[UPDATE, Moe Lane] Permit me to introduce the two new GOP council members for Alexandria:
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Jim Geraghty over at National Review has the basic facts. Democrats lost two seats on the Alexandria, Virginia city council:
Boy, how long has it been since I’ve been able to report good news on an election night for Republicans? With results from 26 out of 26 precincts, and absentees included, Republican Frank Fannon and GOP-endorsed independent Alicia Hughes appear to have won seats on the Alexandria City Council. The Democrats will still control a majority of four out of six seats, but this is a couple rippes of red in a deep blue community in a purple state – the best news for local Republicans in a long time.
But the implications are bigger. Barack Obama won this county 72-27. Senator Mark Warner is from Alexandria. Democratic National Committee Chair Tim Kaine is the Governor of Virginia.
Barack Obama lost today. The Democratic National Committee lost today.
Steve Maley
Moe Lane
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Neil Stevens
Hey, we gotta start somewhere
gonzo55 (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 10:44PM EST (link)My pessimistic side would say this is a drop in the bucket against TheOne’s 70M strong Hope army.
My optimistic side says that when the conservative movement has been at its strongest, it’s dominated these local elections. I don’t know who council members-elect Fannon and Hughes are, but Godspeed!
“Facts are stubborn things” — Ronald Wilson Reagan
Is the NCNA listening? Obama is vulnerable now! Let's
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Tuesday, May 5th at 11:50PM EST (link)lead NOW from a position of strength rather than go searching for what we stand for on a wussie tour.
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Die-hard Obama voters now see him as owned by banks
katesmith (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 12:10AM EST (link)I was listening to a local PBS radio affiliate in Tampa the other day taking calls on Obama. All the Obama voters that called in said they still liked him but that he was owned by bankers. Even a few weeks ago, the same people wouldn’t have allowed one word against the guy.
Welcome to the war, Frank and Alicia
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 12:15AM EST (link)Things are about to become pretty interesting, but I congratulate you. RedState is your friend, and we are like the friend who weighs 260, has a 3rd degree black belt, and speaks very softly but firmly.
IOW, a GOOD friend to have. Knock em dead, guys.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
EPU, I can't thank you enough for highlighting this blog
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 12:19AM EST (link)I will be writing soon on Ms Hughes if no one else does soon.
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
My pleasure.
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 12:44AM EST (link)Pretty good story there, from the little I know.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
I have looked at her website, and she is a true conservative that needs no listening
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 12:55AM EST (link)tour
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
My Old Stomping Grounds
OccamsRazor (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 12:59AM EST (link)…and not far from where I am now. I’ll have to go press the flesh and personally welcome her to RedState.com.
Kowalski
OccamsRazor (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 1:00AM EST (link)Both of them.
Even bigger news comes
Thomaruss@aol.com Wednesday, May 6th at 4:36AM EST (link)from suburban Chicago. A public high school near Obama’s house has elected a conservative 17-year old as its new student body president. Yeah, the GOP’s back, baby!
Seriously, the Democratic NATIONAL Committee cares about what happens in a local contest in Alexandria, VA (#173 in US population)?
Alexandria turnout Nov 2008: 75%
Alexandria turnout yesterday: 15%
And you guys are excited about this. Desperate anyone?
palomino70, does your mother know you're still up? nt
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 4:49AM EST (link)In Vino Veritas
No, Achance, my mom's busy...
Thomaruss@aol.com Wednesday, May 6th at 5:26AM EST (link)…with your wife. They’re moving to Vermont and getting hitched. (I’m sure proud of my lesbian widow mom…how do you feel about your wife?)
Now that we’ve traded childish insults, do you have a response on substantive matters?
Dude...
Wing Zero (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 6:39AM EST (link)You don’t know how lucky you are to be on a website and not face to face. I assure you that saying something about someone’s wife would earn you a short trip to the hospital.
Anyway, Someone needs to bring out the blam stick on Palomino. That comment is beneath the good posters here at RS.
1-21-09 – We are so screwed… Wait… maybe not just yet.
Bro...
Thomaruss@aol.com Wednesday, May 6th at 7:40AM EST (link)If we were face to face and he brings up my mother you better believe I’d say something about his wife.
As for the “good posters here at RS”, they’re busy referring to Colin Powell as a “scumbag arse” and calling a Supreme Court Justice a child molester, so spare me the high horse about etiquette.
The original post is still there, so tell me how a LOCAL election in the 173rd largest “city” in the US worries the Dem NATIONAL Committee or President Obama. I submit it doesn’t, and that the “good posters” here are blindly grasping for any bit of good news.
LOL "I love my dead gay son,"
blooch Wednesday, May 6th at 10:28AM EST (link)Admit it, horsey…Achance stung you, and you nutted up in mom’s basement. Don’t get too comfy in that beanbag chair with your “Permanent Democrat Majority”.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
He was kind of a feisty little troll, though.
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 10:44AM EST (link)I got an excuse for blogging that time of the night, first, I’m retired so the time of day or night doesn’t mean much to me, and second it was only quarter till two in Alaska, don’t know what time it was wherever he was. Anyway, he’s a ghost now and we can have a full and informative exchange of ideas regarding his mother’s ancestry and sexual proclivities.
In Vino Veritas
At least he's now a more educated troll;
blooch Wednesday, May 6th at 11:02AM EST (link)Thanks to google, he knows that Alexandria, VA is our 173rd largest city. Kudos to Wing Zero for giving him the push toward excellence.
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
He'll reincarnate soon as equus73 (nt)
blooch Wednesday, May 6th at 11:12AM EST (link)“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
I know I'm talking to a ghost
Wing Zero (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 11:37AM EST (link)But he was talking about YOU, not your mother…
Troll…
1-21-09 – We are so screwed… Wait… maybe not just yet.
Blam
Neil Stevens (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 10:31AM EST (link)P.S. Consider that your party did so well in 2008, but you’re so insecure you feel the need to troll here anyway.
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Being a Virginian, this is great news
Scope (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 6:28AM EST (link)and the state will be turning Red here very shortly with the election of McDonnell, Bolling and Cucunnelli. The tide has turned, and imagine, it only took a little over 100 days.
Scope,
Wing Zero (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 6:43AM EST (link)According to the polling data posted at Wikipedia, McDonnell has a lead on any of hid Democrat opponents.
Still, I’d be happier if he (McDonnell) broke 50, but we’re still a long way out.
1-21-09 – We are so screwed… Wait… maybe not just yet.
Wing Zero
Scope (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 7:01AM EST (link)Yes, I heard about the polls, with McDonnell leading any of the three Dems by double digits. As you say, it’s a long way out, but, I really believe he can only improve as Obama, the Libeals and King Kaine go further down in their popularity, as seen in the purpose of this diary.
Keeping my fingers crossed
Wing Zero (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 11:34AM EST (link)I guess it’s my training and my job, I expect the worse.
1-21-09 – We are so screwed… Wait… maybe not just yet.
Virginia as harbinger
naraht Wednesday, May 6th at 12:02PM EST (link)When the Republicans win the Virginia Governorship in 2009, the Democrats will point out (just as the Republicans did in 2005) that the party of the President has always lost the race for Virginia Governorship since 1977. (Last VA Gov to be elected with his party in the White House was Miles E. Godwin in 1973 and he was also Governor as a Democrat in from 1966-1970)
New Jersey, OTOH, will be *considerably* harder to spin if the Democrats lose.
Meanwhile, up in Alaska...
Josh Painter (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 10:56AM EST (link)Conservative Dan Sullivan was elected Anchorage mayor by a hefty margin of 57.3% to 42.7%.
http://www.adn.com/mayor/story/784846.html
- JP
“An armed society is a polite society” – Robert A. Heinlein, “Beyond This Horizon” (1942)
Satire, right?
SecularRepublican Wednesday, May 6th at 11:25AM EST (link)I’m all for cheering on Republican victories on all levels – local, state, and federal – but to spin this as a loss for Obama and the DNC is positively silly. Maybe it would have been if Obama campaigned for the local Dem or if the DNC poured money into this local race, but that didn’t happen. Do we really think the President or the DNC really care about two seats on a local city council?
Erick has a blog on the Reco list
blooch Wednesday, May 6th at 11:53AM EST (link)about how he killed an Obama deification amendment in the city council of Macon, GA. Why don’t you mosey on over there and throw a wet rag on that one, too?
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
Blam
Neil Stevens (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 11:59AM EST (link)This site isn’t here for you to talk down Republican victory and talk up Republican defeat. Yeah, we remember when you were pre-emptive delcaring Tedisco a disappointment even before the original count was done.
Feel free to appeal to the directors for reinstatement.
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Living next door in the People's Republic of Maryland,
The_Gadfly (Diary) Wednesday, May 6th at 1:52PM EST (link)yes, this is good news indeed, and while he won’t show it on TV, it has James Carville and the rest of his crew shaking in their boots. Two Republican seats in the region of Virginia which is responsible for allowing commentators to call it a ‘Purple trending Blue State’ instead of a Red state is a truly stunning upset, regardless of the turnout for the vote.