RSSCharles Krauthammer: Calls the 2014 Midterms “A Nuclear Explosion” … “The Worst Wall-To-Wall Shellacking You Will Ever See in a Midterm Election”
During Fox News Special Report with Bret Baier, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer spoke the truth as to what the 2014 midterm elections meant, as President Barack Obama did not and refused not to by making excuses after excuse. Krauthammer said that Obama played as the puzzled observer and acted as if it was difficult to comprehend what message was sent. Was it really that difficult to understand when Democrats lost more House seats, lost control of the US Senate as the GOP will most likely pick up 9 Senate seats, 3 more than what was needed to gain control. Don’t forget that Republicans won governorships in Massachusetts, Delaware and Illinois, far from red states.
Maybe Barack Obama needs to listen to Democrat Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia … ‘This is a real ass-whuppin’.
Krauthammer hit President Barack Obama for pretending the election didn’t mean much as he noted during his afternoon press conference that “two-thirds of the electorate didn’t show up.”
Krauthammer: [Obama] played as the puzzled observer. He was asked about the meaning of the election, and he said “I’ll leave to others the reading of tea leaves.” Was this really a subtle result? Was this sort of complicated and nuanced? This was the worst wall-to-wall, national, unmistakable, unequivocal shellacking that you will ever see in a midterm election, and it happened on just about every level. You’ve got in the House the Republicans now have the largest majority since 1929.
In the Senate, the Democrats have lost seven, probably nine, and by huge margins, McConnell is supposed to be neck-and-neck, he won by 15 points, Arkansas 18 points. And then the — the one excuse the Republicans have is “well this election was played on their home turf, on red turf.” Well, you know, Maryland, Massachusetts and Illinois are not exactly red states. All of them elected, shockingly, Republican governors. “The Economist” called this a massacre and Obama says, “I don’t read tea leaves,” and remember, what he said about the election. It’s about his policies, everywhere, every single one. Of course it was about him, of course it was his ideology and the execution of his leadership. This was a wall-to-wall rejection of Obama-ism and he pretended that this was an election that didn’t have a lot of meaning because two-thirds of the electorate didn’t show up.
The race I liked the most was the one in Maryland, where I live, where the Lt. Governor Anthony Brown was considered such a shoo-in, no one spoke about the Maryland race. No one. You didn’t hear a word, and the Republican, Larry Hogan, came out of nowhere. He won by 8 points. This tells you — the reason I like it, it shows the extent of this political event into the bluest of the blue, Maryland. It wasn’t a tea leaf election. It was a nuclear explosion.
Posted November 6, 2014 by Scared Monkeys 2014 Elections, Barack Obama, Charles Krauthammer, Epic Fail, WTF, You Tube - VIDEO | 3 comments |
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Have said for years , voting is an exercise in futility , you have a choice of voting for what you consider the lesser of 2 Evils , Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum . Nothing changes , same old , same old
We would hope that the Neo Cons [ former Republicans ] would seal our borders , bring ALL our troops home and demand our heavy industry [ high paying jobs ] be brought home or a severe penalty put on the Corporations who refuse.
Both parties are Traitors .
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