No, it’s not “Wham Bam” — besides, that’s two words. At the Corner, Robert Costa writes that it’s “Rebuke,” a word that appears in quotes from such divergent sources as Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), the Washington Post, and The Politico.
Related: John Podhoretz on “The Wipeouts in New York and Nevada:”
Both Turner and Amodei made the president the chief target of their campaign ire, and the Democrats in both races ran as far from Barack Obama as they could. And they were wiped out anyway.
These may prove to be among the most suggestive special-election results in modern American history. The Democratic candidate Harris Wofford’s win in the 1991 special for Senate in Pennsylvania proved a harbinger of Bill Clinton’s victory in 1992, and Republican Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts in January 2010 presaged the shellacking in the midterms last year. If Obama loses next November, the writing on the wall will have appeared tonight.
Hugh Hewitt spotlights this quote in The Hill, not exactly a Tea Party/VRWC-friendly publication:
A Democratic strategist said Obama has become such a problem for down-ticket Democrats that he was wary of encouraging candidates to run next year. “I’m warning my clients — ‘Don’t run in 2012.’ I don’t want to see good candidates lose by 12 to 15 points because of the president,” said the strategist.
At the Tatler, Bryan Preston declares, “Time of death for the age of Hope and Change, 11:58 pm eastern, Sept. 13, 2011.”
It’s up to all of us next year though, to ensure that it doesn’t rise from the dead like Young Barackenstein.
Update: Do you smell what Barack’s cooking? “Election year 2012: smells like Democrat doom,” this London Daily Mail headline reads, meaning — at least for the moment — the stench is powerful to reach across the Atlantic.
How’se about them apples?
The conventional wisdom is that Turner will only hold the seat for 15 1/2 months, because NY-9 is going to be one of the state’s two congressional districts eliminated when New York loses two seats due to reapportionment. But the interesting thing now, in the wake of Tuesday’s debacle is going to be where do NYS Democrats in Albany put the NY-9 voters, where they can’t do any of the other Democratic incumbents any harm?
Peter King’s too far out on Long Island, Michael Grimm already has too many Republicans from Staten Island and southwest Brooklyn that are being kept away from other districts, and Gary Ackerman and Carolyn McCarthy probably would only take a little of NY-9 under the current anti-Obama conditions. And mixing into NY-6, NY-10 or NY-12 could really create some racial fireworks that might make Democrats’ chances in 2012 in New York look even worse (Kirsten Gillibrand’s Senate seat is also up, and the anti-Obama trend may be so strong by then that even the NYS Republican Party can’t screw it up).
Sigh, not to be a wet blanket, but someone has to say it, “Great kid! Don’t get cocky!”.
But we can, if we stay focused with the “Force” of the Tea Party, destroy the Obama “Deathstar” (To the US economy) administration come Nov 2012.
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