Washington politicians, here's the message of semi-Super Tuesday: If you've embraced a liberal agenda of big government and huge spending -- you'll find yourself in trouble.
Yesterday's elections showed that there is only one real dirty word this campaign cycle: liberal -- not incumbent. The focus on incumbents is just a liberal media dodge to ignore the fact that it is their ideology is being repudiated. (Andrea Tantaros, FoxNews.com, 5/19/10)
The idea that anti-incumbent fever, striking equally at Democrats and Republicans, is the defining feature of the 2010 election is as misguided as last year's notion that President Obama's oratory would tilt the nation in favor of his ambitious agenda. Yet the media, echoing the Obama White House, has adopted anti-incumbency as the all-purpose explanation of this year's political developments. (Fred Barnes, WSJ, 5/20/10)
Voters said: "It's not the incumbents, stupid. It's how they voted. It's what they stand for."
(Larry Elder, Townhall.com, 5/20/10)
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Many Democrats and commentators who had not hitherto been histrionic about their high regard for Bennett mourned his loss as evidence that the Republican Party, the health of which they say concerns them greatly, is becoming unhealthy. (George Will, Townhall.com, 5/20/10)
They, and you, are all correct of course. It's not about anti-incumbancy. It's about opposing all things Obama. But if the media wants to delude themselves and their viewers, who cares? Let them delude away. It will only made the wailing and gnashing of teeth all the more pleasurable come November.
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