President Obama’s crackberry is buzzing off the nightstand this morning as legions of frantic Democrat incumbents react to the outcome of the Primary Elections held last night.
In Pennsylvania, 81 yr old former Republican, then Democrat, now unemployed, Snarlin’ Arlen Specter was defeated by Joe Sestak (54% – 46%). Sestak will face Republican Pat Toomey in November’s Election for Senate. Toomey garnered 81% of the total vote in his race against Peg Luksik.
In Kentucky, Rand Paul, son of perennial Presidential also-ran Ron Paul, trounced Trey Grayson in the Republican Primary, 59% – 35%. He will face Democrat Jack Conway, who squeaked out a victory over Daniel Mongiardo, 44%-43%.
In Arkansas, Democrat Senator Blanche Lincoln will be fighting for her political life for the next three weeks as she has been forced into a run-off election with Bill Halter. Lincoln came in with 45% of the vote and Halter had 43%. The winner of that run-off will face John Boozman, who won the Republican Primary over 7 other candidates with 53% of the vote. The closest one to him was JIm Holt with 17 %.
In Oregon, all the incumbent Democrats won their primaries.
Sestak’s victory was definitely the crown jewel for anti-incumbent forces last night. I’m sure it got under the skin of the Dems who gleefully officially welcomed Specter into their fold last year.
However, Snarlin’ Arlen found out last night, that, if your ship is sinking, Obama and his minions will jump into the life boats and cast off without you.
In Kentucky, Rand Paul ran as a representative of the Tea Party Movement. He overwhelmingly defeated Trey Grayson, the 38-year-old Kentucky secretary of state and the anointed pick of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Rand Paul said during his victory speech last night:
The Tea Party movement is huge. The mandate of our victory tonight is huge. What you have done and what we are doing can transform America.
People are already saying, now you need to weave and dodge. Now you need to switch. Now you need to give up your conservative message. You need to become a moderate. You need to give up the Tea Party. You need to distance yourself.
The crowd yelled “No!”
In Arkansas, Senator Blanche Lincoln finds herself in a run-ff with challenger Bill Halter.
Lincoln complained Tuesday night about all the negative campaigning in the race:
I want to call on Bill Halter to end all of his negative ads, and I will too. This should be a race about the issues, and not all of this mudslinging. We also need to call on every one of these outside groups to take their negative ads down and go home.
Halter said Lincoln was the one who was negative:
You haven’t seen my campaign send negative mailers about her.
Lincoln, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, claimed that she was a centrist during the campaign. However, she caught a lot of heat from both the right and left, especially over health care reform. Halter is a former Clinton administration official who has been both a deputy commissioner and acting commissioner of the federal Social Security Administration.
So what do these elections mean? According to a senior Obama aide:
I think a lot of it is going to be hand-to-hand combat. It’s a weird environment. The real divide isn’t between Republicans and Democrats. It’s America and Washington. This is a continuation of the last election. But as the party in power, we are more vulnerable.
Per Jay Cost of realclearpolitics.com, the White House is going to be pushing the following narrative:
This isn’t about dissatisfaction with the performance of the 44th President. Oh no. This is about demanding change in Washington – the very same change, by gum, that Barack Obama has been working so hard to bring about!
Bwahahahahahaha…I can’t breathe!…hahahahahahahaha…
The only Republican in severe trouble is Joseph Cao of New Orleans. There are actually around 4 Republicans and 50 Democrats who are in real danger of losing their political positions in November.
Obama and his spokespeople are going to be looking for anything in the upcoming days to deflect questions about this election which provided a glimpse into average Americans’ true feelings about this Socialist Administration, the ego-centric individual at its’ helm, and the out-of-touch, corrupt, political machine which spawned him.
A top Democratic strategist has acknowledged:
If the election were held today we’d lose both. Thank goodness it’s not being held today – but we still might lose the House.
Indeed. Obama and the Democrats overplayed their hand. When the majority of Americans stood up on their hind legs (Southern expression) and protested Obamacare, the Regime and their lackeys proclaimed that they knew what was best for the country and passed it anyway.
Currently the majority of Americans support Arizona and the new law it has put in place to deal with illegal immigration. Is the imperious Federal Government going to respect the will of the people? Nope. They have come out against the bill, making jokes about it and threatening to file a lawsuit against it. At the same time, claiming to have never read it. (Huh?)
November will be a symbolic Marie Antoinette moment in American History. There are going to be a bunch of Beltway Elitists who are going to get their heads handed to them.
Sources: nydailynews.com, foxnews.com, nytimes.com, yahoo.com, realclearpolitics.com
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Wonderful to see Spector go down in flames!
Another good one KJ!
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Specter is crying in his bran cereal this morning!!! Hahaha
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I’ll believe November when I see it. I can’t see those lying liberals not doing what they’re doing if the ‘fix’ wasn’t in, somehow.
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Great blog! The snowball that started with Scott Brown keeps rolling along!
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Dumbs beware!!!!
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Thanx to the voters of PA, Spectre is going to have more time to stroke his cat…
The Lincoln/Halter runoff should be interesting — and expensive. Halter with his MoveOn.org and SEIU backing and his commercials showing him standing next to BillyJeff while Lincoln has The Precedent doing robo calls while BillyJeff does radio endorsements…Continue to spend that money and goodwill dems, Boozman thanks you…
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Good to see that things turned out just as you described. Good luck my friend. we here in KY must unify behind Paul to defeat the very liberal Conway. There will be alot of work to do.
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I wouldn’t want to be a Kentuckian come November. I’d have to bite down awfully hard on a stick to pull the lever FOR Rand…I am glad Grayson, aka McConnell’s boy, lost big. But, voting FOR the son of Paul just doesn’t seem right to me…Kinda like voting for Medina in TX (you reading this 20-20?!?!!?)
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‘Hawgs,
everyone seems to be tiptoeing around the PA-12 race (Crist v. Burns) as if they don’t want to touch a piece of bad news. If you’ll forgive the cheap, shameless plug for something I wrote on the subject, I think that Crist’s win was — if nothing else — a Pyrrhic victory that could lull the Left and liberals into a very false sense of security. We’re talking a 7-8 point win by a guy who was forswearing Health Care, Crap and Tax, and everything The Pantload and his crowd stood for. Thyat 7 point gap was in a district Gerrymandered to deliver Murtha back to the congress for 36 years and had a 2-1 edge Democrat v Republican.
Any democrat who takes comfort in the results of this Primary Tuesday is going to be sorely disappointed next November.
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TWP,
I penned a eloquent reply to you and then hit the “backspace” key and it all went away…
For all the money the dems and the unions spent in PA-12 to keep the “Murtha” seat Burns only lost by 10k (70k to 60k)votes in a district where (as you stated) the dems hold a 2 to 1 advantage in registered voters…Come November, and after the dems/unions pour even more money into keeping PA-12, Murtha’s former chief of staff may not win again…
In Arkansas, the AFSCME announced today that they will spend $1.4 million dollars and send 50 union staffers to help Halter over the next 3 wks until the runoff election on June 8th. That’s a lot of moolah here in Arkansas…Halter will be a vote for Card check and most anything else the socialists want. If he beats Blanche in June, he will have his ass handed to him in November.
I’m hoping for runoff wins for Halter and Joyce Elliot in the 2nd Congressional District (central Ark). Both are left of liberal which will make it easy for them to be defeated…
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I hope that every American, regardless of where he lives, will stop and examine his conscience about this and other related incidents. This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. All of us ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated, but this is not the case.
I know the proponents of this law say that the majority approves of this law, but the majority is not always right. Would women or non-whites have the vote if we listen to the majority of the day, would the non-whites have equal rights (and equal access to churches, housing, restaurants, hotels, retail stores, schools, colleges and yes water fountains) if we listen to the majority of the day? We all know the answer, a resounding, NO!
Today we are committed to a worldwide struggle to promote and protect the rights of all who wish to be free. In a time of domestic crisis men of good will and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics and do what is right, not what is just popular with the majority. Some men comprehend discrimination by never have experiencing it in their lives, but the majority will only understand after it happens to them.
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Benito, I approved your comment to ask you a few questions. First, you write very well. Next, a few questions. What part of the word “illegal” do you not understand? What makes the current influx of illegal immigrants excempt from the rules and regulations that every other generation of immigrants to this country had to abide by in order to become legal citizens of the greatest nation in the world? By being here illegally, you are not entitled to the same rights as natural born or naturalized American citizens. You are no better than someone who breaks into someone’s home, does their dishes, cuts their yard, cleans their house, and then helps themselves to their food and drives their car without asking. This is in no way a human rights issue. Freedom is God-given. And with freedom comes responsibility. With citizenship comes responsibilty, like paying taxes and making your own way. Illegal immigration reminds me of the amorous boyfriend who wants everything a young woman will give him, but will leave her at the first mention of marriage. I wish you no ill, amigo, but understand this: This is not a civil rights issue. Illegals do not have the same rights as American Citizens. With our rights, come the responsibilities of being an American citizen. The Mexican flag, by protocol, will always be flown in a subordinate position to the American Flag in this country. And, the American Dialect of the English language is the language spoken in this country. Vaya con Dios.
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Excellent reply, KJ
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You did a superb job of answering Benito’s obviously personally biased objections. He may not realize that America has always and will always welcome LEGAL immigrants with open arms, respect and American citizenship.
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The United States of America is a Nation of laws. Foreign Nationals in this Country who have entered without proper documentation or have overstayed their Visas are violating our laws. Laws regulating the entry of non-citizens are common throughout the World. Some Countries utilize their Military to enforce border integrity and treat violators of their immigration laws harshly (see Mexico). Others, for political reasons, do not (see the USA).
“Doing what’s right” means abiding by the Law of the Land regardless of whether or not it is popular among some.
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The left today seems to be lulled back into the old reassurance that in spite of the overwhelming numbers AGAINST the government, everything is going to be just fine come November.
The unflappable Baghdad Bob comes to mind:
“No I am not scared, and neither should you be!” “Be assured. We are safe, protected!”
“They’re coming to surrender or be burned in their tanks!”
“We have destroyed 2 tanks, fighter planes and 2 helicopters – We have driven them back.”
“WE ARE WINNING”
Fools.
How sweet will be November…
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Farewell Benedict Arlen. Dems – Start packing and get the U-Hauls ready! November will be here sooner than you think.
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