Thursday, January 7, 2010

On Democrats Bad Day the Post Talks about the GOP's Internal War.

On what what was not a good day for the Democrats the Washington Post could not resist doing this silly meme.

Were it not for the news of the Democratic retirements, Tuesday might have received more attention as a day when the GOP’s internal wars counted another victim, this time the party chairman in Florida, Jim Greer. Greer, an ally of Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R), got caught up in the nasty Senate primary contest between Crist and former state House speaker Marco Rubio, a darling of conservatives.
Florida’s GOP primary is, writ large, a replay of what happened in New York’s 23rd Congressional District in November, when Sarah Palin and other conservatives spurned the Republican nominee in a House special election and sided with the Conservative Party candidate. The upshot was that Democrats won a seat that the GOP had held for more than a century.


That contest only fueled the ambitions of the party's conservative, grass-roots activists, who have set their sights on other races across the country, to the delight of Democrats.
Democrats also point out that half a dozen Republican senators and about a dozen Republican House members have announced their retirements. But many of those decisions came at a time when the GOP's fortunes were far worse than they are today
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What is the purpose of the Washington Post? To give information or to just delude democrats into thinking all is ok.

What in the world does a real primary as to a open seat have to do with the New York race? Shocking!!! People are running and opposing each other in a primary. This is good. It also shows us who is the stronger person for the general.

As Contentions said on this today:
This is nonsense on multiple counts. First, the “internal war” appears to consist of the removal of an unpopular state party chairman and a primary race in one state. Is the Democratic party in an “internal war” because there’s a primary to fill Obama’s old seat or because Arlen Specter and Joe Sestak are facing off in Pennsylvania? Really, primaries are pretty much par for the course, the mechanism by which real voters pick strong candidates and eliminate weak ones.

Second, none of this has much to do with the NY-23. There the GOP didn’t have a primary. And it turned into a giant mess with a weak, unpopular candidate who ultimately had to drop out.
For now, the GOP is enjoying an embarrassment of political riches — an energized base, plenty of candidates, and plenty of targets (e.g., ObamaCare, Nancy Pelosi, the Cash for Cloture deal). If all the Democrats have is a false narrative spun by their media cheerleaders, it may be a very bad year for them indeed
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