An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
2 Out Of 3 Ain’t Bad
Voters spoke fairly loud and clear yesterday when Republican candidates for governor in Virginia and New Jersey won, in VA, by a landslide. New Jersey is fairly ‘blue’, so the fact that Corzine got sent his walking papers was pretty impressive. Unfortunately, Doug Hoffman (C-NY23) didn’t quite pull it off. There’s been some speculation if the RNC had actually backed the conservative choice over the RINO, and if Scozzafava had done the right thing when she dropped out of the race, and endorsed Hoffman instead of the Dem, perhaps he could have been put in the ‘win’ column. Also, if the silly voters in the district had not wasted their vote on Dede, there was a real good chance Hoffman could have gone to Congress.
What has been the reaction of the media? Well, it’s been fairly predictable.
NBC’s David Gregory, on Wednesday’s Today show, downplayed the huge GOP wins in New Jersey and Virginia as merely reflecting the “anti-incumbency mood,” and “the change message that Obama” started last year. (source)
The gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey looked less like a referendum on Barack Obama than a reflection of their own candidates and issues. Still, the two Republican victories, in predominantly Democratic New Jersey and in purple Virginia, had to smart. (source)
But a Democratic victory in an upstate New York Congressional district — after an ideologically pitched battle between moderates and conservatives over how best to lead Republicans back to power — signaled that the Republican Party faces continued upheaval. (source)
Conservatives overreached, and Tip O’Neill’s dictum reins supreme. That special election in New York’s 23rd congressional district turned out not to be worth all of the sound and fury. (source)
The White House suggested those developments show that hard-liners are taking over the Republican Party, and the trend will affect the 2010 elections. On Monday, presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs predicted, “This is a model for what you’ll see throughout the country.” (source)
There’s this little tidbit as well:
Avoiding the election outcome in the same fashion it has avoided the Tea Party and Town Hall protesters, the White House issued a statement after the GOP victory in Virginia, saying the president was not watching election returns and would not be making any remarks on the results. (source)
That’s just the few I came across this morning. No doubt, if you do some more digging, there are more examples.
What does this all tell us? Well, I’d say that not only does it say something about the media, it also tells us exactly what the Obama White House thinks about We, The People.
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