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Uhhh… so let’s melt Olympia Snowe again? [RedState]
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Yes, Erik. Reminds me of how Hitler stuck it to the Allies by committing suicide.
The wing-nut guy losing is a big win for the wing-nuts? I think you should put down the crack pipe.
“If John Cornyn and the NRSC do not want to see Florida go the way of NY-23, they better stand down.” Red State is taking on Big John, the Texan who thinks he’s the Marlboro man? What’s not-conservative-enough about him?!
Similarly, the ball going through Buckner’s legs was a huge win for Boston in 1986.
Erick son of Erick remembers fondly those days when the South whooped them Yankees with cornstalks.
“Sarah Palin has murdered her entire family and 90% of Republicans in Congress.
This is a huge win for conservatives.”
EE: FapFapFap — “Defeat is victory!” — FapFapFap. And so on.
Does this loss make Palin an oily taint?
Dear Face,
Not feeling so smart now, without Nose, huh?
Sincerely,
Rightwing Fucktards
this is what happens when wingnuttz attempt sarcasm.
This guy has finally out-logicked himself with word-type thingies. He must now go sit down and put his head between his knees.
Are you sure this story didn’t come from Politico?
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
You say goodbye and I say hello.
Like his special ed teacher before him, ErickErickson tells his retarded followers that they’re all winners! Yay!
Just like Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg was an enormous win for the Confederacy.
THIS IS GREAT NEWS…..FOR HILLARY!
I keep getting confused with all the extrem wings and things, so who the fuck won this anyway? the right, the left, the very right? the left center? help!Oh and does it really matter? at all? really?
Now, in NY-23, conservatives rallied and destroyed the Republican candidate the establishment chose.
Oh yeah — the establishment bigshots over in NY-23 who gave Scozzafava the nomination sure got repudiated by upstarts like Michael Steele, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. Way to stick it to the man, FOX-RNC.
Shit, those electoral grapes were probably sour anyway. Hoffman ran for no other reason than he really wanted to hang out with smelly, witless Teabaggers in his time off from…whatever it was that he did. And he’s getting tag-team head from Fred and Jeri Thompson as we speak.
CONSERVATIVE WIN!
Orwell’s got nothing on Erickson…
heathenish: Owens is kind of a centrist, but Hoffman was extreme right wing. This is a victory for anyone with bwains.
Who better embodies sadness? Erick Erickson or Griff Jenkins?
When did he start writing for Slate?
And Cristie’s win in NJ is a big win for Nutrasystem.
SayItWithWookies: Now, in NY-23, conservatives rallied and destroyed the Republican candidate the establishment chose.
Thus giving the seat to a Dem for the first time in a hundred years. That’ll show ‘em! Now we’ll drive the short bus onward into the breach!
Wait what? I expected Republican victories in Virginia and New Jersey, but what of this race? Wasn’t this suppose to be the flag bearer of the new conservative party? Out of all the races wasn’t this the one that was the sure lock before they started messing with scuzzlebutt? A district that has been in republican hands over the span of 3 different centuries and you handed it to the democrats on a platter. Yes, this is a win for conservatives.
I had a busy evening, and only was getting the local results and the two Governorship races. Local is going all right (we defeated the local wingnut/teabagger initiaitive, and it looks like we are going to let the gayez get married, they just have to promise not to use that word, and no crossies when they do that), but the national had me down. But to hear that NY-23 is going Blue has made my night. After all, this district that has been solidly Republican since before the Civil War had just been called the most important race and true bellweather by none other than Bill Kristol yesterday. Kristol also said it was the ultimate swing district, and would tell us more than any other race tonight.
One has to wonder if in a few years, it will be possible to find a Republican north of Virginia and East of Western PA. Let the Republican bloodletting begin!
heathenish: Well, according to Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc. The Republican was a Commie and to the left of the Democrat, the Democrat was a Socialist, and the Conservative Ronald Reagan. Clearly, this was a win for France.
I thought his declaration of war on Charlie Crist there, at the end, was a bit mean spirited. After all of the sacrifices Charlie has made for the party… he even married a LADY, for fuck’s sake.
I am bummed that Mr. Creosote won New Jersey, though.
“If you strike me down,” said Hoffman to supporters in a terse late night concession speech, “I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine!” He then pretended to drop bodily out of his clothes. A reporter for the Watertown Daily News toed the pile of clothes on the floor and grunted with disdain.
So Erick Erickson, Detroit or Saint Louis for this year’s SuperBowl?
Potater: thank you! I think.yeah for brains!
Lionel Hutz Esq.: Billy Kristol singled this race out for rhetorical purposes, hoping to make a quick score with (what was supposed to be) a Republican victory? HAHAHAHA! The Archduke of Wrong does it again!
imissopus: Ya gotta love the integrity of people who, when given the option of slightly-less-than-everything-they-want vs. forty years in the wilderness, promptly run out and buy the Locusts and Honey Cookbook. Ideally such commitment to to their principles will keep the Republican party kneecapping itself for years to come.
Lionel Hutz Esq.:so according to Beck, etc. a socialist won? ok.that’s a good thing. I can be happy about that. And the right-right-right winger, backed by Palin, and crew, he lost, so ok. thanks guys, that’s why I come to Wonkette for all the latest news and weather!
heathenish: it’s supposed to rain around Friday, here in Chico anyway.
Zorg: You know who else won by losing & etc? If I wasn’t so lazy I’d send this twat a personal tweet inquiring exactly how wingtards invading NY-23 & conspiring to give the seat to Dems is a win for…conservatives?
SmutBoffin: He’ll still manage a shit-eating grin because of NJ & Va. And Hoffman will not be mentioned again.
I’m confused. What do we send now, and to whom? Rock salt? Snow? Fake dog poop? Real dog poop?
Gay marriage overturned in Maine. This is a tremendous win for gay people who want to get married!
Let’s see,
district has had a republican since 1870, check
republicans usually win district 65-35%, check
democrat spanked opponent, check
profit?
I think that really, in every way but for a crezzy christian winning in Virginia, this is a Big F-You! to political prognosticators. Pot is now OK in Maine, but teh gays are shunned back to their couches. However I am proud to report that ou’re in Seattleteh gheys are almost legal in WA (less douchey), and well, as long as you stay in Seattle there is no problem with a more verdant choice.
These results are a wrench in the typical bits of beltway prognostication. The only people who were completely right were the people who correctly predicted what the media narritave would be. Too bad we lost so many of them to alcohol poinsing tonight. The “referendum” keyword was a killer.
One Yield Regular: I think rock salt is appropriate for ANY occasion! and
Crank Tango: - thanks for the up to the minute forecast!
Potater: That probably would be a victory for Conservatives, or at least, raise their collective IQ.
One Yield Regular: Hasn’t it become clear, only if Olympia Snowe votes for a robust Public Option will we get a glorious victory for Conservatism.
By the by, it is being reported that Ronald Reagan has conceded. Somewhere, Bill Kristol is shedding a tear.
SayItWithWookies: Congratulations Maine! The world looks down its nose at you. Welcome to BigotLand, you’ll feel right at home.
As GHWBush might say, you gotta be a sick puppy to be motivated to actually climb out of the indentation in your broken-springed couch just to cast a vote to deny other human beings rights. This kind of crap makes me want to punch prudish church ladies in the mouth.
Were I dictator, I’d instruct my intelligence service to reconfigure the cable boxes of all those who voted to deny queers their rights so that the only programming available to them is gay porn. Of course, if I were dictator these fucking bigots wouldn’t be allowed to vote, so there’s that.
First, the GOP now must recognize it will either lose without conservatives or will win with conservatives.
And we proved that by losing.
Thank you, Erik, son of Erik.
And isn’t it interesting that the only Republicans to win were those that avoided Sarah Palin and Fred Thompson. Can’t wait for the RedState post on that.
hobospacejunkie: If you were dictator, that would be a huge win for conservatives. And freedom and democracy. And fox news and the constitution.
Michael Steele just reported in: “Shout out to all those homies that kept their hands on deck. .Schazizzle. What up, Doug the Dawg. It really wasn’t a loss, it was more like a platform to Conservative/GOP victory in ‘10. Never Forget NY-23. Schanizzle.”
hobospacejunkie:
[/starts working on a plan to make money off of gheys moving from ME to WA]
This was a huge win for Fred Thompson, Rush Limbaugh and Trophy Husbands everywhere.
And the NJ results were a vote of confidence in Goldman Sachs.
And Virginia was a big one in the “W” column for ladies who like to get abortions.
Erik Erikson is America’s Next Great Pundit.
I think what young Mr. Erickson was trying to say is that a white guy won, how great is that!
This is a victory for Doug Hoffman, as he now doesn’t have to move to NY-23.
Amazingly, there are perhaps a few minds among the RS commenters who have all cups in the cupboard:
“Not sure I agree with your analysis, Erick”
“A Minor Contrarian Point Of View”
“Sorry, Erick, I think you missed the mark.”
“In a way, I’m not sure Hoffman wanted to win…”
Hopefully, they get promptly drowned in the well.
give us a bob: They will be banned and exiled to Huffington Post where they will be forced to comment on Kate and Jon. Tommorrow morning they will find bags of poo at their front door. This is how Erick rolls.
Darkness: Gays lose again, check. It seems we’re still in 1870.
Lascauxcaveman: Gayez Mainers will love the Peninsula. Just set up a boutique that sells lobster traps and full weather gear in designer colors and they will feel right at home.
Election? What election? Was there an election? Clearly, this is beyond whatever assistance the rhetorical arts may be able to render Mr. E.
Erickson: “Were we to combine Scozzafava and Hoffman’s votes, Hoffman would have won.” AcOrN would never have allowed that to happen.
Yeah, and if you take the dick out of Erick’s mouth he wouldn’t be a retarded cocksucker.
There was a late turnout in Maine, maybe the Lazarus off-my-lawn vote, give it an election cycle or two and two to three percent of the population can go ahead and marry another two or three percent of the population, assuming half of the 8 - 10 percent of the population that’s LGBT wants to join the rest of us in the quaint rite of matrimony, and their divorce rate will be exactly the same.
The big take-away for Dems is Owen in NY23. The difference between the Republican Party and its base is that one of them, being a political party and all, wants to win elections and the other one doesn’t give a damn one way or the other. Bitching and moaning is way more satisfying even if it means overthrowing a sure thing. 70 percent of the GOP self identifies as conservative and 20 percent of the population self identifies with the GOP,40 percent of the general population allegedly self identifies as “conservative” (watch it drop to 30 when/if the economy comes back)so 2012 will be an interesting mess.
I’m just glad my income isn’t dependent on being a professional Republican, God’s Speed, Mr. Steele!
MilwaukeeKent: I bet god’s speed is some good shit, man.
Also, since NJ has elected a morbidly obese governor, it begs the question: is Chris “I Want to Eat Your Baby” Christie the fattest man holding statewide office in god’s America?
Gay marriage overturned in Maine, which is a huge win for people who don’t want gay people to fuck. Within the state of Maine. Because marriage leads to fucking, of course! ‘Honey, you better stock up on shower hooks, cuz that curtain is coming DOWN when your grabbing it to keep your balance on account of the INSANE fuck I’m gonna give you.’ A’IGHT? That ain’t no saracasm. Can I get a what what??!!!!
RoscoePColtraine: Honey, you better stock up on shower hooks, cuz that curtain is coming DOWN when your grabbing it to keep your balance on account of the INSANE fuck I’m gonna give you.’ A’IGHT?
I’m not exactly sure what this means but it seems like the perfect ending to my evening & I salute you for it.
Chris Christopher C. Christie is clearly the William Howard Taft of our age. Bathtub! More Bathtub! And if God made anything better than God’s speed, he kept it to himself.
So has New York now officially become less Republican than Maine?
Baghdad Bob ain’t got nothin’ on Goldberg:
“On April 7, 2003, al-Sahhaf claimed that there were no American troops in Baghdad, and that the Americans were committing suicide by the hundreds at the city’s gates. At that time, American tanks were patrolling the streets only a few hundred meters from the location where the press conference was held.”
Yep, Erick; you’ve jumped the Tigris, alright.
Scooter: I believe New York is now down to only two Republicans in its entire Congressional delegation. Erick, son of Erick’s victory is truly awe inspiring.
Well said.
Yeah, and Maine did take a lot of that Mormon money for Q1.
blinky_twinkie:
He should change his name to Logick sone of Logick
“This is a huge win for conservatives!” he said. Then Dorothy looked behind the Wizard’s curtain and saw that he was just some middle aged Rip Taylor lookalike shouting into a mike.
“I want to go back to Massachusetts,” she said. “Kansas sucks.”
I guess the foot is on the other hand now.
hobospacejunkie: Also, since NJ has elected a morbidly obese governor, it begs the question: is Chris “I Want to Eat Your Baby” Christie the fattest man holding statewide office in god’s America?
Jeebus Christ, I hadn’t realized how fat that man was. I mean, I saw the other things, but it looks like Corzine actually used a pretty flattering picture for his campaign ad. Dude is so fat that he makes my fat ass look like anorexic, chain-smoking Obama.
I do wonder if the assclowns who made such a big deal about the upcoming conservative win in the 23 ever actually went there. In district there was not much pointing to a vast groundswell of (political) teabagging. Local fundraising, yardsigns, bumper stickers etc all pointed to an Owens victory.
Teabaggers, UR NOT DOIN IT WRITE, MORANS!11
The Republicans who won elections last night are the ones who kept Sarah Palin as far away as they could.
This is a huge win for Sarah Palin, assuming she’s smart enough to start demanding hush money.
x111e7thst:
The sea of red Hoffman signs in my section of Wingnuttia 23 was cause for alarm and instilled little confidence in an Owens victory.
While we’re at it, did ACORN cause Christie to win? ACORN is part of the post-USSR Soviet Conspiracy, and they are known to be wily and work in mysterious ways, so I just want to know.
Servo: Owens raised almost $160K in district. Hoffman managed about $12K.
This is good news for John McCain.
Guppy06: This is a huge win for Sarah Palin, assuming she’s smart enough
I believe I have spotted the flaw in your argument.
The world now awaits Sarah’s facebook response. I’ll wait for CNN’s breaking news email.
x111e7thst:
And Corzine outspent Christie 2:1.
Everybody is a winner like in little league soccer. Wait isn’t that some libtard notion. Oh who the hell even read this post way down here.
Mr Blifil: WIN! Remember when that ball was auctioned? Keith Oberman said “Buckner won’t bid on it. He’d already had a chance to pick it up for free.”
This is the best of both worlds. Mr. Owens takes office and in the new world of Republican T-ballpolitics, the conservatives won! This is great!
I hope the GOP views this as a huge victory and moves farther and farther to the right. Kick anyone who is not a true believer right in the nutz. Turn the big tent into a pup tent.
Listen to Sheer “Am I An Idiot?” InSannity! Has he EVER been wrong about a political event?
Listen to Boss BlunderRush - he knows what he’s talking about (just ask him).
Hard right! HARD RIGHT! Steer for the rocks. This is great. You betcha!
hobospacejunkie: well, how else can you expect to make the entire planet and everything on and above it in under a week? Certainly not with god’s weed!
Wake up sheeple! ACORN, following a plan designed by the RAND corporation, funded by George Soros, stole the election. Isn’t that obvious to even you dim-witted libtards? It is all in Revelations!
NY-23 got eRick-Rolled.
WarAndG: Read.
rambone: Win.
how to out fox the fox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWGAdzn5_KU
Lascauxcaveman: Well, it isn’t in the bag yet, but my fingers are crossed.
heathenish: Heavy rain and wind expected tonight and tomorrow in Western Washington.
It is in fact a win for Conservatives capital C; they drove out the legitimate Republican candidate, kept moderate Republicans at home instead of voting and demonstrated an ability to field a viable candidate. Watch for a lot more Conservative candidates and the first viable third party in more than a century.
Guys, as a librul moran this has me worried. What if the teabaggers replicate this success across the country? Maybe we should just admit that the whole 8 years of the Obama presidency has failed and surrender power to the redstate strike force military junta before the pat boone exterminators pitch a tent and give us gas.
We were THIS close to instituting marxist socialized fascism health care threatening everyones freedom by apologizing for America without a birf certificate dey took aur juuuuuubs!
And we would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for those meddling kids and their fake dog poo.
In conclusion, let me conclude by saying. Death panels. Also.
rambone: Perfect.
AddHomonym: Me: “If Hoffman had gotten more votes than Owens, he would have won.”
The conservatives attempt to destroy the republican party because they are not conservative enough has the Big Mo. Soon, everywhere republicans will lose from a third-party split, and Eric’s plan will be complete. Excellent!
So what about minor setbacks like losing elections, the important thing is to purify the party. Toss out qualified candidates who might win but are ideologically suspect on important world issues like how many guns I can carry in my truck. Inexperienced but pure candidates are the future. Somebody should be starting a Hoffman for President committee, taking up former Palin supporters angered by her inappropriate use of complete sentences.
Mr Blifil: ACK! Don’t mention that! It still haunts me to this day!
House of Blue Lights- Right, just like when Nader with a small n changed the face of politics by losing Florida and the subsequent rise of the Greens as a viable third party of stealth Republicans. Ha ha.I’m thinking of running for something on the Wackjob NY Conservative line asap. They need an ex Acorn pro abortion candidate for their big tent and I need the cash and the excercise.
“Were we to combine Scozzafava and Hoffman’s votes, Hoffman would have won.”
That’s some stellar logic right there. “If we had taken votes that went to a different candidate and applied them to OUR candidate, then we would have been victorious.”
Yes. Only that’s not how democracy works. At least, not outside Afghanistan.
ACORN. Also.
Translation to German: “Deutschland siegt am alle Fronten!”
AnnieGetYourFun: When did redstate start taking lessons from the Iranian election commission?
You guys don’t understand. The big winner in NY-23 and America as a whole was, to quote an RS post…. wait for it….
Palin-O’Donnell
Apparently winning by losing is the big new thing for Conservatives. From their failed attempt to keep gayez in their place in Washington State:
At the No on 71 gathering in Everett, Pastor Ken Hutcherson of Antioch Bible Church called the outcome “a victory regardless of the vote,” pointing to a series of what he called impossible victories by Referendum 71 opponents throughout the campaign.
Flanders: I got my umberella and rain gear! I love these weather updates!
So E E has become the Baghdad Bob of the righty tighties? “There was no defeat for conservatives in NY-23!”
But I like how adding up the votes of Scuzzlebut and Conservo-Nut show that the righty tighties really won. Didn’t Scuzzlebut endorse the Democrat? Wouldn’t that make the liberal win in NY-23 a LANDSLIDE???