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The GOP Spins Begins

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Elections 2006
Posted on Sat Nov 04, 2006 at 09:09:44 PM EST
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In order to declare seat losses as a victory, the extreme Right Wing Republican web site Red State is already playing an expectations game:

Now - and just so that we're all clear - the consensus of the media, the polls and Tradesports is that the GOP is definitely going to lose the House of Representatives and probably the Senate, yes*? They're all saying that it's a done deal, yes? Everybody who's anybody on the Democratic side is endorsing that conclusion, yes? And it's all supposedly inevitable at this point, yes? What? (shrug) No reason: I just want to make sure that I've clearly understood the Other Side's position on this, 72 hours out.

Note to Republicans, ignorant predictions of an election result is NOT a political position.

The Iraq Debacle is a political issue. Minimum wage is a political issue. The Paris Hilton tax cut is a political issue. Stem cell research is a political issue. GOP corruption is a political issue.

Predictions for the election is not.

By the way, is this the "position" of the GOP side? Just so we can keep score you know?

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    Coulter's goal posts (none / 0) (#1)
    by Zeno on Sat Nov 04, 2006 at 09:33:27 PM EST
    Ann Coulter was one of the first out of the gate to play the expectations game. She was quoted on the Stephanie Miller show as saying the Democrats needed to pick up 70 seats before they could declare a victory. The clip Miller played was from Coulter's October 25 appearance on Fox News.

    On her own website, Coulter says: "This means that for Democrats simply to match the historical average gain for the party out of the White House during the first and second midterm, they would have to pick up 67 seats in the House and 11 seats in the Senate."

    Since she's an inveterate liar, we can trust her to be spinning the numbers. I'll settle for 50.

    aren't these the same people...................... (none / 0) (#2)
    by cpinva on Sat Nov 04, 2006 at 10:37:43 PM EST
    that used the "low expectations game" with bush, in the first place? that he isn't very bright, doesn't know a lot ('bout history!), in spite of his yale & harvard education. we shouldn't expect much out of him, he has, after all, been a loser his entire life?

    yep, those were the ones. of course, that begs the question: why were we supposed to vote for "mr. low expectation" to begin with?

    hey, i like "the paris hilton tax cut", has a certain ring to it. certainly, more legitimately descriptive than "death tax".

    you go guy! lol

    GOP Spins (none / 0) (#4)
    by Edger on Sun Nov 05, 2006 at 08:16:17 AM EST
    Maybe the gop can spin this.

    Or spin on this.

    Are they asking us (none / 0) (#5)
    by Che's Lounge on Sun Nov 05, 2006 at 11:51:20 AM EST
    or telling us? As the election approaches and the RWNJ's run low on xanax, the rhetoric becomes more and more juvenile. It's not so much about the Dems crowing ahead of time as it is about these poor saps conceding. The sooner they are out of the way, the sooner we can (hopefully) get started on cleaning up this imperial global disaster the GOP has left us with.

    We are the only ones who can do it. Change comes from within.    

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