Oh, this is good.
In an election that witnessed crushing Democratic losses in the U.S. Senate, the House of Representatives, and in key gubernatorial races, the victories of Kansas Republicans Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts have been among the most painful for many Democrats to absorb.
‘Among.’ Hee. Moving on…
In an election that witnessed crushing Democratic losses in the U.S. Senate, the House of Representatives, and in key gubernatorial races, the victories of Kansas Republicans Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts have been among the most painful for many Democrats to absorb.
Oops! Need to do a new copy-and-paste. Hold on.
In an election that witnessed crushing Democratic losses in the U.S. Senate, the House of Representatives, and in key gubernatorial races, the victories of Kansas Republicans Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts have been among the most painful for many Democrats to absorb.
…you know something? Let’s just go with that sentence. I must say; Salon’s traffic must be hopping, today. Such a shame that it’s from people coming to bathe in the schadenfreude…
Many others also found Pat Roberts’ victory painful but we will just have to learn to live with it.
Saw Sen Pat Roberts on FOX today. He looks feeble, and not up to the mental gymnastics of the political arena. Someone will count his as their puppet.
The WaPo piece on the campaign, and what they had to do to bludgeon Roberts into getting off his ass and doing anything, is illuminating.
The GOP got lucky that the Dems failed so badly with their own candidate. They better have someone ready to replace that fossil next go round, or sooner, ’cause they better not count on this kind of luck again.
Roberts was just old and complacent. He’ll most likely retire at the end of this term. Replacing him now was ideal, but 6 years from now will work too. His primary challenger did finally endorse him in the last week of the general which I’m sure helped so the challenger may even get the nod next time round.
That is a big difference between the Republican establishment and the TEA party: the TEA party candidate tends to support the nominee who beat them while the establishment doesn’t and perhaps actively undermines them and finally says “See, you cannot win with a candidate such as that.”
That WaPo piece also shed some light on why the MS party went nuclear on Thad Cochran’s opponent. I wasn’t aware of his radio bits and given how the D’s turned less into career killers for George Allen and others I at least see their logic. Doesn’t excuse smearing tea partiers as racist though.