Some strange goings on with voters out East! Working down from top to bottom:
In Maine they rejected Gay Marriage in favor of the expanding marijuana use. Gays may not be able to get married but they can fire up their bongs and sing sad songs instead. Not a bad trade off if you ask most married guys…
In the 23rd District of New York up there in the land of Yankee hollers, Walmarts and rusty trailer jacks a Democrat won for the first time in 160 years? Since the Civil War? How could that be? Two words, "Sarah" and "Palin". It seems Yankee Hillbillies are a bit smarter than their Southern brethren. Though having a candidate who was a doppelganger for Mayberry’s Barney Fife didn’t help. In fact I am sure no one would give Doug Hoffman even that one bullet Barney was allowed to carry in his shirt pocket. This one was the true bell weather for 2012.
In New York City, Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent more money ever spent on any election other than for President of the United States – $100 million – and squeaked by with a 51% win over… Gee, I don’t know who and either do you!
In New Jersey John Corzine – with the help of President Obama – could not pull it out from that fat guy, old what’s his name. Corzine had recently quit the Senate for the more cushy job of New Jersey Governor. That seems now to be a bad move which we have going on down here in Beckian, Texas where Kay Baily Hutchinson is making the same mistake. Though this is a big win for the down trodden GOP for it proves that the President has been destroyed and the big turnaround for the Republicans is just around the corner. But one must consider that New Jersey ranks only behind Mordor and Gedi Prime on the Don’t Fly List.
Then down to the home of the Confederacy, Virginia! Where the well dressed, nice haired, good looking conservative Republican beat the pants off the guy who was not Terry McAlliffe. This too was a really was a big win for the GOP as it does portend well for them gaining back a few congressional seats and governorships in 2010. But again it does nothing about the sorry state of affairs the Republican Party is suffering in GOING ROGUE.