Cops and Firefighters turning against the GOP?

[kinvore]

The liberal media isn't doing their job and talking much about this story yet, but it's making its rounds in places like HuffPo and the like. I won't bother to link until I find more objective sources (aside from this), but let me share what I've heard thus far and hope I haven't been punked by an elaborate April Fool's joke

Comments

[box_in_the_box]

Personally, I think a lot of the current pendulum swing away from the Republicans is for the exact same reasons as the pendulum swing away from the Democrats that led to the GOP's midterm gains in the first place; namely, the voters expected the people they elected to do everything they wanted right away, and when they didn't, it inspired a temper-tantrum in the electorate.

Granted, I have plenty of other objections to the current crop of Republicans, but before Scott Walker decided to stick his dick in a hornet's nest, it struck me that what we were seeing was basically this ...

2009:
"We voted for you, so fix everything now!"
"Actually, it's going to take some time -"
"Fuck you, then! I'm voting for the other guys next time!"

2011:
"We voted for you, so fix everything now!"
"Actually, it's going to take some time -"
"Fuck you, then! I'm voting for the other guys next time!"

[blue_mangos]

Can you explain why it is not? Because it very much looks the case to those of us outside America.

[underlankers]

On the contrary, having seen the abysmal failures of the Palin-Angle crowd the GOP appears to be repeating that kind of politics on a much larger scale. The Democrats aren't any better at learning not to do that, but it takes decades with them. And now the GOP is having to lie in the bed it made when the Tea Party elected so many Republicans into the Congress.

[underlankers]

Reid was supposed to be a loser by a 30 point margin. He won by a 5% margin. Not because people liked him, but because Angle was *that* batshit crazy. Where now the GOP is undoing child labor laws, voting against puppies, calling the army a bunch of feminized sissies, ignoring blatantly that the Supreme Court has struck down sodomy laws, trying to legalize murder of abortion doctors......

[underlankers]

All of them are. Including that the GOP hates puppies.

[blue_mangos]

hmmmm, maybe the US needs a viable third party system like Canada ;)

[il_mio_gufo]

are you talking about the party Paul and his boy influenced?

[underlankers]

A problem with this is that same electorate gave the Democrats a virtual decades-long monopoly on the House of Representatives and that at no point during the Bush Administration's three consecutive victories in the Congressional elections did their largest majorities approach what the Dems squandered in '06. Too, in 2010 the Democrats ran a lousy campaign with little or no turnout on their part but a great deal of it on the part of the Republicans. If you're lackadasical about it, you will pay the price, the Dems were, and so they are.

[telemann]

The National Fraternal Order of Police (300,000 members) supported McCain in 2008. And for a candidate to receive the endorsement of the Fraternal Order of Police, he must receive a two-third majority of the National Board, which is made up of one Trustee from each of the organization' s State Lodges.