YOU LIE!!!!

Get that stinkin conservatism outta New England. Send it back to Texas.

Putzes...

It's a victory for conservatives? Won't this make the moderates fight harder against these election-losing jackholes?

This is, if possible, even more entertaining than the fact that the "Teabaggers" blithely named themselves after a gay sex act.

"We lost! That proves that we won!"

I'm going to be basking in the schadenfreude all day.

By the way:

["Skree," says Michelle Malkin. "Skrrreeeeee."]

What, is she a metroid?

...You know, that would actually explain a lot.

'Erick Erickson ... declares, "This is a huge win for conservatives" because "conservatives rallied and destroyed the Republican candidate the establishment chose."'

Much as Al Gore's Nader-destroyed* candidacy was a huge win for progressives!

* Note to Nader supporters: yes, I know; Bush was appointed by five Republicans on the Supreme Court, not by Nader. But in purely arithmetical terms, without Nader's spoiler campaign, those five Republican Party operatives would not have had the pretext to nullify the election as they did. Or, to put it more concisely, bite me.

I notice there isn't a word about Hoffman's loss in drudge report and fox news headlines. Jubilant headlines about the gop wins though. Not that we did not know this would happen, but still it is interesting that we have two organizations which are obviously gop propaganda apparatus maskerading as news organizations. No truth in labeling in the media. But we knew that too.

Thank you, Mrs Tilton. I've been looking for the exact wording for that footnote for years. When I steal it, I'll give you credit, of course.

I wonder how many people went to the polls in NY-23 intending to vote for Hoffman but ended up changing their minds after being screamed at by out-of-town mouthbreathing teabaggers?

bugmenot: Your ignorance of the Tea Party Movement is showing, along with intoleance, gay bashing, and bigotry. They didn't pick "teabagging". It was foisted on them by folks like those that post here.

To all the rest of you who are proclaiming this your victory over the right, let's look at the facts. The Democrats gained a seat for 1 year in a district. The Republicans gained the governorship of two states, plus the Lt. Gov and Attorney General in VA. Which state was it that Obama stumped in? Additionally, the people of Maine voted to keep traditional marriage.

Perhaps you can be honest enough to note the difference between the reporting by the Left and the Right. As a former Democrat and liberal I'm betting not.

Really, Debbie? So you're telling me that the people at the rallies with those teabags hanging from their hats had them foisted onto them?
I think you're just making that shit up.

By the way here's the Virginia gubernatorial election results since 1989:

2009: Virginia elected Bob McDonnell (R)
2005: Virginia elected Tim Kaine (D)
2001: Virginia elected Mark Warner (D)
1997: Virginia elected Jim Gilmore (R)
1993: Virginia elected George Allen (R)
1989: Virginia elected Douglas Wilder (D)

Notice a pattern? Yeah, probably not, so let me spell it out for ya. Virginians tend to elect their governor from the party NOT in the White House, at least they have for the last 20 years.
Damnable liberal media, or some sort of "I swear I'm a victim of, of well, I just am!!!! So there.
Grow up and try, just try, thinking for a change. If you could, you might see that the Republicans, I'm sorry, I meant Fox, has been selling you a bill of goods.

so Deborah, you mean to tell me that if I had asked you 48 hours ago, "how important is NY-23?" you (as a former liberal and democrat) would have told me, "that race is no big deal..."

pardon me if I am in disbelief.

also, the teabaggers called themselves teabaggers before they stopped throwing trash into rivers long enough to find out why the rest of the world was laughing at them.

I somehow doubt that someone who is trolling for the Tea Bag crowd was EVER a liberal, unless that person had no backbone or education as to what a Liberal really is (as opposed to what the latest right wing smears us to be).

Finally, the Atwaterstein Monster is turning on its creator! This can only end with the GOP's limp body being thrown from the burning windmill.

Your ignorance of the Tea Party Movement is showing, along with intoleance (sic), gay bashing, and bigotry.

Additionally, the people of Maine voted to keep traditional marriage.

Which in no way involved intolerance, gay bashing, and bigotry.

It has occurred to me that we are being too nice to stupid people. In which other Country do they have their own political party and TV network? In which Country do they have their own regions to live in? Where else can they become almost plumbers and Governors of States? Go to any other Country in the World and walk around on the street with teabags dangling from your hat while holding a misspelled sign saying you want no affordable healthcare and they'll provide you with free psychiatric care. They're not going elect you to manage important affairs or fix the plumbing. Nor will they print your opinions in daily headlines. Maybe we should take a clue from the rest of the World before we really become a laughingstock for humanity. Right now the rest of the World is just shaking its head, but it isn't going to be long before we will have "American" jokes taking the place of the Polish jokes of yore.

There are two reasons for the Republican loss in this Republican district.

1. With no primary to allow voters to select their candidate of choice, the battle for Republicans was two candidates until 3 days before the election. When Scozzafava dropped out, there was not enough time to unit the party and get out the vote.

2. Gov. Paterson did not give the acceptable amount of time for this election to include out of state residents. Absentee & Military ballots could not be printed, mailed and returned in time for a November 3 date. Technically, our governor disenfranchised men and women in our military who live in the district and could have been heard .

daniel,

that's funny, I thought Palin and the wingnuts were the reason for the Republican loss in the formerly Republican district.

The results of the NY 23 election are a rebuke to Palin, Pawlenty, and company, who stuck their noses in a local election and unthinkingly endorsed a man whose ideology matches theirs but who had no clue about the issues of the area he wanted to represent.
They ended up with egg in their faces while
"not conservative enough" DeDe Scozzafava came out smelling like a rose. She didn't win the election, of course, but she was instrumental in the rejection of the wingnuts. There's no reason on earth why she should have remained loyal to a party that stabbed her in the back.

Furthermore, in addition to the fact that Virginia regularly votes for a governor who is in the opposite party of the one in the White House, McDonnell ran a much better campaign than Deeds, as a moderate Republican. Christie capitalized on the fact that Corzine had been immensely unpopular long before Obama ever was elected president. He also ran as a moderate Republican. Both men did NOT want Palin involved in their campaigns, because they rightly assessed her as a potential distraction to their messages which they used to draw as many voters as possible.

So, the lesson to be drawn is that Teabagging wingnuts, as vocal as they are, cannot win elections on their own.

Deborah Leigh said,"Additionally, the people of Maine voted to keep traditional marriage."

Sorry Deborah, traditional marriage was never on the ballot.

Are you one of those people who believes that gay marriage and straight marriage are mutually exclusive?

If that's the case, then your marriage is already ruined by other states.