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The Right and Wrong Lessons from Tuesday’s elections.
Written By : Matt Latimer

Some Right and Wrong Lessons from last night — any others?

Right Lesson: The voters turned away from the Obama administration and its handling of the economy.

Wrong Lesson: The candidates won because they “soft pedaled” their conservatism, as National Review and others in the MSM alleged.

Right Lesson: DeDe Scozzafava was a disastrous candidate for the Republican Party and proved it by endorsing the Democrat in the race.

Wrong Lesson: Conservatives were the troublemakers in the race and cost “us” the seat. They should have left this to the GOP elites to handle. (In fact, the seat was lost with the Scozzafava nomination — and conservatives were trying to win it back.)

Right Lesson: Republicans have an opportunity to redefine themselves as more than a party of opposition.

Wrong lesson: This election was bad for Rush and Beck and Palin and others. (It is never wrong to stand behind principles, and I’m so glad they did.)

Right lesson: Republicans can win in Democratic-leaning states.

Wrong lesson:  We need to elect anyone who calls themselves a member of the GOP.  It’s about winning.  (That’s what they said about Arlen Specter.)

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  • http://huckupchuck.blogspot.com huckupchuck1

    Question: How is it a "right lesson" that the Democratic losses in Virginia and New Jersey are evidence of voters turning away from Obama, who campaigned there and put his influence, such as it is, on the line there; and yet the same can't be said for the Hoffman loss in NY-23, a solidly Republican district, where Palin, Beck, Limbaugh and others campaigned for Hoffman and put their influence, such as it is, on the line? I think the only lesson to be learned from reading this posting is how to "put lipstick on a pig."

    Also, I think your "right" lesson that "Republicans can win in Democratic-leaning states" is probably not what you meant to say. Sure Republicans can win in Democratic-leaning states. But that's always been true. The question is not whether "Republicans" can win, but whether "conservatives" can win. Isn't there a difference between the two, as your "wrong" lesson on this point seems to be making?

  • Tennwriter

    Wrong lesson: We lost.

    Right lesson: Conservatism won, although not an unmitigated victory. They lost.

    Wrong lesson: Trust your elites.

    Right lesson: The so-called 'elites' are dim and treacherous which really takes some doing to do both at the same time.

    Wrong lesson: Woe, woe, we are so toast!

    Right lesson: We're coming from behind, we're not yet ready for the championship ring, but all the raw material for the win is there. We just need to dig deeper.

    Wrong lesson: Listen to Huckupchuck. He's your friend.

    Right lesson: If you need something to bat around, Huck is there to take a punch, but otherwise ignore him.

  • whats_up

    Posted by huckupchuck1

    2009-11-04 10:53:03

    Good post, will be interesting to see the conservative spin.

  • D-Vega

    "wrong lesson" doesn't necessarily mean "untrue".

    "right lesson" doesn't necessarily mean "truth".

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  • Raposa

    WHO in National Review alleged that the candidates "soft-pedaled" their conservatism? I've read that twice on this site, yet turn around and read folks on the Corner talking about how McDonnell shows that making solid plans on conservative roots works.

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