Progressives Making Themselves Heard in Primaries - Tea Parties a Weak Brew

November may shape up to be the final nail in the conservative coffin. If progressives are showing their hand early, the GOP has reason to worry.


A Big Night for the Left
by Benjamin Sarlin

Tuesday, May 18, 2010. (Matt Rourke / AP Photo)

Tuesday’s primaries may have been billed as a bipartisan rejection of party leaders. But the real winners were progressives, who exceeded expectations all over the country.

Forget the upstarts bucking the establishment. The real story line, largely overlooked in the mainstream media coverage of Tuesday night’s primaries, was the strong showing of progressives across the board.

Liberals felled one Senate Democratic incumbent and sent another into a runoff, while demonstrating surprisingly strong turnout in the Kentucky contest—a showing all but obscured by the coverage of Rand Paul’s tea-infused upset on the GOP side. The left’s showing suggests that their organizational strength may be a bigger factor this fall than previously realized. But Tuesday’s vote was just the latest in a series of impressive performances for a movement overshadowed by all the talk of a banner Republican year.

Kentucky Democrats turned out not only in far greater numbers than expected for their primary, but in far greater numbers than their counterparts in the much-hyped Republican primary.

A primer of the left’s biggest victories, starting with Tuesday’s results:

1. Taking Down Specter
Despite receiving backing from the White House, his state’s powerful Democratic governor, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, recent Democratic convert Arlen Specter went down to defeat on Tuesday. Ever since leaving the GOP, Specter had tacked hard to the left. But it was a liberal line of attack that ended his 30-year Senate career. Rep. Joe Sestak keyed a last-minute surge with one of the most devastating political ads in recent memory that tied Specter to President Bush and Sarah Palin and portrayed him as opportunistic and thus insufficiently reliable for advancing the Democrats’ agenda.

Cont’ed.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-...merge-as-big-winners-from-tuesdays-primaries/

 

If you could be objective for a moment, instead of parroting the liberal elite dem talking points, you would notice that all the major races were won by the candidates who billed themselves as the "anti-establishmnet" guy, regardless of their party affiliation. In KY Rand Paul beat Trey Grayson (Mitch McConnell's hand-picked guy) on the Rep side while Jack Conway was defeated by Daniel Mongiardo on the Dem side- Mongiardo by the way campaigned as a "true conservative" democrat...pro-2nd amendment, anti Cap & Tax, anti-Big Washington spending, etc & distanced himslef from "the Obama". In PA, Specter was defeated by an outsider who campaigned as anything but a liberal Obama-type. Same thing in AR, career dem politician Blanche Lincoln has to go to run-off.
After the gains conservatives made in MA, VA & NJ, the best we can hope for is that "the Obama" actively campaigns for his fellow libs, that seems to be the death sentence for their campaigns.

 

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100519/D9FPTO4O0.html

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/05/19/2010-05-19_10_proving_bad_time_for_dems_bam.html

Dunno, but I'm not so sure your expert can be believed, dr moen.

 

Here's another:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/21/anti-obama-tack-buoys-some-democrats/

 

Where did you go , dr moen?

 

Maybe he's doin' a Davey?

 

Funny he would pick this thread as one to run from, especially he was the one who started it.

 

Did you ever consider he might be away David?

 

Well, ummm, he has posted today genius.
What do you think now?

 

Dr moen? Are you here? Dr moen? Where have you gone?

 

Wow!! This is big...Peggy Noonan- the lib of all libs- is starting to see "the Obama" for what he really is:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...50789108846.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion