Thread: Rush on N.Y. victory: 'No Democrat is safe'

ELECTION 2011

Rush on N.Y. victory: 'No Democrat is safe'

'Another bitch slap is what this is, and it continues'

Posted: September 14, 2011
1:39 pm Eastern
By Joe Kovacs
© 2011 WND


Rush Limbaugh

PALM BEACH, Fla. – In the wake of last night's big Republican win for the New York seat in Congress abandoned by Anthony Weiner, top-rated radio host Rush Limbaugh says not a single Democrat in America can count on being elected in 2012.

"No Democrat is safe because the American people are sick and tired of Democrats lying and smearing and failing," said Limbaugh, analyzing Bob Turner's sound defeat of Democrat David Weprin.

Limbaugh called the outcome the "revenge of America" against the policies of President Obama, saying it was a clear rebuke of the commander in chief.

"It is the economy. It's the uncertainty. It is the fear that this is not how this kind of stuff is supposed to happen in this country," he explained. "We're not supposed to lose jobs like this and never get them back. We're not supposed to have a president who presides, happily it seems at times, over the decline of this country. ...

"[People] are tired of the amateur hour that this regime is. They're tired of the deficit and the neverending stimulus and spending and debt. They don't want Obamacare. They don't want nationalized medicine, forced, government-run health care. They don't want it.

"They don't want a president filling out NCAA brackets, going to play golf more than the host of this show does and attending all these parties. ... It's the price of gasoline, it's the markets. It's the fact that we have put a moratorium in drilling for our own oil. People are not stupid. Their lives are affected by what this administration has done, and every chance the people of this country have had to show it at the ballot box, they have done so without doubt."

Limbaugh said national media outlets seemed stunned by the upset, since Democrats held the seat since 1923.

"It is so satisfying to read the media today," he said. "They are shocked to the core at AP. They are shocked to the core at Politico. They are shocked to the core at all of the state-run media giants. It's another bitch slap is what this is, and it continues. First you had Chris Christie in New Jersey. Then you had the Kennedy seat [in Congress]. Then you had the governor of Virginia, you had that slip. Then you had the 2010 congressional elections. There is a trend. Conservatism is in the ascendency, and it is being aided immensely by Obama and the Democrats all know this."

Limbaugh noted the tea party wasn't active in the race, and neither was talk radio.

"This was pure and simple Bob Turner," he said. "This puts to the lie another myth that all politics is local, because this race had a lot of issues in it that had nothing to do with anything local," as he cited Obama's abandonment of Israel and the president's economic policies.

"Turner during the campaign made it clear what he was going to do if he won. He's gonna go to Washington to start trying to roll [Obama's actions] back. The voters of this district knew exactly what they were voting for. They knew exactly what they were voting against. They knew exactly where the candidates were on this, and it cannot be said that there's an artificial aspect to this outcome in any way, shape, manner or form."

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Twin defeats spark Democratic fears



Tuesday's losses by Weprin and Marshall are demoralizing setbacks for Dems. | AP Photos

By JONATHAN MARTIN & BEN SMITH & JAKE SHERMAN | 9/14/11 4:57 AM EDT

HOWARD BEACH, N.Y.—The Democratic Party’s rare loss of a congressional seat in its urban heartland Tuesday, accompanied by a blowout defeat in a Nevada special election, marked the latest in a string of demoralizing setbacks that threatened to deepen the party’s crisis of confidence and raise concerns about President Barack Obama’s political fortunes.

In New York, Republican Bob Turner soundly defeated Democrat David Weprin in a House contest that — in the view of party leaders, at least — featured an anemic urban machine, distracted labor unions and disloyal voters. In Nevada, a consequential state for the president’s reelection strategy, Democrats suffered a runaway loss rooted in a weak showing in Reno’s Washoe County, a key bellwether.

Even before the polls closed, the recriminations — something short of panic, and considerably more than mere grumbling — had begun. On a high-level campaign conference call Tuesday afternoon, Democratic donors and strategists commiserated over their disappointment in Obama. A source on the call described the mood as “awful.â€

"It is so satisfying to read the media today," he said. "They are shocked to the core at AP. They are shocked to the core at Politico. They are shocked to the core at all of the state-run media giants. It's another bitch slap is what this is, and it continues.

'nuff said!

Much of New York’s still-powerful labor movement, meanwhile, sat the race out — distracted, demoralized, and with other fish to fry. The labor-backed Working Families Party, a juggernaut in other city races, chose to put its resources Tuesday into a bitter internecine battle with the Brooklyn Democratic organization — leaving Weprin to rely on the rusting party machine.

AHAHAHAAHA yeah right, this race was considered a shoo-in by Dems. Never in their wildest dreams did the unions think Weprin was going to lose. SURPRISE! SURPRISE!