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Roll Tide!

Or Hook 'Em as the case may be.

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  January 6th, 2010 at 01:17 AM  | 

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Okay, so this post really isn’t about the Crimson Tide, but there is a crimson tide out there this morning — the Democrat dead pool.

Bill Ritter, the Governor of Colorado, is gone.

Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) is gone.

Chris Dodd (D-CT) is gone.

These three all announced on the same day and on the heels of all the other Democrats retiring and Parker Griffith switching to the GOP.

Meanwhile Evan Bayh is looking more and more vulnerable in Indiana.

Something is happening. Whatever it is is most definitely bad for Democrats and good for freedom.

The crimson tide of Democrat destruction rolls on. Is it a coincidence that Alabama has an elephant as its mascot?

And yes, this post is dedicated to Joe Scarborough, righteous fan of Alabama and now purveyor of eponymous premium Starbucks coffee.

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  • jeffreywturner

    CNN is reporting Chris Dodd is throwing in the towel as well.

    As great as it is to see a slimeball like Dodd leave, his departure probably marginally improves Dem odds of retaining that seat in 10 months.

  • http://www.friskaliberal.com/ friskaliberal

    Hey RedState.com,

    I also wanted to reminder you about Democratic Lt. Governor John Cherry has decided against running for Michigan governor today!

    And I thought it was the Republican Party that was falling apart!?

    Pfff…

  • http://www.barrypopik.com barrypopik

    You do realize that there are a lot of Texans who read Red State. How do you think we feel when you say “Roll Tide”? Please change your headline. This is not a college football blog.

    From Wednesday’s New York Times:

    Embattled Florida G.O.P. Chairman to Quit
    By GARY FINEOUT
    Published: January 5, 2010
    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ? Under fire from Republicans upset with everything from his fund-raising efforts to his support for Gov. Charlie Crist in an increasingly bitter United States Senate primary, the chairman of Florida?s Republican Party announced his resignation on Tuesday.

    The chairman, Jim Greer, said it had become clear to him that a ?small but vocal group? of party members ? some of them backers of Mr. Crist?s opponent in the primary, Marco Rubio ? had ?turned their guns on fellow Republicans.?

    Mr. Rubio, a former speaker of the Florida House, has built up momentum against Mr. Crist in recent months by criticizing the governor?s support of the federal stimulus package and saying he is not conservative enough for Republican voters.

    Mr. Greer said that if he had not agreed to step down, his critics would have tried to ?burn the house down and destroy the Republican Party.? His resignation takes effect Feb. 20.

  • BlackConservative

    I love the Elephant, but you can’t dis the Horns on the front page man! Specially after the way McCoy is gonna whip the Bama boys in 2 days. How bout a positive spin :-) .

  • JoeG

    They know a tidal wave is coming and are getting out of the way while they can.

  • http://nanosecondinv.proboards.com/index.cgi? trapeze

    i think that if virtually puts it in the bag for the Democrats. Now that they have convinced Dodd to retire they could run damn near anyone for the seat and expect to get it. Sadly, you can take that one to the bank.

  • Third Street
  • http://www.dirkworld.com dirkbelig

    One year ago, the liberals were crowing about how Dear Leader’s victory and their do-whatever-the-heck-we-want majorities in Congress meant that America had finally and forever repudiated conservatism and Republicans. (NOT the same thing, as we know.)

    Now the members of the Once and Future Ruling Party are quitting in droves 10 months before the elections. Can you say, “They know that things are about to get much, MUCH worse for the Republic and better to quit now than get tarred and feathered later.”? I knew you could!

    When they were touting a couple of months ago how low the self-identification numbers as Republican were, I saw someone explain, “There are more conservatives than Republicans and more Democrats than liberals,” meaning that it’s not conservatism on the outs, but the Vichy RINO farging bastages who infest the Stupid Party.

    In the meantime, many “Democrats” who pull the donkey lever out of generational inertia dating back to FDR and not out of fascist Utopianism are about to become a cohort that will be referred to in 2013 as the “Palin (or Pawlenty or whoever) Democrats” who ushered in a “revolution” comparable to 1980.

    I just hope that there’s something left of our country to reclaim after another 3 years and 2 weeks of Dear Leader’s feckless antics.

  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    I’d meant to include him.

  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    I’m torn. Had I to do it over, I’d be a Longhorn. But genetics compells me to root for the SEC.

  • IJB

    It’s improves the Dems’ odds of holding it, no doubt about it.

    But it’s no slam dunk – Dodd has put a really bad odor on things, and while I’m sure Obama’s more popular in CT than nationally, I’m not sure that’s enough.

    The good news is that Simmons has been running for months – that will give him somewhat of an advantage over any Dem that now tries to take over for Dodd.

    Also, the odds are pretty good that the Dems will have a contested primary now, with multiple candidates. That won’t help them either.

    I wouldn’t write off CT just yet…

  • layedbackguy2

    At this point in time, the mid-terms are looking to be a disaster for lefties like me. Obama is getting hit from the Left for being too weak and not ‘Liberal enough’, while the Right is regrouping and getting the grass roots all fired up.

  • Jim Mullins

    After all the people President Obama has thrown under his bus, the wheels were bound to fall off sooner or later.

  • Third Street

    SEC is, after all, the best damn football on the planet.

  • http://www.americanpatriotsprevail.com louesc

    I am glad we are making a difference in getting these betrayers of freedom are not running for office to destroy our Country. We need to defeat this rise of the liberal activist. Who want to change America by education indoctrination. One of the first ever transgender appointed by a President, Amanda who used to be called Mitch, began work at the Commerce Department. Amanda Simpson will be senior technical adviser in the department’s Bureau of Industry and Security. Thank God well maybe not if you lose you can become a Czar but you have to be a left wing progressive activist. Check out this video.

    https://www.americanpatriotsprevail.com/Obamas_Transgender_Czar.html

  • Karina

    These people are very smart at what they do. It’s all about control and structure with them. Why are so many Dems retiring? That concerns me. The timing is not a coincidence. Nothing ever is. This administration has repeatedly shown they are not above changing the rules especially when it comes to special elections. Remember Mass and the Kennedy seat? I’ll wait to throw a party until after the midterms.

    After they are out of office, where are they headed? They must have been offered a pretty sweet deal somewhere to give up their seats. I doubt they’re ALL going to the Center for American Progress.

  • http://www.americanpatriotsprevail.com louesc

    I am glad we are making a difference in getting these betrayers of freedom are out of office and not running for office so they can destroy our Country. We need to defeat this rise of the liberal activist. Who want to change America by education indoctrination. One of the first ever transgender appointed by a President, Amanda who used to be called Mitch, began work at the Commerce Department. Amanda Simpson will be senior technical adviser in the department?s Bureau of Industry and Security. Thank God well maybe not if you lose an election you can become a Czar for Obama but you have to be a left wing progressive activist. Check out this video.

    https://www.americanpatriotsprevail.com/Obamas_Transgender_Czar.html

  • archer52

    This is great news, but the only dark part of this is the damage has been done. Worse, they all made their money, left their marks, committed their crimes, and they will not spend one day in jail, one day in stocks in the public square. They retire, take their stolen money and bribe money home then collect their government retirement checks that we have to pay for.

    Victory? Yes. And hopefully signs of more to come as you and your friends and the tea party goers and the newly awakened conservative movement inside the Republican party gains strength.

    But a little too much resemblance to the days after the sacking of Rome. Sure the barbarians retreated from the city, there was nothing steal.

  • layedbackguy2

    Great comment! Made me really think and wonder what ‘my party’ may be up to. I thought, and most of my fellow ‘Libs think, that it is just a matter of weak Dems bailing out while they can, before the midterm slam hits them in the face. It will be interesting to see who runs for the vacant seats, and what money-special interests will be running them…

  • Russ Martin

    That’s poetry man! Eloquent, succinct (well, sort of), with just a hint of plagerism. It brings a tear to my eye. Beautiful.

  • clintonformccain

    Maybe this is what they mean when they say the chickens will come home to roost?

  • aohjeff

    Their reason for retiring is painfully obvious. In the dream world of the liberal Democrats, if they retire they will be more able to ignore the fact that they would have been voted out by a landslide had they run for another term. Do all the damage they can (Obamacare, stimulus, etc.) and then run like the cowards that they are.

  • aohjeff

    Their reason for retiring is painfully obvious. In the dream world of the liberal Democrats, if they retire they will be more able to ignore the fact that they would have been voted out by a landslide had they run for another term. Do all the damage they can (Obamacare, stimulus, etc.) and then run like the cowards that they are.

  • onyon43

    All this liberal talk about people’s feelings hurt over promoting specific teams leaves the west coast people out in the cold as well. I guess that is the problem with having such a great website with such a strong following… Someone is left out in the cold. =)

  • onyon43

    don’t let this thing go to their heads. No doubt, somewhere in their little secret offices somewhere they are giving each other a high five and taking credit for the recent turn of events. We need to make sure that so long as we are not promoting a third party (which I am not), that we make sure that it is crystal clear that we still want to throw them out as well. It makes me sick to think that all of these do-nothing republicans are going to get some false sense of security in this and then blow the opportunity presented.

  • bigalsouth

    Well yeah, who wants to be in charge during a depression?

  • dudette

    always remind me of goofy or pluto or whoever that cartoon dog is, or better, wiley c….
    they only see the short term and totally miss the long term which the Dems so shrewdly see and plan for. What is it with the GOP that it absolutely has no sense of long term strategy? The Dems do have it whether we agree with them or not.

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    Good riddance to bad rubbish. He was second only to Ted Kennedy in his efforts to make the USA a corporate/union/socialist cesspool.

  • abingtonjim

    They see the writing on the wall so they’re tossing the blue dogs, and the dead wood over the side. They’ll hunker down with a solid base of ultra left progressives and run stealth candidates for office. In many races they’ll run several candidates on other tickets, green party, etc trying to dilute the vote letting the unions and ACORN steal elections. They’re not going away but are planning to return but wearing different clothes.

    In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, Brave, Hated, and Scorned. When his cause succeeds however,the timid join him, For then it costs nothing to be a Patriot.
    – Mark Twain

  • sammyc

    I am with Karina. I do not trust anything they do. I am sure the real motive will come out eventually. And, why not retire? They have the money they need and the premium retirement benefits. It was stolen from the American people.

  • ronzo

    they`ve accomplished what they set out to do, secure a sound future for themselves, their families and a few close friends. Why stick around for stormy weather when it`s comfort and ease that awaits them elsewhere?

    My only useful conclusion is “good riddance”.

  • wolfeman

    I think we’ll see the real agenda show up over the next two weeks. They know there’s a chance Scott Brown could win in Mass. so they will be going for everything they can over the next two weeks. We’ll probably see new jobs created for all of the slugs that are retiring in the final draft of the Obamacare bill. They’ll probably all get new positions worth hundreds of thousands of dollars of our tax dollars. It scares me to think what we may see in the next couple of weeks. I may just be paranoid but I think the whole agenda will become apparent in these next two weeks.
    Better brace ourselves!

  • wolfeman

    I think we’ll see the real agenda show up over the next two weeks. They know there’s a chance Scott Brown could win in Mass. so they will be going for everything they can over the next two weeks. We’ll probably see new jobs created for all of the slugs that are retiring in the final draft of the Obamacare bill. They’ll probably all get new positions worth hundreds of thousands of dollars of our tax dollars. It scares me to think what we may see in the next couple of weeks. I may just be paranoid but I think the whole agenda will become apparent in these next two weeks.
    Better brace ourselves!
    By the way Erick, I’m in Alabama and I for one think that Roll Tide title was Sweet!

  • jeffreywturner

    I wouldn’t put any open Senate seat in the bag for Dems in 2010, unless there was a prohibitive favorite on the ballot. It just seems like one of those years when the GOP has a shot in unexpected places.

    Like I said though, Dodd’s departure helps Dems, but it doesn’t ice it for them.

  • AceInTX

    Hook Em Horns!

  • AceInTX

    :>)

  • dwander

    Yep, it is cold in Boise but the Broncos defense sure heated things up the other night! :-)

  • tanarg

    … I hear the footsteps of a person coming down the marble corridor holding a whistle in his pocket, turning over and over in his mind whether now is the time to blow that whistle.

    I urge him or her to move quickly instead of waiting for a better moment.

    If you are that person, our prayers are with you.

  • Warrior

    construction…

    BTW, is that profanity? I sure hope so…

  • darjon38

    Another reason to rid ourselves of this scourge upon the land:

    If the immigran/refugee is over 65, they can apply for SSI and Medicaid and get more than a woman on Social Security, who worked from 1944 until 2004.
    > She is only getting $791 per month because she was born in 1924 and there’s a ‘catch 22.’
    > It is interesting that the federal government provides a single refugee with a monthly allowance of $1,890. Each can also obtain an additional $580 in social assistance, for a total of $2,470 a month.
    > This compares to a single pensioner, who after contributing to the growth and development of America for 40 to 50 years, can only receive a monthly maximum of $1,012 in old age pension and Guaranteed Income Supplement.
    > Maybe our pensioners should apply as refugees!
    With a new congress, maybe we can get the refugees cut back to $1,012 and the pensioners up to $2,470. Then we can enjoy some of the money we were forced to submit to the Government over the last 40 or 50 or 60 years.
    And we did not receive a COLA increase for 2010? Vote them all out of office??.
    > Please forward to every American to expose what our elected politicians have done to us in the last 17 years.

    FINALLY:

    We need a new Amendment, #28 that shall read:

    “Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators or Representatives, and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States .
    “THEY WILL RECEIVE THE SAME RETIREMENT AND MEDICAL BENEFITS THAT THEY LEGISLATED UPON WE THE PEOPLE”.

    GIT ‘ER DONE!

  • darjon38

    Everytime I post a comment, I get the “you have alredy said that”.

    If you do not take posts, just say so.

  • conritwng

    Poll watchers need to go to CONNETICUT ASAP because ACORN will be there in full force …betcha

  • Mayhem

    Are you hearing rumblings from Indiana that the rest of us are not? The major polling firms have largely ignored this race, so there is virtually nothing numbers-wise that I have seen.

  • Repair_Man_Jack

    Having lived in and enjoyed my time in both ‘Bama and Texas, I’m ambivalent on The Big Game. That being said, sending Chris Dodd off to his Irish Cottage has me feeling tingly all over. It takes the painful edge off of my sinus headache.

    I’m guessing being down in the polls and stuck with only 1/2 a waitress sandwhich was more deprivation than Sinator Dodd could withstand!

  • GenEarly

    Greer, Crist, Mack-Bono, Pork-Young, and others have created the mess we are in and must be replaced with constitutional conservatives or the republican party of Mccain-Grahmnesty can become a 3rd Party!

  • JoeG

    While my larger congressional district leans left, I live in a small pocket that gives us a comfortable R state house and senate district. A few years ago our state rep trended farther and farther left. We’d had enough when he signed onto a tax increase and he was done, no question. He was polling in the 30% range… as an incumbent that’s death.

    Mr RINO retired before he was ousted. When I run into him he claims that he’d have had no trouble being re-elected, but he was tired of the politics. Pure delusional thinking.

  • toledojim

    Although this may be the only way that Dodd can save face, leave on his own, before he is voted out; the real issue is the damage he’s done and the after math of the legislation they pass in the meantime will have many a negative effect on all of us. Stop and think, for a moment, the devastation or the after math of what the democrats, Dodd, Frank, Pelosi and Reid, have done to the economy creating or allowing the housing bubble to burst and the initiation of the TARP funds. We’ve almost spent ourselves into bankrupcy, the unemployment rate is still over 10% and they, congress, will have to raise the debt ceiling again, so we don’t go bankrupt. I hope history frames these guys for what they really are or were; a bunch of crooks, liars and thieves.

  • mikejd

    Erick’s post is right on, although the Scarborough reference is interesting and timely for me.

    Given that he has a new book out, I decided to look him up in Wikipedia. Joe has always been a mystery to me because he works at MSNBC and left office when he was a rising star for our movement.

    I may be late to the game, but what is all this about Lori Klausutis? I knew an aide died in his office, but are the allegations that the medical examiner lied and was suspended in two other states for lying about autospies? I would really like to hear a conservative rebuttal and a search of Red State, NRO and Spectator yield only comments from lefties.

    Thanks.

  • wyllyness

    like their fearless leader, Obama, did? And Clinton. Even though there are videos, and audios, etc., telling the truth, all it takes is a big fat lie, and people believe them.. Or a smear.

    I heard on the local Fox station this morning that two more Colorado Dems are going to bag this year, as well. I can’t wait to hear who. Stupid teasers.

  • txgeekgirl

    As a Texan – I find no offense in Roll Tide as a Headline. Bowing to political correctness is what started our downward turn as a nation.

    Perhaps Roll Tide feeds your fear. Fear that sports analysts and LV Books have it right.

  • http://www.veronicaestrada.com/ Veronica Estrada
  • soljerblue

    Seated comfortably in their deck chairs aboard RMS Titanic?

    Someone above said nothing happens by accident with these quislings, and I tend to agree strongly. My thought is that either by consensus or resignation, possibly both, Dodd and Dorgan and some others are quitting because the Dems’ highest echelons have determined they have a better chance to hold on to the seats by running unknowns who aren’t the lightening rods these sleaze balls are. In operational strategy, sometimes it’s wise to give up ground to shorten one’s lines and secure a more defensible position. I’m thinking that may be exactly what’s happening here.

    And as for “Roll Tide” — take it from a Bama Boy: the ‘Horns’ may win. But they’ll have to scramble, scratch, and claw to get it. Not to mention stopping Mark Ingram (#22) Wouldn’t surprise me to see overtime.

  • http://uslibertyjournal.blogspot.com/ daezy

    Could this possibly be a reflection on their fearless leader?
    Wouldn’t it be lover-ly.

  • rightwingmom52

    Alabama plays for the national championship, the SEC’s bowl game record is 5-4, the SEC has the most BCS bowl game wins (13) and the most BCS championships (5), 17 national championships (both at the time of the win and current conference membership), the #1 NFL draft pic will probably be Eric Berry from TN and the #1 NFL QB, Peyton Manning, is from TN. And that’s just off the top of my head and I’m a girl. Hopefully we’re all on the same side politically … a die-hard, right-wing, gun-toting, religion-clinging, Bible-reading conservative!

  • mosander

    Since many congressmen are withdrawing, perhaps it is to blow the country before the carnage starts (the civil unrest constructed by Obama). Are they taking there money to retire quietly in some other country before they are arrested and charged with treason for ignoring the constitution and covering up a usurper? Just a thought. Always check behind the door.

  • lunaticrex

    Greer’s resignation strikes me as more positive for conservatives than all the Dems jumping ship. That they would choose now to retire had become quite clear in the past couple of months because so many tenured Congressmen (sorry, un-PC old school) have been apparently abandoning their careers and legacies over HC (among many others to varying extents). Most had a better run than Butch and Sundance anyway – grab it and run before they catch you, that’s the way. That Jim Greer would resign seems to indicate at least some Republicans might be starting to actually understand that they keep backing the wrong horses. Perhaps soon some State GOP will endorse a conservative, then maybe the national…never mind.

    Oh, hello all. I’m Chris, currently living in south Alabama. Now, I know you’re thinking this subject line is why I decided to finally post. Actually, it might be. I’ve been reading RS for a year or so, but I thought I should study up before I piped in. “Two ears, one mouth,” “measure twice, cut once” and all that.

    Finally, although this is clearly not a college football blog, I believe some here are misguided vis-a-vis that subject. By which I mean to say: Roll Tide! Oh, and good luck Longhorn fans. No need to reciprocate. We’re good.