Slain
By Mitch Berg
Yesterday: “John Ossoff, the Trump Slayer, in the most important Congressional race in history – a race that is a sure-fire referendum on Trump!.”
NPR’s wishful, romanticized coverage, before the news really sank in that the “Trump Slayer” was yet another empty Democrat suit.
Today: “Just another special election. Hard red distsrict! Ossoff never had a chance! Nothing to see here. Move along, citizen.”
Remember – John “Trump Slayer” Ossoff raised and spent nearly five times as much as Karan Handel, in a district that Trump barely carried six months ago.
And they were so hopeful. From NPR’s extended tongue-bath of Ossoff:
“Ossoff’s campaign has long held that it has the edge in voter enthusiasm — a more committed base of voters who will flock to the polls regardless to support him. Handel’s supporters points to a core of backers who have followed her through thick-and-thin as well.
CNN’s panel of hairdos, watching the fat lady go for that high E flat. Bias? Perish the thought!
“Still, for Handel’s campaign, this could be a problem. She’s expected to trail Ossoff in the early voting numbers, and hopes for a solid election day turnout to notch a win. But the downpours could dampen voter participation in GOP bastions as well.”
Wasn’t even close.
June 21st, 2017 at 7:43 am
Love or hate Trump’s tweets, but his “Democrats- most expensive participation award ever” early this morning, was pure gold.
Ralph Norman won in South Carolina, too.
That’s GOP 5, DFL 0 in special elections.
June 21st, 2017 at 8:15 am
Dumbocrats spent $30MM on a candidate that does not even live in the district and could not vote in his own election? These people are dumb, dumber and dumberer.
June 21st, 2017 at 8:16 am
boss, but the dumbocrat candidates did better than expected, so they won!
June 21st, 2017 at 8:50 am
Any NPR reporter embracing the “Trump Slayer” nickname is probably now crying into “The Last of the Mohitos”.
June 21st, 2017 at 9:13 am
Handel’s campaign hung the albatross of Nancy Pelosi around Ossof’s neck.
Plus he got more money from Cali than locally. And folks didn’t like that?
This is my shocked face.
June 21st, 2017 at 9:20 am
Democrats; the party that think that a carpetbagger living in sin can win in a conservative district in the Bible belt. And they think they can run the country!
June 21st, 2017 at 10:22 am
The Right is finally getting lucky in its enemies. Behold the Ossoff/Handel commentary of Matt Yglesias!
https://www.vox.com/2017/6/20/15839452/georgia-special-election-results-ossoff-handel
As near as I can tell, Yglesias thinks the voters of the 6th district voted as though they were choosing a rep for the 6th district, and this was “nonsense.”
This Yglesias commentary may be the stupidest article written on politics this year. Yglesias really seems to believe it is the job of Americans to vote for the person Yglesias believes that they should vote for. He is not able to articulate why they should do this.
The truth is that Yglesias lives in a country that, from his POV, is unfair and ridiculous.
June 21st, 2017 at 11:01 am
Democrats set their expectations too high. Most Republicans are still willing to give Trump a chance.
If the Democrats want to be the party of government again (and not simply the party of protest, victim-hood, and a rainbow coalition), they need to change. Whatever pain Democrats may be feeling over this is entirely self-inflicted. It’s a product of their own denial, delusion, and refusal to respect and listen to the American people.
June 21st, 2017 at 11:19 am
Your 11:01 is the most sensible thing you have written in quite a while, Emery.
What I see, as a conservative who did not vote for Trump, is that the Dems blame everyone and everything other than themselves and their folly for their losses. They outspent Trump 2:1 in the presidential election. They outspent Handel by maybe 3 or 4 to 1. They have a media which is actively campaigning against the GOP.
And they still can’t get to a majority.
From the Yglesias Vox article I linked to earlier
“Clinton’s camp tended to argue that tactically, Democrats needed to continue the strategy of targeting the kinds of places where Trump underperformed — districts with large minority populations and/or highly educated white populations.”
Clinton’s strategy seems to have been to lose the electoral college while winning the popular vote.
What this may mean is that Hillary did not feel she could make headway in Trump counties without costing her needed support in the counties that leaned her way (coastal and urban), or that might alienate donors. Trump did not insult vast swathes of Americans by calling them deplorable and irredeemable. Hillary did. Trump’s attacks were on individuals and on groups of non-citizens, including people that were not Americans and had no legal US status (illegal immigrants and would-be refugees abroad).
June 21st, 2017 at 11:45 am
On a side note it was reported yesterday that Eric Holder say’s it’s time for him to be more “visible in the resistance” to all things Trump. I think it would be a godsend to the GOP if he were to campaign for 2020 presidential race.
June 21st, 2017 at 11:48 am
Whatever pain Democrats may be feeling over this is entirely self-inflicted. It’s a product of their own denial, delusion, and refusal to respect and listen to the American people.
Amazingly, I agree! At its core is the problem that Democrats find virtue in being Democrats and they look down upon anyone else as being unenlightened heathens who are fit only to be led by their betters. Their unrelenting, unwarranted, and over the top denigration of those who disagree (“deplorables”, “deniers”, “irredeemable”, “fascists”, “clingers”) has made many Americans tune out all their arguments, even the valid ones. But that core attitude is a tough one to shed when so much of your self esteem is bundled up in your politics and not in the rest of your life. Bill Clinton had it mastered: he could appear to listen to “the deplorables” while governing as a Leftist when he could. But he’s a rare bird and the Democrats could never nominate him these days.
June 21st, 2017 at 12:23 pm
(Drinks chilled leftist tears from moonbat skull)
…Nope, not in no ways tarred of winnin’ y’all.
MAGA, you slimey leftist MFers; MAGA.
June 21st, 2017 at 12:40 pm
Yglesias really seems to believe it is the job of Americans to vote for the person Yglesias believes that they should vote for.
They have this concept of voters’ “best interests”; “Progressives” know what they are, ignorant rednecks vote against them, “woke” people vote “for” them for some reason.
Hard to believe that’s not catching on.
June 21st, 2017 at 1:17 pm
Nerdbert: Democrats appear to be making the same mistakes over and over again, even after they have received new information.
June 21st, 2017 at 2:19 pm
I believe there’s a term for that specific methodology….
June 21st, 2017 at 4:26 pm
I am glad that Democrats are speechless. This finally gives them an opportunity to listen.
June 21st, 2017 at 5:19 pm
Emery, they haven’t made all the same mistakes over and over again. They ran a populist Bernie Bro in Montana and a more pragmatic almost centrist in Georgia and both lost (even in Montana a body slamming oaf won handily). So they’ve eliminated at least two variables in their equation.
At a practical level, the problem with the Democrats is that at their core they’re a completely corrupt and undemocratic organization and the public is wising up to them. In a word, the Democrat label has become toxic and it won’t become less so until the current leadership is swept away.
Trump won the GOP nomination because he won more delegates and against the wishes of the party leaders. The Democrats not only had their hierarchy biased and resisting Bernie, they actively schemed and plotted against the insurgent. The whole concept of superdelegates who guide the selection of a presidential candidate is idiotic and undemocratic and shows the attitude of the party: the plebes must be managed by their betters. And as for corrupt, the Democrats are now the party of the rich and the corporations, much more so than the GOP. Whose leaders are making more than $400K/hr for speeches again?
June 21st, 2017 at 5:40 pm
“… the Democrat label has become toxic and it won’t become less so until the current leadership is swept away.”
and a great deal of that toxicity is due to the crippling Progressive/Democrat reliance upon the Baby Boomers geriatric sense of entitlement for leadership and vision. Hillary perfectly epitomizes that ossified imagination and lazy 50 year outdated political “vision”. When the party purges its executive ranks of the Baby Boomers they can expect to start winning elections again.
June 21st, 2017 at 5:44 pm
A Modest Proposal For The Salvation Of The Democrat Party by Evilbert
Fellow Democrats, by now it has become clear that our strategy of appealing to only the best and brightest, the most woke segment of the American population is a failure. Despite attempts at persuasion by the most popular set of technology and entertainment moguls and workers, we haven’t been able to break through the barrier that is the idiocy of the Common Man in Flyover Country. Unless we can figure out a way to gain control over Flyover Country, our mission to bring the enlightenment of murdering babies at will, of allowing men into women’s bathrooms, and eliminating white males from the population will not come to pass.
Practically, we can’t make changes to the Constitution without having the majority of the Supreme Court die off, so we have to come up with some other method of hacking the voting system we have to bring our wisdom to the hoi polloi. Which brings me to my modest solution… We need to apply anti-trust law to the cities. We must break up the heavy concentration of those who benefit from our wise policies such that we can take over the nation!
What, you say, but cities are our strongholds! Yes, that is the problem. Our economic solutions are tailored for the needs of the wise, urban globalists like ourselves. Coal miners have seen through our deception of trying to kill their jobs and replacing that with training for jobs that don’t (and won’t) exist where they are. Manufacturing workers know that we are actively trying to destroy the competitive nature of their job and replace their well paying jobs with jobs in which they compete with undocumented workers to mow our lawns.
The solution is not to respect the opinions of those whose jobs we are trying to destroy as that would conflict with our core beliefs. Rather, the solution is to spread our wisdom to Flyover Country by dispersing ourselves throughout the nation. If we apply anti-trust law to cities and municipalities we can make it such that no one place has too high a concentration of the wisest sectors of the economy. Actors will be spread throughout the South rather than just concentrated in Hollywood. We can raise taxes in San Jose such that each new tech job in that area makes management’s stock options taxed at standard income tax rates and not at lower capital gains rates. We can force the tech industry to break up its workplaces and send their loyal voters to Texas and other red states. In finance, we can make it so that each transaction in NYC is taxed fully, while those in St. Louis are discounted.
The solution, my friend, is not to listen to the ignorant masses concerned with the welfare of their children and jobs outside the cities. Those policies are sacrosanct! Rather we must find a way to force our loyal, obedient minions to “occupy” the red areas of this country. We need not spread the wealth by direct taxation of our masters and patrons for that would be financial suicide. Instead, we must use more creative methods to spread our well earning minions out among the hoi polloi to bring the wisdom of downward dog kale eating yoga to the hollows of West Virginia.
June 21st, 2017 at 6:23 pm
WOW Nerd, THANKS!!!
June 21st, 2017 at 10:34 pm
Evilbert: you were in the zone. Nice read.
PS: That pic of the CNN crew is gonna be my desktop fr a long time.
June 22nd, 2017 at 12:35 am
Bernie’s hostility to Christianity will put a hard limit on crossover votes from working class whites, even if they are only nominally Christian themselves. These kinds of attacks on Christian beliefs by a Jew are especially galling. “If you are a believing, practicing Christian, stay out of public service” is not a welcoming message. When has Bernie attacked Ellison for his beliefs?
June 22nd, 2017 at 6:51 am
Partisanship is like sports — you support them blindly, ignoring the bad, cherry-picking the good, but at the end of the day you are simply cheering on a bunch of pampered millionaires who wouldn’t bother to piss on you if you were on fire.
June 22nd, 2017 at 8:33 am
Right on cue, from Politico:
Mathematically, a 4-point loss for a Democratic House candidate in a district that has traditionally elected Republicans by wide margins is an encouraging result
June 22nd, 2017 at 10:27 am
JPA that has me thinking of a parallel; so that punch to my face only broke my nose, I must be winning because it didn’t fracture my skull!
June 22nd, 2017 at 10:54 am
Mathematically, a 4-point loss for a Democratic House candidate in a district that has traditionally elected Republicans by wide margins is an encouraging result
No, it is not. Handel outperformed Trump. Ossoff underperformed Hillary. If the results from Georgia 6 are a trend, the GOP will keep congress in 2018.
June 22nd, 2017 at 1:59 pm
In the Matter of Redistricting of the State of Illinois. It is the opinion of the court that the present network of voter districts unfairly prejudices historically oppressed minorities. Therefore, the entire state shall be divided into pie-shaped wedges centered on the Sears Tower, which will ensure that every district contains some outstate and some urban core voters, thus ensuring that Democrats rule the state in perpetuity.
June 22nd, 2017 at 4:31 pm
No, it is not
C’mon MP! Why do you deny a ray of sunshine to DumbocRats? They need some light to be able to see what they are doing wrong. Oh, wait… nevermind.