But, not to worry, they see it now. You are 100% mistaken to think Obama would win NJ right now. He would be lucky to win Illinois. And as we get closer and closer to the 2010 election, the liklihood of any of his progressive agenda passing – Cap and Tax, Obamacare, Card Check, etc. – will continue to shrink by the day. And November 2010 will eventually roll around with not a single bit of his agenda having been enacted, with the economy still in shambles and double digit unemployment.

Wow, quite the Liberal Democrat’s rosy scenario there! But hey, you keep on worrying about the Republicans and their “party purity” worries.

And more to the point, guess what kind of candidate will be running in NY-23 for the Republican party next time from day one ? A conservative that will trounce Owens.

I’ve been looking over your “explanations” of the losses in Virginia and New Jersey, and Hoffman’s loss in New York and something funny occurred to me:

You’re giving the exact responses Rush Limbaugh said libs would yesterday.

I could almost set my watch by you!

There needs to be a place in the national conversation for conservatives, but not the kind who demand party purity, don’t even bother to try to understand what local voters care about, and excel only at empty sloganeering.

KD: Until you stop wrapping your precious widdle brain around these clowns or the sun starts coming up in the west, your “victories” will continue to be pyrrhic.

You’re missing the point of the New Jersey race. New Jersey is consistent blue state. The Messiah campaigned for the Democratic governor in a blue state and he lost.

The sheen is gone. Obama is poison to anyone he endorses. American’s are done with the man.

What a dirty mind, young man! Comedians have been throwing cream pies at people forever. Not cherry pies or lemon pies.

You are welcome to read into Palin’s political purity tests whatever you wish. Her positives are sinking like a stone even among Republicans and while she has some remarkable powers, including an ability to unashamedly and repeatedly lie while never taking the blame for the wreckage that she creates in her wake, I think that an Alaskan blogger summed her up nicely in giving her the moniker of Our Lady of Perpetual Meddling.

As far as a “good night” for the GOP (whi Kevin just reminded us are NOT the same as conservatives) – some perspective:

* A Republican might win by an eyelash in the gubernatorial race in New Jersey — a state that’s had Republican governors for 16 of the past 28 years.

* In Virginia, a Republican will almost certainly win the governor’s race — which means that the Virginia governor will be of the party opposite that of the president who was just elected … just like the last eight governors of Virginia, each of whom was elected a year after a presidential election and none of whom was of the president’s party.

* A Democrat is probably going to lose in New York’s 23rd congressional district — a district that’s changed shape over the years, but has mostly not sent a Democrat to Congress since the 19th century.

okay then. great job.

On Palin endorsing Hoffman and Hoffman losing:

…the victory of Owens over Hoffman is a big cream pie to her smarmy face.

On Obama campaigning for Corzine and Corzine losing:

…the guy in the White House has only tangential bearing on the outcome of gubernatorial contests…

If you were any more transparent I’d have you installed in my car to replace my chipped windshield.

As anyone who has followed elections for an appreciable amount of time knows, the guy in the White House has only tangential bearing on the outcome of gubernatorial contests and 2009 was no different than, say, 1989.

The election in New Jersey, a state with which I am very familiar, was a referendum on a deeply unpopular governor and not a president whom, if he ran for re-election tomorrow, would do just as well in the Garden State.

Corzine, who doesn’t have a charismatic bone in his body, inherited a lot of problems and managed to make some of them worse. Christie, who is only slightly more articulate, is a moderate in every sense of the word and out of step with the lunatic fringe that has taken over the national Republican Party. The last two GOP gubernatorial candidates were substantially more conservative and they got crushed.

It is not being rash to predict that he’ll screw things up as badly as Corzine did.

Oh, and one other thing, KD: How many votes to Corzine and McDonnell have on health-care reform?