RedState, so dumb it hurts
November 04, 2009 11:08 am ET by Eric Boehlert
Congratulations Erick Erickson! Not only did your tireless blogosphere effort to elect a tea bag conservative turn N.Y.-23 blue for the first time in nearly 150 years, but you also managed to make a laughing stock out of your site, RedState, (again...) by hyping the comical tale about a conservative supporter who supposedly had his tires "slashed" in Plattsburgh, N.Y.
Go here to read the breathless report (complete with photos!) and know that the local police dismissed the claim as nonsense. i.e. The guy ran over a bottle, which damaged his truck tire. A Plattsburgh police captain is on the record saying nobody go their tires slashed. But keep in mind, in the right-wing blogosphere, if a conservative supporter gets a flat tire on Election Day, it's a conspiracy of enormous proportions. (Can Andrew Breitbart please determine if the WH "orchestrated" the automotive violence?)
Note to the RNC: it's right-wing media players like Erick Erickson who claim they're taking the reigns of the conservative movement in America.
Good luck with that.
UPDATED: It only gets better. After conservative Doug Hoffman conceded to Democrat Bill Owens (and yes, N.Y. 23 has not sent a Dem to Congress in nearly 150 years), Erickson declared the night a huge victory for...conservatives! I guess that means Dems were the big winners in N.J. and VA., right Erick?
UPDATED: And just FYI, this is what RedState helped accomplish last night [emphasis added]:
New York now has only two Republican representatives in its 29-seat Congressional delegation.
UPDATED: Michelle Malkin agrees. By losing to a Democrat in a district that hadn't sent a Democrat to Congress since the Civil War, Doug Hoffman was the big winner last night. His loss represented "a victory for conservatives."
Question: How many "victories" like the one last night can the RNC take?
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What is obvious, is the reich-wing has gone full ORWELLIAN in their thinking. Up is down, loss is a win, and quitting makes you a success.
Yep, the reich-wing has double plus good hypocrisy!
Don't tell me there aren't some really sick people in this world.
My God... and this guy actually lived in somebody's neighborhood with families and pets and everything!
I started my morning several hours ago by learning that "independents proved they're not racists" in 2008, and they proved they're not socialists in 2009.According to Erickson, they did that by not voting for the "skinny socialist". I laugh even harder realizing that other people are getting the Redstate emails and taking them seriously.
I also flipped by a couple of cable news shows this morning, and their take isn't that much different. I'm not even talking about Fox, but those "librul" channels, where recent elections were described as huge victories for the GOP, except for the Dem wins, which I heard called "a silver lining" for them.
Quitting is seen as a great career move if you want to be President.
Losing is winning.
Tea Party candidates are STRONG!
I'm pretty sure, these guys aren't living in reality, at all. As if I had any questions about it before.
Erickson seems to be ignoring the obvious problem, that nominating candidates that appeal to the Palin/Bachmann/ crazy wing of the right is going to drive even more of the (relatively) sane conservatives to either stay home or vote against the lunatic faction.
So ignorant, it hurts!
I'm calling this Republican T-ballatics. Everyone wins! A loss is a victory!
This is the biggest deal in New York State since the British won the Revolutionary War.