Democrats Getting Ready to “Torch” Dodd?
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In the end, Connecticut Democrats can’t make Sen. Chris Dodd choose to retire. They can go to him and urge him to think about the joys of an ambassadorship, or teaching, or heading up some organization and raking the cash in by the bucketload. They could publicly endorse a serious primary challenger.
A former state party chair talking about how someone ought to urge him to retire is probably giving Democrats the worst of both worlds. Dodd isn’t likely to take the advice, and Connecticut voters notice, “Wow, even Democratic party officials are sick of this guy.”
This isn’t confirmation that the “Torricelli maneuver” — a last-minute, not-entirely-voluntary candidate switch — is coming down the pike, but clearly some Democrats in that state have thought about it.
And Connecticut is a rather blue State, isn’t it? And yet here is a long term, Democrat incumbent who is, to put it mildly, on thin electoral ice. If voters in Connecticut are angry enough to toss out a senior Democrat, how mad to you think the voters in the red States are? Especially in those GOP districts currently held by Democrats?
Getting a net gain of 41 House and 11 Senate seats is an exceptionally tall order for the GOP (11 in the Senate because if its 50/50, VP Biden breaks the tie and Democrats remain in control) – but, clearly, winning big is not out of the question.
Our problem, as GOPers, is twofold:
1. To craft a revolutionary message which will resonate with voter anger over the disgusting sewer which is American government.
2. Figuring out a way around the myriad ways Democrats will attempt to cheat in order to limit losses. The removal of Torricelli in NJ wasn’t just non-voluntary, it was entirely illegal, in to the bargain. Democrats will stick at nothing – I really can’t imagine anything they wouldn’t do in order to win.
But if we craft the message and carry it home against all vulnerable Democrats, then even with Democrat cheating, we still stand to make big gains next year – and, just perhaps, gains which will astound the world.
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20 Responses to “Democrats Getting Ready to “Torch” Dodd?”
Caucus of Corruption
a huge prob 4 the gop is the tea party.
if the tea party right wingers are active in the primaries, then the subsequent right wing candidates will not attract centrists, indies, nor moderates in the general outside of the dixiecrat old south.
hoisted on ur own petards u will be!
Dillusional OO….simply dillusional!
Over 50 million Americans voted for a so-called centrist last year, and look where it took us , no where except….directly into socialism. So, you really believe your list of kook talking points?
Even “ur” (sic) leaders know they’re about to be replaced…..
dont be silly navydad. it wasn’t mccain.
the VP pick DROVE AWAY moderates, centrists, & indies.
NY23 is an example of the effect the tea party can have outside of the old south.
Orrin is not completely wrong. I think one of the dynamics of the next couple election cycles that is being driven largely by the Tea Party Movement and other regional and local grass-roots organizations is the huge level of anti-incumbent sentiment. And that’s not just anti-Democrat incumbent, but ALL incumbents. A number of incumbents, largely Democrats, have announced plans to retire. A larger number will likely be challenged in primaries, but, in the end, a number of GOP incumbents will end up not being reelected, and I’m OK with that. A thorough housecleaning is long overdue.
ohio,
All the GOP has to do is campaign just to the right of Castro, and they will win, because of the far left corner the DNC has painted themselves into. Do you not realize that centrists, moderates, etc, have left you in droves this last year? Do you not look at polls?
A thorough housecleaning is long overdue.
I concur 100%.
OO….ROFLMAO!! Keep thinking stooge…keep thinking. That kook liberal pea brain of yours seems to conveniently neglect……I WAS SPEAKING ABOUT OBAMA…..DUMBASS!
He ran as a centrist……..geez what a brain dead liberal hack moron you are.
This thread proves you can’t reason with a liberal, and it appears BDS has taken OO’s last living brain cells hostage.
you think the hope and change shuffle is “new”?…not even…the same topics that clinton used to win his election were used by BHO….you could probably track them back to the 60s…entwined in the socialist revolution that exploded along side sex and drugs and rock and roll…but tell me…since when was the poor and needy in Louisiana and Nebraska any more poor and needy than those in New Mexico or Wyoming…and why is it that congress is given more to one than the other…as a coersion to the representatives of those two states to violate the moral foundations that they represented to thier constituents?
SPOOK & Cluster,
The fact is, the far left will never be swayed, no matter what, and neither will the far right, however, take the pulse of the country at present and you’ll find that the “damn lies” part of the phrase has been exposed and will inevitably doom this administration and the statistics will prevail.
Yes, we Americans have short memories, but it is the youth voter that put Obama into office, and it WILL be the youth voter (which is the most easily swayed voter demographic) that will de-throne the puke. Last year, most pollsters indicated the same. If the youth vote shows up, the GOP will lose….it was THAT SIMPLE!!
So, the problem today, is that too many put too much emphasis on details, when all along, it was the ignorant vote that won the WH for the left.
And as most of us have agreed over the past, we need to educate the youth in America to avoid a catastrophe such as 2008 from happening again.
how is it that the moral right that applies to everyone in the free market doesnt apply to congress? what makes them better than any other man that when he cheats on his wife or embezzles money from his employer that he keeps his wife and job and duty and responsibility that only a few of us ever are rewarded with…that being the trust and confidence of hundreds of millions of americans…that even though they dont do the right thing or value the moral right that is a natural boundry…that they could ever be leaders of the free world? freedom without responsibility is not freedom at all…it is nothing more than chaos…and that is where we are today…in a state of chaos…our government no longer represents freedom and justice…its is a chaotic confused mess of socialists and imbalance…you can not expect liars and thieves to behave with dignity…nor can you cry about how screwed up things are because we voted them into office…
if there is 1 liar among them…then we have failed…each and ever representative and senator must value freedom and justice…truth and dignity…above all other things if they are to be a guiding light for this nation…we will not keep the freedom our father and grandfather died for if we dont have the values they fought for…its that simple…be american or be silent…we dont need diversity and perversion…we need stability and control
navy,
Did you see a cost analysis of insurance premiums the other day (I can’t remember the firm that released them), but it showed that people aged 20-29 will have their premiums increase by as much as 187%. I can only imagine how excited the “youth” will be for Obama when they get hit with that.
navydad says: December 22nd, 2009 at 10:34 am
first off navydad, nobody ‘cept old farts use the word “stooge”.
next, I’m not alone, even on this thread, w this assessment of the tea party.
lastly, ur post could easily be taken 2 different ways as in “…over 50 million…voted…centrist…” (could mean for mccain)…& look where it got us…into socialism”(meaning obama got elected instead of mccain).
pls write more clearly…stooge.
Sorry OO, but the liberal in you assumed I was speaking about Mccain, because, well, you need to face it…your liberal illness refuses to allow your brain to believe the truth/facts.
Cluster,
You’re correct. My wife an I are actively involved with the youth in our county, and I recall last year being our most frustrating year…politically, listening to the “Obama is a rock star”, or “Obama will bring the hope and change we need”. Not today! These same kids have grown a year, and it didn’t take an epiphany for them to realize the fate of America lies in the hands of a socialist…which they know is a bad thing…simple, yet reality.
The Obama indoctrination has come to a screeching halt!
Cluster,
If you’ve seen or heard any of the “Rock the Vote” crap that’s out there, you’ll see why much of our youth is turning against the left/Obama. The lemmings actually believe this health care reform crap…without actually reading the legislation, but they (the leftist) will never be swayed anyway..so who cares. It’s the rational, decent kids I personally care about. The others can rot in hell.
It’s (RTV) created in such despicably poor taste and directed at the progression of anneme (not sure I spelled that correctly) in our society, that if our youth can see the light, it speaks volumes to future of America and the political polarization we’re faced with for the future.
Kooks like OO et al. that repell the truth/facts, were the impetus of this moral degredation last year…but just watch what happens in 2010. They will be held accountable!
our government no longer represents freedom and justice…
JS, that’s not entirely true. The government still represents the “freedom” of choice to terminate a pregnancy and is the foremost advocate of social and economic “justice”. Sigh!
freedom of choice demands responsible choice spook….tempered by justice…yet…when they try to justify freedom of choice…to kill your own child because you behave irresponsibly…to the point that they promote the murder of 50 million unborn children…then they dont promote freedom and justice…they promote chaos…they promote genocide…
the slaughter of the innocents…
a burden so heavy…
if you want to win the 2010 election mark…you have to start digging up every lie…every broken promise…every year he told it…every time he was elected for it…and use it against him…and reid will fall…by his own words…who can trust the words of a liar?
Navydad
Chef = 00 is posting from work on his bosses computer and time.
He is neglecting the urinal cleanings to spout his disdain for any place or any body that does not represent Da Hood or Da Bros.akd Da Donks.
To him we are all old white
“southern social racists”……he hates us all the way to his A.A. job, and food stamp office.
http://www.amazon.com/Chef-Aid-South-Television-Compilation/dp/B00000DMJ4
Chef
McLame lost not because of Palin, he lost because he is a PI$$ING on the GOP shoes, RINO” Period.
If it wasnt FOR Palin it would have a bloodbath, instead of a close loss.
spook,
That is how I view it – anti-incumbent or, as I term it, “People vs Powerful”. The Second American Revolution. Now, a liberal friend of mine is delighted as figures this will work to break the control of the GOP in the AZ State legislature – I’m not so sure, but if the AZ GOP has become corrupt and hidebound, then it deserves a trouncing.
Its ok if a lot of GOPers go down – in fact, there are a lot of GOPers we’d like to see go down (though, truth be told, the percentage of RINOS in the GOP – and especially the House GOP – is lower now than ever).