ManO'War;543566 wrote:My most satisfying result was the Toomey win in Pa (where I work), since the teacher's union ran non stop ads about him that were blantant lies and half-truths. I'm glad they waisted all that money.

HitsRus;543469 wrote:...which is what swept the Dems into power two years ago....People were fed up with Bush, it was not a mandate for an ultra liberal agenda.

Yesterday was great victory for the individual (vs. the State). People pushed back against the power grab perpetrated by both parties the past 6 years.

The fight is not over. It is the opening shot. The tentacles of government dependence have invaded deep into the American fabric. We must be steadfast in resisting the creeping stranglehold of over-dependence on government.
It is the resilience of the empowered individual which gives America her strength.... self reliant individuals making their own decisions, taking responsibility for their actions, and reaping the rewards or the consequences of those actions. That is what freedom is, and that is what is embodied in the Constitution by our founders. They did not envision a government that entraps and ensnares people in a web of dependency. They did not envision a government who takes the people's hard earned money and 'cares' for them from cradle to grave according to an academic elitist's formula. No one can make decsions for the individual better than the individual himself. That is what FREEDOM is. That is what has always given us our strength. That is what we must persevere for. Complacent we dare not be.

Let yesterday's victory be a start. Let it be a gauntlet thrown down. Let it be the day when American's started to take back their government.

BGFalcons82;543590 wrote:You took the words out of my mouth, hits. Let's hope Barry gets it.

Remember the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom movie where Indy drank the blood and became a zombie? He, and the others that drank the grool, became singularly focused and would not listen to others and play nice....all they wanted to do was work tirelessly for their punk king and kill people. When the young boy burned Indy with a torch, he came out of it. Hopefully, last night was the torch on Barry...but I think he's too arrogant and narcissistic to change one thing....remember he wants his "enemies" to ride in the back.

IggyPride00;543220 wrote:Fox News has called Nevada for Dingey Harry.

That is 2 seats the Tea Party has cost the Republican party by nominating bat shit crazy nominees (Delaware & Nevada) when more establishment types would have won those races for sure. It is looking like those 2 seats may be the difference between Democrats retaining control and Mitch McConnell being majority leader with all the power that comes with it.

I am not a RINO lover, but better to be in the majority and deal with a RINO or 2 than be stuck in the minority where you don't control the agenda or committees.

IggyPride00;543338 wrote:He and Dick Durbin will probably battle it out, even though it is probably a temporary position until the remaining Democrats are washed out of power in 2012 (as many who were elected in the 06 wave will be prime targets).

If anyone wants to see something comical, go over the the Daily Kos where the liberals who had convinced themselves before today the polls were wrong and it wouldn't be that bad are nearly suicidal right now that reality is here.

ManO'War;543566 wrote:My most satisfying result was the Toomey win in Pa (where I work), since the teacher's union ran non stop ads about him that were blantant lies and half-truths. I'm glad they waisted all that money.

Writerbuckeye;543517 wrote:I guarantee you there will be no words from Kasich's mouth saying, "I am the one you have been waiting for" or tons of photos with him positioned so he has a halo around his head (which we've seen time and again with obama).

Unlike Dems and the MSM, we don't deify men and women who have been elected to represent the people, like they have with Obama, JFK, and FDR, to name the most prominent ones that have received that treatment.

jhay78;543655 wrote:Check out the NYT election map:

http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/results/house

Very beautiful, and very RED.

ptown_trojans_1;543679 wrote:However, if you go by population, notice many of the urban areas are still blue. It looks red, but population wise, the country is still purple/ redish.
Here is the 2008 map for example. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/

BGFalcons82;543590 wrote:You took the words out of my mouth, hits. Let's hope Barry gets it.

QuakerOats;543726 wrote:He DOESN'T get it! He is on the radio right now and the questions posed are pointed about voters repudiating his policies, and he is basically saying that we haven't done enough of his stuff so we can't see the results yet. He is so radical-left that he will not acknowledge the massive voice of the American people who just spoke loud and clear.

Bigdogg;543783 wrote:I am going to set back and eat some popcorn while I watch not a dam thing change except taxes will go up (most likely Washington shifts it to the states, the state shifts it to the local government) and the middle class gets screwed. As J.T. Barnum once said, there's a sucker born every minute.

BGFalcons82;543711 wrote:Why is this? Why has it been this way for the past 30 years or so? People forget that Reagan was the conservative governor of.....California. How in the hell did THAT ever happen?

To me, this is the tragedy in America. The urban areas are flush with those that believe the government is the holder of all answers, the supplier of all things needed to survive, and home of entitlements. The suburban and farm areas are the bastion of the individual and liberty-loving Americans. People in the urban areas want more government and everyone else wants less of it. How did we get here? Why are there 2 totally opposite views of America from people that live only a few miles apart? I don't propose to have the answers, but to me, unless this chasm is filled or bridged, it may end up being as devisive as the Civil War was 150 years ago.

IggyPride00;543808 wrote:Nice to see the Federal Reserve just thumb their nose in the face of the American people by announcing they plan on firing up the printing presses to create another $600 billion in stimulus over the next 8 months.

Have to love when a bunch of unelected bankers with no accountability to the American people able to debase our currency like that.

It would be nice to see some outrage, but I am not holding my breath.

IggyPride00;543808 wrote:Nice to see the Federal Reserve just thumb their nose in the face of the American people by announcing they plan on firing up the printing presses to create another $600 billion in stimulus over the next 8 months.

Have to love when a bunch of unelected bankers with no accountability to the American people able to debase our currency like that.

It would be nice to see some outrage, but I am not holding my breath.

People forget that Reagan was the conservative governor of.....California. How in the hell did THAT ever happen?

So you're not a believer in quantitative easing?

ptown_trojans_1;543809 wrote:Too simplistic. Reagan won in California just like Nixon, utilizing the large libertarian and conservative areas around LA, San Diego and Orange County.

I also would be careful to throw all people that live in cities or all people that live in the country into those categories. Yes, most cities are blue, but that does not mean everyone in the city wants more government of believes government has all the answers.

IggyPride00;543823 wrote:No, I don't believe in America doing their best impersonation of Zimbabwe. I know Bernanke's nickname is "Helicopter Ben" and all, but history has shown us that just printing more money leads to no good.

I Wear Pants;543667 wrote:I think most of the pictures with halos and stuff actually came from Republicans.