Bad night for GOP...

But thanks to this article I am not as down as I was earlier this morning.

Election Deja Vu for Bush

After last night's gubernatorial wins in Virginia and New Jersey, Democrats are celebrating President Bush's loss of political clout as they salivate over the prospect of retaking the House and Senate in next year's midterm elections.

Not so fast, says the New York Post's John Podhoretz.

He notes that the results were much the same for Bush in 2001 - a year before he steered his party to historic gains in the House and Senate - and three years before he beat back a Democratic onslaught in his own reelection race.

"Bush won Virginia by 8 percentage points in 2004," notes Podhoretz, "while Republican candidate Jerry Kilgore appears to have lost by 5 points. But if you think Kilgore's loss reflects Bush's weakness and a nightmare for the GOP in 2006, consider this:


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"Bush won Virginia by eight points in 2000, too — and the following year Democrat Mark Warner became governor with a 5-point margin of victory. The next year, in 2002, Republicans won a stunning midterm victory, taking four Senate seats and expanding their majority in the House of Representatives."
The same thing happened in New Jersey four years ago, when Republican Bret Schundler lost to Democrat James McGreevey.

What's more, there's a fly in the ointment for Hillary Clinton, the Dem's presumptive 2008 nominee. As the Post's Deborah Orin notes, last night's vote in Virginia, where Democrat Tim Kaine rode to victory on the coattails of his term-limited popular predecessor Mark Warner, only boosted Warner's status as a Democrat who can win red state votes.

That's something Hillary has yet to demonstrate she can do. And with Warner also on the party's presidential short list, anything that makes him look good hurts the former first lady.

So it's not the end of the world for us. Personally I still feel confident going into next year's election. And get this, some of the liberal blogs were already crying foul before their candidates actually won. Man they are a bunch of nuts, even when they win they still look crazy. Apparently everytime we win a election it has to be stolen according to them. How pathetic.