A woman beat a white male who was funded by wealthy interests; the feminists can put away their pink hats, now.
The left is now claiming the reason they spent $30-40 Million dollars and lost in purple district that just barely went Trump is because their candidate was too conservative. And so, their thinkers are telling them they need to move even harder to the left. Reparations for Transgender Vegans! Free airline tickets for anyone wanting to immigrate to the USA! 112% tax rates on the rich! State-run health care!
Genius (I am using that word ironically) Lesbian Sally Kohn agrees.
Best thing that could come out of the #GA06 results is for Democratic Party to finally give up its self-destructive obsession with centrism
In another words, run an Elizabeth Warren/Kamala Harris clone for every senate seat and a Maxine Waters clone for every House seat. In their estimation, Middle America is hungering for more socialist elitists from the bluest parts of the east and west coast to tell us what to do.
Also, keep calling red state voters “toxic, vindictive bigots.”
Update and Bump: Democrat who spent more money than anyone in history on a House seat (mostly outsider money) laments that there is too much money in politics.
The role of money in politics is a major problem and particularly the role of unchecked anonymous money. There have been super PACs in Washington who have been putting up tens of millions of dollars of attack ads in air for months now.
He claims it was his opponent who used PAC money, but his donations included $820,000 from Planned Parenthood; $820,000 from the left-wing “House Majority PAC;” $256,000 from Moveon.org; $88,000 from NARAL (pro-abortion PAC); and dozens of other left-wing groups who wanted to make PDT feel sad.
Also, Pajama Boy vastly outspent his opponent (and he got tons of free media on his behalf) and still lost.
Update: Democrats blame “hacking” for the loss? Seriously?
Update: The horrid yentas on The View didn’t take their loss well.
Update: Feminists in tears after white, cis-gendered man loses to woman. Wait, what?
I must say I agree with Sally Kohn. The best thing that could happen for this country would be for the democrats to move further left.
#MAGA !
http://imgur.com/a/4qvhl
Make America Giggle Again !
Just finished reading the comments on the local Progressive newspaper. The Progressive sad feels put a very big smile on my face.
The Progressive deflection to the Trump/Russia thing are very sad indeed.
So concerned about inequality and the poor that they can throw millions into trying to buy votes, nope, no cluelessness here.
“Best thing that could come out of the #GA06 results is for Democratic Party to finally give up its self-destructive obsession with centrism”
Time to triple, or even quadruple, down on stupid for the demonrats.
As John stated above: “I must say I agree with Sally Kohn. The best thing that could happen for this country would be for the democrats to move further left.”
So true, so true.
DNC record breaking low donations.
RNC record breaking high donations.
This speaks volumes.
“but his donations included $820,000 from Planned Parenthood”
Most expensive abortion ever?
Rachel maddow said he lost because of bad weather. evidently bad weather only affects democrat voters. who do bad ideas and policies affect?
I’ve read a few comments that basically said the race did’t really matter and wasn’t important. Kind of like someone saying, “That doesn’t hurt,” while rubbing the bruise and their eyes watering and voice is breaking.
It’s true that bad weather only affects Dems. Only Dems melt when they get wet.
I would just point out:
“As compared to the 2016 presidential results, Democrats have outperformed their benchmarks by an average of 14 percentage points so far across the four GOP-held districts to have held special elections to date. As compared to the 2012 presidential election, their overperformance is even larger, at almost 18 points. They’ve also outperformed their results from the 2016 and 2014 U.S. House elections by roughly 11 points, after one accounts for the fact that the special elections were open-seat races rather than being held against incumbents.”
By all means take pleasure in having a Republican win, but realize that this is not a harbinger of a returned Republican House majority in 2018. Time will tell
And I would just “point out”…Hillary is still not President.
By all means take pleasure in having a Republican win, but realize that this is not a harbinger of a returned Republican House majority in 2018. Time will tell
Comment by Cas — June 21, 2017 @ 8:28 pm – June 21, 2017
Care to put your money where your big, fat mouth is, Cas?
Regards,
Peter H.
Hi Peter!
How do you know I have a “big fat mouth”? It might surprise you to discover that it is quite small actually–but then again it is all in the eyes of the beholder… as is the self-congratulatory tone of this post and commenters.
What you got in mind, Peter, my lovely?
Batten down the hatches, the storm of 2018 is going to be a global warming doozey! The Repugnants will be washed out of the cannon ports and the DemonizingRats will take over the ship.
Y-o-u h-a-v-e b-e-e-n w-a-r-n-e-d!!!!
The Mighty Mouse has squeakened.
You want evidence? You don’t deserve no stinking’ evidence. It is in the cards and you don’t get to see them !!!!
Why is this Congress person against gay adoption, domestic partnership benefits, and civil unions? Is the assumption on GP that this person will eventually evolve on these issues? Or, is GP fine with a politician taking a stance against promoting a more traditional and family-oriented lifestyle in the gay community?
lol!
#17, things you listed only benefit less than 3% of the Americans. The rest of her platform benefits 100% of Americans. Why are you so selfish?
Both Clinton and Obama were against SSM but lots and lots and lots of Progressives voted for them anyway. So, obviously her positions on these matters are as important to Progressives as you make them out to be. Or does Progressive = Hypocrite?
Interesting read and take on the results :
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/21/georgia-sixth-congress-polls-handel-ossoff-239813
**matters aren’t as important**
Almost every conservative I know who gets polled responds with a lie.
Hi Heliotrope,
It is always good to read carefully. I did not think I was roaring, but maybe my intent got lost in the shuffle, or perhaps the deck is stacked against my claim; if President Trump plays his trump cards right, maybe it will turn out the way you think .. all anyone can do is play the hand that’s dealt; only time will tell if this is administration is an house of cards or not …
Hi Cas, who refuses to tell the truth,
As of June 20, 2017, The House of Representatives has 241 Republicans with 48 in the Tuesday Group, 158 Party Republicans, and 33 Freedrom Caucus members.
The 194 Democrats have 71 members in the Progressive Caucus, 105 Party Democrats and 18 Blue Dog Coalition members.
The “spread” between House Republican and House Democrats is 53. The spread between the two parties is 47 members.
Ergo, for 2018 to go the way of DemonizingRat “control” it would take a massive “screw up” by Trump or more money than God and a lot of manipulation of the voting sector to upend the current status quo. Could it happen? Yes. An asteroid could wipe out middle America or George Soros could become the King of the Universe.
So, 2018 awaits.
In your world, it is totally sentient to image that man caused global warming will flood the bottomlands and drown massive numbers of Republican voters.
Any way, “our president” will be there until 2020 unless some voodoo hex gets him first.
Yes Heliotrope,
Our President will be there in 2020, unless the Democratic Party gets hold of one or two Houses. Because if they get one–please be waiting for a flood of subpoenas and everything grinds to a halt as the President Trump Horror Show unfolds… or, until Republicans think he will cost them more by continuing to be President than it will cost them in impeaching him.
“refuses to tell the truth”: would you be ever so kind as to put some meat on those soup bones, my sweetheart?