First off, let’s all take a moment out of our day to laugh at Alan Grayson.
Done?
So, what to say about all this? The gains in the House are +60 right now with 13 races left to be called, +6 in the Senate with 3 races left to be called, and +8 in governors with 9 left to be called. Also, I’m hearing that something like 19 state legislatures have flipped. On the House, that’s above expectations — historic, really — but expect Democrats to focus on the Senate where Republicans are below polling expectations to try and spin this as mixed results. There were a few screw ups there — and I’m not going to name names — as there were a number of seats that could have been picked up if we nominated people a bit less… crazy.
Well, live and learn… unless you’re Obama. He’ll come out today blaming this on people not understanding his policies. And now we’ll spend two years trying to block his idiocy (he could barely get things passed with a Democrat majority; now he has to convince at least dozens of Republicans to go along with him). And I wouldn’t expect to be able to pass anything useful since Obama has made it is cause in life to be obstacle to useful things, but that shouldn’t stop the GOP from trying.
Anyway, the main lesson from the election is that if you suck and are stupid — like Obama — you will have a big defeat. So it’s nice to know while that’s not true of certain states like California, it is still true of the nation at large. Now it is up to the Republicans to start to learn how to not suck and be stupid. That is a lot of learning for them.
2012 will still be mainly in the control of Obama. If he somehow learns how to not be horrendous and an enemy of all that is good, Democrats should be able to do well in 2012. And if pigs learn how to fly, that will revolutionize how we export bacon.
Anyway, GOP presidential primary for 2012 starts today. Who do you want?
It is also up to the Californians to start to learn how to not suck and be stupid. That is clearly too much learning for them.
I gotta move before the state implodes.
still not done laughing at Alan Grayson.
Over the moon about being able to say he is no longer my congressman!
Perhaps I’ll drive by his office after work and laugh.
Can I point while I laugh at Grayson?
Anyway, GOP presidential primary for 2012 starts today. Who do you want?
Will you just turn 35 already. Geez.
writersblock, sure rub it in, I still have Jim Moran and he’s pointing and laughing at me right now.
Personally, I would say General Petraeus. Let’s face it: he’s well respected, doesn’t suck and isn’t stupid, and its been too long since our last ex-general president (Eisenhower, I believe). Maybe Colin Powell, except for the whole occasional-bouts-of-liberalism thing.
I’ll go with anyone who can convince the American people that not even this is enough:
http://www.businessinsider.com/republican-austerity-plan-2010-11
Our 100-year experiment with socialism is OVER. The only question is, will we live to tell about it?
First thought: Thank you, Pennsylvania. Governor Corbett, Senator Toomey, a now fully Republican state legislature, and so long to five Democrat representatives. The Keystone State is purple as always. Corbett, interestingly enough, won every county except Philly, Lackawanna (Scranton), and two Philly suburbs. Onorato is so crazy he couldn’t even win in his hometown of Pittsburgh!
Second thought: City for cheap. Starts with “Phil”, ends with “hia”. Very cheap. Willing to sell to NJ, NY, MD, or DE. Will consider giving it away for free.
Third thought: I am very pleased with most of the results (Yay Renee Elmers!), but I feel empty this morning. Ruth McClung lost. Pond Scum Reid won. I suppose I should take solace in the fact that we may yet win Senate seats in Colorado and Washington. Thankfully Harry Reid is a horrible leader.
Fourth thought: I hate admitting this, but we should have nominated a different kind of Republican in Delaware. I am not, however, upset with what happened in the First State. The guy O’Donnell beat out was a wack job who voted for most Democrat crap. We really didn’t lose a lot there.
Fifth thought: Bye, Nancy!
Frank,
Please moderate my comment. Thanks.
@Halfway: Maybe Powell? I’m making a rule that I won’t support any GOP candidate who endorsed Obama. Call me a crazed-stone-age-right-wing-lunatic-nut-case, but I’m taking a stand.
The dogs I have aren’t in the hunt. I vote for Jim DeMint. More importantly, I vote for any Republican whose first name isn’t Mitt. Also, I won’t vote for any Republican whose last name is Romney.
I’ll consider Palin after I’ve verified her ability to cross country ski across the frozen wilderness, not to mention her skills in sea kayaking. It’s been 83 years since we had a president who could sea kayak, so I’ll be watching intently. However, while I’m watching, I won’t have a baby with a hoodie to catch my potato chip crumbs, so unlike Frank, I’ll have to pick the crumbs off my shirt, as per usual.
Hey Frank: Do we get a gloating thread? There’s some fun going on at Huffpo, courtesy of Arianna herself. Boooosh! Boooosh! Boooosh!
i take exception with one thing..Christine O’Donnell is not crazy. She was young and stupid once, but the recent jabs at her were bs…she was right about the first amendment. It does not state the words “separation of church and state” as Cootie said. That was established by the courts. She was also correct when she asked him what the five freedoms where in the first amendment and he couldn’t answer one of them. Just because the media made her look stupid, doesn’t mean she was. She believed in the Constitution and conservatism and we would be much better off today had she been elected. That is all. 🙂
Sarah Palin! Hey, did Mitt Romney come out with his election predictions yet today?
You got it bikermommy.
If Jim Moran got the coverage she got I’d be gloating about having a retired Army Col as my incoming rep.
He’s about as crazy as Maurice Hinchey (who also gets little true coverage and won yesterday) and nearly as crazy as Cynthia McKinney.
Chris Christie with Alan West for VP.
Thank you my fellow Floridians.
We just went from purple to deep, deep red all over the state.
whooah
2012?
Well, Jimmah only served one term so he is eligible for a 2nd.
I say, let’s go with the peanut farmer with the peanut brain just to take a “step-up” from the big O.
Sorry, I forgot that only two families can govern America out of 300 million people! So I guess we have to have a Bush this time. Probably Jeb! He can probably do 8 years. Then Hillary can do 4, she will be getting old and uglier by the day. But then we will have another Bush coming along who can do 4 and by then Chelsea will be old enough to serve and we can elect her for 8 years. By then there will be several more Bush’s to select from.
…sorry, still laughing at Alan Grayson.
can we put Reagan’s brain in a robot body by 2012. that is what I want.
cut beard..Frank is an engineer and knows Science!. Robot Reagan would never age, and could have super hippie punching- and stomping- poers.
Crazy Grayson out, Alan West in. cool. Everyone I voter for won handily. Alabama and Georgia are virtually solid republican. Yay !!!
I don’t want Mitt Romney for president. He did really well mucking out the cesspool of Olympic corruption and I want him in a position where he can do the same for government.
I don’t want Sarah Palin for president. Her talents are better suited to other jobs.
I don’t want anybody who ran for president in 2008, except maybe Fred Thompson. After he dropped out, the rest of them all sucked so bad that it was a choice between who sucked less, and I hated that.
I do want Marco Rubio to run for president, if for no other reason than that hotties are underrepresented in presidential campaigns. But I think 2012 is too early for him.
@Bikermommy & Veeshir – I think you’re right about O’Donnel being painted crazy rather than actual, but it seems to me like she whined about folks not doing enough for her, like the RNC. True though it was, whininess is not a good quality in a leader; I point to certain current and vanquished leaders to make my point. Not that I wouldn’t have voted for her anyway.
I pick John McCain for 2012. He came so close last time. And the time before. And the time…
Go Batman!!! I think Adam West would be a great candidate…huh?…what?…Oh…never mind.
How about ‘Mama Grizzly and the Mormon’…as a sitcom.
Fred Thompson, with Colin Powell as VP would be interesting (Fred could just glare Gen. Powell out of his occasional liberal episodes).
it’s still true there. You can’t suck and be stupid and get away with it. They’re just blowing the suck bubble bigger, and will make more mess when it can’t support itself anymore.
It probably can’t support itself now, I’d guess without Nevada and other surrounding states holding them up they’d be all starved already. And that too can’t be done forever no matter how big your bucket of fairy dust is. The bill will be paid.
As a born and raised Californian…I never fail to be ashamed of my state. I apologize to you all for my state’s continued idiocy. I would like to seek your support in knocking it into the Pacific. That way all the hippies have to take a bath.
The one candidate I want for 2012 is NOT MIKE HUCKABEE. I’m willing to seriously consider anyone but NOT MIKE HUCKABEE.
“Now it is up to the Republicans to start to learn how to not suck and be stupid. That is a lot of learning for them.”
That is so true it’s not even funny, Frank.
Darth Cheney or Chris Christie.
The panel on the View would immolate themselves either way, and that alone makes it worth it.
I don’t want to laugh at Alan Grayson. I want to punch his dumb monkey face. Repeatedly. And hard.
I want Allen West. HE should have been the first BLACK president not the idiot with the bucket on his head and his hands in our pockets.
What’s with this constantly passing new laws? Shouldn’t we have most of the laws we need by now?
Are you guys all guys? That’s okay–men are good. I want the most principled conservative with no bad things lurking for our figure on the top (Rubio? Pence? Cantor?) and the most appealing figure imaginable on the bottom (that would be my girl, Sarah, whose Bristol unimaginably survived this week’s DWTS, probably because of biased Tea Party voting–not that there’s anything wrong with that!). I want to win, and win big, and do so with total conservatives. Roll Tide!
I don’t care about GOP prospects for 2012 just at this moment. I just want everyone to agree on this:
California has demonstrated that they are collectivley insane, and have made such dreadful decisions that it takes our breath away. I will DEMAND of our new Congress that Kalifornication is done. NO MORE MONEY! Let Gov MoonBat, with his sidekike Ma’am Boxer and the increasingly marxist state legislature, drive every sane citizen and business out of the state. Then we blockade, invade, and sanitize.
No more money to Kal-why-fornia. Ever.
Ooops! Typo…read “sidekick” for ‘sidekike’. Come to think of it, that typo will probably end up on KOS with enthusiastic support……
Seanmahair/MarkoMancuso 2012
(or a reasonable facsimile thereof)
LOL Alan Grayson. What a jackass.
First, any Republican is better than any Dhimmicrap.
But not all Republicans are made alike.
I’d prefer Newt Gingrich. No one has the intellectual horsepower as he does. He understands history, and he loves his country, unlike Barrack-of-the-car Whoo-sayin’ Obamatron. I don’t remember what Gingrich’s dirt is, but I’d be wiling to overlook it.
BTW, anyone R who starts in with the social conservatism is doomed. Focus on three things: get government off our backs and promoting American business to grow jobs and improve the economy; reduce debt by reducing the size and obligations of government; strong national defense by focusing on immigration policy and American exceptionalism.
Hey, crazy Allan Grayson! The unemployment line forms to the left <<<——.
And the mental health clinic is open 24/7/365.
I strongly suggest you pay both a visit, really soon.