ELECTION DAY 2009 – MANY THINGS TO CHEER ABOUT
By Dr. Rick Scarborough November 6, 2009
Hours after the polls closed in Virginia and New Jersey, the Democrats and their media allies began to spin the results furiously, in an effort at damage control. For the left, there was a lot of damage to be controlled as unapologetically social conservatives were swept into office. Looks like the big tent theory, so often advanced by the left as they advise the right, is collapsing. Tuesday was big for principled conservatives and should encourage us all!
- Virginia has had a Democratic governor for 8 years and now has two Democratic Senators. In 2008, President Obama carried the state easily. On Tuesday, Republican Bob McDonnell (a graduate of Pat Robertson’s Regent University and a staunch right-to-lifer and social conservative) was swept into office with 59% of the vote. Having Obama campaign with him did nothing for Democrat Creigh Deeds, who lost to McDonnell by 17 points. For the first time in memory, Republicans won all three of the top constitutional offices – all with pro-lifers.
- In New Jersey, among the most liberal of states, a Republican was elected governor by the largest margin in 25 years. Chris Christie, who was chided for not running a more issue-oriented campaign, found his voice in the weeks before the election, running on tax and spending cuts. Christie, who’s also solidly pro-life, defeated ultra-liberal incumbent Jon Corzine, who spent millions of his vast fortune to secure reelection. The president made repeated trips to the Garden State to save a close political ally. All for naught.
- Liberal Maine was considered the acid test for marriage. For the first time, voters had a chance to repeal a same-sex marriage law passed by a state legislature. Marriage proponents were massively outspent. Every major political figure in the state, and most of the media, opposed repeal. Nevertheless, on Tuesday, Maine became the 31st state to reject gay marriage by the ballot. The score for marriage is now 31-0.
- New York’s 23rd Congressional District is being touted as a ray of hope for the left. Democrat Bill Owens defeated Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman – after leftist Republican Dee Dee Scozzafava (an ACORN ally) dropped out three days before the election and threw her support to the Democrat. Still, two months ago, Hoffmann was a virtual unknown whose campaign was grossly under-funded at the outset. He’ll be back next year for a one-on-one rematch with Owens with even more Conservatives behind him – as well as the national Republican Party.
- It all adds up to a growing sense of unease with the direction in which this administration and Congress are taking us – mega-deficits, unemployment inching toward 10%, government takeover of the auto and banking industries and Obama’s attempt to nationalize health care.
Blue-dog Democrats must be exceedingly nervous over Republican victories, especially in an overwhelmingly Democratic state like New Jersey. Obama, Reid and Pelosi will find it even harder to push so-called health-care reform through Congress, especially with the next Congressional election now less than a year away.
Will the president have the audacity to continue to seek repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, when voters in liberal Maine just repealed a gay marriage law?
The outcome of Tuesday’s election underscores the importance of Vision America Action’s efforts to educate the American people on taxes and inflation, health care, the free market, czars, ACORN and the assault on Judeo-Christian values.
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Dr. Rick Scarborough founded Vision America in 1998 as an organization whose mission is to “inform and mobilize Pastors and their congregations to become salt and light, becoming pro-active in restoring Judeo-Christian values in America.” He has published the widely acclaimed 252-page book appropriately entitled, Enough is Enough; a Call to Christian Involvement. Other published works include, In Defense of Mixing Church and State and It All Depends on What Is…Is. In 2007 he published Liberalism Kills Kids.
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