Democrats, Republicans See Turmoil After Primaries

The Wall Street Journal:

The two major parties began the general election sprint Wednesday roiled by the fallout of a primary season marked by furiously anti-incumbent voters and major rifts over strategy.

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Comments

[AyeChart]

11:28 PM on 09/16/2010

The Lovely Mizz Peggy Noonan has an absolutely fantastic piece in the online wsj.com right now.  If HuffPost doesn't cover this, they will be revealing themselves to be cowards and will be doing a disservice to their readers, who deserve occasional glimpses of reality.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440604575496221482123504.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop#articleTabs%3Darticle%26mg%3Dcom-wsj

[hatrickpenry]

08:06 PM on 09/16/2010

Turmoil? Wait til the lame duck session begins after the election.

[osage]

06:57 PM on 09/16/2010

IF I WERE A DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST, WHAT COULD I DO TO FORCE REPUBLICANS TO SPEND MONEY WHERE THEY WOULDN’T ORDINARILY CHOOSE TO SPEND IT?

How about encouraging the most emotionally dysfunctional, fearful, radical and ill-informed extremist elements within the GOP to start a rogue political movement, run the most incompetent, inexperienced and shamelessly self-humiliating candidates they can find against Republican establishment candidates, and where they win primaries against their fellow Republicans, convince them that they have a chance of defeating Democrats in general elections……in BLUE states. Even if they managed to unseat one or two personally flawed Democrats, they would have had to squander a significantly disproportionate amount of campaign money for a relatively small return on investment.

Nah…..even today’s dumbed-down Republicans aren’t that stupid….well are they?

[AyeChart]

11:29 PM on 09/16/2010

No.

[osage]

12:30 AM on 09/17/2010

I'm guessing you believe people who vote against their own self-interests for "philosophical" reasons are doing so because they have high IQs.

[Vikingdave]

06:11 PM on 09/16/2010

Republican Majority= Government shutdown.

[Bat Wrangler]

01:55 PM on 09/16/2010

Cornholio Cornyn is finally waking up!

[rougebaisers]

01:28 PM on 09/16/2010

You all suk. Do your jobs. Stop taking bribes. End this country's war profiteering.

[msgirlintn]

12:13 PM on 09/16/2010

The Repubs have lost 7 seats in primaries to teabaggers.  The Democrats have lost one seat in primaries because of a Republican turned Democrat.  How does this add up that the Dems and Repubs are losing seats?

[maxfax]

11:19 AM on 09/16/2010

Fear and hate pays, at least fear gave us a 2nd term of Dubya.  The GOP hates when people get along.

[Shami Khan]

11:26 AM on 09/16/2010

Very true.

[NOV42008]

10:50 AM on 09/16/2010

McMahon, D-NY stated, "I know it bad to raise taxes during a recession" (even for the upper 2%?). Explain then McMahon what caused the recession during low taxes? Do our representive really understand what they are doing, or do they get elected to sit in Washington and listen to what others say, and then go along with it. These representives who through out phrases are no better than Palin, can he back up this statement with proven data? Show the people how you come to this conclusion.

[zdeedle]

10:54 AM on 09/16/2010

i don't understand why the dems don't point out the flaw in the logic: if lower taxes on the rich folks works so well, then after 10 years of that, WHY ARE WE IN SUCH A MESS???? dems are feeble, repubs are dangerous to our democracy.

[Catch 22]

11:13 AM on 09/16/2010

The reason is that they get most of their funding from people who want the tax cuts. It really does'ne matter what it does to the country. Money Talks.

[TggerJen]

01:05 PM on 09/16/2010

You're exactly right. It's really obvious too. So why do so many keep voting the incumbents back in after this is so clear for all to see? (Rhetorical question, there doesn't seem to be any good answer to it).

[geewhizwow]

10:48 AM on 09/16/2010

Now watch how fast they claim to be tea party loyalist

[formerroadie]

10:17 AM on 09/16/2010

The Republicans HAVE been the turmoil. They have done nothing but cause problem.