Quick Thoughts
Some thoughts on the election:
1. The Dems got the house because of conservative candidates winning in red areas (see e.g. Heath Shuler in the NC mountains). I just cannot imagine Shuler going along with Pelosi on very much. Let's see how this all plays out over the next two years.
2. The MSM kicked ass. They proved they can lie with the most egregiously slanted propaganda imaginable and conservative bloggers were powerless to do a damn thing about it. The triumphalism of some blogs proved wrong.
3. Looks like vote fraud in places like St. Louis will have been the difference if Mo goes blue. The GOP cannot afford to ignore election stealing any longer.
4. The failure of the GOP to use 527s to buy media ads throughout 2005 and 2006 cost them the House and maybe the Senate. If the GOP wants to counter the MSM's free propaganda for the Dems, they are going to have to pony up the cash thru outside 527s and buy ads.
1. The Dems got the house because of conservative candidates winning in red areas (see e.g. Heath Shuler in the NC mountains). I just cannot imagine Shuler going along with Pelosi on very much. Let's see how this all plays out over the next two years.
2. The MSM kicked ass. They proved they can lie with the most egregiously slanted propaganda imaginable and conservative bloggers were powerless to do a damn thing about it. The triumphalism of some blogs proved wrong.
3. Looks like vote fraud in places like St. Louis will have been the difference if Mo goes blue. The GOP cannot afford to ignore election stealing any longer.
4. The failure of the GOP to use 527s to buy media ads throughout 2005 and 2006 cost them the House and maybe the Senate. If the GOP wants to counter the MSM's free propaganda for the Dems, they are going to have to pony up the cash thru outside 527s and buy ads.
posted by Stan at 12:27 AM
5 Comments:
The MSM kicked ass. They proved they can lie with the most egregiously slanted propaganda imaginable and conservative bloggers were powerless to do a damn thing about it. The triumphalism of some blogs proved wrong.
Beautiful. Don't ever stop thinking along those lines, ever, even as you stand in line as a babushka, stomach turning for her foodbank cheese and praising Jesus for the success of the Republican overlords in the war against Islamofascism, yeah, you're conservative, you're the man.
I agree on point #2. All the talk of breaking the power of the MSM was way premature.
The constant drumbeat of bad news. How Bush lied, how Iraq is a quagmire, how bad the federal response was to Katrina, and the negative spin on the economy. Not true, but if you repeat a lie enough times, people believe it.
Then the amplification of every scandal that could be painted on the Republicans. Foley, Abramoff, wiretapping, SWIFT, and every Republican who could be conceivably connected to them was trumpeted loud and constantly. Democratic scandals? Snuffed out and minimized.
The MSM may have had its set-backs, but it is ruthless and relentless in its partisanship. Talk radio, conservative blogs, and the like are no match in the long run. Eventually, people succumb to the misinformation.
This is not the only reason for the Republicans' defeat, but it deserves mention.
>failure of the GOP to use 527s to buy media ads
Hmmm, Bob Perry dumped at least $9 million into various 527s during this campaign, mostly to the Economic Freedom Fund. Club for Growth dropped about $7 million in 2005-2006, Progress for America spent almost $12 million, and College Reps and GOPAC together spent almost $14 million.
Not every penny went to ads, of course but I'd say the GOP certainly utilized their 527s.
>vote fraud in places like St. Louis
Hmmm, no obvious signs of vote fraud in St. Louis. For example:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/jomannies/story/7471A5B10461AC1B862572210016D0AD?OpenDocument
http://www.stclairrecord.com/news/newsview.asp?c=186427
No Rep complaints about St. Louis in 2006 that I can find.
Stan, the second anonymous comment hits the nail on the head. That is what the GOP gets for trying to become Democrats and pacify the liberals. Hell, Dubya outspent LBJ to become the number one spender and conservatives are ticked off.
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