{"id":6508,"date":"2010-08-11T11:43:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T15:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6508"},"modified":"2010-08-11T11:46:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T15:46:57","slug":"washington-post-senators-win-tests-anti-incumbency-theory-no-not-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6508\/washington-post-senators-win-tests-anti-incumbency-theory-no-not-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post: “Senator’s Win Tests Anti-Incumbency Theory.” No, Not Really."},"content":{"rendered":"

As November’s elections loom increasingly dire<\/a> for Democrats, their mainstream media waterboys desperately recast the American electorate as “anti-incumbent” rather than the more accurate “anti-liberal” or “anti-Democrat.”\u00a0 Today’s latest example:\u00a0 The Washington Post<\/em>, perhaps liberals’ chief media waterboy, reacted to last night’s primary elections with their daily political newsletter headline “Senator’s Win Tests Anti-Incumbency Theory.”<\/a><\/p>\n

The Post’s<\/em> Dan Balz bizarrely claims that a Democratic incumbent beating a Democrat challenger endorsed by Bill Clinton somehow alters our assessment of America’s mood:<\/p>\n

Senator Michael Bennet (D) of Colorado turned back a sharp challenge from former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff on Tuesday night on a busy day of primaries that offered fresh clues about the anti-establishment mood of voters…\u00a0 Bennet’s challenge was seen as the latest test of anti-incumbent sentiment in a year in which two Senators and four House members have been defeated.\u00a0 His victory proved that the benefits and resources of incumbency can offset the liabilities that many officeholders are carrying this year.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Earth to The Washington Post, MSNBC and other liberal media sirens:\u00a0 American voters aren’t simply “anti-incumbent,” they’re anti-liberal.\u00a0 They’re not simply looking to replace incumbent liberals with other liberals, so one Democrat beating an alternative Democrat doesn’t rebut that fact.\u00a0 After all, you don’t tend to see trusted conservative incumbents like Senators Jim DeMint<\/a> (R – South Carolina) or Tom Coburn<\/a> (R – Oklahoma) needing national political figures to parachute in to rescue them as Senator Benet did.\u00a0 Americans’ revulsion toward the Obama-Reid-Pelosi agenda is threatening liberal<\/em> incumbents, not incumbents generically.\u00a0 You’re not fooling anyone other than yourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As November’s elections loom increasingly dire for Democrats, their mainstream media waterboys desperately recast the American electorate as “anti-incumbent” rather than the more accurate “anti-liberal” or “anti-Democrat.”\u00a0 Today’s latest example:\u00a0 The Washington Post, perhaps liberals’ chief media waterboy, reacted to last night’s primary elections with their daily political newsletter headline “Senator’s Win Tests Anti-Incumbency Theory.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1347,1064,84,1683,1682,24,38,28],"class_list":["post-6508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-andrew-romanoff","tag-colorado","tag-congress","tag-incumbent","tag-michael-benet","tag-obama","tag-senate","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6520,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508\/revisions\/6520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}