Protest
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- November
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This cartoon goes out to Dede Scozzafava, NY-23rd District, and all the other reasonable, ideologically impure Republicans who will be Tea Bagged out of the party.
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dont forget the 5 cent deposit on the water that the boat sits on.
Most Americans are center-right. Obama’s pull only works once. That one time was last year, so the rebound is now. Don’t expect our upstate GOP to be pushing GLBTCQ issues, when their constituency is rural whitebread missionary position straights, with 2.5 kids. (Halloween, OK, but a 2-year term? Nuh-uh.) Scozzafava did right, to take off the witch dress. If she’s real, let her run in G-Witch village, & see how she does with grownup GLB’s.
Besides, it’s healthy to be straight.
She was a pro-choice, tax and spend, card-check proponent who immediately endorsed the Democrat upon dropping out of the race. If she was a moderate Republican, then Matt Davies loves huge health insurance company profits.
LET ME GET THIS RIGHT.
1. in the most corrupt state in the US totally Demorat NJ.
a republican is going to win
2. In virgina with all the Lies by the state run media like you the republican is going to win
3. in Ny 23 a demorat running as a republican pulls out and backs the demorat and the conservative is going to win
but the republican party you told us is dead….
IT IS RAGS LIKE YOURS AND BARRY WHO ARE BRAIN DEAD
Is the only way you can make a point by distorting reality?
Dede was no “moderate” – she was an ACORN-supporting RINO.
If a local Democrat party had put a gun-rights supporting, strong immigration law, lower taxes, anti-health reform ‘Democrat’ on the ballot, how would your cartoon look? Would that person be a Moderate Democrat?
Please think before you draw – you’ll save us all a lot of time.
Huh? Scozzafava’s the only Republican on the Beck/Tea bagger hit list?
Another winner, Matt!
I’m content to sit back, and watch the Republican’ts self-destruct from the inside out. However, it really is too bad—the Repubs were once a great, noble party. (Then again, the Dems were also once a great, noble party, too. What’s happened to our political system, anyway?)
-jp
As a proud Californian and Obama Democrat, I can only heartily (and derisively) laugh about Mr. Davies’ excellent cartoon and the sorry story it portrays about the whack-job NY 23rd. (Only the Repugnants could find such a wondrous way to shoot themselves in their feet!) And for Marinadog, who’s grammar, spelling, and punctuation impaired: Aw, just go look in a mirror. That’s all the insult I need to spew!
I would hate to be tea bagged out of a party.
Matt, by using the vulgar, profane and abusive term “teabagger” aren’t you going against the conditions of your own blog?
Just get a job Pierce you BUM!!! Funny how a guy who hasn’t
used an alarm clock in 2 years has the balls to make fun of
someone else.
For those trapped in the Democratic Echo chamber…
Let’s get perspective here:....
The Pew Research Center released a poll in May 2009
http://tinyurl.com/GGALLUPPPP
that was conducted in March and April when President Obama was still hugely popular. The poll showed that the overwhelming trend is toward conservatism, and not merely among Republicans. The number of Independents calling themselves conservative was increasing to 33%, up from 26% in 2005. The number of Democrats calling themselves conservative was up to 8%. In this poll 37% described themselves as politically conservative; almost double the number identifying as liberal (19%). The values of these respondents demonstrated an increasing trend away from big government as the solution and towards local and community based approaches.
These results were in line with a Gallup poll in June
http://tinyurl.com/GGALLUPP
that showed Conservatives were the single largest ideological group (40%) and more recently on October 26, when Gallup showed that Conservatives maintain a two to one advantage over liberals (40%-20%). Conservatism wasn’t grounded in any one party or candidate. It was election neutral. In fact it was the only tri-partisan issue or philosophy overwhelming numbers of Americans seemed to agree on.
The state of conservative popularity is strong.
To recap (and I’m talking pure strategy and analysis here, people as I don’t really care who is the governor of NJ or Virginia, or who holds the congressional seat in NY-23…) – Last night’s election results underline the point I made in my cartoon. Conscientiously moderate Republicans (Chris Christie, Bob McDonnell) are perfectly acceptable to the electorate, while conversely the Limbaugh, Beck, Palin influenced race for the 23rd district put a formerly safe GOP seat in the hands of Dems. Last non Republican to hold that seat was a Whig, I think.
You must admit that NY-23 was closer than expected. Hoffman was a late entry and not supported by a party machine, he should have lost in a landslide.
BUT the “formerly safe GOP seat” will be taken back in 2010 when the GOP gets it right and nominates and supports the RIGHT person.
Also….
I guess you’re ignoring my question about violating your own blog rules. “tea bagger” is obscene and vulgar, name calling does nothing to elevate the discussion.
Glen Beck actually puts together a cohesive argument. Rachel Maddow smirks and belittles the opposition without outlining the reasoning for her position on any issue. Love him or hate him, that is why his ratings are about ten times anyone on MSNBC.
How is Sarah Palin an extremist? The left is obviously afraid of Palin’s ability to energize a base. I can hear your knees knockin’ from here. Giving birth to a Down Syndrome baby qualifies you as an extremist nowadays, huh? I guess to worthless feminists who would have the baby aborted so they could go back to giving their oh-so-important power point presentations that is extreme. True, she’s no Hillary who can’t get the inscription in Russian correct on a diplomatic gift to the Russians, or a schmuck like Madeline Albright who determined that procuring pins from murderous dictators was actually more important, then, you know, promoting freedom and coming to the defense of dissidents, but, yes, I guess Palin is still the dumbest, most extremely dangerous woman in American politics. Sure.
AJ – Your comment about Sarah Palin’s son is truly awful – And negates whatever else you tried to say.
Thanks for not moderating my earlier post into oblivion…
You’re too surface-hung. Too media-hung. Too Euro.
Beck & Palin, by their natural talents , wouldn’t get anywhere. Teabagging, as a hobby, hasn’t been a big hit since 1776.
WHAT GIVES?
A huge, unrepresented majority of Americans craves choice.
Choice, in this supermajority bubble, means “Not Democrats”.
It also means “Not Progressives”.
Think on THAT for a while.
Now… on the 23rd district.
Better Owens for 2 years, than a Dem in Gop clothing for the foreseeable future.
The mission is to represent the lifestyle, and the preferences of the 23rd, NOT to turn the 23rd into G-Witch Village north.
Get it?
Representative Democracy.
I personally do not have a sexual preference bias. Do what you want to, just don’t make me have to watch it, or have to co-sign your HIV doctor bills.
The GOP prevented a subversive trashing of its mission, by giving up that seat for 2 years.
GOOD FOR THEM!
If you resonate only to partisan gamesmanship, it might seem bootless.
To the 23rd, it seems like a welcome relief, from a ringer in sheep’s clothing.
Unfortunately, Artisan, life is a bit more complex than simple labels like “conservative” or “demorat” (although, I’m still laughing at the “label” label that Matt put on the self-caricature that he drew for Matt Bors). While it is probably true that the majority of Americans are fiscal conservatives, the majority are also social liberals (or, “progressives” if you must).
However, the cabal that shot down Scozzafava are not conservatives. Look up “reactionary” in the dictionary, where they have little pictures of your favorite role-models to illustrate the term.
-jp
Joe Lieberman. Impure.
To JP…. and just who might my role models be, since your crystal ball seems fired up tonite?
I cringe whenever I watch the loopy Coulter, the phony, posturing Beck, and I’ve never listened to Limbaugh, ever.
The sad part is that in the soulless circus that American discourse has descended into, good ordinary people have no spokesmen but the anti-clowns screaming back at the “progressive” clown pack.
The mass hubris that infects the left is NOT wisdom.
It is a simple “seig heil”, couched in warm fuzzy language, but shouted for the same reason.
When your touted “Progress” leads to misery for all, world poverty, eternal ethnic gang war, universal criminality, a coming AIDS plague,and Chinese hegemony, where will the “good” of having “liberalized” everything be found?
Every society needs to order itself. That means excluding some people, and some activities.
The alternative is no society at all.
Read “The decline & fall of the Roman Empire”.
OK, to save you the time, I’ll summarize it for you…...
2000 years ago, Rome had its own progressive movement. Gibbon calls it “particularism”. When Rome had been the desirable center of the world for 200 years or so, everybody started moving there. (sound familiar?).
When enough separate colonies of mutually contending ethnicities had each found their own neighborhood, their own voice, their own youth gangs, and their own corrupted senators, the dismantling of Rome itself began. Each group loved its home country, and had no love of Rome. They fought in the streets. Rome’s army became made up of foreigners, and eventually refused to fight (except for gold). For a few years, leaders from the area now known as Albania took over and ran Rome as a sort of offshore mafia operation, but that didn’t last, & in 410, the city was burned to the ground.
We, in America, are starting down that road. Just how far along we are, who can say. The one certain thing is the outcome. It has happened elsewhere. It’s not to say that some people didn’t personally make out better, because of the decline. Lots of slaves became free, got rich, and took on ridiculous affectations, jewelry, and adornments ( lifestyles of the “rich n famous”....”Bling” ), but had no Roman virtues. When the place got filled up by these types, Alaric just rode in, and burned it down. It never recovered.
The whole population was killed, or enslaved.
Beck, Coulter, Obama & Limbaugh know nothing about this.
Progressives delude themselves that it’s different now,
but it happened at least 21 times in history (according to Arnold Toynbee),
and seems to be a pretty standard model.
Have a great day.
Artie,
Were you one of those people who stocked up on canned goods and batteries and was sitting in a bunker when the clock hit midnight on January 1, 2000? Just wondering.
If we are lucky the teabaggers will take their party the way of the Whigs…we can only hope.
On the big nite in question,
Evry body here just felt real fine…....
So we danced and we partied
like it’s 1 9 9 9 …....
(from the artist formely known as Artisan33)
Contrary to the fondest wishes of many liberal pundits, Doug Hoffman’s unforeseen success in New York’s 23rd congressional district is not a sign of an impending Republican party meltdown.
It’s this simple. The Republican voters in New York did not get to pick their candidate. New York has Byzantine election laws regarding House vacancies. Pursuant to these laws, the eleven unelected Republican party county chairmen for the district gathered at an Italian restaurant and chose the candidate whom would be most beholden to them. These unelected solons chose Dede Scozzafava.
Unfortunately for both the county chairmen and Ms. Scozzafava, Ms. Scozzafava bears little resemblance to any sort of Republican, whether moderate, conservative or liberal. Ms. Scozzafava is well to the left of the leftiest national Republicans, such as Sen. Olympia Snowe or Sen. Susan Collins. Ms. Scozzafava is not representative of the Republicans in her district.
New York’s 23rd congressional district is full of dairy farmers, Fort Drum soldiers and people too stubborn to leave the economically depressed Adirondacks. The district is vast, covering approximately one-quarter of New York’s land area. It includes such megalopoli as Potsdam, Watertown, Plattsburgh, Massena and Oswego. The Republican inhabitants are not as red as those in reddest Texas, but like their Texas brethren they have a low BS threshold. They believe in low taxes and personal responsibility. They have an uncanny ability to tell when someone trying to put one over on them, someone like Ms. Scozzafava and the derelict county chairmen.
Ms. Scozzafava is a New York State Assemblywoman who votes to the left of many screamingly liberal Democrats in New York’s Assembly. Ms. Scozzafava is pro-abortion, pro-Employee Free Choice Act, fiscally irresponsible, pro-gay marriage and pro-stimulus. She’s married to an AFL-CIO union leader . She classlessly endorsed the Democrat after dropping out of the race to prevent her impending humiliating defeat. Not a great loyalty quotient..
Ms. Scozzafava does not fit, or serve, her constituency. Her constituents jettisoned her at the first opportunity for someone who better fit their beliefs. This is democracy in action, not the impending unraveling of Republicanism.