The American voter is not moving right, the left moving left is simply visible and undeniable

Salon (in another hysterical bleat):

Get ready for the Grand Old Tea Party takeover
The loony wing of the Republican Party prepares for a big day in Tuesday's elections

NYT, quoting a dem Iowa voter (in a somewhat absurd article):

"All my Republican friends -- and independents -- are sitting back saying, 'Oh, what did we do?" Ms. McAreavy said. "I'm not to that point yet, but a lot of people are."

US News:

The wide American mainstream is broadening to include fiscal conservatives--yes, some of whom have all sorts of opinions on social issues--but they are united in their concern about the growing size and scope of government

. Wasn't that the lesson of August's tea parties--that people of all stripes are concerned about massive government growth? Isn't that what's really threatening the left?

Yet Rasmussen shows that 73% of REPUBLICANS, a leaderless bunch to be sure, believe that whatever leadership there is, is out of touch with the party humans in the field.

"It's not the third-party candidate spoiling the race -- it's the traditional candidates who are spoiling the race for those who actually believe in something," Roecker said about Hoffman and Scozzafava. Though the name of his group was inspired by Beck's own 9/12 Project, Roecker said it's gotten better than just one talk show host. "[Beck] can't put in enough hours during his week to keep up with what all of us are doing," he said. "I don't think it's his anymore. We still look up to him, but I don't think it's his anymore -- I think it's ours."

Frank Rich and his ilk want to brand what's going on as a Stalinist purge of some sort. And looking at the wide varieties of hysteria, and attempts by media in lockstep with these democrats who would scare the hell out of Truman or Humphrey, they are all making it more and more obvious where they are on the spectrum. Or rather, demonstrating how many standard deviations left of center they are.

The people just are not that stupid over time.


Most Americans want the govt around to keep them safe from _______ (fill in the blank), and do only those things their state and local govt cannot do. And that's all.

The size of govt, the cost of govt the assumption of power by those who think they have a clue about your life ... Americans didn't vote for that. The dem leadership, which has now demonstrated where IT IS on the spectrum simply assumed that once elected it would all be ok. But they were elected because of a Republican party preaching church social moral conservatism was THIS and THIS (i.e. all too typical power seeking and keeping corrupters of the public mindscape), and a Republican president completely misjudged the war he was in, and turned out to be no conservative either. The Obama group was elected as a change FROM THAT. And now that what that change is TO is becoming visible, amid the fiascoes in overseas policy, and the lack of progress at street level in the economy (something THEY VOLUNTARILY PROMISED and are now trying to convince us has occurred) buyer's remorse is all too evident.

And with it, a bit of anger for having been euchred, is my bet.

So those republican leaders of the party which gave us Foley, Delay, Cunningham, Abramov as if that was actual conservatism need to FIND A JOB selling Yoplait or Columbo Light. As for the democratic leaders and pundits who are getting themselves wound up.... they are tomorrow's Foleys.

So we'll see about Virginia, New Jersey and NY 23 today.

And tomorrow we'll wonder about a Republican leadership which endorses a loser who cooperates with ACORN and who then withdraws endorsing the dem and THEN THE DEM LOSES. And pundits will talk about the whacko successes of the far right fringe.

And now this 'right wing fringe gun nut whacko' is going to vote to preserve some people's right to marry any goddamn other consenting adult they please.

And that is America.