{"id":5920,"date":"2009-11-04T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5920"},"modified":"2012-03-24T08:41:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T13:41:55","slug":"the-morning-road-leads-to-stalingrad-and-the-sky-is-softly-humming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5920","title":{"rendered":"The Morning Road Leads To Stalingrad, And The Sky Is Softly Humming"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a great night!<\/p>\n

In Virginia, the GOP didn’t just beat the Tics; we didn’t just beat them down; we didn’t just humilate them; we made them say<\/a> “we’re not just your beeyotch, we are your bee-friggin-YATCH”.\u00a0 The Obama Revolution in Virginia had a half-life shorter than Milli Vanilli’s chart career.\u00a0 The Virginia election – in a state the Dems owned barely a year ago – made an eight-on-one prison shower-room beatdown look like a Japanese tea ceremony.<\/p>\n

And in New Jersey?\u00a0 NEW JERSEY<\/a>?\u00a0 I knew we were onto something when a third of the polls were in, Corzine trailed by seven, and Minnesota Public Radio’s utterly Republican-free “panel” spent a couple of minutes obsessing over “exit polls”.\u00a0 Which was at least better than CNN, which was running the “exit polls show New Jersey neck and neck” slide up until, I kid you not, the moment they called it for Christie.<\/p>\n

Governor <\/em>Christie.<\/p>\n

Note to Dems; when even fat jokes fail you, you know you’re screwed.<\/p>\n

Note to Hugh Hewitt:\u00a0 You were oh, so close to right on this one; if it’s not close, they can’t cheat (enough).<\/p>\n

NY23 – well, there’s a lesson for the GOP:\u00a0 “Moderates” are death.\u00a0 Running to the middle to win moderates is the road to palookaville; Liberals want <\/em>us to run moderates.\u00a0 Making the middle want to move to you<\/em> is the way forward.\u00a0 The GOP flipped the Nassau County Commission, and the conservatives taught a lesson to the 23rd District’s GOP “elite”.\u00a0 While we lost the special election (cue Ms. Scozzafavva; ride into the sunset by any means necessary), we’re well-placed to beat Owens next year; the party might be over before they know what hit them.<\/p>\n

Remember last year, when the left was tittering like a bunch of latte-addled grad students about the GOP and conservatism being dead?<\/p>\n

Hah.\u00a0 We’re here, we’re conservative, and we’re not going away (Janet Napolitano’s enemy’s lists notwithstanding).<\/p>\n

Bring on next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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