Why Stephen Colbert's Sister Was Pummeled

Hmmm...we see yet another disturbing "polls predict a win" followed by a sharp face slap of nearly 10 points. This should have been a neat victory for the sister of the immensely popular comedian. Something went wrong. It's time to talk about it. This is a prelude to 2014.

Sanford just committed political suicide and he's still able to defeat Colbert Busch??

Let's look at why I believe she lost: [from the same link]

This gay marriage thing is going to be the death of the democratic hope for 2014. The polling data is flatly wrong on "most Americans are for gay marriage". Add to the next polls "are you for gay marriage when it means polygamy will be very quickly next?" and you'll get a more accurate polling count. Or "would you also be willing to let a gay couple babysit your kids?" These are harsh questions but how people really think when the chips are down. The blinders of political correctness are going to ruin democratic hopes.

I warned about that here long ago and it has come to fruition: http://www.politicalforum.com/curre...tion-gay-albatross-how-lose-middle-votes.html

Furthermore, people on the fence about gay marriage [where the actual majority is] do not like having the decision systematically stripped away from them and shoved down their throats. I wrote about that here: http://www.politicalforum.com/polit...icial-legalizing-gay-marriage-needs-stop.html

For example, Rhode Island and Delaware did not recently legalize gay marriage. A tiny group of politicians following false polling reports did that for the citizens of their state behind their backs and in many cases directly against their will.

How democrats think this is going to render out in a net gain of votes from the middle is beyond me.

LOOK at the results of Sandford v Colbert-Busch. NOTICE the crushing victory a man who had no business coming within a country mile of the more clean candidate levelled upon her. SEEK to understand why that was in a state that just moving in Obama's direction more readily in the last election.

Unless you are saying that every single person who voted for Sanford over Colbert-Busch was a republican man, you're going to have to take a serious gander at why any woman would vote for a cheating husband or why scores of people identifying as middle voters or independants threw in their vote for a man who deserted his wife and his duty to his job to run off to Argentina with another woman.

This is a blistering defeat for democrats. Much much more significant that the media will talk about in coming days on both sides. Because as we know, Cheney controls Fox; which is why these typically very conservative talking heads stay virtually mute about talking down gay marriage [no, it's not because they actually support it]. Colbert comparing herself to Cheney demonstrates that she made this mistake in judging how conservatives and moderates actually think about gay marriage. And naturally the liberal news outlets will blame this on anything but the stance Colbert Busch took on gay marriage.

The Emperor's Clothes is an excellent allegory for this election. A little boy in the crowd in South Carolina suddenly woke everyone up from their fantastic stupor just in time to elect Sandford. Look for a repeat of this in 2014 when that "little boy's" name is "Pope Francais I"..

I wrote about that one too: http://www.politicalforum.com/curre...-votes-chic-fil-looking-forward-midterms.html

People said I was silly predicting this. I understand though how the common man thinks. There's one thing he hates more than anything; that is being castrated as to carving his own destiny and being told his state has decided for him that a very controversial social practice he's unsure about is now the law of the land....without his or her permission...

Yeah, middle voters just hate that. It's the reason we are middle voters...duh....because we don't like to be told what we have to think.

 

I'd say the likely reason for Sanford's win is the fact that this is a Congressional district that has not had a Democrat Representative since 1981...

Also, considering the Cook PVI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Partisan_Voting_Index), that particular district has rating of R+11, meaning that that district tends to lean more heavily to the Republican side, to the tune of +/-11 percentage points...

When taking into account how heavily divided along partisan lines the majority of the country currently is, it was kind of obvious what was going to happen...

 

Yes, but you're ignoring the fact that women voted for Sanford who had just committed public suicide cheating on his wife. And it doesn't stop there. He not only cheated on his wife and embarassed her publicly in this way. Sanford then went on to gush about how much he was head over heels in love with the new woman in a dripping public display just days after he was caught...again...like a stinging slap in the face to housewives everywhere. Guy rule 101 says when you're caught cheating on your wife in public you immediately turn around and say the new woman is a cheap skank and fall on your knees praising the glories of your wife to all that will listen. You DON'T sing the praises of your mistress as people lift your wife up from her stomach churning shock....unless you're a complete idiot.

And women still lined up in droves to vote for him over Colbert-Busch. Sanford shouldn't have had an ice cube's chance in hell getting elected.

Yet he did.

And not by a tiny margin either, but by a virtual landslide.

And don't forget, polling predicted the race would be very close or that Colbert-Busch would win. Not the case at all. A complete fabrication.

 

Polling is hardly ever correct...

Like I said, that district hasn't had a Democrat rep in over 30 years, and leans very heavily toward the Republican side...

Along with running a pretty weak campaign, Colbert-Busch had virtually zero chance...

 

God, who gives a rats ass about cheating? Jesus christ, you guys sound like a bunch of gossipy school girls. Oh well he cheated and embarrassed his wife, who cares. Had she been super hot she would have won. Also the lib media pretended if they said she was 10 points ahead it would brainwash a few to vote that way cause everyone else is. I pray for genital free politics everyday.

 

Have you ever heard the term "yellow dog Democrats"?.....not "blue dog Democrats"...but "yellow dog Democrats"?.....

I comes from the time when conservative southern segregationist types used to be Democrats because they hated the party of Lincoln. It meant Democrats would vote for their own kind even if it was an old yellow dog.

South Carolina voted for Romney at about the same percentage. The vote had very little to do, if anything at all, with gays.

 

I suppose that running off with a hottie and lying about it, claiming to be hiking the Appalachian Trail of all things, is OK with the voters, but gay marriage is seen as a threat to the sanctity of the family.

What else can we conclude from the results of the election?

 

It's (*)(*)(*)(*)ed up, but doesn't really have anything to with his official capabilities, much like being held in contempt during a divorce proceeding 25 years ago...

Now, misuse of state travel funds is another issue, though...

In that district, not likely...

Such is the nature of "political reporting..."

There's always a slant...

 

So you couldn't care less if a candidate is gay?

 

Women voters. Especially when he sings the praises of his mistress just days after announcing he cheated on his wife. Are you folks from Jupiter or something? The women who lined up to vote in Sanford have a bone to pick with democrats. And it ain't gun control..

 

Obviously, there was a good chunk of them that it didn't matter to...

And, TBH, it has no bearing on his ability to legislate, so, why should it, in this instance?

 

So then it sounds like South Carolina would be a good place to test the new polygamy marriage mandates soon to follow gay marriage. You know, since you say the women there voted for Sanford because his having another woman he slept with outside his wife [and sung the mistress praises of publicly] doesn't seem to bother them.

Time to start polling there to see. Ask housewives in South Carolina: "would you mind if your husband took a mistress and sung her praises publicly"? See how the women of South Carolina answer that question. It could be South Carolina is far more progressive than we thought?

Either that or what Colbert-Busch declared vehement support for was so repugnant to South Carolina women that they were able to look beyond their certain rage at Sanford's betrayal of his wife, grit their teeth and vote for him anyway...

So much for "leaning towards supporting gay marriage". Nobody "leans towards" supporting gay marriage. Privately they are either completely for it or completely against it. And that renders out in the vote behind the curtain.

 

We have a winner! Sometimes people way over think things. In my district if you have a D next to your name you will lose. Simple as that. Nothing else matters at all.

 

Yeah, nothing else matters, even if women are considering a man who just freshly cheated on his wife while simultaneously throwing salt in her wounds by singing the praises of his mistress publicly at the same time. Sure. Most women just look right beyond that. Clearly you are from another planet.

 

The only sex life I care about is mine. Thats how it should be. I could care less where someone wants to stick their weiner, oh hahahahahahaha, Weiner joke! I refuse to act like a sexually molested lib **** whose value system is based on how much they get to talk about their genitals on a daily basis.

 

Yeah, it's me!

 

And you are not a woman voter from South Carolina. That's the topic. Middle votes democrats need to get Congressional victories. They just got a stinging slap in the face. Let's see if they can understand why or continue to delude themselves into oblivion.

 

Does that go for Spitzer, Weiner, and Bill Clinton too?....and what about Sanford spending tax payer dollars for the trip to go have an affair?

 

Exactly. Affairs are political death. Especially if Clinton or Weiner came out the same week they were caught cheating and said "oh, the wife is old baggage anyway, my new mistress is so hot!", like Sanford did.

And women in S.C. still voted him in over Colbert's sister. I wonder what stance she had that S.C. women were willing to overlook the slap in the face to women everywhere in order to make sure Colbert's agenda didn't make it to Congress?

 

Who (*)(*)(*)(*)ing cares? Omg, end of the world!! Thats the problem with society today, you all are a bunch of nitpicking gossip mongers obsessed with sex.

 

If it were that big a deal, Colbert-Busch should been elected fairly easily...

 

While I agree the personal actions and morals of a person when it comes to matters of the heart should not be a factor in who we vote for. There are a couple of factors here that did need to be considered. He did charge expenses associated with his affair to the taxpayer. Thats fraud. There were a couple of times when he went missing on his watch and the assistant governor had to step in and take care of the issue at hand. As a leader that's inexcusable.

 

The only thing that's really relevant is the misuse of tax payer dollars for his personal travel...

 

It is a big deal to women [poll them and see] AND she WASN'T elected even still.

That's the point you're trying to avoid looking at. Or get people not to notice...

 

Very true...

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I'm not trying to get anyone not to notice anything...

I'm only pointing out the facts...

In the 1st Congressional District in South Carolina, the chance of a Democrat getting elected is slim to none, and Mark Sanford's affair obviously had zero effect on the election itself...