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Concern Trolling the Democrats #EERS

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 30th, 2012 at 06:00 PM  | 

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Democrats frequently “concern troll” the Republican Party. The GOP cannot win in New England. It has drifted too far to the right. The GOP is purging moderates. Etc. Etc. Etc.

They act as if they care and in fact are delighted by what they interpret as the decline and fall of the GOP.

Meanwhile, more Democrats are leaving the Donks headed over to the GOP. They are losing the rust belt, Appalachia, and the South. Their gains in the west are not offset by their losses elsewhere. Blue collar Catholics are leaving.

Tonight, I’ll spend some time concern trolling the Democrats.

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  • drfredc

    Ah yes, the Dems are supposedly happy that Senator Lugee is being retired, as are a couple other of the Senate LOSERship being turned over for more conservative minded folks.

    With fewer of the spineless LOSERship around to play the get along to go along games with the O-LOSERcrat fringe that has been in charge for quite some time, it’s sure to make the O-LOSERcrats look good when none of their stuff gets any traction in a GOP dominated Congress. Or Not…. Mostly Not.

    So yes, lets go with the Dem’s notion that losing some GOP LOSERship is a good thing.

  • DerKrieger

    …has been fully taken over by the communist, socialist, anti-business, anti-energy radicals that they would have opposed in the days of JFK. Most Americans, even Democrats, want just about everything the Leftsts oppose like cheap, abundant energy, strong defense, an America to be proud of, et al.

    Is it really any wonder the Donks are losing “normal” people?

    I’m just dismayed that’s it’s taking so long.

  • http://redmerrimack.blogspot.com/ charliebravoNH

    In 2010 NH turned red and the GOP made in roads into ME. RI the bluest of all NE States is a epic economic disaster only surpassed by CA, MI and upstate NY.

    The Democrat Socialists can take their trolling elsewhere.

  • APA Guy

    I don’t care what one half-a**ed poll showing the race tied says. This state is solidly conservative…so much so that we ran out one of our favorite Democrat sons in Evan Bayh…someone who, like Lugar, was once as good of a bet to win as Kennedy was in MA.

    My sources inside the state Dem Party tell me they are scared stiff about the ads Mourdock will run trumpeting Donnelly’s rubber-stamping of the failed Obama stimulus and Obamacare…especially at a time when SCOTUS is set to chuck that thing entirely. They saw how Mourdock waxed Dem GOP favorite Lugar and fear what he will do to an actual Democrat.

    Hold on to your hats…this Indiana senate race will be one of the great conservative moments in electoral history. Mourdock will show how it’s done…and perhaps others will then have the courage to follow his lead. THEN we will have the conservative majorities we so desperately need in congress.

  • Dave_A

    Electability matters.

    Yes, Brown is not ideologically pure…. But he’s sitting in Ted Kennedy’s old seat, and seems fit to stay there for some time now, thanks to the Dems running a walking punchline as their candidate…

    So long as we’re OK nominating moderates in that area – at least while it’s still basically-blue-territory… We have a chance to get a few seats there…

  • commonsenseobserver

    I don’t really like Shays, but I think he’s our best bet in CT.

  • lineholder

    First, there’s Holder saying to black pastors “civil rights is endangered”.

    Then you have Ed Schultz saying “If Romney wins this election, there’ll never be another Democratic president”.

    Yeah…they’re fear-mongering…trying to use fear to motivate their base.

    Soooo…we’ve gone from “hope and change” to “fear and [needs a term here]

  • Dave_A

    Which seems to indicate she’d lose again, since I doubt she’s changed any positions since 2010…

  • Dave_A

    fear and loathing…

  • lineholder

    And it would fit on a bumper sticker, too, wouldn’t it?

    They’re coming unhinged, ya’ know? Totally unhinged.

  • moonmad

    Is that we don’t get to control when the moderates go off with the democrats. So yeah Scott Brown does the politician thing when it’s easy he votes with the conservatives when it’s hard he goes with the democrats. How does that help us? I am tired of the tyranny of the moderates. I am hoping that we can get enough of a conservative caucus to make it so we don’t have to kiss the moderate ring to get things done. That not the “extremist conservative positions” has been more of an impediment to making headway against the the liberal policies.

  • renl57

    And that’s what neutralized the powerful college feminist crowd in MA. The Dems couldn’t use the “war on women” theme against Brown.

  • wolfgang

    Unless their Democratic opponents informs their electorate that are staunchly against anal fornication.
    Dick Blumenthal (D-CT) bragged about in being in country during the Vietnam War when the closest he ever got was a ‘Toys For Tots’ collection warehouse in DC. Linda McMahon wasn’t even close.
    And Lizzie, 1/32 Cherokee, Warren, excuse me “Trail Of Tears”, Warren, because her real relative was one of the drovers, not one of the ones on foot, is running for Teddy Kennedy’s old seat. We all know how that went, the Mass voters repeatedly, time after time after time, sent the man who drove his car and passenger, off a Cape Cod bridge, fled the accident, leaving his female passenger to drown in the meantime and failed to report the accident and drowning for twelve long hours back to the Senate, irregardless. Nothing would have changed even if the Mass voters had known about Teddy’s all night rental of an entire Mexico City bordello.
    There must be something in the water or the air, because the residents East of the Hudson historically have been repeatedly incapable of recognizing patriotic, responsible political candidates when they are presented with them.
    Now, do you suppose Barack Hussein Obama privately refers to Air Force One as Choom Wagon One?

  • http://libertynews.com/ mbecker908

    Please provide a list of conservative candidates in Massachusetts who could get more than a dozen votes in a general election against any of the Marxists in the MA Democratic Party.

    Scott Brown, from Massachusetts, is a wonderful U.S. Senator and I’m proud to have him in our Party. Were he from Utah, Texas or Arizona, that would be another story.

    Get over it.

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    every day ending in Y over Elizabeth Warren, the mother of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Occupy Wall Street (well she just claims that one, but she also claims to 1/10000 Cherokee as well). Were he running in Texas, I’d be all for Ted Cruz creaming his tail but that is not the choice in Mass. It is a choice between Scott Brown: Heritage Score of 44 or Elizabeth Warren Heritage Score of -100.

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    That is negative 100 for Elizabeth Warren.

  • mikeymike143

    and let me remind everyone that it was the TEA PARTY that helped get scott elected, not the establishment.

    the RNC and other republicans actually ”sat on their hands” during that election because conventional wisdom said that a republican couldnt win teddy kennedy’s seat.

  • commonsenseobserver

    I also see that he put in a lot of effort himself.

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    I do believe Lamar Alexander and Lindsay Graham could do with a little forced retirement, however.

  • commonsenseobserver

    Isn’t there any way we could give him a somewhat more graceful retirement than we gave Lugar? Say, maybe ease him into his old post of Education Secretary, before making that post totally irrelevant.

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    Alexander was a good Governor and he is not a Dick Lugar but he is a reliable McConnell Republican. If he were in Mass, heck he’d be to the right of Brown but in Tennessee, whoever wins the Republican primary will win the seat (though if the Democratic challenger were Phil Bredesen that would be somewhat scary but Bredesen would be scary vs Alexander as well). If Senator Alexander wanted a more graceful retirement, sure, but if not…well there is the Lugar retirement plan.

  • commonsenseobserver

    I think Corker would be much more vulnerable.

  • Dave_A

    The majority of the power in Congress is based on who’s in the leadership.

    One of the main reasons we had to compromise on the debt ceiling, for example, was that the Democrats had control of the Senate.

    It is much easier for a conservative bloc to have influence on final legislation when the leadership is at least slightly to the right of center, then it is when anything you want to do has to not only be pushed past Obama, but also past Harry Reid….