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Title: The Lesson of Doug Hoffman: Palin And Limbaugh Don't Win Elections
Source: HuffingtonPost
URL Source: [None]
Published: Nov 4, 2009
Author: HuffingtonPo
Post Date: 2009-11-04 15:05:47 by Brian S
Ping List: *Sarah Palin 2012*     Subscribe to *Sarah Palin 2012*
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Views: 2581
Comments: 19

"I believe America is turning the page to a new dawn." ~ Doug Hoffman, Concession Speech

Doug Hoffman lost his election last night. He was supported by a plurality of talk radio entertainers, and a majority of former half-term governors of Alaska, but it wasn't enough. An obscure quirk of constitutional law says you also need votes from voters. This is the same cruel hurdle that tripped up three of his other biggest supporters, Gary Bauer, Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani, all of whom ran for President of the United States, but failed the "getting votes" test, because everyone hates their guts.

With their help, and a million dollars from the Club for Growth, Doug Hoffman lost a part of New York State that had voted Republican since the best way to get from Albany to Buffalo was by canal.

Not bad for a first try.

Doug Hoffman didn't just have money to burn and the staunch support of Facebooking frost bunnies, Fox News and the Ghosts of Vanity Campaigns Past. He also had coots on the ground; an army of volunteers from the tea bag movement, the 9/12 Project and the fanatic anti-choice fringe. The problem was, they could shout at the polling places as loud as they wanted, and they did, but they didn't live there, so they weren't allowed to vote.

There's probably a lesson to that. Something about politics being local.

And beyond that, about the people who do live there resenting being told what to do.

Rush Limbaugh predicted that Hoffman would win. In fact, Hoffman's victory was such a foregone conclusion yesterday that Rush had already moved on to mocking Democrats spinning their loss.

Rush:

If Hoffman wins -- and polls suggest that he will -- the race there will be dismissed as an outlier...


Folks, I want you to print these words out. I want you to get the transcript off my website. I want you to print these out, I want you to distribute them, I want you to carry them with you, and we'll just see how close I am to being right. (When Hoffman wins) the State-Run Media will say, "New York-23, the race is more about the demise of the Republican Party and anger on the right than Obama or his policies."

Print it out. Distribute it. And carry it with you, just to see how close he was to being right: Not within a zillion light years.

Rush couldn't be right, (and he can never be wrong) because he's debating a straw man from the future. His point is that X would say Y. And that's always his point: If the thing he imagines happening happens, liberals will react in a way he imagines, and it'll be just like them, too. Except they never do, because it doesn't, so they can't, not that they would have. But I wouldn't put it past them, since they do it every time.

But not today. Imaginary liberals won't be saying New York-23 doesn't matter. Rush will. Subscribe to *Sarah Palin 2012*

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#1. To: Brian S (#0)

Imaginary liberals won't be saying New York-23 doesn't matter. Rush will.

I wonder what Pills had to say about this today.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2009-11-04   15:10:57 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Fred Mertz (#1)

I wonder what Pills had to say about this today.

I don't know, but I'm sure of one thing; he didn't admit he was wrong.

He never does.

I also see that Amazon has marked Palin's book down to $9.00. That still may be too much for someone who has now been involved in losing two elections in a row.

IDon'tThinkSo  posted on  2009-11-04   17:23:23 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: IDon'tThinkSo (#5)

Well, if it isn't one of Obama's drooling buttboys. What's wrong?, no action at the nest or did you get kicked out of the YMCA again?

Flintlock  posted on  2009-11-04   17:30:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Flintlock (#6)

Well, if it isn't one of Obama's drooling buttboys.

And you base that on what, exactly?

Maybe you should use your psychic gift at the track.

IDon'tThinkSo  posted on  2009-11-04   17:34:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: IDon'tThinkSo (#8)

And you base that on what, exactly?

You're one of Robin's amigos, right?

Flintlock  posted on  2009-11-04   17:40:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Flintlock (#10)

You're one of Robin's amigos, right?

Yes, I post there almost exclusively on the Orly Taitz insanity.

IDon'tThinkSo  posted on  2009-11-04   22:36:41 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: IDon'tThinkSo (#14)

the nest

that place is nuttier than a rat turd in a pistachio factory...

Rotara  posted on  2009-11-04   22:37:56 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#17. To: Rotara (#15)

that place is nuttier than a rat turd in a pistachio factory..

That needs some work.

Care to try again?

IDon'tThinkSo  posted on  2009-11-04 22:39:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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