The story, and my thoughts, are at bRight & Early.
My guess is that the crowd at CPAC is going to love this choice. He is extremely popular with party activist, going 12-0 in straw polls, winning most by huge margins.
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Last night (Tues) was an interesting night for the Conservative Movement. For the most part it was a good night, with some setbacks. Last night the Conservatives won 2 out of 3 of the major elections the country was watching. The only loss was in NY 23, when Bill Owens beat Doug Hoffman for the special election. But overall the Conservatives did well in many local state elections, and state wide elections
Was this a repudiation of Obama??? Well I think is is yes and no. Yes, inthe fact that many Independents elected Conservatives because of the economy. The policies that Obama has put forth have not taken us out of the Recession that he “inherited”. If nothing else most of them made things worse. So in some ways it was elections based on Obama’s presidency. But on the other hand there was much to say about local and state politics that affected the elections. Corzine and the Democrats in New Jersey have been affected by the arrests of many Democrats in a state run on corruption. Without these big time arrests would Christie have won??? That is hard to say.
There will be much debate over what really happened in NY 23. Hoffman was a little known entity just a few weeks ago. Before the Conservative bloggers and new media (73 Wire) arrived on the seen, Hoffman was running in 3rd place at 20%. After all is said and done, he got around 46%, after much attention. It goes to show that when Conservatives get their act together we can change election results. Did we win?? Yes and no. We lost the election but won the battle against the GOP establishment.
I do think that the GOP should be the “Big Tent” Party. I do not think that we should kick out every Moderate republican, we need them in the whole scheme of things. But as a whole the GOP needs to listen to the base instead of always thinking the Moderate candidate is the best way to go. NY 23 is a Conservative district and Dede Scozzafava was not the person to pick. She was a Liberal Moderate in a a Conservative district. Bill Owens is more likely more Conservative than she is.
So overall I think this should be considered a win for the Conservative Movement. We are not going to be able to win overnight these are baby steps in bringing some sanity back in government. And hopefully the RNC will at least not take the Conservatives for granite anymore and start listening to us.
originally posted at Stix Blog
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Looking at the results from yesterday’s elections I see different meaning in the different races we all were following. It’s almost as if people are individuals with differing outlooks and ideas of what is important. (Yes, that was sarcasm)
In New York City — Mayor Bloomberg won by a much narrower margin than the money he spent seemed to indicate. I think in part this is a mixed message of people in favor of the job he is doing, but somewhat turned off by the way he fought for the right to win another term.
In Virginia — The McDonnell win in Virginia, after nearly a decade of Democratic control, is partially a repudiation of Obama policies and direction. Although most of the electorate said that Obama wasn’t a direct consideration in their vote, the economy and jobs did play a large role and that is a reflection on the year old administration.
In New Jersey — This was probably the biggest upset of the night. While the trends ahead of the election were in Christie’s favor, few people expected the margin that came in. While this race, again, wasn’t all about Obama, the flip side of that coin is that the significant support the President gave Corzine didn’t move the voters. That sends a message for 2010. Economy and property taxes were the main issues. Now it’s up to Christie to lead on those things. If there’s not real movement in these areas I fear for my birth state.
In New York 23 — This race received a tremendous amount of national coverage, probably out of proportion to it’s national impact. There were so many things going on in this race, especially in the last few weeks, that we may never know all the factors that entered in to this decision. I doubt is we will ever see another race where the republican candidate is arguably to the left of the democrat, and where a conservative third party candidate garners overwhelming national attention and support in a moderate republican district. Did conservatives have too much riding on this outcome? I don’t think we know, at least not yet.
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Are the results we are about to see meaningful beyond the districts and states involved, or is the outcome essentially meaningless?
My gut says that the truth is somewhere between the extremes. At the core, however, I think that this will be a good day for conservatism and conservative values. Your thoughts? The comments are open.
UPDATE: Poll Added.
I meant to post this at midnight last night. Oh well.
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