Back in a Red State
Overall, last night was a big victory for conservatives. It’s nice to be back in a red state again.
Living in Northern Virgina, I’m most surprised that Ken Cuccinelli won the attorney general race. Cuchinelli ran as a staunch conservative. (He used a Gadsden flag as his campaign logo!) My lovely voting district in Alexandria went 70% for Creigh Deeds. My neighbors knowingly voted for someone who said he would support tax increases. That is mind-boggling to me. However, when you live in a re-vitalized, artsy neighborhood, it’s not unexpected.
I hope conservatives realize that we aren’t going to coast to victory next year. Unless Democrats remain clueless and continue shoving health care and cap & trade down our throats, 2010 will still be a difficult battle. Today, Ed Morrissey at Hot Air wrote about rapid fall of Obama:
Obama will still be president for another three years, but the mystique is gone. New Jersey just taught Democrats in Congress a big lesson — Obama can’t get them re-elected. Being the President’s “partner” on his radical agenda is not a winning position; it wasn’t for Corzine in what should have been a secure blue state, and it certainly won’t be in moderate or conservative districts and states held by Democrats in the House and Senate.
That is a huge blow to Obama and his agenda, as Democrats now have to consider unpopular bills for ObamaCare and cap-and-trade in an entirely new light. If they fall in behind Obama instead of listening to their constituents, they will find themselves in retirement after the 2010 midterms. That’s the big lesson, and it will not be lost on moderate Democrats.
Glenn Reynolds also writes in the New York Post:
The Obama invincibility that was so much in evidence then seems to have lost its power. People can argue the reasons why these elections, all in places Obama carried handily, were so close. But if he were the political marvel he was thought to be, these races wouldn’t have been contests, but walkovers. So one consequence of this Election Day is the end of his special political magic.
Primaries may be worse.
People are just as angry at Republicans right now as they are Democrats. As I’ve often said here, Republicans have nearly forgotten that they’re supposed to be fiscal conservatives. I hope last night’s results sent a message to the highest levels of GOP leadership. Stop sending us moderates!
I’m curious to see if the momentum continues in tight primary races for conservatives, especially with Chuck DeVore in California and Marco Rubio in Florida. The gubernatorial race in Tennessee is also worrisome. Will independent wealth or conservative principles prevail?
Tags: Alexandria, Chuck DeVore, Creigh Deeds, Ed Morrissey, Election 2009, Gadsden flag, Glenn Reynolds, Ken Cuccinelli, Marco Rubio, Virginia
November 5th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Yeeeeehawww! Conservatism is alive, well, and on the march to take back America!
I couldn’t agree more with the message…Stop sending us ‘moderates’, because moderates have no real views of their own. (That little sting at the end of the statement was added to season it up a bit
‘Moderates’ simply lick their finger, stick it up high, and see where the political wind is blowing this morning.
One final note: The founders of our republic were conservatives who had principles and morals that held tightly to the wonderful thing that the statists on the left are trying so fervently to destroy, called liberty (aka: freedom).
As William Wallace so eloquently put it at the end of the movie, ‘Braveheart’…”FREEDOM!”
May freedom continue to ring in these dark days of the Obama tyranny.