It has been quite awhile since I consumed any TV or radio political media. Meaning that I listen to music channels on the radio and watch more sports, educational, and movies.
Either way, I am still aware of what happens on them any given day through other sources. I have been watching with some amazement the build up and subsequent gleeful celebrations of these 2009 elections. It has been especially evident here on this site with at least a dozen threads about this off year election.
It makes me wonder just how low the collective political self esteem has dipped among the right wing. You of course can thank the "conservatives" who with thier loud mouthed media personalities managed in what I would see as an overall tie.
On the social issues, gay marraige measures went down. Then of course there is the apparently real nice guy Bob McConnel. I am not surprised he won in a land slide. I think he likely would have won whoever was the President. I would consider him a base Republican, not much RINO in him. Certainly I hope the right relishes in thier victory. Winning back the Governors mansion in Virginia, in a state that has a modern history of the top post switching parties.
Then, I am not sure if any of the "conservatives"--who want to run anyone that isnt as conservative as they are, out of the GOP actually looked at the info surrounding Chris Christie, those they claim are the deepest cuts at Obama. He is more of a RINO than the gal you folks ran out of the race in upstate NY. Christie supports strict enforcement of the current NJ gun laws. Christie certainly is no fan of the 2nd amendment if he supports a near prohibition for a private citizen to be able to protect himself with a handgun.
He doesnt want anyone to have an "assault rifle" including off duty cops.
He supports average law abiding citizens having to apply for, obtain, and keep current a license to not only buy a new firearm, but to have a firearm in your home, even to buy ammo! Want to bring your kids out to plink the .22s?
Apply for the license, wait a few months.
Then of course there is NY23. The "conservatives" ran the gal out of the race. She wasnt Republican enough. They didnt want to follow the normal rules of nominating a candidate, and all of the exact reasons political parties exist in the first place. So they went "rogue". The talking heads decided to turn this one national. Bring in the clowns, they didnt want another RINO, they wanted a Conservative! Instead...
They got a liberal. Yet, somehow, someway, the conservatives seem to think that because they met expectations in Virginia, and got the upset by getting a RINO past an unpoppular incumbent that all has changed and that Obama himself might get voted out of Congress in 2010!
Of course in this process the GOP took what would have been a cheap and easy victory in a district that has been so reliable for over a century.
Instead, one outspoken wing of the party in zealot like pursuit of thier own specific agenda ultimately hurt themselves.
It doesnt matter a whole bunch who the Govenor of any given state is because the issues are local. But a seat in Congress, well that is Gold. So the conservatives can jump for joy and flock to the states with GOP leadership, in the meantime, the left in the rest of the country is smiling because that is another vote for thier agenda.
Either way, I am still aware of what happens on them any given day through other sources. I have been watching with some amazement the build up and subsequent gleeful celebrations of these 2009 elections. It has been especially evident here on this site with at least a dozen threads about this off year election.
It makes me wonder just how low the collective political self esteem has dipped among the right wing. You of course can thank the "conservatives" who with thier loud mouthed media personalities managed in what I would see as an overall tie.
On the social issues, gay marraige measures went down. Then of course there is the apparently real nice guy Bob McConnel. I am not surprised he won in a land slide. I think he likely would have won whoever was the President. I would consider him a base Republican, not much RINO in him. Certainly I hope the right relishes in thier victory. Winning back the Governors mansion in Virginia, in a state that has a modern history of the top post switching parties.
Then, I am not sure if any of the "conservatives"--who want to run anyone that isnt as conservative as they are, out of the GOP actually looked at the info surrounding Chris Christie, those they claim are the deepest cuts at Obama. He is more of a RINO than the gal you folks ran out of the race in upstate NY. Christie supports strict enforcement of the current NJ gun laws. Christie certainly is no fan of the 2nd amendment if he supports a near prohibition for a private citizen to be able to protect himself with a handgun.
He doesnt want anyone to have an "assault rifle" including off duty cops.
He supports average law abiding citizens having to apply for, obtain, and keep current a license to not only buy a new firearm, but to have a firearm in your home, even to buy ammo! Want to bring your kids out to plink the .22s?
Apply for the license, wait a few months.
Then of course there is NY23. The "conservatives" ran the gal out of the race. She wasnt Republican enough. They didnt want to follow the normal rules of nominating a candidate, and all of the exact reasons political parties exist in the first place. So they went "rogue". The talking heads decided to turn this one national. Bring in the clowns, they didnt want another RINO, they wanted a Conservative! Instead...
They got a liberal. Yet, somehow, someway, the conservatives seem to think that because they met expectations in Virginia, and got the upset by getting a RINO past an unpoppular incumbent that all has changed and that Obama himself might get voted out of Congress in 2010!
Of course in this process the GOP took what would have been a cheap and easy victory in a district that has been so reliable for over a century.
Instead, one outspoken wing of the party in zealot like pursuit of thier own specific agenda ultimately hurt themselves.
It doesnt matter a whole bunch who the Govenor of any given state is because the issues are local. But a seat in Congress, well that is Gold. So the conservatives can jump for joy and flock to the states with GOP leadership, in the meantime, the left in the rest of the country is smiling because that is another vote for thier agenda.
