Chambliss Victory in Georgia Begs the Question: What Happened to the "Ideological Shift?"
As early as November 5, liberals were bombarding us with their theories interpreting the Democrats' victory as proof of a leftward "ideological shift" in America.
Yeah... Not so much.
On November 4, Georgia Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss won a bare plurality of the vote, securing slightly less than 50% of the vote compared to Democrat Jim Martin's 46%, which under Georgia law forced a runoff between the two.
On December 2, Chambliss demolished Martin by a 15-point margin, 57.4% to 42.6%. Sanity has returned to American politics.
You think Obama had anything to do with congressional Democrats' victory on November 4?
Obama had everything to do with it. Americans are still, on the whole, conservative people who believe in smaller government and living babies. But Obama's sheer uniqueness and media endorsement clouded Amercians' view of his positions, and as is normal in elections, brought the Democratic ticket along. In short, November 4 was clearly a fluke, not an "ideological shift." And I don't know how to better prove it than by holding the exact same senate contest twice within less than a month, once with Obama on the ticket and once without. If this is not evidence, I don't know what is.
John McCormack from the Weekly Standard writes:
I bet Liddy Dole wishes she could face off against Kay Hagan again with the Obama Juggernaut on the sidelines.
I bet she did. Surely the same applies to countless other Republican legislative candidates. And they probably would have wanted Sarah Palin to campaign for them too, in light of Chambliss crediting his peak to the Alaska Governor.
No wonder polls on just about every issue conducted since the election show the American people to be on the opposite side of whatever position the Democrats are taking, including on offshore drilling, nuclear power, the Big 3 bailout, and Guantanamo. The Democrats don't have a mandate, and that would have been far clearer had the media's crush and skillful celebrity not been on the same ballot as all those legislative candidates.
Paul Ibrahim
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Good work, Paul. I myself succumbed to a this line of argument. I was questioning whether America was a center right country. In 2008, it was an Obama country. Hopefully things will change by 2012.
America is not a center-right country, and it scares you conservatives to think that year-by-year is shifts further to the left. Saxby Chambliss won in a southern state, where the conservatives are educationally-challenged and consistently vote against their own interest.
The south has always had it wrong -- which is why they got their asses kicked, and now are the epitome of American idiocy. They deserve Saxby Chambliss.
Wow, snobbery reaches new heights with Ms. Jenny "Takes it on the" Chin.
Also, note Ms. "Takes it on the" Chin's tired old "What's the Matter With Kansas" argument.
Don't worry. After 4 years of the Obama presidency, the country will drift even more to the right. I mean, look at Obama. He hasn't even taken the office yet and he's already drifting to the right.
In years past, the south was comfortably in the Democrat column. However, once Democrats began to drift so far to the left, they lost those southern states.
When those states were Democrat, according to previously posted logic, those folks were A-OK. But now that those same folks have decided Democrats have gone too far left, now the same folks are un-educated fool's.
Attack mentality is what has divided this nation. And, if you have an education, you should be grateful you got the opportunity & not be knocking those who did not get the breaks & who must actually work for a living.
I'll take common sense every time. The people of America were bamboozled into voting for a guy whose history is vague. His record will either track center so he can stay in office, or he will be a one termer.
Republicans (or more accurately Republicans in name only {Rino's}) were handed their walking papers. They should have been. They earned them by tracking to the left ideologically & into big government, w/ unrestricted spending as though its all free.
What is broke in America is the sense we are ONE nation. Some demand we all believe as they do. They also want to create laws to make sure no one can hear any other viewpoint. The same people who spent the last eight years attacking with vicious regularity. Seems its OK for them, but not the other guy.
I suggest Democrats be careful. Their great victory could be washed away easily in 2010.
Spending too much, overbearing regulations, regulatory or legislative actions many consider unfair, and by selling out the nation to internationalists who seek to end our constitution & force us all to believe & do as they say...will only end whatever party is responsible for such actions.
The media will be able to cover up for such actions only so much before reality sets in & then, there may be another Republican revival.