Bad Year For Incumbents?

It's funny watching the left-wing media spin both the results of yesterday's primary elections and Obama's opposite-of-Midas-touch... touch regarding elections in which The One has endorsed and campaigned for a candidate.

They are spinning that the electorate is fed up with politicians in general and, specifically, politicians in Washington, DC.  True.

They are spinning that it's a bad year for incumbents.  Partially true.

They are spinning that the Democrat victory in the special election in Pennsylvania's 12th District to replace the late John Murtha somehow rings the death-knell for Repubican political gains next November.  False.

Democrat Murtha was elected to the seat for 18 terms; his aide, Democrat Mark Critz, defeated Republican Tim Burns in that special election to finish out the remaining seven months of Murtha's final term.  The media would have us believe that a Congressional seat occupied by a Democrat for nearly 36 years staying in Democrat hands for seven more months is somehow BIG NEWS and means curtains for those eeeeevil Republicans and their eeeeevil aspirations nationwide this coming November.

Ahhh, those silly Obama-water-carriers in the media...


Meanwhile, back to Obama's "reverse-Midas-touch" (it seems that being touched politically by "The One" is analogous to having a reason to take kaopectate -- his endorsements seem to turn to s...).

Obama is 0 for 4 --

Late last year, Obama campaigned mightily for Democrat narcissist Jon Corzine to be re-elected Governor of the state of New Jersey.  The result?  Republican Chris Christie won an upset victory in the heavily Democratic state.

America 1, Obama 0.

In that same election cycle, Obama traveled to Virginia to campaign for Democrat Creigh Deeds in the race for Governor over Republican Bob McDonnell.  The result?  McDonnell wiped out Deeds by over 17%, leading a clean sweep of all statewide races and halting nearly a decade of Democrat gains in the state.

America 2, Obama 0.

In January of this year, Obama traveled to Massachusetts to campaign for presumed "shoo-in" winner of the "Ted Kennedy seat" in the United States Senate, Democrat Martha Coakley.  Coakley, who had been riding high in the polls for months, managed to parlay Obama's ringing endorsement with her own campaign's ineptitude and, stunningly, hand victory to Republican Scott Brown, who became the first Republican elected to the United States Senate from the Bay State since 1972.

America 3, Obama 0.

In April of 2009, long-time RINO Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, reading the polls that showed him trailing former Representative Pat Toomey badly in the upcoming 2010 Republican primary, decided to switch political parties.  Elected five times as a "Republican," and sensing certain defeat in that party's primary, Specter did what ANY self-respecting "ruler" of the "commoners" would do -- in the fifth year of his fifth term as an elected Republican, he simply switched parties and became a Democrat.

His switch gave Obama a gift early in his Presidency -- the "Republican" turncoat's party switch provided the 60th vote Obama needed to make the United States Senate "filibuster proof," at least until Scott Brown would be elected nine months later.

Obama was ecstatic and, in a public appearance with Specter, even announced "...I love Arlen Specter."

Fast-forward to May, 2010.  Seeing that Specter was doing badly in the polls as a newly-converted Democrat, and was apt to lose the Democrat primary, the White House began to distance itself from snarlin' Arlen.

No matter.  Obama had "loved" Arlen Specter, after all; Specter's political career ended at the hands of Democrat primary winner Joe Sestak last night.

America 4, Obama 0.


The media would have us believe that it's a lousy year to be an incumbent; I submit that they are wrong -- it's a lousy year to be a Democrat, or Obama.

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