If you vote for a a "blue dog" he/she is really a "DINO" (Democrats in Name Only).

[HughMoran]

22. What to register - that Republicans won the races they were expected to win?

Even after Obama was elected last fall, these races were expected to go Republican.

Completely meaningless...

[HughMoran]

18. Doesn't even show that - Republicans were nearly 100% expected to win these races

The only possible surprise tonight is NJ.

[Lex]

20. What? Hasn't that NY district been Republican for 100 YEARS?

How does it mean anything if a Republican wins it.

Please explain.

[HughMoran]

24. & Virginia almost always elects opposite party to new President

This thread is meaningless.

[Nikki Stone1]

29. Hugh Moran, you are aptly named.

:rofl:

[Nikki Stone1]

28. It is moderate Republican according to a DUer who lives there. It's never been hard right

Remember: the Republican didn't win--she was forced out of the race. It was the new "Conservative" party that won. Don't mistake one for the other. This was a coup of the GOP by the looney right. We need to be really careful because these loonies have been regrouping since the election.

[elocs]

26. Exactly right. We ignore them or do not take them seriously at our own peril.

For those who have been dancing on the grave of the GOP, you may be in for a rude awakening. If the looney right does get organized and energized they will be successful. It seems like they did a good job last summer at the town hall meetings because where were all the Democrats and Liberals who should have been there to support healthcare reform and especially the have the backs of the Democratic representatives who faced those angry crowds.

[Nikki Stone1]

27. +1000000---I can't recommend your post enough

Tales of the far right's demise are premature at best.