Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

Every day Vance writes another chapter in the book called “Worst VP Pick Ever”.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

People are weird.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

Nikki Haley, who can’t acknowledge ‘slavery’, is a pathetic shill.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

It could be worse. Vance could have said “post-menopausal sows.” Waiting for that audiotape to surface.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!

Biden: Oh no. We’ve upset Big Pharma again.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

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  1. 1.

    Russell

    If a Republican lost a race for the MA 4th district (Barney Frank’s home base) by 4 points after the DNC declared it would “bury him” and spent half a million bucks in a special election race, Republicans would celebrate.

    As well they should.

    Republicans do well to be worried. Republicans in OH in particular are on the verge of losing power by virtue of the sheer baldness of their own corruption.

    Too bad for them.

    Cheers –

  2. 2.

    M. Scott Eiland

    The difference being, of course, that Barney Frank is a popular, multi-term incumbent and Jean Schmidt isn’t.

  3. 3.

    W.B. Reeves

    The difference being, of course, that Barney Frank is a popular, multi-term incumbent and Jean Schmidt isn’t.

    True enough but if Frank were to have resigned and it were to lesser known wannabes in contention, Russell’s point would remain valid.

  4. 4.

    Russell

    M Scott –

    Leave Frank aside.

    If the Republicans lost *any* congressional district in, for instance, eastern MA, with or without incumbent, by a mere four points after the DNC promised to “bury” their candidate and spent half a million bucks, they’d be crowing.

    As well they should.

    Schmidt won by the skin of her teeth when it should have been a layup. Unlike some, I don’t see this as indicating some great groundswell of support for Democrats. More’s the pity.

    There are a number of reasons why Hackett, specifically, did well in *this particular race*. One of those reasons is the fact that OH voters, Republican and otherwise, are sick of the clownish, bald-faced corruption of the OH GOP.

    It’s not my state, not my party, and not my problem. I’m just pointing out the obvious.

    Cheers –

  5. 5.

    Blue Neponset

    Why does anyone link to Mike Barone:

    Consider another special election in a similar district, the 4th District of Ohio, in 1981, Ronald Reagan’s first year in the presidency. The Republican incumbent died, and Democrat Dale Locker won 49.8 percent of the vote to Republican Mike Oxley’s 50.2 percent in a district in which Reagan had won 64 percent of the vote. But this was not a harbinger of the 1982 results. In that year Republicans did lose 26 seats, but most of those losses, by my calculations, were the result of redistricting, and Republicans lost no districts as heavily Republican as the Ohio 4th.

    To me, not losing 26 might be more of an indication that a good showing by a Dem in a special election in a heavily Republican district doesn’t mean anything.

  6. 6.

    Zifnab

    Now, to be fair, it would have been slightly more of a victory if the Dems had actually won. Schmitt was a horrible candidate who’s only merits included a memory sharp enough to parrot the party line without cue cards and an inability to give a straight answer to a direct question (that’s a merit in politics FYI). If ever there was a race the Dems should have won – even in a heavily Republican district – this was it. Contrary to the Dems assertion that they’ve got Republicans on the run, this election might just prove that you can still put one over on 52% of the population by being a RNC automoton. Schmitt is going straight into Tom DeLay’s back pocket and I don’t think anyone here even slightly doubts that.

    That said, winning 48% of the vote in OH-02 would be like winning 48% of the vote in the Crawford Ranch area. Sure it’s not a win, but its still just not supposed to happen.

  7. 7.

    Otto Man

    Why does anyone link to Mike Barone

    Where else can you get gems of alternate-reality wisdom like this?

    Richard Nixon, by obstructing investigation of the Watergate burglary, unwittingly colluded in the successful attempt to besmirch his administration.

    Pure comedy gold.

  8. 8.

    Marcos

    WE’RE NUMBER 2! WOOT!

    Point is the RNC said they’d “bury” Paul Hackett. A 4% margin is not buried. He put up a great fight.

  9. 9.

    Stormy70

    Paul Hackett went on Pacifica radio and started the whole Republicans are unAmerican rant. Real class act, glad he lost.

  10. 10.

    neil

    I read on Kos that if all congressional districts made a 12-point shift from R to D, the Dems would have 73 seats.

    Impeachment, anyone?

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