I Was Told: Moe Lane

Here is a great list of things that we have been told that the GOP cannot possibly do.  Moe Lane put it together and it's a compendium of what convensional wisdom has said is impossible to do since...2008.

• I was told that there was no way that we could win a runoff Senate election in Georgia, in the immediate wake of the President’s historic victory nationwide.
• I was told that there was no way that any Republican could win in William Jefferson’s* district. Ever. In a million years.
• I was told that expecting the GOP House caucus to Hold The Line on the President’s ’stimulus’ package was a fool’s errand.
• I was told that it would be a generation before liberal dominance of politics would be effectively challenged.
• I was told that it was even money that the GOP would lose more seats in 2010.
• I was told that conservatives don’t go to protests.
• I was told that the protests over the ’stimulus’ bill would splutter away.
• I was told that the Tea Party movement would never become more than an annoyance to the ruling party. Which would be running the show for a generation, remember.
• I was told that it was absurd to think that the GOP would gain seats in the Senate in 2010.
• I was told that it was absurd to think that the GOP would gain more than a dozen seats in the House in 2010.
• I was told that the House GOP would only Hold The Line once, then cave.
• I was told that cap and trade was inevitable.
• I was told that card check was inevitable, and looming.
• I was told that the GOP couldn’t hope to win the Virginia Governorship
• I was told that nobody was going to really care about the health care monstrosity, besides a few cranks in the Tea Party movement.
• I was told that it was absurd to think that the GOP would gain more than thirty seats in the House in 2010.
• I was told that the GOP couldn’t hope to win the New Jersey Governorship.
• I was told that the inevitable result of the massive protests over the health care monstrosity would be to create a popular backlash against the GOP, against conservatism, and ensure the speedy passage of the Democrats’ health care bill. As in, within a month.
• I was told that the GOP couldn’t hope to win both the NJ and VA governorships.
• I was told that the President would never drop in popularity – even to a level commensurate with a man, rather than a God.
• I was told that it was impossible for the GOP to retake the Senate.
• I was told that the GOP couldn’t hope to run the tables in the Virginia election.
• I was told that the new Republican governor of New Jersey wouldn’t govern as a conservative.
• I was told that it was absurd to think that the GOP could retake the House in 2010.
• I was told that it was absurd to think that the GOP could get more than four seats in the Senate in 2010.
• I was told that the President’s numbers would never go underwater.
• I was told – over, and over, and over, and over, and over again – that God Himself could not win a Massachusetts Senatorial election if He ran on the Republican ticket.

As Glenn Reynolds says...read the whole thing.  The comments are great.