…last night, this crossed my mind.<\/p>\n
Remember last November?<\/p>\n
For starters, Democrats tried to spin their crushing, upset, turnaround defeats in Virginia but New Jersey <\/em>as something other than “a referendum on Obama?” It was untrue, of course, but it’s understandable that they’d float it as damage control, and I’d never expect that the utterly compliant lefty blogosphere would repeat it as anything other than fact).<\/p>\n Then they tried to paint the New York 23rd District race, where a virtually unknown Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, running a ,last-minute, poorly-funded campaign against a liberal “Republican”, Dede Scozzafava, (who actually ran to the left <\/em>of the Democrat, and spent more money against Hoffman than against her putative opponent),\u00a0 very nearly won running against both <\/em>of them, as a defeat for the GOP.\u00a0 I’ve never really figured out the logic behind this – and being Democrat propaganda, it wasn’t intended for consumption by the logical anyway – but apparently it has something to do with Sarah Palin’s endorsement not <\/em>causing the sky to open and rain ballots like it did for Obama.<\/p>\n Now, the “reason” given for this is that “It’s proof that the conservative movement is too partisan and extreme!” (ignoring, of course, that Scozzafava waas an extremist for the other side<\/em>, in a district that had always voted for real <\/em>Republicans).<\/p>\n But let’s take it at face value; let’s bite our tongues and accept for argument’s sake that Hoffman’s “loss” – and the temporary <\/em>loss to the GOP of a fairly backwater House seat that will return to the GOP in about eleven months anyway – was a symptom of an “extremist” takeover of the GOP?<\/p>\n Very well.<\/p>\n So, all of you who were hopping up and down like poo-flinging monkeys over Hoffman; aren’t, then, the departure of the vastly <\/em>more power Chris Dodd and Byron Dorgan even more-proximate <\/em>symptoms of the side-effects of the inflexible extremism of the Pelosi\/Reid\/Obama agenda?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …last night, this crossed my mind. Remember last November? For starters, Democrats tried to spin their crushing, upset, turnaround defeats in Virginia but New Jersey as something other than “a referendum on Obama?” It was untrue, of course, but it’s understandable that they’d float it as damage control, and I’d never expect that the utterly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7745,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743\/revisions\/7745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}