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Undobama: Obama is more than a cottage industry; 08 Election myth demolished

Now, a mere one year later, there is the counter Obama merchandise frenzy.

Undobama leads the way. And they do it with a sense of humor saying there is a positive side to the cash for clunkers program as it means there are over 700,000 less Obama bumper stickers on the road. Their motto is “If He can do it, we can undo it.”

This past week’s elections show that the gloss has come off Mr. Obama. The referendum on Obama was decisive. Just last year, Obama won both Virginia and New Jersey with 52.7 percent and 56.8 percent of the vote, respectively. Just last week Republican Bob McDonnellnnell defeated Democrat Creigh Deeds 59-41 percent. McDonnell said “We had independents and Democrats that came over to support us,” McDonnell said. “First and foremost, we are all Virginians and we are all Americans.” Republicans swept the elections in the Commonwealth, also winning the lieutenant governor’s office and the attorney general’s office re-electing Bill Bolling as Lt. Governor and, in a blow to the Left, electing right wing conservative Ken Cuccinelli as the State’s Attorney General.

This is despite Democratic attempts to portray the GOP ticket as extreme, anti-women, hard right conservatives. One could argue this is Virginia after all so no surprise there.

But the Garden State; in New Jersey, GOP candidate Chris Christie stunned incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine with a 49-45 percent victory. This after President Barack Obama campaigned for his former colleague three times.

Charles Krauthammer said yesterday that the most important fact about Tuesday’s elections is historical in that it demolishes the ‘great realignment myth of 2008.’

Krauthammer went on to say “In the aftermath of Obama’s sweep, we heard endlessly about its fundamental, revolutionary, transformational nature. How it was ushering in an FDR-like realignment for the 21^st century in which new demographics – most prominently, rising minorities and the young – would bury the GOP far into the future.”

Virginia proves otherwise. The presumed harbinger did not go purple it went red with a 23 point swing. New Jersey with an almost 20 point swing. These are stunning, staggering results.

The White House threw Democratic candidate Creigh Deeds under the bus early on but their story is muddled. The apologists led by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs say that Deeds was a weak candidate and did not take their sage advice. Then how come when McDonnell and Deeds last crossed swords in the AG race four years ago it was a virtually dead even vote?

Krauthammer says “the’09 McDonnell- Deeds rematch (is) the closest you get in politics to a laboratory experiment for measuring the change in external conditions. Run them against each other again when its Obamanism in action and see what happens. What happened was a Republican landslide.”

Governor- elect McDonnell ran an excellent, disciplined and positive campaign and it paid off in spades. There is a positive buzz about the newly elected Republican ticket unimaginable this time last year in the euphoria that surrounded the Obama victory.

With this gubernatorial election out of the way we now look to the mid-terms.

One congressman who will certainly be feeling the pain after last night’s House vote on ‘health care reform’ is Tom Perriello.

Americans for Prosperity pronounced Mr. Perriello’s political career dead at 11:16pm EST on November 7, 2009.

In a statement they said   the “Cause of demise: Political Malpractice. (aka voting for socialized medicine and voting to send us to jail if we dont buy a health policy.)"

In a district that gave Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell 61% this week, Perriello – who won by 727 votes last year – just voted for the tax-raising, Medicare-cutting government healthcare takeover after claiming for months that he opposed it. “

AFP have rallies organized for tomorrow Monday November 9  at Tom Perriello's District Offices: for more information please go to their website.