Nutroots® Celebrate Another Moral Victory
Regarding the GOP victory in California’s 50th district, Chris Bowers of MyDD:
In 2004, Busby lost the CA-50 by 22.0%. Today, it looks like she will lose by around 4.5%. And that was with the NRCC spending $4.5M on the race. If Republicans want to spin losing 18 points after spending $4.5M of committee money as a good thing, go for it. After all, spin is basically why they spent so much money on this race. By blowing their wad in a solidly Republican district, they wanted to change the media narrative on the election in their favor. It will probably work, given how subservient and generally inaccurate the media tends to be when it comes to Republicans and elections. In reality, for a Republican candidate to pull 49.5% of the vote in a district with 44.5% Republican registration is shocking. Given those numbers, Bilbray probably managed all of 20% of the vote among independents.
Yes, well, that’s all fine and good – and yet this is the very district vacated by Duke Cunningham. Nowhere is ‘the culture of corruption’ meme going to be stronger than here – and it wasn’t enough.
The Bilbray victory also points to immigration as a smart strategy, in California, at least…
Yay! Kos is now, what, 0-20?
Reminds me of the famous Monty Python skit in the “Holy Grail” movie, regarding the duel with the Black Knight:
King Arthur: “Now stand aside, worthy adversary.”
Black Knight: ‘Tis but a scratch.
Arthur: A SCRATCH? Your arm’s off!
Black Knight: No it isn’t!
Arthur: Well what’s that then? (pointing to the arm lying on the ground)
Black Knight: I’ve had worse.
Arthur: You LIAR!
Black Knight: Come on, you pansy!
The Dead Parrot is also instructive with the Lefty barkers standing in for Michael Palin and the Dems for the bird. That makes me John Cleese.
There is much to love in this brief paragraph. The fundamental lethality it exposes is this malign (for the Left) fantasy that the media is holding them back with their slavish devotion to Bushery. Hoss, obviously you do not know it but the media has been holding you UP electorally for 40 years. As Evan Thomas famously said, LMB is worth 15 points at the polls for the Dems. Correcting for this, if we can take the longtime editor for Newsweek as an expert, we can look back to see that there would have been nearly NO Dem electoral success at the national level pre-Reagan to date absent this thumb on the Left of the scale. Man oh Manoshevitz, how I love to hear these denunciations! The Lefties, in alienating establishment Dems (as with the un-off the record Kerry call) and undermining the crapulent MSM that is their most powerful ally are reducing themselves to a rump of LaRouchian proportions. Not fast enough of course but progress is progress.
he Dead Parrot is also instructive with the Lefty barkers standing in for Michael Palin and the Dems for the bird. That makes me John Cleese.
Doesn’t talking about who would be what in political versions of Monty Python just make you a giant dork? Squared?
If coolness requires you can’t enjoy Monty Python, sign me up for Dork Camp.
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A Loss is a Win in Donkland
If Bowers wishes to claim moral victories, that’s surely his prerogative. If he was as astute as he thinks he is, he may want to take a step back and look at what this means with regard to the November elections and the Donks chances.
by the way Brian Bilbray is no world beater. He is certainly not the best the GOP has to offer and he still won by 4.5% in a special election where the Dems were having a primary for their gubernatorial candidate and a Dem pet project prop 82 (pre school for all for free by taxing the rich) and the GOP had nothing else but this district election to show up for.
Does anyone have the turn out numbers? I would bet it was very very low, and that more than anything is why this race was close.
In politics there is no such thing as a moral victory. You either win or you loose.
I’ve been looking for the numbers, unsuccessfully, but a number of articles have said it was low…
[...] UPDATE: Here’s a roundup of others blogging as of 2:00 Central on Wednesday. Decision ‘08 on California’s District 50, and again, this time with feeling! For one of his earlier, accurate prognositcations on the same race, click here. [...]
This is pretty funny:
Of course this is the same guy sticking by his exclusive explosive Karl Rove indictment that apparently happened a month ago. He wrote this recent update:
Delusion, you just can’t make up.
[...] Me, earlier today: …[T]his is the very district vacated by Duke Cunningham. Nowhere is ‘the culture of corruption’ meme going to be stronger than here – and it wasn’t enough. [...]
Ugly & Mark: Turnout was a bit south of 30 per cent of registered voters statewide, although it theoretically may have been higher in San Diego given the high profile of this race.
Also, looking at raw votes the primary candidates received (California is a closed primary state), it is pretty clear that the Democrats showed up in greater numbers than their percentage of the statewide electorate, probably for exactly the reasons Ugly American noted.