The Anti-Obama Tidal Wave

In More Ways Than One, Changes At The Capitol

by Newt Gingrich: For much of last night many analysts insisted on talking about an “anti-incumbent” mood. Yet that analysis was a desperate denial of reality.

When Senator Pat Roberts won a convincing victory against an “independent” but clearly liberal Democrat candidate, this “anti-incumbent” story evaporated. This election was purely and simply an anti-Obama wave.

I wrote recently about rising tides versus tidal waves. I said there was clearly going to be a rising Republican tide but we didn’t know if it would grow into a tidal wave.

On Friday, I made my predictions. They hold up pretty well now that the American people have spoken.

What does the tidal wave of 2014 mean?

The President told us himself, just one month ago.

“Make no mistake: These policies are on the ballot….Every single one of them,” he said in prepared remarks at Northwestern University just last month.

Well then, what did voters say to those policies on the ballot…every single one of them?

The voters gave Republicans control of the United States Senate. In two midterms, the President may have cost the Democrats more seats in the U.S. Senate than any president since Harry Truman.

The voters gave Republicans what appears to be the largest majority in the United States House of Representatives in 86 years, since 1928.

The voters gave Republicans governorships in a year when the GOP was expected to lose ground. The President’s home state of Illinois elected a Republican governor.

The voters gave Republicans more state legislators than ever in the history of the Republican Party—more than any time in 160 years.

The voters gave Republicans what appears to be control of more state legislative bodies than ever before in history. Combined with the large number of Republican governors, this will create a dramatic opportunity for conservative reform at the state level.

The President told voters to make no mistake. His policies were on the ballot. Every single one of them.
The President was right.

And the American people decisively repudiated Obamaism.

The implications for the Clinton-Obama presidential campaign (as many Americans will undoubtedly see it) in 2016 are stunning.

The choice the President faces in the next few weeks is enormous.

The American people took him at his word and gave him a decisive answer.

Is he capable of hearing their answer?

It will be fascinating to watch.
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Newt Gingrich is a former Georgia Congressman and Speaker of the U.S. House. He co-authored and was the chief architect of the "Contract with America" and a major leader in the Republican victory in the 1994 congressional elections. He is noted speaker and writer. The above commentary was shared via Gingrich Productions.

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